Year 1/2
Year 1/2 Cluster News
Colour Run – rescheduled to this Friday from 1:25pm- 1:45pm for the Year 1/2 cluster. The online permission note found here needs to be completed for students to take part. https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/2024/05/16/color-run-2024/
Students wear a white t-shirt on the day and older pants and joggers. They can bring clothes to change into afterwards. They will be given glasses and headbands.
Students not wanting to be covered in colour can wear a white shirt or their school uniform and run on the inside lane (away from the coloured powder). Students not wanting to take part can cheer on their classmates.
Take Home Books
Decodable and interest books are being sent home in the clear plastic envelope. Your child will need the clear plastic envelope at school in order to take books home. Interest books can be changed any day. We will remind students on Mondays.
Reading – We encourage approximately 10-15 minutes each night.
Home Inquiry
We have been thinking about sustainability. Do you reuse, reduce, recycle or refuse at home? How and why do you do this? Are there any other actions you can think of? You might like to watch this episode of Play School which features Veena Sahajwalla dubbed ‘the queen of waste’ https://iview.abc.net.au/video/CH2012H008S00
Mental Computation ideas
Subtraction by counting back https://youtu.be/3_6W_rzmbu4?si=nCb4wlCLzPtx2XZ7
Counting on using make a 10 strategy https://youtu.be/nfEoyH87gag?si=GDy4q_KM0V_Pr_lE
Learning for Week 7:
Literacy:
Reader’s Workshop mini lessons: students will practise strategies for reading non-fiction texts, including visualising, summarising, questioning, making connections with prior knowledge and identifying valid sources of information.
Writer’s Workshop mini lessons: students will identify features of information texts e.g. contents, index, glossary, headings, subheadings, diagrams, photos and captions.
Spelling
Each week there is a focus ‘sound of the week’. Students are introduced to groups of words which use the spelling patterns and revise the alternative spellings of vowel sounds.
The sound of the week is not intended to be a spelling list for you to teach your child at home. It is for you to be aware of what we are teaching at school and you are welcome to use the sound as a starting point for your child to share what they are learning.
Year 1 /double vowels/
“When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fb3Pdt8kxg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdmcWQCbqY8
Year 2 ‘ea’ for /e/ eg. seen, please
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PJGqbCeRU4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6F4KRdhqak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfM7Hz7US0U
Grammar Focus
Year 1: future tense e.g. will skip, will run
Year 2: irregular past tense ‘to be’ e.g. eat/ate
Mathematics: We will continue using tallies and tables to collect data, graph results and make conclusions.
Unit of Inquiry: How the World Works
Central Idea: Design and science involve processes
Line of Inquiry 1: how scientists work
Line of Inquiry 2: the process of designing
Line of Inquiry 3: designing solutions to problems
We begin this unit with students exploring the way scientists collect and record information.
Christian Studies: Christian Beliefs
Key Idea: Students explore and describe what it means to live in and care for the world (linked to Unit of Inquiry: Sharing the Planet). Students make a plan to enact their responsibilities as caretakers of our world.
Reminders
Each day students need to bring the following. Please label everything.
Take Home Bags which are also for Library borrowing.
water bottles
a fruit/veg snack
recess
lunch – ‘nude’ food (no wrappers), leave chocolates or lollies for home
hats and sunscreen are not needed
Volunteers
During the year we have excursions, a Year 1 Sleepover and a Year 2 Camp. We are planning excursions this term. If you would like to put in an expression of interest, please ensure you are a registered volunteer.
This involves having the following up to date:
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/
Library Borrowing
The whole class goes to the library on Wednesdays (Year 1/2Z) and Thursdays (Year 1/2AK). A reminder that individual students can borrow books on other days during the week if they would like new books before the class borrowing day.
May God bless your week,
Melanie and Ellen
Melanie Arnold arnold.melanie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Tim Kriewaldt kriewaldt.tim@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Ellen Zimmer zimmer.ellen@goldengrove.sa.edu.au