Year 3/4 News
Welcome
Since our last newsletter, we have continued to see the 3/4's challenge themselves in all academic areas as you will read below. We have enjoyed each other's company and are 'back into the groove' of on-site learning. But, even though there are only a couple of weeks left, we are going to make sure that these last few weeks cap off the BEST TERM EVER, A TERM LIKE NO OTHER!
Learning Intentions
Timetable
Parent Teacher Chat
Teachers in 3/4 are making themselves available next week for Parent Teacher Chats. If you would like to meet with your child's teacher via Zoom, please email your homeroom teacher by COB, Thursday, 26th November.
Available times are:
Monday 30th November: 3:40-5pm
Tuesday 1st December: 3:40 - 5pm
Wednesday 2nd December: 12pm-2pm, 3:40- 5pm
Thursday 3rd December: 3:40 - 5pm
Zoom links will be sent out before scheduled times.
Literacy
In Reading....
In Writing, students have focused on the text type of persuasive writing. It has been great to see how persuasive our students were! Students chose their own topic of choice. These were a few of the topics chosen:
- Why my mum/dad should buy me a pool?
- Why should students be always be allowed to sit on chairs?
- Why summer is better than winter?
- Why you should love Harry Potter?
Students went through the writing process of planning and drafting, ensuring that they included lots of persuasive language and followed the correct writing structure. Students used the persuasive writing sentences starters to assist them in writing a more convincing writing piece.
Maths
In Maths, we have been looking at Chance and Data. Specifically, in data, we have been focusing on two things. Firstly, how to ask 'quality' questions which will give more information to analyse. Rather than, 'what is your favourite...' or 'do you like...', we discussed how questions are important for collecting information. Secondly, we learnt how to analyse the data, adding wondering questions such as: What do the graphs represent? What trends are they showing us? What predictions can we make in the future?
Over the next two weeks, we are going to explore the program 'Tinkercad' for our unit in shape. From the design we make online, we are going to try and replicate it using 3D shapes.
RE
In Religion, the Year 3 students have been focusing on decision making, identifying good and poor choices and the consequences of these choices. Students reflected on their own daily choices and developed strategies to reconcile with themselves and others. Students made their own 'Kid President' video on how to make good choices. Students referred to this video for inspiration...
Father Simon has commenced with the school-based liturgy, 'Working Masses' for Year 4 students. During the special Eucharistic Celebration, students referred to their individual mass booklet to familiarise themselves with the order of mass and responses.
Sacrament of First Reconciliation
Students in Year 4 will be receiving their First Reconciliation on Wednesday 2nd of December 2020. This Sacrament will take place during school hours. We ask that our school community pray for the children over the coming weeks.
Wellbeing
Over the last few weeks we have differentiated the Wellbeing program and focused on:
Working with others positively
Key Messages:
- Getting along with others makes you feel happier
- Social interaction are really important for getting along with others
- Being a good friend
Help seeking
Key Messages:
- How do we know whether a problem is ‘serious’ or not?
- How do we know whether we should involve other people in helping us to solve it?
- Who we ask for help?
Contact Details
3/4A
Annie McNaughton
- amcnaughton@srprestonwest.catholic.edu.au
James Downing
- jdowning@srprestonwest.catholic.edu.au
3/4L
Linda Pham - lpham@srprestonwest.catholic.edu.au
3/4SR
Shane Giese - sgiese@srprestonwest.catholic.edu.au
Rosalba.Squarci
- rsquarci@srprestonwest.catholic.edu.au
Could we please ask that emails regarding 3/4SR homeroom be emailed to both Shane and Rosalba.
Please note, we are only permitted to reply to emails Monday- Friday, between the hours of 8am and 5pm.