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Year 3/4 - Newsletter

Dear Parents & Carers,

 

Student Recognition Award

Thank you to all the students who created entries for our digital certificate competition. We were amazed by the creative, colourful designs. The winning design for our Semester 2 award was created by Aston and Remy from 3/4F!

 

What's happened in 3/4 this fortnight?

English

During our Structured Literacy Daily Review sessions, we have learned the rules for when ‘c’ and ‘g’ make their hard and soft sounds, and we’ve studied ‘super’ as a prefix. Learning to differentiate between simple, compound and complex sentences has been the feature of our Grammar lessons. 

 

We have continued reading Storm Boy by Colin Thiele, and noting his use of various literary devices including similes, metaphors and personification.

 

Also, we have started writing an information report text on the Coorong in South Australia (which is the setting of Storm Boy). We followed the model of writing our introduction paragraph with a general statement, specific statement and thesis statement, and now we are writing the first body paragraph.

 

Maths 

As we explore multiplicative thinking, we have explored the connections between repeated addition and multiplication, and repeated subtraction and division. This week, our content has included fact families and arrays (groups of items arranged into rows and columns). Our classes went outside to gather nature items and then arrange them into arrays before writing the related multiplication and division facts.

 

This term, our Maths sessions start with Daily 5 - five questions reviewing a variety of previously taught concepts. We are also providing regular practice of time tables facts on timestables.com in order to increase automatic recall. 

 

Inquiry

As we continue our From Farm to Fashion… From Farm to Plate… unit, we have explored the production processes involved in growing through to making a pair of jeans, and we have researched a region of Australia where major food or fiber plants and animals are grown or bred.

 

Edendale Farm Excursion:

On Thursday 11th and Friday 12th of September all Year 3 and 4 students will be walking across to Edendale Farm for an excursion. Please check COMPASS for all the event details, and to consent / pay for your child’s attendance. Please contact the office if you need any assistance with this. 

 

We would also like some parent helpers from each class for this excursion. If you can attend the excursion, please contact your child’s classroom teacher.

 

We are split across the two days as follows:

Thursday 11th September:3/4D (Natasha Soundy and Alicia Moore)3/4E (Claire Amsellem)3/4F (Ari Levacic) Friday 12th September:3/4A (Tamara Pennycook and Janine Tucker)3/4B (Alicia Moore and Kristy Ayres)3/4C (Matthew Georges)

 

Inquiry Resource request:

We are asking that students begin collecting and keeping any shoe size cardboard boxes or pieces of cardboard. We will be using these for our upcoming Design and Technology lessons where we will be designing and constructing nesting and resting homes for our local wildlife. Please leave boxes at home until Week 7 (Monday 1st September).

 

Friendology/Wellbeing 

Within our Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships content, we are exploring positive coping strategies this term. Coping when we feel strong emotions and taming angry feelings have been recent topics discussed during our sessions.  

 

Reminders

Cold & Flu Season

With the cold and flu season upon us, please be mindful of other children and if your child is unwell please provide them with a rest period at home.

 

Homework - weekly homework continues to consist of:

  • Minimum 4 nights reading with at least 80 minutes per week recorded in school diary (Book title, pages read, minutes read).
  • Diary is to be brought to school each Friday signed by parents.
  • Although not compulsory, we encourage your child to complete assigned Mathletics tasks.

 

Things to Remember:

  • 11 – 15th August - National Bullying No Way Week
  • Tuesday 19th August - Book Day Celebration
  • Monday 1st September - please bring in your shoe sized cardboard box or cardboard pieces for Inquiry
  • Thursday 11th September - R U OK?  Day
  • Thursday 11th September - Edendale Farm Excursion for 3/4D, E and F 
  • Friday 12th September - Edendale Farm Excursion 3/4A, B and C
  • Thursday 18th September - Footy Day
  • Friday 19th September - Last Day of Term 3

 

Student Awards

Look out for your class’ individual email Friday afternoon for the Student of the Week & Student Recognition Award shoutouts.

 

Have a great weekend,The Level 3/4 Team.