Stage 2 Overview Term 3, 2020
Dear Parent/Caregiver
Education Week
To celebrate Education Week this year the students of Stage 2 have made a video for parents to watch. They have filmed a tour of their classroom and have selected their favourite piece of informative writing from Term 2 to share with you. The films will be available for viewing through your child’s Google Classroom from Thursday 6 August. They will be found in Classwork under the heading Education Week. We hope you enjoy your child’s first foray into documentary film making.
Writing
The first half of this term Stage 2 are working on writing explanations and including phrases into sentences. The second half of the term we will be writing persuasive texts where students will be learning how to develop text structure, justify reasoning and use language to persuade the reader.
Reading
Students will be continuing to develop their decoding and comprehending skills when reading increasingly more complex texts. In the first cycle students will be learning how to identify key words and establish the main idea of the text. Students will then be moving towards writing summaries.
We continue to encourage students to read everyday at home and Epic is still available as an option when selecting something to read. All students across Stage 2 are working towards completing their Premier’s Reading Challenge. All students are filling in their forms at school and handing them in to the library staff or their teacher when completed.
Maths
Across the term students will be learning about:
- building instant recall for x2, x3, x5, x10
- exploring patterns across place value, addition and subtraction and number charts
- exploring length in mm and area in square cm
- revising and building the recall of x10 and x2 and using these to solve division sums
- exploring angles
- learning the 3 multiplication facts and the related division facts
- investigating volume
Year 4
Across the term students will be learning about:
- building our instant recall of the multiplication facts across x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x10, x6, x8, x9
- continuing to develop strategies to help us work out multiplication facts
- finding the area of rectangles
- reading picture graphs
- subtraction with an algorithm
- reading and labelling angles
- working with factors
- developing strategies to multiply two-digit numbers by a single-digit
CAPA
PDHPE
During the term students will be investigating the big idea, 'How can I adapt to a changing world?'
During PE students will be exploring and investigating, 'How can I create new games and rules?'
Sport
Students will be selecting an activity from a variety of sports and they will be learning how to play this across the term. Towards the end of the term on Friday Week 8 we will be holding a fun Stage 2 gala day where students will be playing against each other in their chosen sport.
As always if you have any questions or concerns regarding your child’s learning please don’t hesitate to contact the classroom teacher through the office.
The Stage 2 Teaching Team