Year 1/2
Golden Grove Lutheran Primary School
Year 1/2 Cluster News
Water Safety Week
In Week 4, students will be involved in the water safety program from Monday to Thursday. These are water safety lessons, rather than specific swimming stroke skills. The notes for this will be sent home this week. Please ensure that these come back as soon as possible.
1/2HB will be swimming from 1pm – 1:45pm
1/2AK will be swimming from 1:45 – 2:30 pm
Students can come dressed in their bathers under their school uniform ready for their lesson in the afternoon. Please ensure your child can still manage going to the toilet during the day with their bathers and bring underwear to school to change into after the lesson.
Home Inquiry
What animals do you see around your home and how can you look after them? As the weather gets hotter, what can you do to help care for the native animals near your home.
Every Day
Please check that your child has these items at school every day:
- hat
- water bottle
- Take Home Folder
Please check that their name is clearly marked on each item, including school jackets.
Reading: We encourage your child to read every night for 10-15 minutes. Please listen to your child read the decodable books and ask the ‘check for understanding’ questions at the back. Once you have read the ‘decodable book’ 2 or 3 times, please send it back with the recording sheet.
The ‘Interest books' with coloured round stickers on the front may need to be read together.
Weekly Timetable
| Monday | Take home books: swap 2.30pm Assembly Canteen: Qkr orders before 9am |
| Tuesday | Japanese specialist lesson Library Borrowing using Take Home Folders |
| Wednesday | PE & Dance/Drama specialist lessons Canteen: Qkr orders before 9am |
| Thursday | 8.45am STEM 1/2AK odd weeks, 1/2HB even weeks |
| Friday | 8.50am Chapel Music specialist lesson Canteen: Qkr orders before 9am Golden Time |
Learning for Weeks 3 and 4
Word Study
Year 1
oy e.g. boy, enjoy
https://youtu.be/CcmxqwJhWxc?si=3NwX9n-zVKT53vCk
revision week: ou, ow, oy
Year 2
are e.g. share, square
https://youtu.be/8q-qJYq46oA?si=haPXzrOrwNKpXKoi
revision week: ou, ow, ti, are
Grammar Focus
Year 1 & 2: Different forms of punctuation and pronouns
Christian Studies
Students will be exploring the Lord’s Prayers and the different features. Students will be invited to create their own prayers to explore how they are written and the different ways we can pray.
Writer’s Workshop
Narrative (story) Writing: Students are extending their narrative skills by adding problems and solutions. They are also exploring how words can make their stories more interesting.
Reader’s Workshop
Students are learning to make connections between what they are reading to other books, to their own life experiences and to events that happen in the world e.g. This character has a dog and I have a dog.
Mathematics:
Students are consolidating their understanding of time and the skills of the four operations. They are exploring how these are represented as worded problems.
Unit of Inquiry: Sharing the Planet
Students will be embarking on culminating all their skills into creating a book to share their understanding of how people live and interact with the natural world. We will be incorporating both media and visual arts through various mediums to explore this understanding.
God bless your week,
Melanie, Lauren, Tim and Melissa
Arnold.melanie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
hall.lauren@goldengrove.sa.edu.au