Year 1/2

Year 1/2 Cluster News 

We have noticed that as the term goes on and with busy weekends, some children are tired at school. We encourage families to build in some restful times on the weekends. 

Sports Day - Friday Week 8 (March 21st).   

Year 1/2 students will remain in their class groups. To even out the group sizes, a few Year 2 students from the 1/2 classes will be asked to join the Year 2 students from Mr Trezona/Mrs Richardson’s class. The teacher with this group will be Cloe Richardson. All Year 2 students will join together for activities such as sprints and relays. 

Harmony Day – Monday Week 9 (March 24th) 

Harmony Day is a day celebrating our school’s diverse cultures, we all come together and celebrate our uniqueness. Harmony Day occurs in Week 9 this term. It is a casual clothes day- students can wear orange or cultural themed clothing.    

Home Inquiry   

Have you seen any performances recently e.g. a play, a musical? How do the arts tell stories? 

Read of decodable/interest/library books etc every night for 10-15 minutes.  

Weekly Timetable – 1/2 Classes 

Learning for Week 8 and 9 

Word Study (previously Jolly Spelling):  

Week 8 

Year 1 ‘u_e’ for the /ue/ sound (unit 17) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrrdAPewBx8 

Year 2 ‘ue, u_e and ew’ for the /ue/ sound (unit 17) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDBHgJG1oiQ 

Week 9 

Year 1 ‘short vowels’ (unit 7) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUSCz41aDug 

Year 2 ‘ea’ for /e/ (unit 6) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nHcI_PF2EM 

Grammar Focus 

Year 1: Common nouns, Alphabetical order 

Year 2: Exclamation marks, Alphabetical order 

Writer’s Workshop: Students explore the elements of story writing such as a plot which includes a complication and a resolution. We encourage attempting a wider range of punctuation such as question marks and quotation (speech) marks. 

Reader’s Workshop: Students continue practice decoding and comprehension strategies. We will also begin exploring how we use punctuation to read, including Reader’s Theatre to tie in with our new Unit of Inquiry. 

Mathematics:  

Students continue to inquire into place value: tens and ones (Y1), hundreds, tens and ones (Y2). We also begin using expanded notation e.g. 36 can be written as 30 + 6 and 124 can be written as 100 + 20 + 4. 

Mental Computation Links: 

 Friends of 10 or Rainbow 10 https://youtu.be/73av5oijolU?si=ogr4Ay04bvwkIlLx 

Number Bonds to 20 https://youtu.be/MmLMU8BqyKw?si=diJfTgUo9Z5rYd8N  

Skip counting links:  

Counting by 2s https://youtu.be/GvTcpfSnOMQ?si=a44N4WZxbTr5ynN4 

Counting by 5s https://youtu.be/EemjeA2Djjw?si=18z_CnB95aluZJe1  

Counting by 10s https://youtu.be/Ftati8iGQcs?si=a7a-8dNZahIK6PBV 

https://youtu.be/DS3W9WLIxlQ?si=f98T-pXxLa02EFse   

Please note, this doesn’t work on a phone: 

https://www.abcya.com/games/interactive_100_number_chart Change to setting to the 120 chart then use this number chart to colour the 2s, then the 5s, then the 10s. 

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. 

We will begin inquiring into different forms of the arts (Music, Visual Arts, Media Arts, Dance and Drama) and how they can be used to tell stories.  

Christian Studies:  

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

We inquire into how Jesus shows care for all people. 

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