Year 3 Term 4 Overviews

Year 3 Term 4 Overview

Wominjeka!

Welcome to Term 4! It is hard to believe that our wonderful students are consolidating all of their learning and working towards Year 4. Assessments have been scheduled and it is expected that your child is at school on time every day and ready to learn. It is very difficult to make up assessment tasks that are missed, although we will always make our best effort to do so where possible.

We appreciate the continued support you are giving your children with their nightly reading and diary entries, weekly homework tasks and goal practise.

Learning:

Reading

In Reading this term, students are exploring the novel, Malala: My story of standing up for girls’ rights. This includes using reading skills such as questioning, visualising, inferring and sythesising as they engage with the themes and ideas, characters and events of the inspiring story of Malala Yousafzai. Students will continue to use their reading skills to dig deep into weekly mentor texts, guided reading and reciprocal teaching texts and examples of fiction and non-fiction texts from our school and class libraries. They will build on their capacity as readers, using evidence from texts, to make predictions, clarify words and phrases, ask text related questions and summarise key ideas and messages in the texts they are reading and share their reasoning and opinions with others.

Writing

In Writing, students are building upon their SMART spelling routine, investigating and practising the weekly spelling pattern. Our writing focus this term is poetry and procedures. These text types will build student’s skills using the writing process, (plan, draft, revise, edit and publish). Students continue to use their writer’s notebooks to collect and develop seed ideas and personal interest questions to guide their writing.

Maths

Students are currently investigating chance and data, then we will begin to focus on mass and capacity.  Student will then explore 2D shapes whilst they identify and describe slides and turns found in the natural and built environment. This will then lead on to the students studying 3D shape and angles. These units will be hands on and encourage students to apply their understanding to real-world, problem solving questions. Students will then spend a fortnight revisiting Length and Area, students will once again be applying their knowledge to solve real-world mathematic problems. 

During this term, please remind your students to check their Mathletics app and to aim for 80% accuracy for each task.

Multiplicative thinking will continue to be taught to students throughout the duration of the Term 4, as it is considered ‘a big idea’ in years 3 and 4. Students are engaging in maths games to practise strategies during regular Number Sense Workshops in order to deepen recall of multiplication facts of two, three, five, ten and beyond and their related division facts. Students are continuing to build their Maths reasoning through weekly opportunities to solve real life worded maths problems using efficient and creative mental, written and representational strategies, such as drawing diagrams and tables and making models and writing number sentences (equations). 

Social and Emotional 

Throughout Term 4 our Social and Emotional learning will focus on Investigate forms of gender-based violence that may occur in familiar settings, including physical, verbal and psychological. Students will gain understanding about how to respond to violence or adverse behaviours as a bystander. This learning is mandated and age sensitive.

Students will be investigating the driving question, ‘What do living things need to thrive?’ during our Science focused unit of inquiry. We began this unit with unpacking the guiding question and what this could mean.

Homework

Homework: Weekly homework tasks will be posted on SeeSaw for students complete. This include, reading, writing, maths, Inquiry, SEL and Specialists tasks. Extra DOJO point are rewarded for regular and expected completion of homework on a weekly basis. We thank you for your continuing support with this.

General Reminders:

• Please ensure that your child is at school and ready to learn at 8:40am.

• Please check Compass daily, as these will be the main portals that we (the teachers) and the school will communicate information to you. Compass is also the place where you will be able to access your child’s goals and achievements. 

These will be released every five weeks and will tell you what your child has achieved in Reading, Writing, Numeracy and Inquiry/Social, as well as their next steps (goals). 

• Please make sure that all students have a wide-brimmed hat for Term 4. No hat, no play. 

• Reading goal during this current cycle is for ALL students to: build stamina for reading by continuing regular routines outside of the classroom. Students are expected to read at home at least 4-5 times each week and independently write purposeful responses in their green home reading diary after each home reading session.

Students will transport books from school to home and back each day in their satchels. Each morning, readers will be exchanged from the take home reader boxes in classrooms. Your child's teacher will have a day in which all Green Home Reading Diaries need to be handed in so they can view, record and provide feedback on students’ nightly reading.

•Learning apps, SeeSaw, Wushka, Reading Eggs and Mathletics are being accessed by students. The safest place for login details is in Green Home Reading Diaries and we recommend that families take a pic of their child’s login details and store in phones as a backup. 

Kind Regards,

The 2023 Year 3 Team

3A Meg, 3B Arline, 3C Jaxon, 3D Johnno, 3E Jake, 3F Gaye, 3G Alex, 3H Amber