Term 2 Week 1 Newsletter

Welcome to Term 2. I hope you all had a great break and managed to get out to do some training. Our Cross Country is next week!

Home Learning

Thank you for providing feedback on the Home Learning Activities. These sheets are designed to support the learning in the classroom and generate discussion as you work on them together. As the children move on to longer and more complex texts at school they may take more than one Guided Reading session to complete. Therefore, your child will not always be bringing home a new book every night. When this happens the children are given the choice of either choosing a book from their group’s browsing box or to read a book from home. It is important that a variety of reading material is available at home and the public libraries have an awesome range to supplement your own collections. Although reading and basic fact activities are the priority for home learning, as a parent myself, I realise that some weeks other activities take priority. The blog activities, puzzles and Study Ladder activities are optional. The Study Ladder activites will be up for the term and certificates are awarded at the end of term. A variety of levels are catered for, just choose the tasks that you want.

Assembly

Our Year 2 Assembly this week is being hosted by the children of Room 18. We hope you can join us at 9:10am in Room 1.

Inquiry

This term our Inquiry focus is called ‘You’ve got to move it!’ It is science and technology based and we will be exploring simple machines and investigating a variety of ways to make objects move by using wheels, inclined planes, wedges and pulleys. If you have skills in this area that you would like to share with the class, please let me know. I am also looking for a Newton’s Cradle and would love to borrow one for a couple of weeks if possible.

Reminders

(Check school website for details & updates)    

Week 1

Wednesday       8^th May             Yoga session (Postponed - new date to be advised)

Friday              10^th May           Year 2 Assembly

Week 2

Wednesday       15^th May           Cross country

Thursday          16^th May           pp Cross country

Friday              17^th May           School Disco

Have a great week.