The Golden Vine

Year 1/2

Year 1/2 Cluster News

 

Sports Day - Friday Week 8 (March 22nd).   

Year 1/2 students will remain in their class groups. To even out the group sizes, a few Year 2 students from the 1/2 classes will be asked to join the Year 2s from Mr Trezona’s class. The teacher with this group will be Cloe Richardson. All Year 2s will join together for activities such as sprints and relays. 

 

Harmony Day – Monday Week 9 (March 25th) 

Harmony Day is a day celebrating our school’s diverse cultures, we all come together and celebrate our uniqueness. Harmony day occurs in Week 9 this term. It is a casual clothes day- students can wear orange or cultural themed clothing.    

 

Good Friday and Easter Monday  

Please be aware that we have both Good Friday and Easter Monday Public Holidays coming up. Friday 29th March (Week 9) & Monday 1st April (Week 10).  

 

Home Inquiry 

Can you create something using materials you already have at home? What inspired your creation? You could bring your creation in for sharing. 

 

 

Mental Computation ideas 

Friends of 10 or Rainbow 10  

https://youtu.be/73av5oijolU?si=ogr4Ay04bvwkIlLx 

Number Bonds to 20 https://youtu.be/MmLMU8BqyKw?si=diJfTgUo9Z5rYd8N  

 

Skip counting links: Some students said they missed the links from the Scratch Garden site, so here they are again 

Counting by 2s https://youtu.be/GvTcpfSnOMQ?si=a44N4WZxbTr5ynN4 

Counting by 5s https://youtu.be/EemjeA2Djjw?si=18z_CnB95aluZJe1  

Counting by 10s https://youtu.be/Ftati8iGQcs?si=a7a-8dNZahIK6PBV 

 

https://www.abcya.com/games/interactive_100_number_chart Change to setting to the 120 chart then use this number chart to colour the 2s, then the 5s, then the 10s.  

 

 

Reading library books or home books – We encourage approximately 10-15 minutes each night.  

 

Learning for Week 6:   

Literacy:  

Reader’s Workshop mini lessons: build on reading strategies taught in Foundation e.g. stretchy snake. 

 

Writer’s Workshop mini lessons: Where do authors get their ideas? This links with our new Unit of Inquiry.  

 

Spelling  

Each week there is a focus ‘sound of the week’. Students are introduced to groups of words which use the spelling patterns and revise the alternative spellings of vowel sounds. 

 

The sound of the week is not intended to be a spelling list for you to teach your child at home. It is for you to be aware of what we are teaching at school and you are welcome to use the sound as a starting point for your child to share what they are learning. 

 

In Week 8 we will revise all sounds taught so far this year. 

 

Year 1:  

 

‘sh’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gBsGxhdt2E 

‘ch’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWg2uzAuSe4 

‘a_e’ for the /ai/ sound - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp_iuG2uHY4 

‘ea’ for the /ee/ sound - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PJGqbCeRU4 

‘i_e’ for the /ie/ sound - https://youtu.be/JrGmIGB__54?si=ejV9FxixI2useX-C 

 

Year 2: 

‘silent b’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxCmo8KHmd4 

‘silent w’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zIpBW5Ullc 

‘a_e/ay/ai’ for the /ai/ sound - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-uLFJp5ZtI 

‘ee/ea’ for the /ee/ sound - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PJGqbCeRU4 

'ie, i-e, igh, y' for the /ie/ sound - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BCyvxdzWxE 

 

Grammar Focus: common nouns (Year 1), exclamation marks (Year 2) 

 

Mathematics: Students begin learning about 2D shapes 

Students inquire into where shapes are found around us. They identify the names and properties of the shapes. Year 2 students also use spatial terms such as opposite, parallel, curved and straight. 

 

Unit of Inquiry:  

Central Idea: Ideas allow us to think, create and express ourselves 

Line of Inquiry 1: ideas as a tool for learning 

Line of Inquiry 2: ways in which we discover and communicate ideas 

Line of Inquiry 3: inspiration leads to creativity 

 

We begin our new unit by considering where ideas and inspiration comes from and places we find inspiring. 

 

Christian Studies: Christian Beliefs 

Key Idea: We explore and outline ways Christians make decisions about how to live. 

We inquire into forgiveness and how Christians follow Jesus’ example to help restore relationships. 

  

Reminders 

Each day students need to bring the following. Please label everything.  

  • hats 
  • Take Home Bags which are also for Library borrowing. 
  • water bottles 
  • a fruit snack 
  • recess 
  • lunch – ‘nude’ food, leave chocolates or lollies for home 
  • wear sunscreen 

 

Library Borrowing  

Wednesdays for Year 1/2Z and Thursdays for Year 1/2AK.  

 

Volunteers 

During the year we have excursions, a Year 1 Sleepover and a Year 2 Camp. If you are interested in volunteering, there a few things you will need to have up to date to be able to come along or to help in the classroom.  

 

 

 

May God bless your week, 

Melanie and Ellen  

 

Melanie Arnold arnold.melanie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

Tim Kriewaldt kriewaldt.tim@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

Ellen Zimmer zimmer.ellen@goldengrove.sa.edu.au