Year 1/2

Year 1/2 Cluster News Term 4 Week 6

 

Please apply sunscreen andensure hats and water bottles are sent to school every day. 


Swimming notes have been sent home. Please make sure you complete all pages before returning them to school. Swimming lessons are is Tuesday – Friday in Week 8.  


Library No borrowing from Monday 27th November. 


Home Inquiry – Use a catalogue to make a short shopping list with whole dollar amounts. Can you work out the total? Can you work out change? 

 

Take home books - There are changes being made which will be communicated with you shortly. 

 

Sound of the week - See the weekly sound and spelling list below. Students can practise these in a variety of ways (look, say, cover, write, check, chalk, whiteboard writing, magnetic letters - be creative!) The aim is to practise the words both by writing and orally. Have a go at brainstorming other words that have the same sound.   


Literacy: 

In Readers Workshop, students will continue to develop comprehension strategies including making connections, predicting, inferring, questioning, monitoring, visualising, summarising. 

 

In Writers Workshop, students will be continuing narrative writing. 


Spelling 

Year 1  

<ur> sound   

turn 

nurse 

turkey 

purple 

hamburger 

love 

cover 

not 

sum 

next  

Year 2  

ie for <ee> sound   

field 

piece 

chief 

thief 

shield 

belief 

library 

computer 

quit 

sweet 


Maths Focus: 

Year 1 and Year 2 students will continue to use, revise and extend their understanding of repeated addition and groups (multiplication), money and time. 


 

Unit of Inquiry: Where We Are in Place and Time 

Central Idea: The way people live has changed over time 

We inquire into… 

LOI 1: Past and present 

LOI 2: Things that have remained the same over time 

LOI 3: Things that have changed over time 

 

Students learnt a lot about toys from the past during the incursion and will continue to build on their understanding before considering: was people’s wellbeing better in the past or now? 

 


Reminders and information 

Please check the rest of the school newsletter for further news. 


May God bless your week, 

Mel Arnold, Ellen Zimmer, Emily Gower  

 

Mel Arnold arnold.melanie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Ellen Zimmer zimmer.ellen@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Emily Gower gower.emily@goldengrove.sa.edu.au