Year 2/3

Year 2/3 Cluster News

Home Inquiry  

High Frequency Words: We are re-testing these at school at the moment, stay tuned for an updated list to be sent home for practicing. If a list is not sent home, this means that your child knows the first 300 Oxford words.   

 

Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night.  

 

Inquiry: Think about what a good friend is – can you list some characteristics or words that describe what you think a good friend is. For example, it could be that they are: happy, have a smile, make you feel calm.  

 

Learning this week:  

Literacy: Jolly Spelling: Year 2 sound focus this week is: ch for k The Year 3 sound focus this week is: the s=z. Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practise the sounds with.  

Year 2 – ch for k 

Year 3 – s=z 

buzz 

fizz 

echo 

choir 

chemist 

stomach 

christmas 

character 

November 

December 

easy  

busy 

nose 

result 

prison 

dismal 

cosmic 

positive 

misery 

 

present 

president 

raspberry 

phase 

invisible 

business 

inquisitive 

preposition 

enthusiastic 

Year 2 Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words 

Learning this week:  

Writer’s Workshop: we will continue exploring persuasive texts and persuasive devices in different forms of advertisements. We will begin thinking about creating our own advertisements to promote being healthy.    

 

Readers Workshop: we will be using our readers notebook to track our thinking and questions whilst we are reading.   

 

Mathematics: we will be collecting some health-related data this week and then creating a graph to help us to show the results.  

 

Unit of Inquiry: We will finish our unit of inquiry on Personal Health this week.   

 

Blessings for the week ahead, 

Brodie Trezona  

Year 2/3 Teacher 

Trezona.brodie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au