What’s Happening in Grade 2 in Term 1 2025

In Reading and Phonics students will be:

• Explicitly taught spelling generalisations for words containing ‘ie’ vs ‘ei’, other long vowels, ‘qu’, ‘ck’ vs ‘k’, and ‘dge’ vs ‘ge’.
• Learning how to make a reasonable choice for spelling words that include these sounds through identifying different spelling patterns within the English language.
• Developing their abilities to comprehend different types of Fiction and Non-Fiction texts.
• Building their fluency by using reading decodable passages connected to the sounds we have learnt.
• Participating in a daily review to help strengthen their previous knowledge and enhancing recall of the spelling rules they have learnt.

In Core Knowledge students will be:

• Developing their vocabulary and comprehension skills
• Understanding of the text elements in a Fairy Tale and Tall Tales, and how to construct their own stories.
• Exploring a range of different Fairy Tales and Tall Tales including:
  • The Fisherman and his Wife
  • The Emperor’s New Clothes
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Paul Bunyon
  • Pecos Bill
  • John Henry
  • Casey Jones
• Learning about the children’s classic story of Charlotte’s Web

In Writing students will be:

• Identifying sentence types: statements, questions, commands, exclamations.
• Identifying and defining proper and common nouns and capitalising proper nouns.
• Editing sentences for boundary punctuation (full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, capital for proper nouns & at the beginning of sentences).
• Completing sentences when provided with ‘but’, ‘because’, ‘so’ sentence stems.
• Expanding simple sentences (by including details such as; who/what? when? where? why?).
• Identifying and defining adjectives.
• Expanding simple sentences with an adjective.
• Exploring the ‘narrative’ genre of writing.
• Practising their letter formations in Victorian Modern Cursive font with a focus on achieving desired legibility, size and fluency on 18mm dotted thirds.

In Mathematics students will be:

• Comparing, ordering, counting, making, naming and recording numbers to 3-digits, using materials such as place value charts and base ten blocks.
• Recognising and reading the time represented on an analog clock to the hour, half-hour and quarter hour.
• Using a calendar to determine how many days there are until a particular event.
• Stating the number of days in a year and in each month.
• Participating in a daily review to help strengthen their previous knowledge and enhancing recall of their number knowledge.

In Inquiry students will be:

• Engaging in lessons about cyber safety and cyberbullying. They will learn about how to stay safe online and how to recognise unsafe behaviours on online platforms.
• Using a play-based approach to show case what they have learnt within the Core Knowledge units.

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on emotional literacy and cultural strengths.

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• Building their knowledge around emotions and how to express and understand how others are feeling.
• Their own personal strengths and how each students’ strengths and weaknesses.
• Using smiling minds as a tool to support students in understanding and connecting with their emotions.

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