This week the students have started learning about narratives. The students will read lots of narratives over the term to explore the features of these texts. This week students have explored how a narrative is structured into three main stages. We talked about the introduction or orientation stage where the author introduces the characters and […]
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At the end of Term 3, the Year Two Neighbourhood will participate in Princes Hill Primary School’s inaugural Junior School Sports Day. The event will be held on the afternoon of Wednesday 20th September, in the last week of term . Maddie and Jess, teachers from Prep and Year 1, came up with the idea
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Over the next few weeks, the students in the year 2 neighbourhood are going to be focussing their maths investigations on money. Students will broaden their understandings of how maths is used in every day life and be able to the apply skills they will develop during these investigations. The main focus of learning
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This term we have been investigating various countries and our connection to them. We have begun to understand what makes something a country such as human and natural features including landmarks, geography, language, currency, clothing and food. Our big idea is ‘We make connections to places through family, stories, experiences and artefacts’. Next term
Can you believe the year is coming to an end? This week we will be reflecting on our learning about our big idea, ‘Our world is made up of many parts, which are connected. Understanding this helps us to make decisions.’ We will continue to show our learning through our future designs and share how
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Literacy This week’s focus will be on writing recounts of our trip to Como House. We will explore how we explain what has happened using chronological order and sequence all of the great things we did on the excursion. Children will use paragraphs to break up their recounts and keep an eye out on the
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We are excited to be heading off to Como House this week. We will be using this trip to investigate how life from the past can impact decisions we make about the future. Children will participate in a number of activities from the past as well as doing some role play of life in the
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This week our inquiry takes a turn towards the future. We have explored changes in the past to the present and identified why these changes have taken place. We are thinking about what we need to consider to make decisions about the future and what information helps us to make a decision? Provocations: Designing transport
Hello lovely families This week throughout the Inquiry we are continuing our exploration of change over time, cause and effect through design and investigating daily life. The provocations around the neighbourhood all research these concepts as we continue analysing daily life from then and now! In Literacy, our exploration for poetry has continued developing from
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It is Week 3 next week .. here’s what’s coming up! In Numeracy we are continuing with equivalent fractions. We have been sharing ‘cookies’ among different amounts of people and learning how to record the fractions that come from it. “When we share 24 cookies with 3 people they each get 8 cookies each” 1/3
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