Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read for 15 minutes each night at home.
Mathematics: Research the price of ten different grocery products your family buy. Add them all together. How much for ten items?
Home Inquiry: What materials do you have at home that you could reuse to make something new? Optional: bring some materials to school for making.
Learning this week:
Literacy: Word Study: The year 2 sound focus this week is or. The year 3 sound focus this week is aw, al, au.
Year 2 - or | Year 3 – aw, al, au | |
twig from pork walk jaw north straw saucepan ninety hundred | halt hawk sauce haul thaw salt flaw drawn laundry
| dawdle already launch auburn awkward alternative audition altogether awesome |
Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Writer’s Workshop: this week we will be presenting our oral presentations encouraging action for the betterment of the environment.
Mathematics: We will begin exploring money this week. We will be inquiring into how many cents make a dollar and how the Australian currency system works.
Unit of Inquiry: Our main unit of inquiry this term is Sharing the Planet. We are inquiring into recycling and how it impacts us and the world around us.
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be using recyclable materials to make different things. Any spare or specific materials from home that they would like to use for making can be brought to school.
Reminders
Pupil Free Day – Friday 14th November
Please note that Friday 14 November is a pupil free day, however GGOSH will be available throughout the day. Staff will be engaged with professional learning on the day.
Carols Evening – Friday 28th November (Week 7)
More information to come on what to wear, timings, etc.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona & Cloe Richardson