Term 3 Week 5

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Reading 

This week in Reading we will be focusing on the animation of 'The Lorax' by Dr Seuss. This well known story promotes the message that respect for the environment and all living creatures will help us preserve the planet for ourselves and future generations. Students will be completing a 'Literacy Menu' throughout the week with different tasks relating to the book. The literacy menu tasks focus on comprehension skills, making connections and summarising. In their Reading Groups this week, each group will be reading a text presented to them on Google Meet and answering a range of questions. The focus skill for these Guided Reading sessions is making connections between the text and the world. 

Writing   

The students have reached the final stage of the writing process, which is publishing. This coming week they will look at all the different elements that an author has to consider before publishing their writing and sharing it with others. Questions include:

Who will be my audience? Who will read it?

Should I illustrate it and display it?

How will the text look? 

Should I bind it in a book?

Should I read it out loud?

Will I act it out?

Finally, students will publish their writing! 

As the final stage of the writing process students can have an understanding that each stage has a very important part in ensuring the quality and success of the publication. 

Word Study

Next week we will finish learning all 70 codes. We will then turn our focus to reinforcing some of the trickier ones that may not yet be in the students' automatic file. The students seemed to enjoy meeting the gangsters over the last few weeks and next week we will introduce a new Gangster to the 'gang' - Wally the Whisperer! This will explain why the letter 'a' sometimes makes the /o/ sound in words such as 'was' and 'what'.

Mathematics

Number and Algebra. 

This week we will be focusing on different multiplication strategies such as making arrays and repeated addition.Students will be showing their understanding using a Think Board tool. 

Students can play 'Multiverse' which is a game on Mathletics in the 'play' tab. Here they will find some games they can play testing their skills using multiplication. Students that are not familar with the times tables can listen to the 'Times Table Tunes' in the explore tab, under videos. There they will find some short songs to help them remember the times tables.

Measurement and Geometry.

This week students will begin practical activities designed to explore the concept of mass.  Students will use the strategy of hefting – to lift or hold (something) in order to test its weight to determine objects which are lighter or heavier than each other. They will then justify and explain their reasoning using comparative language and the knowledge of substance and matter. This will lead into the exploration of measuring using non standard unit. 

Unit of Inquiry

This week the students will choose a specific area of our 'Sharing the Planet' unit conduct an individual inquiry. They will  research information to learn more about how a resource or practice impacts the environment and the advantages and disadvantages of its use. Focusing again on being responsible, students will inquire into local, national or global action being taken to protect the Earth. 

Wellbeing

This week the students are being encouraged to connect with their neighbourhood by creating something which will engage passers-by.  They may wish to get involved in ‘Spoonville’, an initiative which began in the village of Winnersh in England, where children decorate a wooden spoon and place it with others on the nature strip.  ‘Spoonville’ has gone global and now they are popping up around Melbourne, bringing smiles to the faces of many children and parents who are getting involved.  Alternatively, the students may wish to take a different approach to this challenge by, for example, creating chalk drawings or a window display with a positive message.  

Grade 3 Team

If you need to contact your child's class teacher you can do so via Compass. Alternatively, our email addresses are as follows. Please note the Department of Education has recently changed all Education staff email addresses, so these may be different to the ones you already have.

Sylvia Zanati (3A) 

Sylvia.Zanati@education.vic.gov.au

Georgia Kirk (3B)

Georgia.Kirk@education.vic.gov.au

Shae Langford-Jones & Amanda Kerr (3C)

Shae.Langford-jones@education.vic.gov.au

Amanda.Kerr.@education.vic.gov.au

Bill Kolivas (3D) 

William.Kolivas@education.vic.gov.au