Year 3/4

Year 3/4 Cluster News 

 

Home Inquiry: 

 

Reading: Read for 15 minutes per night: 

Teach someone how to play “find the noun or find the verb” game with someone in your family. You might need to remind them what a noun and a verb are.  

Noun: A person, place or thing. 

Verb: An action word - doing, thinking or feeling 

Find nouns and verbs in your book. 

 

Maths: Practice your 5x tables this week. 

 

Home Inquiry Question: What local council do you live in and what do they do to help your household function? 

 

Learning this week:   

 

Literacy:  

Spelling:  

Year 3’s Spelling focus is the “ue” sound, with a grammar focus on speech marks 

Year 4’s Spelling focus is  th, ch, sh sounds, with a grammar focus on subject/object of sent. 

 

 

Year 3: u = ue 

unit  

tuna 

duet 

menu 

tulip 

emu 

 

human 

music 

usual 

computer 

unicorn 

unicycle 

 

peculiar 

cucumber 

unique 

universe 

communicate 

solution 

Year 4: th, ch, sh 

smooth 

famish 

thorny 

loathing 

backlash 

cheerless 

 

benchmark 

archway 

bashful 

faithful 

outlandish 

parchment 

 

gibberish 

mythical 

achieve 

anchovy 

squashed 

betrothed 

 

Writer’s Workshop: We will continue looking at the characteristics and habits of writers, through bookmaking and writing in our writers' notebooks, with a focus on parts of speech and grammar to assist with NAPLAN. 

 

Reader’s Workshop: We continue to build our reading stamina and develop positive habits as readers, with a focus on parts of speech to assist with NAPLAN. 

 

Mathematics: This week in Mathematics we are looking at all the strands of Maths in worded and multiple-choice questions in preparation for NAPLAN.  

 

Unit of Inquiry: This week we continue with our Unit of Inquiry ‘How We Organise Ourselves’, with a focus on ‘Systems’, with a focus on local council. 

 

Reminders: 

Please return your child's consent form for our camp excursion. 

 

Blessings for the week ahead,  

 

Goose Smallfield, Emily Gower and Jade Fielke 

Smallfield.liesel@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Gower.emily@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au