Year 2/3

Year 2/3 Cluster News 

Home Inquiry  

Mathematics: How much would it cost to buy some groceries? Compare the prices of the same product in different stores.  

 

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

 

Inquiry: What changes have happened at home? Have you moved things around in your room or gotten something new?  

 

Learning this week:  

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

Year 2 - soft g 

Year 3 – soft g 

miss 

cross 

giant 

magic 

large 

danger 

orange 

vegetable 

March 

April 

page 

margin 

angel 

digital 

germ 

stage 

giraffe 

engine 

change 

magical 

strange 

energy 

gender 

genetic 

gymnastics 

emergency 

dungeon 

urgency 

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

Learning this week:  

Writer’s Workshop: We will finalise our presentations this week with the aim of presenting our findings on our chosen material by the end of this week.  

 

Mathematics: We will continue exploring money this week and spend some time revisiting the number strand including looking at: place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  

 

Unit of Inquiry: We will continue exploring our final unit of inquiry this week: How We Organise Ourselves with a focus on ‘Changing Communities’.  

 

Announcements:  

Year 2 Camp - is at AFL Max, West Beach, from Tuesday 19th November until Wednesday 20th November.  

 

Pupil Free Day – Term 4- Please note that Friday Week 5 (15th November) is a Pupil Free Day.  

 

Carols Evening – The annual schools carols evening is being held on Friday, Week 7 (29th November). Please save the date. More information is on its way.  

 

Blessings for the week ahead,

 

Brodie Trezona  

Year 2/3 Teacher 

Trezona.brodie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au