Term 4, 2022

Literacy

This Term, Year 3 students will continue to work on their SMART Spelling looking at various plural rules, adding suffixes to words and graphs and digraphs.

During our Guided reading sessions, the students will continue to work on various comprehension strategies such as rereading and using their prior knowledge to infer meaning. The students will read fiction and non-fiction books during Guided reading sessions and look at the features of each text type. They will continue to complete their weekly grammar and comprehension activities on Literacy Planet to support their reading and writing.

During our writing sessions, we will build on our knowledge of Information reports looking at the Traits of organisation and word choice. We will also be covering Alliteration and various poetry styles such as Haiku. The student’s Writer’s notebook will continue to be a safe place for the students to experiment with various writing styles and build an endless list of writing ideas.

During handwriting sessions, the focus will continue to be on joined writing and letter formation in preparation for students obtaining their Joining Licence.

Speaking & Listening

This Term the students are focusing on preparing an oral presentation on an endangered species of their choice, which they will deliver to the rest of the class to share the story of their chosen animal. The students will prepare a PowerPoint to enhance their presentation.

Numeracy

Number and Algebra

During Term 4, the students will continue to focus on and revise the four processes. Activities will include number sense games, Matharoo (worded problems), automatic response and formal practice of strategies using larger numbers. For example vertical addition.

Measurement and Geometry

During Term 4 we will focus on mapping. The students will take a local walk to the Concourse Shopping Centre in Beaumaris as a lead in to mapping. The students will develop their understanding of coordinates and scale. The students will also revise directional language such as left and right and north, south, east and west.

Statistics and Probability

The students will learn a variety of ways to display information in the form of graphs. They will learn to create and analyse bar graphs, line graphs and column graphs. They will be given the opportunity to formulate their own questions and collect data to display in a graph of their choice. They will draw graphs in their Maths books and use excel to create graphs on the laptops.

In Term 4 the students will also explore the language of chance. They will play games such as ‘Greedy Pig’ and ‘Heads and Tails’ to further illustrate the concept.