TERM 3- 2011 (Year 2)

What is happening for this term in YEAR 2??

Our school wide concept is- 'Express Yourself'

We will be exploring how:

• The Arts be used to express and communicate thoughts, feelings and ideas.

Big Question:

• How can we express ourselves?

The Year 2 children will be participating in an 'Art Rotation' as part of this unit. They will have two sessions with each teacher on the following: Miss George: Upbeat Music Programme, Miss McClue: Dance, Miss Fisher: Flax Weaving, Mrs Hardie-Boys: Musical instruments, Mrs Paul: Drama and we are very lucky to also have the talent of Jeanette Franklyn who will be taking each class for two sessions about instruments and the orchestra and musical notation. Thank you so much Mrs Franklyn!!

Our Writing Focus will be- Personal Recounts/ Paragraph Plans/ Cameo Writing/ Recrafting/ Publishing and a particular focus on Transactional Writing: Instructions

Our mathematics programme will be- Number: addition and subtraction, number knowledge, basic facts, place value, sequential patterning (Algebra), Money, Fractions, Measurement- length and area.

SPECIAL EVENTS:

• For any special events please refer to the right hand column of our Blog under the heading 'Special Events'

If you have any questions or there is anything else you would like to know about the class programme for this term please don't hesitate to ask your classroom teacher :-)