Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
High Frequency Words: We are re-testing these at school at the moment, stay tuned for an updated list to be sent home for practising. If a list is not sent home, this means that your child knows the first 300 Oxford words.
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night.
Inquiry: Can you create a pattern, either using shapes and objects or numbers?
Learning this week:
Literacy: Jolly Spelling: Year 2 sound focus this week is: k. The Year 3 sound focus this week is: the se=ze. Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practise the sounds with.
Year 2 – k | Year 3 – se for ze | |
hook fork back brick deck flock struck rucksack nineteen twenty | ooze sneeze cheese choose freeze wheeze breeze noise browse | bronze pause cause disease bruise applause appraise turquoise mayonnaise |
Year 2 Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Learning this week:
Writer’s Workshop: we will continue exploring persuasive texts and persuasive devices in different forms of advertisements. We will begin creating and publishing our own advertisements to promote being healthy.
Readers Workshop: we will be using our readers notebook to track our thoughts and questions whilst we are reading.
Mathematics: we will begin exploring number sentences and number patterns this week.
Unit of Inquiry: We will begin our new Unit of Inquiry: How the World Works with a focus on Patterns.
Announcements:
Reading Update – Term 2
This week I have shown the students our bookshelf of books which can be borrowed and taken home. This is in the breakout space next door to our classroom. Students are welcome to borrow 2-3 books at a time and return them and get new ones as needed to help ensure they have more books of interest to read with you at home.
The below paragraph on comprehension may be important as you read at home, as they provide some sample questions of what you could be asking your child as they read a book.
Comprehension (understanding what you have read)
It is also important to talk about the book you are sharing. Some example questions are:
What is your favourite part/character? Why?
Who would you like to be in the book? Why?
How do you connect to this book or character?
Does it remind you of another book or character?
What facts have you learnt from the book? Can you connect these facts to other ideas or what you know already.
What is the author’s message or theme of the book e.g. friendship, perseverance.
Thank you to Kat and Sam for helping to sort the books into easily accessible categories for the students to choose from.
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona
Year 2/3 Teacher