Year Three 

Dear Year Three Families,

We’re excited to share the fantastic learning experiences from this fortnight.  t’s been amazing to see our students grow, challenge themselves, and achieve new goals. Their energy, enthusiasm, and commitment as thinkers, communicators, and risk-takers have made this a truly productive and rewarding time.

Reading:

In Reading, students have been focusing on finding the main idea and the author’s message in the texts they read. They have enjoyed making connections between Reading and our Inquiry unit by exploring stories about scientists and information texts about forces, such as push and pull, gravity, and magnets. Through these lessons, students are developing their ability to explain key ideas, identify important details, and use evidence from the text to support their thinking. These skills are helping them not only as readers but also as young inquirers who can connect their learning across subjects.

Writing:

In Writing, the Year 3 students have been busy exploring the fascinating world of scientists! 🧬🔬 The students have been researching different scientists such as Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison. They have been looking into their qualities and their traits, taking notes in preparation to begin learning the structure of writing scientific reports. Students have become very engaged and eager to learn more in this topic, which is fantastic to see. 

Maths:

In Mathematics, students have been deepening their understanding of formal units of measurement by learning how to accurately measure the length of various objects using rulers and measuring tapes. They have been practicing essential skills such as estimating, measuring, and comparing lengths. To further extend their thinking, students have also been challenged to convert between units—such as centimeters, millimeters, meters, and kilometers. 

Inquiry:

In Inquiry, students have been exploring the central idea “Understanding forces helps design effective machines,” under the transdisciplinary theme ‘How the World Works.’ Inspired by Rube Goldberg machines, students designed their own chain reaction events and built bridges to test how forces affect different structures. They also conducted hands-on experiments by throwing various objects to explore the effects of different forces in action. Along the way, they have been developing their wonderings and deepening their understanding of key vocabulary such as force, push, pull, friction, and gravity. The exploration continues as they investigate about simple machines, including the pulley, wheel and axle, screw, inclined plane, wedge, and lever.

Warm regards, 

The Year Three Team.