Year 1/2 Cluster News

1/2AK Leading Worship

On Friday 11th April from 2.20pm we have whole school Closing Worship for Term1 and the Year 1/2AK class will be leading. All families are invited to join us.

Personal items from home

Could you please check your child’s bag for any items which belong at home. We have spoken with classes because some children are bringing in items to give to a select few classmates and this is causing conflict. Students may bring cards for trading only on the days advertise on the board in the courtyard for lunchtime club. The cards must remain in bags until lunchtime on those days.

Home Inquiry  

Inquire into styles of music. How many are there? What kinds do you like to listen to? Do you like to listen to the same music as your parents? Your grandparents? You might like to explore music from other cultures.

Read 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   Canteen
Tuesday	Japanese Library
Wednesday	Sport Art Canteen
Thursday	STEM (odd weeks)
Friday	Chapel  Music  Golden Time Canteen

Learning for Week 10 and 11

Word Study (previously Jolly Spelling):

Week 10

Year 1 ‘ck’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbFpfKlrhzw

Year 2 ‘k and ck’ for /k/ sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUFA3tywNJ4

Week 11

Year 1 ‘ll’ e.g. bell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG1DVc8E1a8

Year 2 ‘ch’ for /k/ e.g. character, Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXV6ZZcuCGA

Grammar Focus

Year 1: a or an, plurals

Year 2: proper nouns, adjectives

Writer’s Workshop: Students inquire further into story elements such as character and setting descriptions (linked to the Unit of Inquiry).

Reader’s Workshop: Students continue to implement their understanding of decoding and comprehension strategies and inquire into how punctuation informs expression (linked to the Unit of Inquiry).

Mathematics:

Year 1 students practise addition and subtraction strategies to 20 and problem solve. You can support this by practising at home or in the car.

Year 2 students inquire into fractions, which includes halves, quarters and eighths e.g. folding a piece of paper once, again and a third time to create equal parts.

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.

Students continue to inquire into forms of the arts, which includes Indigenous cultures as they include song, dance, storytelling and visual art.

Christian Studies:

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

We inquire into how our families love and serve us and how we love and serve them.

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

Sport

Basketball Results Saturday 29/3

Netball Results Monday 24/3