Year 2 WALTs

A snapshot of what are we learning in Year 2!          

WALT (We are learning to…)

 

Religion:

• Explain the purpose of reconciliation and the sacrament of penance
• Pray for forgiveness (admission of sin, saying sorry, asking God’s help to change and seeking to heal one’s loving relationships with God, with others)
• Participate with respect in a variety of personal and communal prayer experiences including prayers for forgiveness. 

Maths:

• Understanding three-digit numbers as comprised of hundreds, tens and ones
• Investigate what happens when a shape is flipped, slid, and turned with               
  one – step movement.
• Describe outcomes as ‘likely’ or ‘unlikely’ and identify some events as ‘certain’
  or ‘impossible’.
• Identifying 3D geometric features such as the number of faces, corners or edges
• Identify the rule in number sequences
• Identify different ways to make different money values
• Name and recognise all Australian coins and notes

The Arts- Visual Art and Drama:

• Use different materials and techniques to design artwork.
• Create an artwork for a specific audience and purpose.
• Use voice, facial expression, movement and space to present a piece of poetry.

English:

This term we have a focus on Poetry in English. The children will be learning the text and language features around reading, producing and presenting poems. The following WALTS will be taught using the context of a range of poetry.

• Read poems and understand images can add meaning to poems
• Read poem with unfamiliar vocabulary and a large number of High Frequency Words
• Read poems aloud using punctuation to enhance meaning and expression
• Use a variety of strategies to present poetry
• Identify sound patterns in poetry (Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Repetition)
• Use topic specific vocabulary when identify features of poetry
• Explain preferences by comparing and contrasting different poems
• Spell words with regular spelling patterns
• Spell words with less common long vowel patterns
• Self-correct and blend sounds when reading poems

Along with this text focus, the children will also have opportunity to understand and apply these WALTs along with Handwriting, monitoring meaning and identifying main ideas and supporting details in texts, reading with increased fluency and spelling strategies in Literacy Rotations each week. 

Discovery: HASS (History), Science, Design and Technology:

• Predict outcomes of investigations
• Identify push and pull items that are all around us
• Collect, compare and record observations
• Compare objects (toys) from the past and present
• Design my toy using a sequence of steps
• Label the parts needed to make my push pull toy 

Bounce Back: Circle Time:

• Identify and name personal emotions, and the impact emotions have on their lives.
• Understand how others are feeling – empathy.
   
  

Messages:

• Year 2 will be on Assembly Prayer Friday 12 May
• No school on Monday 1 May
• Ensure your child’s clothing and hats are clearly labelled. We offer multiple reminders for them to put their belongings into their bag to ensure learning time is not missed.
• We have noticed a number of students presenting with bites from break times. We would like to suggest spraying your child with a natural repellent before coming to school in an effort to prevent them from itching their bodies.

 

Warm regards

 

Year 2 Teachers – Ms Eyears and Mrs Lyons