YEAR 2 NEWS

YEAR 2 NEWS

This term in Religion the children will be undertaking a unit based on the New Testament. They will be analysing the stories ‘Jesus heals a Crippled Woman’, ‘The Two Blind Men’ and ‘Jesus Walks on the Water’. They will also be discussing how these stories about Jesus give meaning to our community today. *In English, the children will be reading stories from Australia and other countries. They will revise the structure of a narrative and during the term will write their own narrative. Their second draft will be put on the ‘Toontastic’ app. *In HASS, the unit is called Indigenous History. The children will be discussing Uluru, local significant sites and early indigenous technology.

*In Science, the unit is entitled ‘Water Works’. The children will be undertaking experiments with water, doing a water walk around the school and learning about the water story from “the clouds to their taps”.

*In Maths, concepts covered include addition and subtraction to 99, multiplication and division, numbers to 1 000, halves, quarters, thirds and eighths, 3D objects (faces, edges and corners), area, mass, litres, 2D shapes, comparing data and picture graphs.

Jo Cosgrove

Year 2C Teacher