Middle Years Learning Community
Middle Years - Term 4 - Weeks 5 & 6
Year 3 & 4
In Literacy, we have finalized our text ‘Charlotte’s Web’ and published our Narrative Writing pieces. We are now exploring our next text ‘The One and Only Ivan’. The students are focusing on persuasive letters, the features and structure of these pieces before having an attempt of drafting up their own letters to persuade the audience. During spelling and grammar lessons, we have been focusing on the suffix ‘air’ and ‘are’ with focus words such as ‘repair’ and ‘flare’
In Maths, we have finalised our 3D shapes topic in which our students were looking at classifying, identifying, building, making, constructing, sorting and naming these shapes. In the next few weeks we are focusing on our new topic of ‘Probability’ where we are looking at chance experiments and vocabulary ranging from impossible to certain.
In Religion, we have moved onto our topic of Christmas - Jesse Tree. Students are exploring stories of Abraham and Isaac as key figures in Jesus’ family line. Students will get creative to relate these messages in arts and crafts based activities like creating Christmas Trees with Baubles and other decorations.
In Inquiry, we have been working through our topic, ‘What makes Australia unique’? By exploring Anzac Day and the country's flag history. Students have also entered discussions about their own culture/countries and compared similarities and differences to Australia.
At home you can reinforce learning by:
- Reading independently for 20 minutes each night
- Practicing multiplication tables using flashcards, 3D shapes and probability activities.
- Practicing neat, joined handwriting using horizontal joins between the letters
- Investigate words using the suffix ‘air’ and ‘are’
At home some worksheets and questions to explore are:
Probability Homework – Grade 3/4
1. Ordering familiar events from least to most likely Put these events in order from least likely to most likely:
- You will see a kangaroo on your way to school.
- You will brush your teeth tonight.
- It will snow tomorrow.
2. Ordering chance outcomes from least to most likely A spinner has 4 equal sections: red, blue, green, and yellow. Order these outcomes from least likely to most likely:
- Landing on red
- Landing on blue or green
- Landing on any colour
3. Conducting chance experiments Flip a coin 10 times. Record how many times it lands on heads and how many times it lands on tails. Write your results below.
4. Identifying variations in results of chance experiments Your friend flips a coin 10 times and gets 7 heads. You got 4 heads. Why do you think your results were different, even though you both flipped the same coin?
5. Identifying chance outcome relationships If you roll one dice, how are the chances of getting a 2 and a 5 related? (Hint: Think about whether one is more likely than the other.)
6. Identifying independent chance outcomes If you spin a spinner and then roll a dice, does the result of the spinner change what number you roll? Explain your answer.
7. Conducting chance experiments with more than two outcomes Roll a dice 12 times. Record how many times you get each number (1–6). Which number came up the most? Which came up the least?
8. Identifying variations in results of chance experiments with more than two outcomes Your friend also rolled a dice 12 times but got different results from you. Why do you think your results don’t exactly match, even though you both used a fair dice?