Year 1/2

Year 1/2 Cluster News 

Junior Choir performance 

The Junior Choir will be performing at Closing Chapel on Friday 9th April. Choir members are students from Years 1-3 who have regularly attended rehearsals. 

Volunteers 

The Year 2 Camp is Tuesday 22nd – Wednesday 23rd September. Only a few parents are needed to attend in addition to staff. 

The Year 1 Sleepover is Thursday 24th – Friday 25th September. We will need a higher number of parents to attend due to the number of Year 1 students this year. Parents assist students to set up mattresses, prepare food and supervise children. More information about this will be sent next term. 

If you are interested in volunteering, you must have the following checks up to date. Please do not volunteer unless you have these already. Contact the office if you have any questions. 

• 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/  

Home Inquiry   

Each child has received a copy of a traditional nursery rhyme in their Take Home Folder. Can they circle the rhyming words and create a picture of this rhyme. It could be a drawing, made out lego, blocks, boxes, playdough – any way you choose. Please take a photo and email it to us to print at school. Your child can then share it with the class. 

Reading: every night for 10-15 minutes. At home, please listen to your child read the decodable books and ask the ‘check for understanding’ questions at the back. Initial the reading sheet and remind your child to let the teacher know they have read the book. 

The ‘Interest books' with coloured round stickers on the front may need to be read together or some children can read all of the text to you. 

Mental Computation ideas  

Year 1 Skip counting links 

Counting by 2s 

https://youtu.be/GvTcpfSnOMQ?si=yOnnQbIkSepnw8o6 

https://youtu.be/OCxvNtrcDIs?si=glE-tOv0v3A_GXth 

Counting by 5s  

https://youtu.be/EemjeA2Djjw?si=eJv39c0E0NEcKybZ 

https://youtu.be/amxVL9KUmq8?si=5IhY6tMpVZ6i1cK- 

Counting by 10s  

https://youtu.be/W8CEOlAOGas?si=cOiIBHEMmEYcRYTl  

https://youtu.be/Ftati8iGQcs?si=Jk-KSH-yM1R4xx-t  

Counting by 2s, 5s and 10s https://youtu.be/DS3W9WLIxlQ?si=f98T-pXxLa02EFse   

Year 2: Fractions https://youtu.be/bOfCl0RPXW0?si=Y5Sro9CB-FXyg-4F 

Weekly Timetable – 1/2 Classes 

Learning for Week 10 and 11 

Word Study: videos to support the focus of the week 

Week 10 

Year 1: S, T, P, N revision of vowels 

SATPIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUSCz41aDug 

Short vowels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqWVCYDdBug 

Short vowels https://youtu.be/EM6DHHLG5ao?si=jPM05k1r7-Rr5Wnt  

Year 2: ea as in bread 

https://youtu.be/oJi0kan0mBs?si=1TDwD8dh0DtSsKCG 

Week 11 

Year 1: ck https://youtu.be/bHR6UYef3rc?si=71NQiRCRz6q9os9g 

Year 2: k & ck https://youtu.be/kUFA3tywNJ4?si=ok1OcWBLyTGHTPkD 

Christian Studies; 

We will also be focusing on Holy Week and Easter. 

Grammar Focus 

Year 1: a or an, plurals 

Year 2: Proper nouns, adjectives 

Writer’s Workshop: We will continue to focus on where poets get their ideas. We will be exploring the authors of Lynley Dodd and Mem Fox and the patterns and rhythms they use. We will be exploring how to write poems.  

Readers Workshop: Students are focusing on using reading strategies to make sense of the text, e.g. Listening Lion, Flippy Dolphin, Eagle Eye. These are listed on the bookmarks in their Take Home Folders. 

Mathematics:  

Year 1:  

Skip counting and friends of 10 & 20 

Exploring 2D shapes through comparing and classifying familiar objects e.g. circles have one side, triangles have three sides. 

Year 2:  

Introduction to fractions by folding and refolding paper: halves, quarters and eighths. 

Exploring 2D shapes and using spatial terms including words like curved and straight.  

Unit of Inquiry: How We Express Ourselves 

Students are encouraged to explore creative responses to problems e.g. Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall. What safety equipment could Humpty wear? What story could you tell or write about Humpty? Could you present this as a dance/drama/art piece? 

Other Reminders 

Please clean out your child’s bag etc over the holidays. 

Hats – these will be sent home on the last day to be washed. Students may wish to keep them in bags during Terms 2 and 3 for the occasional high UV day. 

Volunteers 

During the year we have excursions, a Year 1 Sleepover and a Year 2 Camp.  

If you are interested in volunteering, you need to have the following checks up to date. Please do not volunteer unless you have these already. Contact the office if you have any questions. 

• 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/  

School Calendar:   

https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/  

May God bless your week, 

Lauren Hall and Melanie Arnold 

Lauren Hall Hall.lauren@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

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

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

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