1. Welcome
to 2R

2. Housekeeping Please Read your child’s note and write back.
Sign the roll.
Sign on if you can help.

3. Introduction
Homework
Oral Presentations
Maths
Language
Science/Geography/History
Art
Specialist subjects
Other areas

4. Rules Stamps Awards Piggy banks Stickers Encouragement
Behaviour Management
Rules Stamps Awards Piggy banks
Stickers Encouragement
Reminders Sticker cards
Free time Class dojo

5. Written Homework Taken home on Monday Returned to school on Friday
Included spelling, Language and Maths,
number facts
Please check the spelling is spelt correctly
Dotted spelling are the ones your child got wrong in the pre-test. Write all 10 spelling.
Encourage your child to write neatly.

6. Reading Homework Read aloud for 10 minutes 4 times a week.
Ask them to retell the story. Ask questions if the retell needs more detail.
Sign the reading record each time.
Taken home daily including on Friday.
Returned to school on Monday.
Each child reads books appropriate to their reading level.

7. Listen to them practise their talk at home.
Begin with “Good afternoon 2R.
Encourage them to speak for approximately two minutes and not just say two sentences.
Keep them on the one topic.

8. Maths Number Explore numbers to 999 – place value Counting beyond 100
Operations
Begin some regrouping in addition and subtraction
Calculator activities

9. Maths
Chance and Data
Look at the certainty of events occurring or not occurring
Graphing
Make graphs –picture graphs and bar graphs
Interpret graphs

10. Number facts
– + & - to 20
Toward end of year - concepts of multiplication and division, 1x, 2x, 10x, 0x
Money
Coins from 5c to $2, notes
Give children small amounts to count – pay, tuckshop, trips etc

11. Time
Days of week
Months of year, seasons
O’clock and half past, 5 minute intervals, a quarter to, a quarter past
Use a watch with hands.

12. Measurement
Litre, metre, kilogram
Plane Shapes
Solid Shapes

13. Writing One to two genres each term. Term 1 - Poetry, Letter writing
Term 2 - Information report on an animal
Term 3 – Narrative
Term 4 – Persuasive writing

14. Handwriting Using beginners print now.
Begin to learn entries and exits in term 2
Joins are taught in end of Year Two and in Year Three.

15. Class Reading In ability groups and strategy groups
CAFÉ – Comprehension, accuracy, fluency, expanding vocabulary
Quiet reading
QAR (Question and response)used over all subjects

16. Science Term 1- Push and pull
Term 2 - Animals and plants - life cycles
Term 3 – Properties of materials
Term 4 – The water cycle, saving water

17. History and Geography
History – How technology has changed how people live
Geography – What is the story of my place – location, maps, Australia

18. Art – term 1 & 2 – colour
Term 3 - Drama – mime animal
Term 4 - Dance
PE – Thursday
Music – Monday
Library - Monday

19. Assessment Interviews – April and July/August
Report cards – end of terms 2 and 4
We moderate some assessment pieces each term.