Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
High Frequency Words: We are re-testing these at school at the moment, stay tuned for an updated list to be sent home for practicing. If a list is not sent home, this means that your child knows the first 300 Oxford words.
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night.
Inquiry: Create a list of where we can find patterns in the world around us. Here are some ideas to help ger you started: weather, numbers, music and dance.
Learning this week:
Literacy: Jolly Spelling: Year 2 sound focus this week is: ey The Year 3 sound focus this week is: the e_e. Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practise the sounds with.
Year 2 – ey | Year 3 – e_e | |
film kept key honey money donkey chimney journey thousand million | gene these recede delete impede scheme concede stampede complete | extreme athlete concrete supreme intervene phoneme Chinese obsolete centipede |
Year 2 Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Learning this week:
Writer’s Workshop: we will finish creating and publishing our own advertisements to promote being healthy.
Readers Workshop: we will continue using our readers notebook to track our thoughts and questions whilst we are reading.
Mathematics: we will continue and finish exploring number sentences and number patterns this week.
Unit of Inquiry: We will continue our new Unit of Inquiry: How the World Works with a focus on Patterns. The Central Idea is Patterns in the world around us help us to make informed decisions.
Announcements
Reading Update – Term 2
Last week I showed the students our bookshelf of books which can be borrowed and taken home. This is in the breakout space next door to our classroom. Students are welcome to borrow 2-3 books at a time and return them and get new ones as needed to help ensure they have more books of interest to read with you at home.
The below paragraph on comprehension may be important as you read at home, as they provide some sample questions of what you could be asking your child as they read a book.
Comprehension (understanding what you have read)
It is also important to talk about the book you are sharing. Some example questions are:
What is your favourite part/character? Why?
Who would you like to be in the book? Why?
How do you connect to this book or character?
Does it remind you of another book or character?
What facts have you learnt from the book? Can you connect these facts to other ideas or what you know already.
What is the author’s message or theme of the book e.g. friendship, perseverance.
Thank you to Kat and Sam for helping to sort the books into easily accessible categories for the students to choose from.
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona
Year 2/3 Teacher