Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night. Let’s finish the premiers reading challenge as a class again this year!
High Frequency Words: We will begin using these at school, once any unknown words are determined then they will be sent home for practicing.
Inquiry: Brainstorm what strategies you might use when faced with challenges or challenging situations?
Learning this week:
Literacy: Word Study: Year 2 sound focus this week is: silent w Year 3 sound focus this week is: tch. Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with.
Year 2 – silent w | Year 3 - tch | |
chat cash write wrist wreck wrong answer swordfish sister brother | itch catch fetch witch match hutch kitchen snatch butcher
| switch sketch crutches watching stretcher ketchup wretched scratching stretching
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Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Writer’s Workshop: we will continue to explore what writers do and will begin exploring how we can get ideas for our writing.
Readers Workshop: we will continue to explore the reading environment and what is needed to create a space for reading, as well as choosing ‘good fit’ books.
Mathematics: we will begin exploring place value this week. Year two students will need to order and represent numbers to 1000. Year three students will need to order and represent numbers to 10,000.
Unit of Inquiry: This semester (Term 1 & Term 2) we will have an ongoing unit of inquiry: Who We Are with a theme of resilience. This will continue across both terms with focus lessons occurring weekly.
We will begin our How We Express Ourselves unit of inquiry this week.
Reminders:
Weekly Timetable – 2/3TR
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Assembly Class PE Canteen
| Art Japanese | Library PE Canteen | Mrs. Richardson in 2/3TR Music STEM (Even Weeks) | Chapel Golden Time Canteen |
PE Uniform | Formal Uniform | PE Uniform | Formal Uniform | Optional PE Uniform |
** Please note the uniform above is for the Year 3s – Year 2s will always wear their PE Uniform **
Premiers Reading Challenge: This year in 2/3TR students will have their own individual records to track the books they read. Students are required to read eight books from the book list and four free choice books. Year 3s will be borrowing yellow dot books from the Library and the Year 2s blue dots. The full list of suitable books for your child can be found online at this link: https://premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au/book-list/
As you read books at home, please feel free to email them to me so I can help your child to add them to their list or alternatively feel free to visit the classroom before or after school to add them to the list with your child. The recording sheets will be kept at school. We will also aim to read some books as a class to help to complete our records.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona & Cloe Richardson