Year 3/4 Term 1 Overview

Year 3/4 Term One

Welcome to the beginning of the 2022 school year at St John's. We hope this year will be a smooth one filled with lots of exciting learning and fun.

An especially warm welcome to our new students and families too: Piper, Liam, Asees and Emily in 3/4 CB, Yasmine and Luciano in 3/4MB and Lilah and James in 3/4CM

Our team this year consists of Marisa Box, Clorinda Maio, Naomi Ryan and Carmel Barro ably supported by Shannon Wilton, Kim Wilson-Hartick, Sherie Robertson

and Melinda Kerwin.

Food

The Year 3/4 students eat a fruit/vegetable snack each morning around 10am. The fruit or vegetable may be cut up in a small container or whole. Please bring a named drink bottle to school every day for water. Children are reminded that they are not allowed to share food from their lunchboxes at school.

Please do not put sweet treats in their lunchboxes as we encourage healthy eating and use small containers instead of plastic wrappings. Thanks for your support with this.

Religious Education

This year some of our Year 4's will be receiving Eucharist for the first time and some of our Year 3's will be receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time. Therefore our initial focus this term will be on the role of prayer in our lives and the significance of symbols and rituals in prayer experiences. We will also be looking at the parts of the Mass and other liturgical celebrations leading into exploration of the Sacraments of initiation.

With Ash Wednesday falling on March 2, we will also be exploring the season of Lent - our preparation for the celebration of Easter, and the events of Holy Week leading up to this significant time in the Church's year.

Mathematics

In Number and Algebra, we will be focusing on place value and the processes of addition and subtraction. Our Measurement and Geometry topic is looking at length and in Statistics and Probability we will be focusing on data. As always, lessons are preceded by fluency practice and supported by the online Mathletics program.

Literacy

This term our reading comprehension foci will be:

developing vocabulary and identifying unfamiliar words through the use of context
using prefixes and suffixes with commonly occurring Latin and Greek roots
using dictionaries and thesauruses
locating directly stated information
predicting- thinking ahead while reading and anticipating information and events

Teacher focus groups will target individual needs to support the development of fluent and expressive reading.

In writing our focus this term will be on writing to entertain, with a particular focus on the use of description to bring writing to life.

Social & Emotional Learning

In SEL this term our time will be spent aiming to Identify and explore the expression of emotions in social situations and the impact on self and others.

Inquiry

This term for Inquiry we shall be looking at Economics, building an economics and business vocabulary as well as looking at goods and services. We shall be designing our own businesses which will include creating a plan, looking at target markets and budgets.

Home Learning

Daily reading and recording in reading records.
Reading Eggs
Mathletics - Tasks will be set in Mathletics relating to classroom topics to consolidate learning. It is not expected that students would complete all tasks in one sitting.
Additional tasks may be given to support students learning in core subjects

Specialists

Students will have specialist classes on Thursdays (please see timetable below). They will be required to wear their sport uniform on Tuesday and one other day. Students will also need to bring in their library bag and books on their designated library day.