Year 3 Term 2 Overviews
Dohertys Creek P-9 College.
Wominjeka!
Welcome back to a busy and exciting term. The term began with re-establishing the routines and expectations for Year 3 students, as well as building on a sense of community in each classroom. We are continuing to work together to develop strong relationships with your child to understand and support their social, emotional and academic learning strengths and needs. We appreciate the support you are giving your children with their nightly reading and diary entries.
Our learning this term:
Reading
In Reading, students are exploring non-fiction text structure and how to extract information from the text’s features. These features include the main idea, supporting detail, vocabulary and graphics. Students will use these to activate their prior knowledge and identify the new information they’ve learnt. They will have opportunities to dig deep into weekly mentor texts, guided reading and reciprocal teaching texts and examples of non-fiction texts from our school and class libraries. They will be writing a range of information texts, including an autobiography and information report. These will build their skills using the writing process, (plan, draft, revise, edit and publish). Students are using their writer’s notebooks to collect and develop seed ideas and research questions to guide their writing.
Mathematics
In Year 3 Mathematics this term, students will build strong number knowledge through place value, recognising, representing and ordering natural numbers beyond 10,000. They will explore the properties of numbers, including identifying and explaining odd and even numbers, while developing flexible thinking through renaming and partitioning numbers in different ways. Students will strengthen their additive thinking by extending their knowledge of addition and subtraction facts to 20 and applying efficient mental strategies to solve larger calculations without a calculator. They will also use place value to add and subtract two- and three-digit numbers through partitioning, rearranging and regrouping.
Students will deepen their understanding of algebra by exploring the connection between addition and subtraction as inverse operations. They will apply this understanding to partition numbers and solve unknown values in number sentences. Financial mathematics will also be a focus, as students recognise relationships between dollars and cents and represent money values in different ways.
In measurement, students will investigate time by recognising relationships between days, hours, minutes and seconds, estimating and comparing durations, and reading both analogue and digital clocks to the nearest minute. Time concepts will continue to be practised throughout the year as part of everyday classroom routines. Students will also develop skills in measuring length, mass and capacity, identifying appropriate metric units, making estimates, and using measuring instruments with labelled markings.
In geometry and space, students will make, compare and classify 3D objects, identifying their key features and explaining how these features suit their purposes. These learning experiences will support students in connecting mathematical ideas across number, measurement and spatial reasoning in meaningful, practical ways.
Social and Emotional
Throughout Term 2 our Social and Emotional learning will focus on understanding the value of a range of perspectives and learning a variety of strategies and skills for effectively solving problems with their peers. Students will develop an understanding that there can be more than one resolution to a conflict and how to adapt when one approach is unsuccessful. Year 3’s will identify factors that foster positive relationships and what respect looks like for a range of people.
Inquiry
Our Unit of Inquiry this term is around the statement “Nature operates in predictable and rhythmic patterns that demonstrate the inherent cycles of life.” We will be exploring the connection between plants, humans and animals and compare how their life cycles are similar and different. They will discover that each part of the life cycle has a purpose. This learning connects with our excursion to the Melbourne Museum on the 9th and 10th of June.
Stay tuned for payment details on Compass.
The Year 3-4 Athletics Carnival will be held on Friday 22nd of May at the VU Werribee Athletics Track, Hoppers Lane, Hoppers Crossing. Children will be involved in a series of events including the 100m Sprint, 200m Sprint, 800m, Long Jump, Discus, Shot Put & High Jump. The top place getters in each event for each gender & age will progress to represent the school at the Truganina District Athletics Carnival in Term 3. Consent on Compass is needed by Friday, the 28th.
Year 3 camp
The Grade 3 Camp at Camp Sunnystones is an adventure camp where students stretch their boundaries with challenging activities and continue to use their skills in cooperation and teamwork. The cohort will be split into two groups: Camp 1 (9/11/26-11/11/26) Camp 2 (11/11/26-13/11/26)
The total cost of the camp is approximately $470 (to be confirmed with final numbers). A deposit of $200 is required to be paid to secure your child's spot.
The deposit is non-refundable. Please refer to our website for our refund policy.
Spots are limited to 50 students per camp.