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2A sure loves to learn new songs to sing and dance to. This term we’ve really enjoyed learning from the messages found in a few different tunes. We decided we’d learn the words to the ‘You Can Do It!’ song which is all about PERSISTENCE – one of our 5 keys to success. We really […]

  This week we worked on our understanding of Place Value through various activities including: partitioning and ordering of numbers, interpreting numbers in different ways, and, identifying numbers on a bead string and number line. Students were the given the option of extending their learning by finding 10 more and 10 less and by identifying […]

  2A has been learning about the importance of keeping safe as part of this term’s Inquiry learning. Our Inquiry question, ‘What helps to keep me safe?’, has led us to ask lots of questions about our personal safety and how to respond if we are in danger.  Earlier in the term, we went on […]

To celebrate Harmony Day, 2A read a story written by Amal, a young Somalian boy, who now lives in Melbourne. Amal wrote about his gratitude for living in multicultural Australia and the pride he feels to be an ‘Australian’. Amal wondered,’What does it mean to be an Australian?’ 2A students thought about what it actually […]

Is the number odd or even? Students were asked to draw numbers as tens frames (dotted arrays) and check if the number had a pair or if there was a lonely dot left over. If they had a single, lonely dot left over then their number would be odd. If the number could be paired […]

Throughout this term 2A have been focusing on asking lots of questions while reading. Questioning is so important for one to comprehend what is actually happening in the story. Before we even open the front cover of a book, we can be asking ‘wondering’ questions and predicting what the story will be about. Below you […]

  2A have been working hard at describing place value for 2 and 3 digit numbers. Activities included grouping a collection of counters and identifying this number on a bead string and number line. Students also rolled a die to create 2 and 3 digit numbers and placed these into a Ones, Tens, Hundreds chart. […]

         ‘Stars are everywhere. Not just in the sky….’ ‘What if you could have a star?’ The story, ‘Stars’, written by Mary Lyn Ray, is the perfect little story for cosying up in one’s pj’s – perhaps not in bed but in the school library instead!

We have been lucky to have wonderful numeracy wizzz, Lea Baker, stop by our classroom to guide students in their understanding of reading (subitising) numbers. Students gathered a handful of counters and arranged them into groups that could easily be read quickly by skip counting. Thanks Lea!!

2A’s quiet and orderly arrival at a recent assembly managed to charm Cuddles the Bear. We were lucky to have Cuddles as company in our room for the entire week and, on top of this, were rewarded with an awesome ukulele lesson with Janet, our wonderful School Chaplain extroardinaire! The students listened very well and […]