Term 1 - Week 3 & 4 π
Good afternoon parents,
Wow! What an absolutely busy yet fun first full week we have had in Year Two. Swimming lessons have finished and we are into full days of learning this week. Can you believe it is already week 3?I am so proud of how much focus and persistence our Year Two team are showing when learning new things. In just a few weeks we are already growing in our confidence to problem solve, continuing to build our independence to complete our work, try out new things and even suggest and share our own ideas.
In brief, our new OLC Homework policy has a strong focus fostering a positive attitude towards reading and literacy in the early years.
Year Two homework is as follows:
1. Home readers read by students
2. Fluency word reading grid
3. Optional: spelling words
1. Read every night (with the supplied reading book): Your child reading every day is important and makes a huge difference in reading skills. It will increase their knowledge of words and sentence structure, build upon common word recognition (sight words/tricky words), develop their vocabulary, give them daily opportunities to decode and read unknown words and apply multiple reading strategies learnt in class as well as develop their comprehension skills. It is important that your child reads aloud to you every night/morning for 10 minutes. Home readers will be exchanged by your child every day during gathering time. If your child, didn't complete the book in one night or needs to develop their fluency and re read the text, please feel free to keep it for as long as your child needs. Alternatively, if your child is reading a chapter book, they are not expected to read the entire book in one sitting. There are great benefits to reading a text multiple times - the children have a chance to become familiar with the text, increase their comprehension and fluency and in turn, improve their confidence in reading.
2. Read the words on your fluency grid: Please give them a small tick next to each word they read aloud correctly without guessing. Place a small dot next to those words not recognised to try again and focus on the next night after sounding them out with your child and repeating the word. You can time your child to try and read more each night or aim to read all of them each night with growing accuracy and speed. Please also discuss what each word means if any words are new. Each child will receive a copy of a fluency grid which will be issued fortnightly starting Monday 13th Feb (week 3). You are encouraged to keep this sheet on the fridge or similar and get your child to read the words on the sheet daily (don't throw these away as they are great for revision throughout the year).
Homework System
Library books
We are exchanging our Library books on a Monday. Please send your child in with their library bag. They will not be allowed to borrow if they do not have this with them.
Hats/Uniforms
Please ensure that the students have their hats at school each day. In Year Two we keep our hats in our bags in line with the routine for Years 1-6. A reminder to wear the teal sports uniform for their PE lesson on Thursday and on Fridays students wear coloured faction shirts.
Parent Information Night
We hope you have had the chance to read the blog titled Parent Information Night that was posted last week. The slides will give you information regarding Year 2 for 2024. We know families live busy lives, so in acknowledgement of this, the slides are the same as those that were presented in the classroom on the Parent Information Night. There was no additional information, so if you were unable to make it, you will not have missed out of any information.
If you have any questions regarding the information presented in the slides, please dont hesistate to contact us.
Class Reps
We are looking for 1-2 class reps per class. Please contact us directly if this is something you would be interested in.
Swimming Lost Property
We have a whole heap of lost property that has been collected over the past 8 days of swimming lessons. Please check out the photo below and if this is any of your child's belongings, please collect them from my Year 2M room.
Boorda,
Natalie Matthews
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