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Term 2 - Week 3 & 4

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Good afternoon Parents, Can you believe we are already down two weeks of Term 2? I hope you have all had a lovely weekend and enjoyed some time to relax in the beautiful sunshine.  Just a few pieces of information for the upcoming fortnight... Homework On Monday we will be sending home the Year Two fluency grid with this fortnights focus sounds and tricky words. Have a look at our blog post titled 'Week 4 Information' which shows you how you can use this at home to increase your child's reading fluency. We have also included all of the spelling lists for your information on the back of the fluency grid. The pink list 💓 is the target for Year Two from our InitiaLit program. Please feel free to use these lists at home to increase your child's spelling abilities. Have a look at our Fluency grids and spelling lists below to see our focus sounds 🤓 Learning Intentions English:  This week we are learning the spelling sounds 'oa' as in float, 'ow' as in snow,

Welcome to Term Two, 2024!

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 Dear Parents, I hope you had a wonderful holidays and a Happy Easter. I cannot wait to hear about all of the children's adventures of camping, travels and fun in the sun🌞😎. I had a great break that was full of eating yummy food and spending time with family and friends! Just a few pieces of information for the start of the term... Wadandi Totems  🌨💧🍂🍁 We are now in the season of Djeran - This is when the weather starts to get cooler and the leaves turn orange and fall off the trees. We are very lucky that Josh Whiteland from Koomal Dreaming has approved every classroom with a native flora and fauna and their traditional Noongar name. Over the coming weeks, we will be spending some time learning about the significance of these. Please see below for the Wadandi Totems assigned to 2M.   Plant  Wadandi Name  Animal Wadandi Name  2M Round Reed Manjin Western Swamp Tortoise Yaagan Homework The Year Two fluency grid with this fortnights focus sounds and tricky words will be sent ho