Banner Photo

Year 2/3

Year 2/3 Cluster News 

Home Inquiry  

Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night. Let’s finish the Premiers Reading Challenge as a class again this year!  

Mathematics: What numbers can you find at home? Write a list of ten numbers and then order them from smallest to largest.  

Inquiry: Discuss what makes a ‘good’ friend at home this week.  

Learning this week:  

Literacy: Word Study:  

Year 2 sound focus this week is: silent w 

 Year 3 sound focus this week is: tch.  

Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with. 

Year 2 – silent w 

Year 3 - tch 

chat   

cash   

write  

wrist  

wreck   

wrong  

answer  

swordfish   

sister   

brother  

itch  

catch  

fetch  

witch  

match  

hutch  

kitchen  

snatch  

butcher  

 

switch  

sketch  

crutches  

watching  

stretcher  

ketchup  

wretched  

scratching  

stretching  

 

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

Writer’s Workshop: we will continue to explore what writers do and will begin exploring how we can get ideas for our writing.  

Readers Workshop: we will continue to explore the reading environment and what is needed to create a space for reading, as well as choosing ‘good fit’ books.  

Mathematics: we will continue exploring place value this week. Year two 2 students will need to order and represent numbers to 1000. Year three 3 students will need to order and represent numbers to 10,000.  

Unit of Inquiry: This week we will continue to explore our year-long, unit of inquiry – Sharing the Planet about Relationships.  

 

Reminders:  

Weekly Timetable – 2/3T 

Monday 

Tuesday 

Wednesday 

Thursday 

Friday 

Assembly 

Cluster PE 

Canteen 

 

Art 

Japanese 

PE  

Canteen 

Music 

STEM (Even Weeks)  

Library 

Chapel 

Golden Time 

Canteen 

PE Uniform 

Formal Uniform 

PE Uniform 

Formal Uniform 

Optional PE Uniform  

** Please note the uniform above is for the Year 3s – Year 2s will always wear their PE Uniform ** 

Premiers Reading Challenge: This year in 2/3TR students will have their own individual records to track the books they read. Students are required to read eight books from the book list and four free choice books. Year 3s will be borrowing yellow dot books from the Library and the Year 2s blue dots. The full list of suitable books for your child can be found online at this link: https://premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au/book-list/   

As you read books at home, please feel free to email them to me so I can help your child to add them to their list or alternatively feel free to visit the classroom before or after school to add them to the list with your child. The recording sheets will be kept at school.  We will also aim to read some books as a class to help to complete our records.  

 

School Calendar:   

https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/  

 

Blessings for the week ahead, 

Brodie Trezona  

Trezona.brodie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au