What’s Happening in Grade 2 in Term 4 2024

In Reading and Phonics students will be:

• build their fluency by reading decodable passages connected to the sounds we have learnt.
• develop their abilities to comprehend different types of Fiction and Non-Fiction texts.
• review and read words with the ‘ti’, ‘ci’, and ‘si’ spelling patterns as well as plurals.
• learn how to make a reasonable choice for spelling words that include these sounds by identifying different spelling patterns within the English language.

In Knowledge Units students will:

• Develop their understanding of the human body and how the different systems work.
• Create connections to the real world and what makes an individual healthy or unhealthy.
• Explore and learning about the topic ‘Across the Seas’.
• Use maps to understand the location of different countries and how far they are from Australia.
• Build their vocabulary knowledge on the topics ‘The Human Body’ and ‘Across the Seas’.
• Learn the similarities and differences between various countries.

In Writing students will be:

• Begin to learn the importance of note taking and how this can be used now and in the future.
• Understand how to use sentence stems to complete a sentence.
• Develop the skills to use past and present tense correctly within writing.
• Continue to work on improving their letter formation and structure of sentences to ensure that it is grammatically correct.

In Mathematics students will be:

• Learn about capacity and how to measure, order and compare different containers and discuss which holds the most and least.
• Continue to build students’ knowledge and understanding of fractions and the fraction of a collection.
• Create maps and use location words to understand the position of objects on maps.
• Further develop their strategies connected to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and they will explore how these can be linked.

In Inquiry students will be:

• Using a play-based approach to show case what they have learnt within the Knowledge units.

Wellbeing

• Engage in lessons looking at Help Seeking strategies and Positive Gender Relations.
• Using Smiling Minds as a tool used alongside the Respectful Relationships program to further develop skills to support their social and emotional wellbeing.

There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.