Year 2/3

Year 2/3 Cluster News 

Home Inquiry  

Mathematics: Which of these numbers may not belong and why? 15, 51, 45, 42. Can you create your own which one doesn’t belong problem?  

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

Inquiry: How do you cope with change? List strategies that help you to understand why change is happening.  

 

Learning this week:  

Literacy: Jolly Spelling: Year 2 sound focus this week is: ear = air. The Year 3 sound focus this week is: air, are, ear, ere. Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with.  

Year 2 - or 

Year 3 – air, are, ear, ere 

grip 

milk 

bear 

tear 

pear 

wear 

swear 

underwear 

weight 

volume 

fair 

mare 

spare 

fairy 

bare 

there 

airless 

dairy 

flare 

repair 

airport 

compare 

fanfare 

prepare 

bearable 

hairdresser 

somewhere 

wherewithal 

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

Learning this week:  

Writer’s Workshop: We will spend the remaining weeks this year working on our editing skills and creating a piece of writing for our next teacher to receive.  

Mathematics: We will finish the year building our mental computation skills and revisiting mathematical concepts taught earlier in the year.  

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:  

 

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.  

 

U8 Basketball – We are looking for some more female players for our Super Novas Basketball Team. They train on Mondays after school usually with games on Saturdays at local venues. If your child is interested, please get in touch with Adele McCusker for more details: mccusker.adele@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

School Calendar:   

 

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

 

 

Blessings for the week ahead,

 

Brodie Trezona  

Year 2/3 Teacher 

Trezona.brodie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au