YEAR 3

FROM THE CLASSROOM

This week, our main classroom focus, including during circle time, has been on showing respect and recognising how it feels when respect is returned. Students have continued to settle into their learning spaces and are showing growing confidence with their classroom’s low-variance routines, helping them feel prepared and ready to learn.

The Year 3 classes have continued to explore our Inquiry topic for Term 2, “Healthy Eating”. Students have investigated and explored both the Australian and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander guides to Healthy Eating. Students got to discuss how countries around the world balance their meals and create healthy meal choices. They collaborated with other peers about their choices and were respectful in listening to their choices. 

During this activity, some student voices were recorded from the 3CD classroom: 

“I got to look at food from my own country, Cambodia!” 

- Kaarina

 

“I added way too much butter, but I got the good amount of fruit and vegetables.” 

- Asees

 

“I have enough meat, but I have to figure out how to make sure I balance the fruit.” 

- Khadijah

 

“Food is so expensive.” 

- Gracie

Students have also begun to use arrays to solve division problems within Maths and exploring summarising and main idea questions within Reading. During Writing, students have begun to learn about the toolkits for their upcoming writing piece based on “Should students bring a pet walrus to school?” 

LEARNING INTENTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK

READING

• We are learning about the morphology behind the base word, <tract>. 
• We are learning to ask and answer questions. 
• We are learning to identify different types of questions. 
• We are learning to justify our answers with evidence. 

WRITING

• We are learning to pile up the information to add intensity with a pattern of 3 (commas in a list)
• We are learning to choose language that exaggerates. 
• We are learning to try to tempt your reader and get them on your side.

MATHS

• We are learning how to create number sentences for multiplication and division using arrays. We are learning how to solve practical problems involving single digit multiplication and division (2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s)

INQUIRY

• We are learning to read and understand nutritional labels on food.
• We are learning to justify our food choices based on food nutrition labels. 

REMINDERS

HATS

Term 2 is a hat free term. Hats can be kept at home for the remainder of Term 2 and 3. 

LUNCHBOXES

Please check in with your child around their lunchbox. We have many students complaining of not enough food to eat throughout the day. 

ARRIVING ON TIME

Students are expected in the classroom at 8:35am to set up their materials and be ready to learn when instruction begins at 8:45am

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