Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night. Let’s finish the Premier’s Reading Challenge as a class again this year!
Mathematics: Create a pattern using different 2D shapes.
Inquiry: What patterns can you find or see around your home?
Learning this week:
Literacy: Word Study
Year 2 sound focus this week is: silent k
Year 3 sound focus this week is: u for ue.
Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with.
Year 2 – silent k | Year 3 – u for ue | |
song trunk knee knit know knock knight penknife grandma grandpa | unit tuna duet menu tulip emu human music usual | computer unicorn unicycle peculiar cucumber unique universe communicate solution
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Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Writer’s Workshop: we will finish our ideas pages this week and begin our new writing focus on poetry and rhyming.
Reader’s 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 spend time this week exploring strategies for addition.
Unit of Inquiry: This week we will begin our first unit of inquiry – How We Organise Ourselves which is all about patterns - “Patterns in the world can influence how we organise ourselves.”
Reminders:
Weekly Timetable – 2/3T
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Assembly Cluster PE Canteen
| Art | Japanese PE Canteen | Music STEM (Even Weeks) Library | 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 **
Premier’s Reading Challenge: This year 2/3T 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.
Year 3/4 Camp – Volunteering
We are seeking expressions of interest for parent volunteers for this year’s camp to Mylor in Week 10 (30th March – 1st April). Please email to register your interest and availability. Please also refer to the parent portal for information on our school’s volunteering requirements. Expressions are due by Friday Week 4 (20th February). Parents will be contacted throughout Week 5 & 6 to confirm if your attendance is required at this year’s camp.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona