Around Grade 3/4
Term 3 - Newsletter
Welcome to Term 3. What an exciting term ahead we have with Italian Day, an Incursion, an Olympian coming in to visit us, Athletics, AFL inflatables, Hoop Time, Production plus all the interesting things we will be learning in the classroom. With such a busy term ahead make sure you mark them on the calendar or record them in your phone to help your child to be prepared and ready for each event.
Important dates
Tuesday 27th July - Guest Speaker - Olympian Natalie Harvey
Tuesday 3 August - School Athletics Day
Wednesday 18 August - AFL Inflatables
Tuesday 24th August (3:50pm-8:00pm) and 26th Thursday (3:50pm-5:00pm) - 3 Way Conferences
Friday 27th August - Book Week Parade 9:15 am
Wednesday 1st September - Hoop Time
Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th September - Whole School Concert and Production
Reading
This term we will continue to build the children’s capacity in reading. Reader’s Workshop will drive deeper “Reading” comprehension. Teachers and students will work towards a more critical analysis of a text. Students will continue to have classroom time to read, to be able to choose what they read, to read a large number of books and a variety of genres. This term’s program will cover Poetry and Author study sessions. Students have already explored the use of similes and metaphors in storytelling.
Writing
While we are reading Poems this term we will also be writing our own poems and limericks. We will be having a go at poems with rhyming, poems with a set amount of syllables and poems that follow a set pattern of rules. Students will have an opportunity to research an author and write about them. Creative free choice writing and publishing will also be continued and built upon throughout the term. The Grade 4's will be working to earn their pen licence.
Maths
We are starting the term learning about multiplication and division. Exploring fact families, arrays, factors, products, equal shares and reminders. Each week your child will be learning their times tables, so get ready for some time tables quizzes, and charts on the back of the toilet door.
In the second half of the term, the focus is on fractions and decimals. We will work with fraction walls and number lines to support our learning and investigate what an equivalent fraction is. We will look into the relationship between decimals and factions and then expand our skills to add and subtract fractions.
In other areas of Maths, we will focus on shapes, exploring how they are symmetrical and how they tessellate. We will look at how shapes change when we make them flip, slip and turn. Clocks will be revisited to further develop our skills and also data. They will finish the term off by learning about temperature.
A busy term with lots of mathematical learning.
Inquiry
This term's inquiry topic Night and Day is based on Science - Earth and Space science. Our incursion - Our Place in Space - will introduce us to this topic and begin to build our understandings. We will be looking at earth’s rotation on its axis and how this causes regular changes, including night and day and the seasons. Students will explore the sizes, shapes, positions and movements of the Sun, Earth and Moon and look at what else is in our solar system. We hope that you can get out and enjoy watching the phases of the Moon.
