Year 2/3

Year 2/3 Cluster News

Home Inquiry  

High Frequency Words: Most students have now explored the first 300 High-Frequency words. Words can be re-sent home for practice if required.   

 

Mathematics: Create symmetrical drawings at home this week. What shapes are easiest to use?  

 

Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night.  

 

Inquiry: Share with your family about our excursion to the art gallery this week.  

 

Learning this week:  

Literacy: Jolly Spelling: Year 2 sound focus this week is: are for air. The Year 3 sound focus this week is: o for oa.  Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practise the sounds with.  

Year 2 = are for air 

Year 3 – o for oa 

film 

kept 

hare 

care 

share 

scare 

square 

nightmare 

millilitre 

litre 

open 

oval 

only 

poem 

total 

clover 

mosaic 

cocoa 

mobile 

Roman 

pronoun 

moment 

ogre 

anchovy 

overboard 

vocabulary 

macaroni 

steamroller 

Year 2 Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words 

 

Learning this week:  

Writer’s Workshop: We will continue our next writing study focusing on expanding our vocabulary. We will explore the Parts of Speech throughout this unit: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and more...  

 

Reader’s Workshop: we will spend the term exploring the elements of reading as part of our unit of inquiry – How We Express Ourselves. This week we will explore  

 

Mathematics: We will finish exploring shapes and objects this week in mathematics. We will begin exploring symmetry and angles this week.  

Unit of Inquiry: We will finish our UOI – How We Express Ourselves – with a focus on the elements of the arts.  

 

Announcements:  

Pupil Free Show Day – The Term 3 Show Day is fast approaching. Please note there is a pupil free day Friday Week 7, September 6th.  

 

Tri Skills – Please note that we have Tri Skills for the next four weeks (Week 4 – 7). This will happen on Thursday’s, so please wear PE uniform on Thursdays for the next four weeks. Week 4 – 15th August; Week 5- 22nd August; Week 6- 29th August; Week 7 – 5th September.  

 

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.  

 

Special Persons Afternoon – Please note that the date has changed for Special Person’s Afternoon (SPA). It will now be Friday the 20th of September (Week 9, Friday).   

 

Blessings for the week ahead,

Brodie Trezona  

Year 2/3 Teacher 

Trezona.brodie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au