Term 3 has Begun!
Welcome back to Term 3! I hope you all had a lovely holiday and the students are feeling refreshed and renewed after their two week break! We are well into term now, and students have settled really well!
Homework
Homework will continue as normal this term. Students are progressing well. Please see us if there are any concerns.
Prayer Assembly
Just a reminder that our Prayer assembly is in Week 4! More information to come soon! We will be joining with 2K for this assembly!
Learning Area focus for Term 3
English
PLD spelling groups will continue and students will be retested towards the middle of the term.
We will cover grammar topics such as using commas in a series, revising adjectives, nouns and verbs, conjunctions, using punctuation correctly and emotive language.
Reading groups will continue where students are going to start locating important information from texts.
In writing we will focus on persuasive texts initially and then move to poetry at the end of term.
Religion
The two units that we are covering this term is Empowered to Love (Love and Confirmation) and Jesus Forgives (Vocation and Penance). Below are some beautiful photos of students demonstrating, showing love for one another. They came up with the ideas themselves! These photos, and more will be placed on our prayer table soon!
Maths
We will be practicing multiplication and division skills, with a focus on sharing and dividing numbers into even groups, arrays and repetitive addition. Later on in the term we will be looking at fractions, we work with eighths in Year 2 and will revise halves and quarters.
HASS
This term we will be covering some History strands. Students will be looking at how timelines can represent the past, and comparing the past and present. They be will constructing timelines based on their their own lives!
We were hoping that families could send in some photos that represent each year of your child's life. They will be used to create the time line. Also children may need some help to write something about each year of their life, particularity when they are newborns! Copies of photos would be ideal as they may get glue on them. We can copy photos if need be. Please come and see me if they are any questions. (We will not need these for a few weeks but if families can start collecting and bringing in photos that would be great!)
Science
This term we are covering Earth and Space Science. We will be focusing on Water. We will discuss and research uses of water, the water cycle, where water comes from and any other questions that the students generate themselves. Some exciting news is... We are joining with 2K for Science this term!
We are looking forward to a wonderful term!
P.S.Some reading books that have not been returned to class are:
-A Box can be many things
-I'm a Catterpillar
-Maddy in the Middle
-Me and my Shadow
-Newts and Amphibians
-Predators and Pray
-Senses
-Sing-Song Mum
-Slugs and Snails
-The Forgetful Princess
-The Race
-Tittle-tattle Goose
-Toad makes a Road
-Where are you going, Aja Rose?
-Whoosh! The Spaceship Lands
Please send them in if you have them at home :)