Grade 3 

Reading: 

This term, our Grade 3 students have started reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. This powerful story—told from the point of view of a gorilla named Ivan—helps us explore important ideas about friendship, empathy, and kindness.

Over the next few weeks, students will:

• Build comprehension skills by using clues and details to understand how characters think and feel.
• Learn new vocabulary and practise making connections between words and meaning.
• Develop inferencing and visualising strategies to help them picture what is happening in the story.

• Discuss big ideas about animal welfare and caring for others, linking to our PROUD values.

   

Later in the unit, we’ll also read non-fiction texts such as “Why Circuses Can Be Harmful for Animals” to build background knowledge and support our upcoming persuasive writing task about banning wild animals in circuses.

We are excited to see students engaging deeply with this beautiful story and making thoughtful connections between fiction and real-world issues.

Maths:

 In Maths, Grade 3 students have been learning about categorical and numerical data and have enjoyed creating survey questions, collecting data and representing this data in a variety of different ways. Students have been able to represent this data in frequency tables, column graphs, pictographs and have experimented with using digital tools to aid the creation of these representations. 

Humanities: 

This week, Grade 3 students began an investigation into how and why people participate in cultural, community and social groups. They will use these skills to survey members of their family which will be used to paint a clearer picture of how and why we participate in society and its constructs.