Happy Holidays

Wishing you and your family a safe, relaxing and well deserved holiday! I'm looking forward to seeing you all back in Term 3 for another busy term.

Thank you for your ongoing support,
Mrs Caris Szczepanik

Talk Homework Week 10

Term 3 Homework

Dear Parents,

Next term there will be a change in the Year 2 homework program. The weekly review sheets will no longer be going home, as these will now be morning work for the children to complete when they come into class. This will ensure all students’ are completing the necessary revision needed to remember the concept in the long term.

These will be in their big trays stored in display files. Each morning they are to come and retrieve the file, sit down and complete the work. Not only will this ensure all children are completing the activities but it will also motivate students to be at class on time. If at the end of the week these practise sheets are not complete then they will be sent home.

Homework will now be as follows:

·         Home reading – This must be done every night, whether it is a whole book or a few pages, as it helps develop children’s fluency and comprehension. They should write their book into their reading journal and these needs to be signed off by a parent.

·         Spelling - Students need to be practising their spelling words each night in their spelling homework books. There are a range of activities they can be doing. These are found at the front of their spelling homework books.

·         Wednesday Word Problem and Talk Homework – These are to be completed each week as well. Talk homework goes home on a Tuesday ready for our writing block on a Wednesday. Word Problem Wednesday’s go home on Wednesday’s and are due back Monday.

·         Times tables – Their times table booklets should be completed when children have some spare time. They are to work through them at their own pace and once they have finished one times table, they bring it to me to be tested for a new one. This is optional.

·         Study Ladder - If you would like your child to be doing more at home, each student has a study ladder login at the back of their spelling homework book. I have set tasks relevant to the Year 2 Curriculum for them to complete. This is optional.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Kind regards,

Mrs Caris Szczepanik

Study Ladder

Congratulations to Bella, Pari, Diya, Ansh, Steve, Leo, Sam, Harry and Mia for earning Study Ladder certificates. We are all very proud of your hard work! Keep it up. 

Award Winners

Lateness

A lot of students have been arriving late to class lately. It is vital to arrive on time as the morning allows us to prepare for the day, practise our spelling words and allows Mrs S to check our homework. Please arrive at 8.30am each morning. Points will be awarded to teams who have everyone here on time and at the end of the week the team with the most points will win a special prize. 

Science Superstars

Week 6 was the best week ever! We got to present our Science Superstars presentations and experiments. Mrs S was beyond proud of the effort, knowledge and preparation we had all put in to make our presentations interesting and informative. We had a range of different ideas from naked eggs, fizzulators, lava lamps and walking colours. 

It was incredibly fun doing our presentations but the most important part was that we knew the science behind it. It is safe to say that we have outstanding Scientists in Room 16. Our whole class voted for the 2 best presentations and on Wednesday they will present their experiment to all of the Year 2s. From there, the teachers will decided on a Year 2 Science Superstar winner. Congratulations to Diya and Charlie who were voted the best presentations and will be presenting their experiments to all of the Year 2s.

A special thank you must go to all the amazing parents who helped us with the researching, preparation and providing the equipment we needed to be successful. Without your help we couldn't have delivered such outstanding presentations so thank you very much! We hope you enjoyed learning about Science also. 

Super science presentations! from carisheppener

WA Day Door

This week wattle Grove Primary School celebrated WA Day by holding a decorate your door competition. Our class decided we would like to do Exmouth. We did a fact finding activities about the different sea animals you would see in the Ningaloo Reef which is in the ocean surrounding Exmouth. We learnt about the Whale Sharks, Mantarays, Bottlenose Dolphin, Leatherback Turtles, fish and Tiger Sharks.

We also learnt how to read a weather chart then mapped the weather of Exmouth. Did you know that Exmouth is practically hot and sunny all year round even when it is Winter. They say that Exmouth get 362 days of sunshine in a year. The water temperature can vary between 22 - 28 degrees.

In Exmouth, there are many fun activities you can do too. We looked these up on the Visitors Centre website. You can go swimming with the whale sharks and mantarays, go fishing, relax on the beach, go snorkelling and even four wheel driving.

We think this is the best holiday spot in Western Australia. Mrs S said that if we go during the holidays we have to take her with us!

Below are some photos of our door or feel free to pop in and see it.

Wa day door from carisheppener

Congratulations!

A huge congratulations to Phoebe, Bella and Jonathan for winning awards at last weeks assembly. You have worked so hard and truly deserve the recognition! Keep up the amazing work super stars.

Congratulations Phoebe, Bella and Jonathan!