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Year 3/4

Year 3/4 Cluster News 

Home Inquiry  

Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night.   

 

Find tools you use at home to measure capacity. What do you use in the kitchen? In the bathroom? Around your house? In your room? 

 Word Study-  

Year 3 sound of the week is the suffix ‘able’. 

Year 4 sound of the week is the ear for /er. 

 

Grammar focus is concrete and abstract nouns. 

 

Year 3 – able 

Year 4 – ear for /er 

avoidable  

profitable 

available 

portable 

adaptable 

dependable 

 

breakable 

usable 

loveable 

irritable 

enjoyable 

debatable 

 

changeable 

disposable 

desirable 

miserable 

variable 

noticeable 

earn 

learn 

earth 

search 

earnings 

heard 

 

yearn 

early 

pearl 

dearth 

hearse 

earnest 

 

rehearse 

overheard 

researcher 

searchlight 

earthworm 

earthquake 

Mathematics: As part of our Mathematics learning, we are continuing to explore measurement and expanding our understanding of decimals as parts of a whole. 

 

Unit of Inquiry: In our Unit of Inquiry, Where We Are In Place and Time, we are exploring how people connect to place. This week, throughout Reader’s and Writer’s workshop and lessons of Inquiry, we continue to explore Australian culture and begin to unpack Indigenous Cultures. 

 

Uniform Days 

  • Monday and Tuesday: Sports Uniform 
  • Wednesday and Thursday: Formal Uniform 
  • Friday: Optional Uniform 

 

Weekly timetable - 3/4H and 3/4R  

Monday  

Tuesday  

Wednesday  

Thursday  

Friday  

Assembly   

Cluster PE 

Canteen  

PE 

Drama/Dance 

Library 

Japanese 

Canteen  

Band 

STEM  

(odd weeks) 

Chapel  

Choir 

Music 

Golden Time  

Canteen  

PE Uniform 

PE Uniform   

Formal Uniform 

Formal Uniform  

Optional PE Uniform   

School Calendar:    

https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/   

  

May God bless your week, 

Chelsie Riches and Amy Hughes 

 

Chelsie Riches 

Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

 

Amy Hughes 

Hughes.amy@goldengrove.sa.edu.au