Foundation - Year 2
Welcome to term 3 at Hawker Area School. I would like to give a special welcome to Emily and Alice who joined our class late last term.
The class still has Mrs Sharon Bates for Health and Physical Education, Mr Daren O’Neill for one Maths lesson, Ailsa Green for Art, Library and Digital Technology, Mrs Lidia Szlezak for language and Ms Kate Retelsdorf for Music.
The school day starts with the students unpacking their bags, calling of the roll and their designated jobs.
Read, write inc. program covers 2 lessons now, with the younger ones doing the program in the first lesson and the older ones in the second lesson. This means I have smaller groups to work with when they are not doing RWI. During this time, writing, grammar, hand writing, reading comprehension and word investigations are taught. We are making a 4 sided diorama describing the beginning, the problem, solution and the ending of a story read.
In Maths, we are leading into multiplication and division, using grouping and sharing strategies. The Foundation students are learning the place values of 11 to 20 and the Year 1 and 2 will continue in this area as well using number to 100 and 1000. The Foundation students are also learning the place values of 11 to 20 and the Year 1 and 2’s will continue in this area as well using numbers to 100 and 1000. Measurement, fractions and data collection will also be a focus this term.
The class is excited by the new Science topic this term being biology and we started by comparing living and non living things, followed by grouping animals into skin covering types. We will explore the different types of environments in which plants and animals live such as deserts, oceans, rain forests and grass plains. The Foundation and Year 1’s will be a making a habitat diorama and the Year 2’s will choose a life cycle of a plant or animal to investigate.
In HASS, we will be exploring how memories, stories and culture are preserved for this generations and the future.
Library is on Fridays and students can borrow books at this time if they have returned previous books.
I am setting up a different form of communication contact with parents as the communication books are not working at all now. I will let you know when this happens soon.
Please make sure your child’s hat is clearly labelled so it is easily identified by your child and not mistaken by another child.
All parents or carers are welcome to discussions with me about their child if needed, as working together works best for you, the child and us as teachers.