Curriculum Outline Term 4

Grade 2 

2A: Teagan Crane 

2B: Zeynab Kelmayche/Kubra Calik

2C: Jarryd Humphreys

2D: Raquel Romano

Weekly schedule:

2A -

Library - Tuesday (odd weeks) , PE - Tuesday , Auslan - Tuesday, Performing Arts - Friday, Art - Friday , 

2B - 

Art - Tuesday, PE - Tuesday, Performing Arts - Wednesday, Auslan - Thursday, Library Thursday 

2C - 

Performing Arts - Tuesday, Art - Tuesday,  Library -  Wednesday (fortnightly) , Auslan, Thursday, PE - Friday

2D- 

Auslan - Tuesday, Performing Arts - Tuesday, Library - Wednesday , PE - Friday, Art - Friday 

Important Dates

October 6 - First day of term

October 17 - Festival of Colour

October 20 - Assembly (G2 Performing)

October 31 - World Teacher’s Day

November 3 - Report writing day

November 4 - Melbourne Cup Day

November 10 - Assembly (G1 Performing)

December 1 - Assembly (Foundation Performing)

December 1 - Responsible Pet Ownership Program

December 9 - Step up day

December 12 - Curriculum day

December 15 - Reports live

December 19 - Last day of term, Noon finish

Learning

In Term 4, the Grade 2 students are focusing on the following:

• Reading – Exploring a range of comprehension strategies such as making predictions, text connections and inferring character behaviours and emotions throughout a text. Students will also have an emphasis on the main idea of a text discussing why it was written. Students will also be building their knowledge of blending and segmenting words and sounds through our daily Heggerty and SoundsWrite lessons.
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• Writing – Students will be exploring the structure and use of persuasive texts by having multiple exposures to different persuasive text topics such as insects, mandatory school uniform and pets. This will culminate in students exploring the writing process to create a persuasive piece of writing trying to convince readers of their point of view.
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• Numeracy – Students will be learning different strategies to use with their numeration and partitioning skills with numbers in the 1000’s using various materials. They will also learn how to read time on a clock to the quarter hours and how to read, make, analyse and collect data to put into graphs and models using student input.
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• Inquiry – Students will be learning the unit of ‘Biology’ focusing on life cycles, the necessities for life and how all living things need and use resources to survive. Students will apply their learning to begin a project in which they will plan, explore, build, implement and evaluate the use of bird feeders to show how we can help the bird wildlife.

Home Learning

Home Reading – read everyday for at least 10 min. Children should be reading their “I read to you” book and parents should be reading, or assisting children to read the “Read to me” books. Books will be changed once a week. Please be aware of your child’s day to change their home readers and make sure they have their home reading folder on the correct day.

Math Seeds & Reading Eggs – your child can log into these apps/websites at home to practice their reading and numeracy. (if you don’t have the login details, please contact the classroom teacher)