Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read for 15 minutes each night at home. Keep on reading books for your Premiers Reading Challenge. Let’s finish it this term!
Mathematics: Can you use 2D shapes to create a piece of art. What shapes are easiest to use?
Home Inquiry: Think of a time when you were resilient. What did it feel like to give something a go even though it felt tricky at first? Share it with your family.
Learning this week:
Literacy: Word Study: Year 2 sound focus this week is: ai. Year 3 sound focus this week is: ai, ay, a_e. Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with.
Year 2 – ai | Year 3 – ai, ay, a_e | |
next quit make pay main clay waist rainstorm half quarter | stay tail male spray shape crayon painting mainly | layer escape pancake birthday yesterday waiting ailing animate decade |
Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Writer’s Workshop: we will finish our unit of study on using Show, Don’t Tell in our writing.
Readers Workshop: we will finish exploring the parts of speech in the texts we read this week.
Mathematics: We will continue exploring Objects and Shapes this week in Maths. While also revisiting Fractions through some hands-on activities.
Unit of Inquiry: We will continue our main unit of inquiry this term – Where we are in place and time with a focus on Landmarks. We will also continue exploring resilience weekly through an ongoing learning journal.
Reminders:
Glow Week – Term 2, Week 9 (June 23 – June 27)
We are super excited that GLOW week is back in Week 9 Term 2. If you have any special skills or hobbies that you’d be willing to share with the children, or if you would like to volunteer for this amazing week of learning, please contact your classroom teacher.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona & Cloe Richardson