Dear Parents and Carers of Year 2,

We have made it half way through Term 2 with lots of learning and fun activities along the way. Students have been involved in Liturgies at the church including our ANZAC Day Liturgy, St Joseph’s Feast Day and Mother’s Day. During this time, students learnt about the importance of ANZAC Day and it will so lovely to see so many of our families attend the dawn service. Week 2 on Friday saw the Year 2’s buddy up with the Year 4 class and participate in a fun afternoon of games and activities to celebrate Feast Day. Thank-you to superstar tuckshop extraordinaire and parent in our class, Jaime for organising chicken burritos for the students to feast on. In Week 4, our lovely Mum’s and Mother figures were invited to school to spend morning tea with us to celebrate Mother’s Day. We hope you enjoyed the presents the students made with love.

In English this term students have been learning to innovate a text during writing time. We have read many fiction stories and then changed them up to create our own. Students came up with many creative ideas to make their stories interesting with a focus on using adjectives to describe and add details. Our current text is “The Very Lazy Ladybird” and students have begun to use alliteration when describing the different animals the ladybird met.

In Maths students have been working with money and working out change from $20. They have been using blocks and counters when applying their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division strategies. Students have also been using mini clocks to work out half past the hour, quarter past and quarter to. We used objects and shapes to work out fractions including ½ , ¼ and 1/8.

In HASS this term we are learning about Weipa, Queensland, Australia and the world. We have been learning the continent song which I’m sure gets stuck in your head as much as ours! If not, ask your child to sing it for you! In Religion we are learning about the parable of the Unforgiving Servant as well as the Sacrament of Penance. In Science students are learning about push, pull forces and applying that to build and create a toy in technology. In PE we learnt the ABC’S of running A – agility B – balance C – coordination and S – speed with Coach Kate and Big Aaron. We have also been lucky enough to have AFL lessons with Matt.

This term we still have many exciting events ahead that we are looking forward to:

 -National Simultaneous Storytime at the library

-Under 8’s Day

-Athletics Carnival

As always, please feel free to contact me via SeeSaw or my e-mail ttapper@cns.catholic.edu.au if you have any questions or concerns,

Kind Regards,

Mrs Tash Tapper.