Hello families and friends on Year 2,

We have had a great start to Term 3! Everyone has settled back into our routines and learning, and it has been fantastic to see so much growth from each and every single student! Thank you to everyone who was able to come and make our whole school dance night one to remember! I am sorry I missed it this year, but from the photos and what I have heard, Year 2 was funky fresh dancing to Dr Jones! Year 2 also did an amazing job presenting at assembly this week, our information on Creation and Forgiveness is so important as it is covered across many year levels at the school.

Last week the school celebrated NAIDOC Week. The year 2 class did some fantastic craft activities thanks to Mrs Dore! We got to design boomerangs, scratch art on native Australian animals, do some fuzzy artwork and painting.

As we move through the term the students will continue to work on their persuasive writing and presentation skills in English. We are keen to build up our confidence to speak and present our ideas in from of others and we have some really strong opinions to go with it! Stay tuned for some work samples on seesaw – we are a really persuasive bunch!

In Maths, we have been learning some life-long skills in telling time and calculating the days/week/months/hours between different events. We are learning some of these concepts using an analogue clock – so if there is one at home please join in and ask questions about the time to keep it real and familiar to the students.

Moving forward this term, in science the students will continue looking at living things and the life cycle of animals, plants and humans. In HASS, the students will compare objects used for various things, such as communication and transportation, to what is used now for those same things. It will be interesting to see how much change has happened over the years and kind of scary to think of what they might be like in the future!

Some friendly reminders:

• Homework is Monday to Monday
• Library borrowing is Monday
• PE – sport uniform is Thursday

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me!

Kind Regards,

Emily