Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night. Let’s finish the premiers reading challenge as a class again this year!
High Frequency Words: Most students have been tested now and words should have been sent home for practicing. If not – let us know.
Mathematics: How can you show one half? Could you draw it, could you use some objects to create a half?
Inquiry: Can you practice the AUSLAN alphabet at home this week? You can use the Signbank website for videos of each letter.
Learning this week:
Literacy: Word Study: Year 2 sound focus this week is: ee. Year 3 sound focus this week is: ee, ea, e_e . Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with.
Year 2 – ee | Year 3 – ee, ea, e_e | |
arm shark seen three seat cream please teenager eleven twelve | reef greed neat reach eve beach teacher theme coffee | teapot thirteen evening beanstalk underneath agreement seaweed compete daydream |
Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Writer’s Workshop: we will begin our writing unit ‘Symbolic Storytelling’ focusing on using symbols in the stories we write.
Readers Workshop: we will continue 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 begin looking at fractions this week and revisit place value from earlier in the term.
Unit of Inquiry: This semester (Term 1 & Term 2) we will have an ongoing unit of inquiry: Who We Are with a theme of resilience. This will continue across both terms with focus lessons occurring weekly.
In our How We Express Ourselves unit of inquiry we will work towards our celebration of learning in week 11 this term. We will be creating Healthy Heroes to promote healthy messages.
Reminders:
Sports Day – Friday 21st March – GGLPS Sports Day is Friday Week 8.
Year 3s will be with Mr Trezona and some Year 3&4 students from 3/4R and 3/4SN.
Year 2 students will be with Mrs Richardson for Sports Day and some additional Year 2 students from the ½ classes as well.
Premier’s Reading Challenge: This year in 2/3TR students will have their own individual records to track the books they read. Students are required to read eight books from the book list and four free choice books. Year 3s will be borrowing yellow dot books from the Library and the Year 2s blue dots. The full list of suitable books for your child can be found online at this link: https://premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au/book-list/
As you read books at home, please feel free to email them to me so I can help your child to add them to their list or alternatively feel free to visit the classroom before or after school to add them to the list with your child. The recording sheets will be kept at school. We will also aim to read some books as a class to help to complete our records.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona & Cloe Richardson