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 the Premier’s Reading Challenge. PRC finishes on 5th September.
Mathematics: Practice your five- and ten-times tables at home this week.
Home Inquiry: This week – share about your plant which is still growing at school. What have you noticed as they have grown?
Learning this week:
Literacy: Word Study: Year 2 sound focus this week is: are for air. Year 3 sound focus this week is: o for oa. Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with.
Year 2 = silent h | Year 3 – -o = oa | |
belt farm hour ghost rhyme rhythm honest rhinoceros centimetre metre | ago hero dodo zero echo hello mango pianos radios | videos tornado volcano flamingo memento mosquito torpedoes tomatoes potatoes |
Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Writer’s Workshop: This term we are exploring a craft unit focusing on how we can make our writing POP! We will be learning about different techniques authors use and then using them in our own writing. We hope to publish our own books showcasing our new skills sometime later this term.
Readers Workshop: This term we are going to work in groups as Book Clubs to talk about and read books together.
Mathematics: We will continue exploring the concept of Time this week. With a continued focus on reading a calendar and telling the time accurately.
Unit of Inquiry: In Term 3 and 4 we have a continuing focus on How We Organise Ourselves inquiring into Cooperation and Collaboration. We will have weekly lessons as well as entire weeks dedicated to this unit throughout the semester.
We will continue our Unit of Inquiry – How the World Works with a focus on Cycles. This week we will continue exploring Cycles in the world around us.
Reminders:
2/3TR on Worship – Friday 29th August
We will be sharing the message at School Worship, Friday 29th August (Term 3, Week 6).
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona & Cloe Richardson