Year 2/3

Home Inquiry  

Mathematics: Create a list of things that you could measure with a ruler or measuring tape.  

 

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

 

Inquiry: Think about the properties of natural things this week, such as sand, dirt, grass, wood, etc. Can you create a list of potential properties / features?  

 

Learning this week:  

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

Year 2 - ou 

Year 3 – a=ar 

snap 

swam 

loud 

cloud 

found 

now 

crowd 

sunflower 

seventy 

eighty 

ask 

vase 

lava 

bath 

nasty 

sultana 

chance 

koala 

drama 

plaster 

pyjamas 

disaster 

piranha 

basketball 

avocado 

armada 

passport 

grasshopper 

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

 

Learning this week:  

Writer’s Workshop: We will continue our next writing study focusing on expanding our vocabulary. We will explore the Parts of Speech throughout this unit: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and more...  

 

Mathematics: We will continue learning about measurement this week, including mass, capacity and length.  

 

Unit of Inquiry: We will continue our unit of inquiry: Sharing the Planet on Properties. The central idea is: Understanding properties and features allows us to see things more effectively. 

 

Announcements:  

Year 2 Camp -  is at AFL Max, West Beach, from Tuesday 19th November until Wednesday 20th November. More details will be sent home before the end of term.   

Please communicate with your child’s teacher if you have any questions about the Camp.  

We have now met our required number of adults for camp. Thankyou.  

 

Blessings for the week ahead,

 

Brodie Trezona  

Year 2/3 Teacher 

Trezona.brodie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au