Term 3 Overview

Term 3 – 2018 Overview

This term overview is an indication of the work I have planned and will be adjusted according to student response and other opportunities for learning that occur throughout the term. 

English

Students will partake in various class based English lessons every day and cover the following components of English:

Phonics and Spelling: 

Students will revise Set 1-4 of the phonograms through repetition of verbal, visual and physical cues. Students will be completing the Get Spelling program (a Year 2 program which follows on from RWI). The program will focus on a group of sounds and students will be engaged in activities such as; marking up groups of words, counting syllables, adding suffixes and prefixes and looking at homophones etc.

Spelling: 

In class students will be learning how to spell the third and fourth hundred oxford sight words to assist with their writing. They will complete spelling contracts with these words as well as words they spell incorrectly in their writing. As well as this, students will practice their handwriting to correctly form upper and lower-case letters.

Writing: 

Our writing focus will be on Information Reports, Persuasive writing and Narratives. They will create short texts drawing on their experiences, imagination and information they have learnt.

We will revise the use of capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and ensuring their sentences make sense. During Grammar lessons, students will be learning about prefixes and suffixes, conjunctions and synonyms and antonyms. They will be learning to punctuate their sentences correctly and to use speech marks.

Reading: 

Students will be reading aloud and developing their fluency, accuracy and expression. When reading, they will be using the phonograms and knowledge of letters as well as high frequency words. The students will learn strategies each week as a focus on comprehension of texts. They will be completing reading response related to the learnt strategy and applying these strategies in our weekly Library sessions and Guided Reading groups.

Oral Language: 

Will be developed through a play-based curriculum. Students will take part in investigations to develop their speaking and listening skills through play-based activities and presentations. Students share their work with their peers and discuss ideas in small groups as well as with the whole class.

Maths

Students will take part in lessons this term that are based on Number and Measurement. A typical math lesson will entail the following:




A mental routine:

This is a ‘warm-up’ for students before commencing a Numeracy lesson. Students have whiteboards with an exercise in them and they answer questions that are closed (one answer only), open (multiple answers) and a flip question (students ask the teacher yes or no questions.)


Students then engage in one of the following processes.




A problematised Situation.

Students are presented with a realistic life situation that requires them to apply mathematical knowledge to reach a solution. e.g I have to buy enough cakes for 15 people coming to my party. The cakes are sold in packets of four. How many packets do I need? The students are given an opportunity to de-code the language of the problem as well as apply the strategies they know to try and solve a problem. They are encouraged to use a range of strategies to work out the answer.




A Strategy Session:

In this session students are explicitly taught specific skills they can use to solve the earlier problematised situation in a range of ways. In this case they may be shown a number of techniques for dividing a number. Having previously viewed the students' attempts the teacher can then tailor what they teach in a way that builds on what students already know.

A Reflection Session:

Students answer questions based on their findings and discuss strategies used and learnt from the lesson.




In Term 3, students will be grouping, partitioning and rearranging collections up to 1000 in hundreds, tens and ones to facilitate more efficient counting. They will be recognising halves, quarters and eighths of shapes and collections.

We will be measuring length, area, volume and capacity.

HASS

In HASS students will be learning about their place in the world at different scales, eg. Our community, state, country, continent etc. The different geographical divisions will be explored as well as how maps are used.

Technologies

Students will be using Google docs and slides to publish, save and share their work. They will access websites and use iPad apps such as Studyladder and typing.com to reinforce what has been taught in the classroom and learn new digital technology skills.

Specialist Subjects

Students participate in weekly Science, P.E, Japanese and Music lessons.