HOW WE ORGANIZE OURSELVES

Students will investigate how people work together to meet the needs of their community. They will explore the roles, responsibilities, and functions that help communities succeed. Through inquiry, they will make connections, solve problems, and reflect on their actions. Students will practise self-management and thinking skills as they communicate ideas and cooperate with others. This unit builds understanding of responsibility and shows how everyone can make a difference.

REAL LIFE INVESTIGATORS

Students will explore facts by asking questions, finding information, and using nonfiction text features. They will read books, watch videos, and make observations to learn more about the world. They will build vocabulary and organize their ideas using headings, diagrams, and keywords. Students will write simple sentences, add details, and revise their work to improve accuracy. They will create All About books, posters, and dioramas to share their learning clearly and confidently with others.

PHONOLOGY

In this year-long phonics and spelling unit, students will grow into confident readers and writers. They’ll decode and spell using blends, digraphs, long vowels, and r-controlled sounds. Students will explore word families, affixes, and high-frequency words. They’ll build words by recognizing syllables, bases, and marker letters like silent <e>. By learning spelling patterns and sound-symbol connections, students will read with greater fluency and spell with increasing accuracy.

NUMBER OPERATIONS

Students will explore how numbers work together through addition and subtraction. They will build fluency adding and subtracting within 20 and use different strategies and tools to solve problems with numbers up to 100. They will learn that addition can be done in any order, but subtraction cannot. Students will solve word problems using mental math and visual models. They will double numbers and count in groups or 2s, 5s and 10s. This unit builds confidence and flexibility with number operations in real-life contexts.

SHAPE & SPACE

Students will explore 2D and 3D shapes and describe their features. They will sort, name, draw, and build shapes, and discover how some shapes are related. Students will find symmetry in the world around them and create their own symmetrical designs. They will use position words to describe where objects are and follow directions to navigate space. This unit helps students understand shapes, space, and patterns in their environment.

LEARNING THROUGH STORIES AND COMMUNITY

Students will continue building confidence in using Portuguese to communicate, read, write, and explore ideas about people, relationships, and communities. Integrated with the Year 2 How We Organise Ourselves Unit of Inquiry, they will use fables, discussions, reading, writing, and visual texts to explore roles, responsibilities, cooperation, and the impact of people’s actions. As part of their stand-alone Portuguese learning, students will strengthen oral language, reading, visual literacy, and writing by retelling fables, identifying key messages, expressing opinions with simple reasons, decoding unfamiliar words, and writing connected texts with increasing accuracy and organisation.

WORKING TOGETHER THROUGH GAMES

Students will develop their skills through team games while learning how people work together toward shared goals. Integrated with the Year 2 How We Organise Ourselves Unit of Inquiry, students will explore Function, Connection, and Responsibility by examining how rules, roles, teamwork, cooperation, and strategy help groups succeed. They will learn that each person has a contribution to make and that responsible choices can support the whole team. As part of their stand-alone PE learning, students will practise combining locomotor and object-control skills in simple games, contributing to team goals, adjusting strategies during play, recognising when cooperation is needed, and encouraging teammates. Through these experiences, students will build confidence as principled, communicative, and responsible team members.