Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Read 15 minutes per night:
How are the words written in your book?
Are they colourful? Are they big? Are they different styles? Why do you think the Author would have done this?
Maths: Play the ‘Subtraction Card Flip’ game or ‘Addition Card Flip’ with someone in your family.
Home Inquiry Question: Can you find a system in your home that needs changing? What could these changes be?
Learning this week:
Literacy:
Spelling: Year 3’s Spelling focus is tch as in catch, matching and kitchen. With a grammar focus on simple tense.
Year 4’s Spelling focus is nch as in bench, lunch and enchantment, with a grammar focus on synonyms.
This week's lists are:
Year 3 - tch | Year 4 – nch |
itch catch fetch witch match hutch
kitchen snatch butcher switch sketch crutches
watching stretcher ketchup wretched scratching stretching | winch drench quench stench hunch lunchbox
scrunch rancher flinch wrench crunchy pinched
launch franchise luncheon haunches henchmen enchantment |
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 our spelling and grammar for the week.
Reader’s Workshop:
We continue to build our reading stamina and develop positive habits as readers.
Mathematics:
Our focus continues to be on number and we are inquiring into place value and continuing using mental computation strategies.
Unit of Inquiry:
This week we continue with our Unit of Inquiry ‘How We Organise Ourselves’, with a focus on ‘Systems’.
Reminder:
Please read and sign your child’s ICT user agreement and return it to your teacher.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Goose (Liesel) Smallfield
Smallfield.liesel@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Emily Gower
Gower.emily@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Jade Fielke