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 this term!
Mathematics: Practice skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s at home this week.
Home Inquiry: Share some facts about your chosen Landmark at home this week.
Learning this week:
Literacy: Word Study: Year 2 sound focus this week is: ue. Year 3 sound focus this week is: ue, u_e, ew Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with.
Year 2 – ue | Year 3 – ue, u_e, ew | |
sunk book huge fuse rescue queue ewe useful seventeen eighteen | cue flute amuse statue threw fewer bluebell venue pollute | volume newt fortune Yuletide avenue attitude costume absolute screwdriver |
Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Writer’s Workshop: we will finish our unit exploring information texts. We plan on publishing an infographic on a chosen landmark. Please support your child by asking them about their chosen landmark and having discussions about it.
Readers Workshop: we will be focusing on finding connections in the books we read, using books as mirrors.
Mathematics: We will be revisiting collecting data using tallies and will begin looking at how we represent data using graphs. If we get time, we may revisit shapes and objects this week.
Unit of Inquiry: We will finish our main unit of inquiry this term – Where we are in place and time with a focus on Landmarks. It is also the last two weeks of our Who We Are unit on Resilience.
Reminders:
Glow Week – Term 2, Week 9 (June 23 – June 27)
Just a reminder that you are invited to our GLOW Week Celebration afternoon on Friday 27th June. This begins at 2pm in the worship centre. We would love to see you there to celebrate and share in the learning that has occurred during this week.
We are looking for cardboard boxes for Glow Week – if you can spare any please bring them into school. Thankyou!
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona & Cloe Richardson