Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night. Let’s finish the premiers reading challenge as a class again this year!
High Frequency Words: Will be reviewed again in Term 2.
Mathematics: If you had a pizza cut into eight pieces – how might you share the slices between four of you? See if you can write the pizza slices per person as a fraction.
Inquiry: Discuss and list the different ways we can be healthy.
Learning this week:
Literacy: Word Study: Year 2 sound focus this week is: ti = sh. Year 3 sound focus this week is: ti = sh. Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with.
Year 2 – ti = sh | Year 3 – suffix less | |
must stuck nation station relation action fiction dictionary minute second
| useless helpless endless painless aimless flawless worthless fearless timeless | harmless speechless bottomless priceless careless pitiless breathless flightless weightless |
Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Writer’s Workshop: we will continue our writing unit ‘Symbolic Storytelling’ focusing on using symbols in the stories we write.
Readers Workshop: we will continue our unit focusing on reading like writers. We will aim to identify strategies and techniques we can use in our writing, like big and bold and different grammatical features.
Mathematics: We will continue looking at fractions this week and explore using turns.
Unit of Inquiry: This semester (Term 1 & Term 2) we will have an ongoing unit of inquiry: Who We Are with a theme of resilience. This will continue across both terms with focus lessons occurring weekly.
In our How We Express Ourselves unit of inquiry we will work towards our celebration of learning in week 11 this term. We will begin thinking about creating a symbol for our class.
Reminders:
Premier’s Reading Challenge: This year in 2/3TR 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.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona & Cloe Richardson