Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night.
Mathematics: Find your home on a map. Can you work out how far it is away from school?
Unit of Inquiry: Discuss what makes a place significant. Think: personal connections, beliefs, interests / hobbies.
Learning this week:
Literacy: Word Study
Year 2 sound focus this week is: ou for u.
Year 3 sound focus this week is Homophones.
Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with.
Year 2 – ou for u | Year 3 – Homophones | |
thin thick touch young double trouble country nourish July August | reed read sum some blue blew brake break wood would | ate eight weather whether stare stair aloud allowed |
Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Writer’s Workshop: This week we will begin preparing an oral presentation about a significant place.
Mathematics: We will continue to explore how maps are used to represent places and how we can use them.
Unit of Inquiry: This term we are inquiring into the Where We Are in Place and Time unit of inquiry – with a focus on places. This week we will be finishing our places concentric circle about the places that are important to us – across a variety of scales – our home, our city, our state and our country.
Upcoming Events:
Friday 12th June Alice in Wonderland excursion - 10:00am – 1.30pm
All Year 1-4 students will travel by school bus to the Shedley Theatre to watch a youth production of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. We are excited that some of our own students have been cast in this production. Permission notes are online via TASS Parent Lounge.
Thank you to the P&F for generously subsidising the cost of the tickets.
We are looking for volunteers to meet us at the theatre and supervise students from 10.30am – 1:00pm while they eat and watch the production. Please email your child’s teacher if you would like to volunteer and have all your volunteer checks up-to-date.
Mr T Away
Mr T is away next Thursday (4/6) as he will be coaching the Year 3/4 SACSA Soccer team, and he is having an annual leave day on Friday (5/6). Mrs Bishop will be taking the class.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona