St. Brendan's Primary School Newsletter

Middle Years Learning Community

Middle Years - Term 3 - Weeks 7 & 8 

Year 3 & 4 

Literacy

In Literacy, we have been continuing on with our text ‘Finding our Heart’ by Thomas Mayo. The students have still been moving through the process of a personal response piece, practicing their summarising also. During spelling and grammar lessons, we have been focusing on prefixes ‘re’ and ‘pre’. Example focus words include rebuild, rewrite, premix, prepaid.

Maths

In Maths, we have been working hard on our topic of ‘decimals’. We have been particularly looking at tenths, hundredths, ordering, renaming, partitioning and applying decimals to real life contexts. The children have been working hard on what is a somewhat challenging topic.

Religion

In Religion, we have introduced a new topic of creation. We have been focusing on what we are grateful for in God’s creation such as the land, water, animals and world in general.

Inquiry

In Inquiry, we have been working through our topic, ‘What Makes Us Healthy?’ the students are now finalizing this topic by creating a brochure type project which focuses on the knowledge they have gained from the past 6 weeks on these topics.

 

At home you can reinforce learning by: 

  • Reading independently for 20 minutes each night 
  • Practicing multiplication tables using flashcards 
  • Practicing neat, joined handwriting using horizontal joins between the letters  
  • Investigate words using the prefix ‘re’ and ‘pre’ EG. Review + Preview

 

At home some worksheets and questions to explore are: 

Decimals Homework – Grade 3/4

  1. Tenths Write 0.7 in words. What fraction does it represent?

 

 

  1. Tenths on a Number Line Circle 0.4 on this number line: 0 ———— 0.1 ———— 0.2 ———— 0.3 ———— 0.4 ———— 0.5 ———— 0.6 ———— 0.7 ———— 0.8 ———— 0.9 ———— 1.0

 

  1. Hundredths Write thirty-five hundredths in decimal form.

 

 

  1. Ordering Order these decimals from smallest to largest: 0.48, 0.4, 0.53, 0.5

 

 

  1. Expanded Form Write 3.47 in standard expanded form (e.g., 3 + … + …). Then write it in non-standard expanded form (e.g., 2 + 1 + …).

 

 

  1. Real-Life Context A chocolate bar costs $2.35 and a drink costs $1.50. How much will it cost to buy both?