Year 1/2

Year 1/2 Cluster News    

Home Inquiry   

Have a discussion with your child: what evidence is there that the season is Spring? e.g. baby animals, Spring fairs and festivals. Does the weather match the calendar? e.g. Aboriginal people look for the emu in the sky to determine when emu chicks are hatching. 

Skills Practise 

Year 1s: practise saying the days of the week and the months of the year and counting in 2s, 5s and 10s 

Year 2s: practise how many seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, hours in a day, days in a month, months in a year, days in a year and doubling and halving e.g. double 1 is 2, double 2 is 4 up to 100 and beyond, then backwards e.g. half of 128 is 64, half of 64 is 32… 

Every Day 

Please check that your child has these items at school every day: 

• hat 
• water bottle 
• Take Home Folder 

Please check that their name is clearly marked on each item, including school jackets. 

Reading: We encourage your child to read every night for 10-15 minutes. Please listen to your child read the decodable books and ask the ‘check for understanding’ questions at the back. Once you have read the ‘decodable book’ 2 or 3 times, please send it back with the recording sheet.  

The ‘Interest books' with coloured round stickers on the front may need to be read together.  

Weekly Timetable 

Learning for Weeks 5 and 6 

Word Study 

Year 1 

oi e.g. oil, boil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToARPxst8y4 

or e.g. for, born https://youtu.be/0TKWxjU0UgQ?si=ZF46fx05HXVZTv1P 

Year 2  

o for short u e.g. love, money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6uTdtzteIk 

or, ai, au, aw e.g. awful, torch https://youtu.be/IvEfzL0H3f4?si=sGyv-mDsSL5olwfo  

Grammar Focus and Writer’s Workshop 

Year 1 & 2: As students write stories in Writer’s Workshop, they will practise editing. This includes using all the skills they have learned this term such checking punctuation (capital letters, full stops), grammar (does it make sense) and expanding sentences (using adjectives and further detail). 

Christian Studies 

Students will continue to investigate prayer, sharing their experiences and creating their own prayers. Next, they start investigating rituals, events, symbols and practices related to Christmas. 

Mathematics:  

Students will be revising the concepts we have been exploring this term including graphs, patterns, time addition, and subtraction.  

Unit of Inquiry: Sharing the Planet and Reader’s Workshop 

Students are reading information texts to learn more about animals (Year 1) and patterns in the sky (Year 2). They will be creating a book to share their understanding of how people live and interact with the natural world. We will be incorporating both media and visual arts to explore this understanding. 

God bless your week, 

Melanie, Lauren, Tim and Melissa 

Arnold.melanie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

hall.lauren@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

kriewaldt.tim@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

bishop.melissa@goldengrove.sa.edu.au