Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes per night.
Mathematics: If you have twenty (20) lollies and you want to share them between five (5) friends. How many lollies would each friend get? Challenge: Could you write your own sharing themed problem?
Home Inquiry: Discuss what it means to be a good listener at home this week. Why is it important when working in a team or with others?
Learning this week:
Literacy: Word Study
Year 2 sound focus this week is: ea for e.
Year 3 sound focus this week is: e = ee.
Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with.
Year 2 – ea for e | Year 3 – e = ee | |
glad plum read head bread weather treasure breakfast cousin friend | evil secret legal fever regal female prefect recent | media create medium frequent adhesive medieval chameleon immediate prehistoric |
Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Writer’s Workshop: We are starting the term with a writing craft study – exploring how authors and illustrators make choices about the style, design and detail included in their books. This is linked with Book Week – A symphony of stories. We are hoping to publish these in time for Book Week in Week 6.
Reader’s Workshop: We will be participating in Reader’s Theatre in class. This aims to enhance our skills when reading aloud and invite elements of performance into our reading.
Mathematics: We will continue learning about division this week. Our primary focus is on exploring how we can share items equally into groups. We will also revisit strategies for subtraction.
Unit of Inquiry: We will be finishing our first unit of inquiry for this term – How We Express Ourselves, with a focus on performance. This week our primary focus is on reader’s theatre and using tools like iMovie to record and publish our group’s work.
Reminders:
Ping Pong A Thon – Friday 14th August & Saturday 15th August
Community Breakfast – Tuesday 25th August
Book Week Dress Up Day – Tuesday 25th August
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona