Year 2/3

Year 2/3 Cluster News 

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Not this week. See you Tuesday for our Celebration of Learning!  

Learning this week:  

Literacy: Word Study: Year 2 sound focus this week is: si = zh. Year 3 sound focus this week is: suffix able. Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with. 

Year 2 – wa = wo 

Year 3 – a=o 

duck 

click 

wand 

wash 

wasp 

swan 

watch 

swallow 

May 

June 

swap 

waft 

swamp 

wand 

wallet 

squad 

swatch 

squat 

squalid 

quality 

wallaby 

waddle 

squabble 

twaddle 

quandary 

wristwatch 

quantity 

qualification 

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

Writer’s Workshop: we will finish our writing unit ‘Symbolic Storytelling’ focusing on using symbols in the stories we write.   

Readers Workshop: we will finish our unit focusing on reading like writers. We will aim to identify strategies and techniques we can use in our writing, like big and bold and different grammatical features.   

Mathematics: We will look at collecting data this week in mathematics.  

Unit of Inquiry: We will finish and reflect on our How We Express Ourselves unit of inquiry this week.  

 

Reminders:  

Library Day Change – Please note that we have shifted our library borrowing and visiting day to a Thursday. Please bring back returns on Thursday’s.  

 

Celebration of Learning – Our Celebration of Learning is in Week 11 this term. Tuesday 8th April @ 6pm.  

Y3 Camp Packing List  

School Calendar:  

https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/  

 

 

Blessings for the week ahead, 

Brodie Trezona & Cloe Richardson 

 

Trezona.brodie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

Richardson.cloe@goldengrove.sa.edu.au