Year 1/2 Cluster News

We have noticed that as the term goes on and with busy weekends, some children are tired at school. We encourage families to build in some restful times on the weekends.

Sports Day - Friday Week 8 (March 21st).

Most year 1/2 students will remain in their class groups. To even out the group sizes, we have moved some students around. If your child has been moved, we have notified you by email, and the children have been told.

Harmony Day – Monday Week 9 (March 24th)

Harmony Day is a day celebrating our school’s diverse cultures, we all come together and celebrate our uniqueness. It is a casual clothes day- students can wear orange or cultural themed clothing. Parents are invited to join us for the Harmony Day parade which will take place from 9:10am on Monday morning. We encourage families to practice saying ‘hello’ in their home or family language so the students are able to share this on the day.

Home Inquiry  

Have you seen any performances recently e.g. a play, a musical? How do the arts tell stories?

Read of decodable/interest/library books etc every night for 10-15 minutes.

Weekly Timetable – 1/2 Classes

Monday	Year 1s and 2s change take home books. Assembly
Tuesday	Japanese Library
Wednesday	Sport Art Canteen
Thursday	STEM (odd weeks)
Friday	Chapel  Music  Golden Time   Canteen

Learning for Week 8 and 9

Word Study (previously Jolly Spelling):

Week 8

Year 1 ‘u_e’ for the /ue/ sound (unit 17)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrrdAPewBx8

Year 2 ‘ue, u_e and ew’ for the /ue/ sound (unit 17)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDBHgJG1oiQ

Week 9

Year 1 ‘short vowels’ (unit 7)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUSCz41aDug

Year 2 ‘ea’ for /e/ (unit 6)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nHcI_PF2EM

Grammar Focus

Year 1: Common nouns, Alphabetical order

Year 2: Exclamation marks, Alphabetical order

Writer’s Workshop: Students explore the elements of story writing such as a plot which includes a complication and a resolution. We encourage attempting a wider range of punctuation such as question marks and quotation (speech) marks.

Reader’s Workshop: Students continue practice decoding and comprehension strategies. We will also begin exploring how we use punctuation to read, including Reader’s Theatre to tie in with our new Unit of Inquiry.

Mathematics:

Students continue to inquire into place value: tens and ones (Y1), hundreds, tens and ones (Y2). We also begin using expanded notation e.g. 36 can be written as 30 + 6 and 124 can be written as 100 + 20 + 4.

Mental Computation Links:

 Friends of 10 or Rainbow 10 https://youtu.be/73av5oijolU?si=ogr4Ay04bvwkIlLx

Number Bonds to 20 https://youtu.be/MmLMU8BqyKw?si=diJfTgUo9Z5rYd8N

Skip counting links:

Counting by 2s https://youtu.be/GvTcpfSnOMQ?si=a44N4WZxbTr5ynN4

Counting by 5s https://youtu.be/EemjeA2Djjw?si=18z_CnB95aluZJe1

Counting by 10s https://youtu.be/Ftati8iGQcs?si=a7a-8dNZahIK6PBV

https://youtu.be/DS3W9WLIxlQ?si=f98T-pXxLa02EFse  

Please note, this doesn’t work on a phone:

https://www.abcya.com/games/interactive_100_number_chart Change to setting to the 120 chart then use this number chart to colour the 2s, then the 5s, then the 10s.

Unit of Inquiry: How We Express Ourselves

Central Idea: Stories can be told through the arts

Line of Inquiry 1: Forms of the Arts

Line of Inquiry 2: Skills and elements of the arts

Line of Inquiry 3: Presenting stories through the arts.

We will begin inquiring into different forms of the arts (Music, Visual Arts, Media Arts, Dance and Drama) and how they can be used to tell stories.

Christian Studies:

Christian Living: Christians are called to love and serve all people

We inquire into how Jesus shows care for all people.

Other Reminders

Shoelaces

Please make sure your child can do up laces themselves if they have shoes with laces. Another option is shoes with Velcro until they learn this skill.

Bag Tags

It is useful for students to have a bag tag to identify their bag. Please only put one bag tag on and make sure it is not a special one that will be missed if it is lost as we are not able to monitor this.

Each day students need to bring the following. Please label everything.

hats – these will remain at school for the term. GGOSH is aware and they have spare hats if needed.
Take Home Bags which are also for Library borrowing.
water bottles
a fruit snack
recess
lunch

Lunch Boxes

Please pack a substantial lunch rather than lots of recess snacks and put an ice pack in on hot days as the lunches remain in school bags outside. We also ask that you send in ‘nude food’ which does not include wrappers.

Library Borrowing

Both classes visit the Library on Tuesdays to borrow 2 books for 2 weeks.

Take Home books

Each week students take home 2-3 interest books to read at home. A letter has been sent home explaining the process. During the week, we listen to children and begin sending decodable books or other good fit books home to read.

Sunscreen

Please apply sunscreen in the mornings before school. We will encourage reapplication during the day. If your child requires their own sunscreen, please label it and they can keep it in their bag.

Toddle

We post important information reminders, student learning, photos/videos and assessments on this platform.  Please contact the office if you are not connected.

Volunteers

During the year we have excursions, a Year 1 Sleepover and a Year 2 Camp.

If you are interested in volunteering, there a few things you must have up to date to be able to come along or to help in the classroom. Please do not volunteer unless you have these already. Contact the office if you have any questions.

Working With Children Check (WWCC) 
Responding to Abuse, Harm and Neglect training (RRHAN-EC) 
Valuing Safe Communities (VSC) training

https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/parent-portal/volunteering/ 

May God bless your week,

Melanie Arnold and Ellen Zimmer

Melanie Arnold: Arnold.melanie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au

Tim Kriewaldt kriewaldt.tim@goldengrove.sa.edu.au

Ellen Zimmer zimmer.ellen@goldengrove.sa.edu.au

Calendar

Term 1 – Wednesday, 29 January to Friday, 11 April (11 Weeks)