The Learning Program for Class 2
Main Lesson Middle Lesson
English
Lower Case letters Word Families
Descriptive Expression Writing Practice
Letter Combinations Verse Speaking
(Phonics, Blends, Spelling)
Mathematics
Times Tables - 1 to 12 Linear Dynamic Drawing
(Diagrammatic Number)
Money Number in the Home –Time
(Applied Number)
The Algorithm Using counters as money
(Problem Solving)
Human Society and its environment (HSIE)
Ancient India Stories of Wisdom
South East Quatrosphere Animal Fables
Local Geography: Aboriginal
Sacred Sites
Science and Technology
The Four Kingdoms Gardening
Local Flora and Fauna Water Cycle
The Seasons Animal Homes and Shelters
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PD.H.&PE)
Sport: As for Class 1, plus ball Games.
Dance: Indian Folk Dances. Line Dances
Field Excursions
Bushcraft: Fire lighting, Tent pitching, Pocket-knife care.
Camp suggestion: Wollumbin or lake Ainsworth.
Cooking Simple Dishes. Cooking on an Open Fire.
Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA)
Painting:
Wet on Wet. Exploring Rainbow Colours. Making Magenta.
Possible themes: Serum Spectrals. Water Plants.
Drawing: Block and stick crayons. Introducing form using the stick crayons.
Line drawing. Possible Theme: The jungles of S.E. Africa.
Sculpture:
Clay: Hand modelling (coil, pinch), e.g. Animals of Asia.
Wax: Simple Mandalas (patterns between sheets of plastic).
Candles: twist and cut-away.
Music: Recorder playing in rounds. Two part instrumentals. Notation. Class
band.
Craft: Soft crafts
Wool: weaving a carry-bag, knitting a scarf, making a stitch
sampler.
Cotton: individual chalk-bag, with elephant-print motif and
Sequin decoration.
Silk: silk picture for hanging, shibori tie-dying technique.
Felt: soft toy (mouse, elephant), lotus pincushion, hand
puppet, sewing needle case, sewing booklet for knitting needles.
Papier-maché: simple bowl with shiny veneer finish.
Hard crafts
Wood: Black boards, jigsaw puzzles, mobile, breadboards.
Mixed craft
Jewellery: beading necklaces and wristbands.
Technical
Building and Construction: building a billy cart with wheels, a portable
wooden lap top-drawing board.
Printing: Potato print patterns
Mixed: String patterns (geometry) involving measuring, hammering,
nailing and wool winding.
Drama
Prop making. Set and costume preparation. Speech practice. Rehearsals.
Possible theme: Ancient India.
With such a program in mind, those are the kind of stories told in Class 2
– Fables: stories of wisdom
– Stories of Ancient India: The Mahabarata, the Ramayana
– Water stories: stories depicting the water cycle
– Plant stories: stories of plants in which their names, forms, colour and blossoms as reflections of human soul life, e.g. the refined egoism of the crucifix orchid, the good-natured larrikinism of the callistemon (red bottlebrush), and the “don’t look at me but notice me” of the Forget-Me Nots.
