Year 1/2
Year 1/2 Cluster News
Glow Week next week – small/medium boxes needed please.
The Foundation – Year 2 students will be rotating through activities on Monday to Thursday between recess and lunch.
All activities are within the school and include:
Camping inquiry play with tents, and damper
Tiny Town box making, where each group’s creation will be put together (not taken home)
a dance workshop
Nature Play inquiry play making mud pies – bring gumboots and raincoats Tuesday 1/2AK or Thursday 1/2Z
On Friday afternoon, parents and carers are invited into the school to hear about all the learning that has happened during the week.
Students will arrive at school as usual for the morning and return to class after lunch.
Thank you to the volunteers who are helping with these activities.
Excursions
Thank you to the parent volunteers who came along to the Duck Pond and Planetarium! We greatly value your support and the students all enjoyed the learning and time together.
Take Home Books
Decodable and interest books are being sent home in the clear plastic envelope. Your child will need the clear plastic envelope at school in order to take books home. Interest books can be changed any day. We will remind students on Mondays.
Reading – We encourage approximately 10-15 minutes each night.
Home Inquiry
Each day, talk about the GLOW Week activity you did that day. What did you enjoy about exploring and learning? How did you collaborate (work with) other students?
Did you show learner profile attributes: Were you a communicator, knowledgeable, a thinker, balanced, reflective, a risk taker, caring, an inquirer?
What did you find challenging? What could you do the next day to help you make the most of your learning?
Mental Computation ideas
Find the missing number in a number pattern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ZcwRcbrZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEV_z7kXO6c
Learning for Week 9:
Literacy:
Writer’s Workshop: students will create a book with a photo and writing for each activity they do for GLOW week. They will bring it home at the end of the week.
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.
Year 1 Revision
‘ff’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFqKUBZQhJA
double letters ‘ss and zz’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0G-CEVXis
‘qu’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCr7VPh7ym4
double vowels/ e.g. ee, ie, oa, ue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fb3Pdt8kxg
Year 2 Revision
‘air’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZHKK9jnfFQ
‘ph’ for /f/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5WTmRQ9jrk
sound ‘ou’ for /u/ eg. tough, country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Oj6O0OHeA
silent k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azmkPcW-TVY
Mathematics: Students will continue to practice skip counting and patterns.
Unit of Inquiry: How the World Works
Central Idea: Design and science involve an understanding of properties and processes.
Line of Inquiry 1: how scientists work
Line of Inquiry 2: the process of designing
Line of Inquiry 3: designing solutions to problems
Students demonstrate their prior knowledge about push/pull, sound and materials.
Reminders
Each day students need to bring the following. Please label everything.
Take Home Bags which are also for Library borrowing.
water bottles
a fruit/veg snack
recess
lunch – ‘nude’ food (no wrappers), leave chocolates or lollies for home
hats and sunscreen are not needed
Volunteers
During the year we have excursions, a Year 1 Sleepover and a Year 2 Camp. We are planning excursions this term. If you would like to put in an expression of interest, please ensure you are a registered volunteer.
This involves having the following up to date:
Working With Children Check (WWCC)
Responding to Abuse, Harm and Neglect training (RRHAN-EC)
Valuing Safe Communities (VSC) training
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/parent-portal/volunteering/
Library Borrowing
The whole class goes to the library on Wednesdays (Year 1/2Z) and Thursdays (Year 1/2AK). A reminder that individual students can borrow books on other days during the week if they would like new books before the class borrowing day.
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