Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
High Frequency Words: Most students have now explored the first 300 High-Frequency words. Words can be re-sent home for practice if required.
Mathematics: Can you identify examples of Fractions around the home? Think about foods or sharing items with others.
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night.
Inquiry: What art works do you have in your home? Can you see any examples of line, shape or colour in them?
Learning this week:
Literacy: Jolly Spelling: Year 2 sound focus this week is: UE. The 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 practise 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 |
Year 2 Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Learning this week:
Writer’s Workshop: We will begin our craft study on the theme: Writing is magic! Linking with the book week theme. We will provide students with ample opportunities to craft, create and weave magic into their own writing, with a focus on editing skills and using different punctuation.
Reader’s Workshop: we will spend the term exploring the elements of reading as part of our unit of inquiry – How We Express Ourselves. We will begin the term with a focus on improving our fluency when reading by reading some poetry and reader’s theatre.
Mathematics: We are exploring fractions to start the term. Year 2s focus will be identifying halves, quarters and eighths in everyday contexts. Year 3 focus will be on recognising and representing unit fractions. This week we will continue learning about how Fractions are: equal parts of a whole, and applying our learning to real-life scenarios.
Unit of Inquiry: We will begin our new UOI – How We Express Ourselves – with a focus on the elements of the arts. We will be exploring different provocations this week and unpacking the central idea and lines of inquiry.
Announcements:
Timetable Changes – Please note that Japanese is now on Tuesday mornings instead of Wednesdays. PE will stay on Monday and Wednesdays.
Premier’s Reading Challenge – Please keep reading books at home to help your children to fill in their PRC lists. We will also be completing books as a class to help as well.
Premiers Be Active Challenge – Students will have the option to join us as we complete the challenge as a class or individually track and record their physical activities over a four-week period. We will likely do this as a class at the beginning of Term 3.
2/3T Worship Leading – We are leading worship in Week 1, Term 3 – Friday July 26th.
Special Persons Afternoon – Please note that the date has changed for Special Person’s Afternoon (SPA). It will now be Friday the 20th September (Week 9, Friday).
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona
Year 2/3 Teacher