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Week Nine...feeling Fine!

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 Good afternoon parents and welcome to Week 9 😁🤗😏 Crazy how much time flies when you are having fun. We have had such a wonderful term settling in to life in Year Two and learning new and exciting things.  Just a few messages for the upcoming fortnight... Homework Tomorrow we will be sending home the Year Two fluency grid with this fortnights focus sounds and tricky words. Have a look at our blog post titled 'Week 4 Information' which shows you how you can use this at home to increase your child's reading fluency. We have also included all of the spelling lists for your information on the back of the fluency grid. The pink list 💓 is the target for Year Two from our InitiaLit program. Please feel free to use these lists at home to increase your child's spelling abilities. Have a look at our Fluency grids and spelling lists below to see our focus sounds 🤓 Learning Intentions English:  This fortnight we are learning the spelling sounds 'tch' as in match and th...

Week Seven Information

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Good afternoon parents, We hope you had a lovely long weekend last week and enjoy this weekend. It was so nice hearing about all the exciting adventures you all got up too. Can you believe we are already going into Week 7? Time clearly flies by when you are having so much fun! Homework On Monday we will be sending home the Year Two fluency grid with this fortnights focus sounds and tricky words. Have a look at our blog post titled 'Week 4 Information' which shows you how you can use this at home to increase your child's reading fluency. We have also included all of the spelling lists for your information on the back of the fluency grid. The pink list 💓 is the target for Year Two from our InitiaLit program. Please feel free to use these lists at home to increase your child's spelling abilities. Have a look at our Fluency grids and spelling lists below to see our focus sounds 🤓 Learning Intentions English:  This week we are learning the spelling sounds 'soft c' ...

Week five...still alive!! 🤩

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Good afternoon parents,  I hope you had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the cooler change on Saturday. Just a few pieces of information for week five... Homework Today we sent home the Year Two fluency grid with this fortnights focus sounds and tricky words. Have a look at our last blog post which shows you how you can use this at home to increase your child's reading fluency. We have also included all of the spelling lists for your information on the back of the fluency grid. The pink list 💓 is the target for Year Two from our InitiaLit program. Please feel free to use these lists at home to increase your child's spelling abilities. Have a look at our Fluency grids and spelling lists below to see our focus sounds 🤓 Prayer Vigil for Ukraine OLC families, the situation in Ukraine is one of deep concern, and we have a number of families at our school with direct ties to the country. I invite you to join us for a 30 minute silent prayer vigil on Wednesday afternoon at 4.00pm on the...

Week 4 Information

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  Good afternoon  parents, Wow! What an absolutely busy yet fun first full week we have had in the Year Two team since swimming lessons have finished and we are into full days of learning.  Can you believe it is already week 4? I am so proud of how much focus and persistence with a positive attitude our Year Two team are showing when learning new things. In just a few weeks we are already growing our confidence to problem solve and continuing to build our independence to complete our work, try out new things and even suggest and share our own ideas and other ways we can show what we know and have learnt.    Thank you to all who have made the time to read through the parent information slides posted last week and read through the other information in the previous posts. I hope it was a great way to find out the 'nitty gritty' of  Year Two learning and life in our class. Please feel free to refer back to the previous blog post for a link to the slides present...