Year 1/2
Year 1/2 Cluster News Term 3 Week 10
Year 1 Sleepover - Week 1, Term 4
Friday 20th October 4.30pm - Saturday 21st October, 8.30am 2023
Sleepover Permission Forms will be sent home this week. Please return them by Wednesday next week, 27th September.
We currently need male volunteers. If you would like to volunteer and have completed all volunteer requirements, please let your child’s teacher know of your expression of interest by this Monday 25th September.
Boxes needed
We’re at it again. More shoeboxes are needed for creating early next term. If you are able to help, please send boxes in whenever they’re available.
Gumboots
The nature play has become muddy with the wet weather and students will need gumboots until the end of the term.
Sunscreen, hats and water bottles
Could you please make sure your child applies sunscreen before coming to school and their hats and drink bottles are in bags. We do provide the Woolworths brand sunscreen and encourage reapplication throughout the day, however, if your child requires a special sunscreen, please bring it labelled in their bag.
Home Inquiry – Mathematics: Capacity. Can you estimate the capacity of containers in your kitchen? Which ones hold the most? Which hold the least?
Read your take home book or library books or home books - Approx. 10 minutes each night. On Monday mornings, Take Home Books are changed over. On Thursdays, both classes visit the Library for borrowing.
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. |
Term 3: Week 10 Program
Our week of learning
Literacy:
In Readers Workshop, students will continue to develop comprehension strategies and this unit will continue into Term 4.
In Writers Workshop, students will share the strategies they used to bring a character to life.
Spelling
Example word lists consist of revision words, sound of the week words and tricky words.
Year 1 <oy> sound jet dig help boy toy enjoy annoy two four destroy | Year 2 ear for /air/ sound grip milk bear tear pear wear underwear weight volume |
Maths Focus:
The students will revise and use a range of Mental Computation strategies.
Unit of Inquiry: How the world works
Central Idea: The properties of materials determine their use
LOI 1: The properties of materials
LOI 2: How materials change
LOI 3: Why certain materials are selected for different jobs
Students will design a toy or musical instrument, using scientific principles, to make next term.
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