Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read for 15 minutes each night at home. Keep on reading books for your Premiers Reading Challenge. Let’s finish it this term!
Mathematics: How might you show the sum: 4 x 5 using an array or grouping?
Home Inquiry: What is a landmark? Discuss what a landmark is and explore some of the local landmarks in South Australia.
Learning this week:
Literacy: Word Study: Year 2 sound focus this week is: ey. Year 3 sound focus this week is: e_e. Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with.
Year 2 – ey | Year 3 – e_e | |
film kept key honey money donkey chimney journey thousand million | gene these recede delete impede scheme concede stampede complete | extreme athlete concrete supreme intervene phoneme Chinese obsolete centipede |
Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Writer’s Workshop: we will continue our new unit of study on using Show, Don’t Tell in our writing.
Readers Workshop: to start this term we will be exploring the parts of speech in the texts we read. We will learn to identify nouns, verbs, adjectives and more in our reading.
Mathematics: We will begin the term with a focus on addition and subtraction, including long addition and long subtraction
Unit of Inquiry: We have begun the term with a focus on our ongoing Who We Are unit of inquiry on Resilience.
Reminders:
Library Day Change – Please note that we have shifted our library borrowing and visiting day to a Thursday. Please bring back returns on Thursdays.
Glow Week – Term 2, Week 9 (June 23 – June 27)
We are super excited that GLOW week is back in Week 9 Term 2. If you have any special skills or hobbies that you’d be willing to share with the children, or if you would like to volunteer for this amazing week of learning, please contact your classroom teacher.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona & Cloe Richardson