Level 3 & 4 Wonga Weekly

🌿 WEEK SEVEN LEARNING

CBL

The Big Idea for Term Four is CURIOSITY. We will explore curiosity through the lens of exploration of geography and impacts on natural life. This week we will continue looking at the migration journeys of animals, and the features and the environmental issues that affect them and how they respond.

At home you can: have a discussion about animals that migrate and the reasons why, or if you have any family members who have immigrated.

📚 Literacy

Phonics

During our daily phonics sessions, students are being explicitly taught how to read and spell a range of sounds. In Grade 3, we are studying revisiting final syllables sion and tion. Grade 4s will be looking at the latin root of vid, vis, prefixes, and soft c and g rules. 

At home you can: Ask your child about the spelling sounds they are covering this week. List some words for each spelling pattern.

Reading and Writing

Our mentor text for Term Four is 'The One and Only Ivan'. We are using this text to build vocabulary, discuss literary themes, and as a springboard for writing creatively. For writing we will review the structure of 'Plot Mountain' and picture prompts and how to plan, draft and publish a narrative  text, focusing on descriptive writing and figurative language to enhance our stories.

What you can do at home: 

You can read 'The One and Only Ivan' with your child via Showbie in the Level 3/4 'Reading' folder. Encourage your child to set aside time to read every night, include time to read aloud and or record themselves reading on their iPad. 

Ask your child to read their persuade text to you and discuss what literary devices they have used in this to enhance their writing.

🎭  In weeks 8 and 9 students will be participating in Readers Theatre as well as creating their own performances. We will be making puppets and would be grateful if children could bring in some materials to make puppets from. Materials might include; old socks, cardboard, googly eyes, brown paper bags, wool, scrap material etc.

🎲 Maths

This week we will revisit addition and subtraction along with money. We will explore number facts, unpacking worded problems using the bar model and explore a range of strategies and vocabulary used in worded problems.

What you can do at home:

Have a look on Mathletics in the games section to find 'Rainforest Maths'. Scroll down to addition and subtraction to further develop your childs understanding.

You can support your child to practice their times tables. In Grade Three, our focus is on 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s. In Grade Four we continue to strengthen these as well as building in 4s, 6s, 7s, 8s and 9s.

Grade 4 Camp:

Reminder that the deposit is now overdue, please ensure this is paid ASAP and all permissions have been completed online via Sentral.

📆 Dates to remember 

Monday  November 25th - Friday 29th - Level 3&4 Swimming Program

Wednesday December 11th - Friday 13th - Grade 4 Camp @ The Y Discovery Camp Mount Evelyn.

🌿 REMINDERS

🌱 Students are encouraged to bring their iPads fully charged each day

🌱 We are quickly running out of tissues and wipes, we would accept any donations with gratitude

🌱If you can help out for SAKG, please check your emails for the volunteer link.

🌞 Hats On

As of September 1st, we would like to remind you that our school adheres to the SunSmart policy set by the Victorian Government. All students are required to wear a broad-brimmed hat when outdoors from the 1st September when UV levels are typically higher.

We are noticing a lot of students without hats. Please check with your child if they have a hat at home and label your hats so they don't get lost!

Thank you for your support in keeping our school community safe and sun-smart.