Term One Evaluation ~ Monkey

English:

Reading:

Read Aloud Books:

Picture Books -
**See written list**

Independent Reading:

**See written list**

Other Reading Activities:

Reading Eggs online program

Writing:

Handwriting:

Targeting Handwriting Year 2

Spelling:

daily oral review of weekly lists as sourced from online spelling website

(20 words per list)
written test taken every Friday

Maths:

Maths Plus Year 2 Textbook

Units 1 - 8 covering the following topics:

10 frame addition, one-half, classifying two-dimensional shapes, informal length units, subtraction strategies, revising numbers to 99, three-dimensional objects, covering area, repeated addition, skip counting, different orientations, half past, addition to twenty, multiplication/groups of, chance events, ordering capacity, count on to find the difference, representing numbers to 1000, sketching position, comparing mass, division/equal groups, multiplication/groups of, quarter turn clockwise and anti-clockwise, creating a data table, bridging to ten, place value, faces, vertices and edges, digital time - half past and o'clock, counting on/addition, one quarter, likely/unlikely, informal length units

Diagnostic Review 

Scripture and Character Building:

Bible Read Aloud:
Numbers 19 ~ Deuteronomy 26

HSIE:

Geography/History -

History: 

Read Alouds:Horace the Baker's Horse by Jackie French

Are We There Yet? by Alison Lester

Hello From Nowhere by Raewyn Caisley

Tom the Outback Mailman by Kristin Weidenbach

Geography:

The Travel Book

Around the World Coloring Book

Term 1 focused on the following countries:

Australia

Austria

Brazil

Canada

Other Activities:

Assisted Nana with making Indian flat bread

Science and Technology:

Read Alouds on Various Science Topics:

Deadly Snakes - Andrew Solway
Blast Off! Let's Explore Mercury
Blast Off! Let's Explore Venus
Blast Off! Let's Explore The Moon
Blast Off! Let's Explore Comets and Asteroids
Blast Off! Let's Explore Jupiter
Blast Off! Let's Explore Saturn
Blast Off! Let's Explore Uranus
Blast Off! Let's Explore Pluto and the Other Dwarf Planets

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Hairy Tarantulas by Joelle Riley

Earth's Cycles: The Water Cycle by Cheryl Jakab

Mammals and Their Young

Autumn by Greg Pyers

Usborne Big Book of Big Bugs

PDHPE:

walk to and from the library

walk to and from the shops

walk to and from various parks

free play at various parks

riding scooter

Read Alouds:
Kindness by Kimberly Pryor

Respect by Kimberly Pryor

Creative Arts:

Art:

Read Aloud - 

"The Magical Garden of Claude Monet" by Laurence Anholt

Colouring page of Monet's Water Garden

Socialization:

Weekly attendance of church and Sunday School

Numerous play dates with friends of multiple ages

Other Activities:

Played a variety of board and card games

• Rummy-O
• Mancala
• Snakes and Ladders
• Skip-Bo
• Chess
• Memory
• Blokus
• Blink

Term School Holiday Events:

January:

Library ~ Bingo

Library ~ Games Day

ANSTO ~ Water Rockets

April:

ANSTO ~ Water

Lego Day at a friend's church