Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
High Frequency Words: We are re-testing these at school at the moment, stay tuned for an updated list to be sent home for practising. If a list is not sent home, it means that your child knows the first 300 Oxford words.
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night.
Inquiry: Can you use a calendar to find patterns in the month ahead? Can you mark on the calendar, things like the moon cycle, when the moon will be full next, things like important events or public holidays?
Learning this week:
Literacy: Jolly Spelling: Year 2 sound focus this week is: ie. The Year 3 sound focus this week is: ie, y, igh & i_e Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practise the sounds with.
Year 2 – ie | Year 3 – ie, y, igh, i_e | |
club flex flying sight side die bright sunshine thirteen fourteen | life high flies spying dive tied dryer tried alright
| firework alive delight describe asylum lightning frightening butterfly pantomime |
Year 2 Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Learning this week:
Writer’s & Readers Workshop: we will continue exploring reading and writing poetry this week. We will be focusing on reading poetry aloud and adjusting our tones for effect and we will also be looking to use rhyming words and poetic devices in our writing. We will introduce students to the structure of a limerick.
Mathematics: We will finish our work on time this week. Year 2s will know how to tell the time to the nearest time term: o clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to. Year 3s will be able to tell the time to the nearest minute.
Unit of Inquiry: We will continue our new Unit of Inquiry: How the World Works, with a focus on Patterns. The central idea is: ‘Patterns in the world around us help us to make informed decisions.’ This unit of inquiry will be our Celebration of Learning Unit.
Announcements:
Premier’s Reading Challenge – Please keep reading books at home to help your children to fill in their PRC lists. We will also be completing books as a class to help as well.
Premiers Be Active Challenge – Students will have the option to join us as we complete the challenge as a class or individually track and record their physical activities over a four-week period. We will likely do this as a class at the beginning of Term 3.
Year 2/3 Celebration of Learning
Later this term we will be holding our classes Celebration of Learning. The evening will be a celebration of all the learning undertaken throughout our current unit of inquiry focusing on Patterns. Usually there is a performance aspect at the start, followed by a time for parents and children to discuss and share in the learning that has been completed.
Please save the date: Thursday 20th June, Week 8, in your diary with more information to come.
Invitations will be sent home within the next week.
Glow Week
GLOW week is fast approaching! We are on the hunt for donations to help make the week a success. We would love donations of:
- Cardboard boxes – all sizes
- Cake decorating items (piping bags / tools etc)
- Sand paper
- Sample paint pots with some paint you are no longer using!
Please drop any donations into the office any time between now and the beginning of Week 9.
We are also seeking to borrow six embroidery hoops for the week.
Glow Week will happen later this term in Week 9. If you want to be involved in the amazing week, please contact Cloe Richardson or Lauren Neumann via their emails:
Richardson.cloe@goldengrove.sa.edu.au Neumann.lauren@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona
Year 2/3 Teacher