Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
High Frequency Words: We will begin using these at school, once any unknown words are determined then they will be sent home for practicing. We plan on retesting on the first sets again in the next 1-2 weeks.
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night.
Inquiry: Thinking Globally: What international places or landmarks would you consider to be significant? Could you look them up on Google Earth and look at them?
Learning this week:
Literacy: Jolly Spelling: Year 2 sound focus this week is: wh. The Year 3 sound focus this week is: n = ng. Below are the two lists of words we will be using at school to practice the sounds with.
Year 2 – wh | Year 3 – n = ng | |
this that while wheat whip whistle whiskers whatever aunt uncle | anger skunk tanker junk trunk sunken anchor blanket finger | hunger angler extinct stinking handkerchief anguish distinctive defunct singular |
Year 2 Key: underlined = revision words; bold = high frequency words
Writer’s Workshop: over the next two to three weeks, we will be focusing on writing responses to prompts, using paragraphs, and punctuation in preparation for NAPLAN.
Readers Workshop: we will continue our study of paragraphs in written texts – noticing them and then transferring our understandings to our own written work.
Mathematics: we will be exploring subtraction strategies and skills this week such as: partitioning, counting back and how rainbow facts can be reversed to assist with subtraction equations.
Unit of Inquiry: We will continue exploring our unit of inquiry: Where We Are in Place and Time, which focuses on Places. This week we will begin exploring significant global places and identify connections between people and these places.
Christian Studies: This term we will be exploring the strand: Christian Church through key idea 2, Band A: Students draw conclusions about the purpose of the Christian church in the local community. This focus will link with our where we are in place and time unit of inquiry.
Reminders:
NAPLAN: Last week we started looking at NAPLAN to help prepare the students for the types of questions and how to answer them. We started having a go at the demonstration tests on the NAPLAN app. On Tuesday the year 3s sat the National coordinated practice test. If you have any questions about NAPLAN please see your child’s teacher. NAPLAN is held in Weeks 7 and 8 this term.
Premiers Reading Challenge: This year in 2/3T 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 lists will be kept at school.
Blessings for the week ahead,
Brodie Trezona
Year 2/3 Teacher