WELCOME BACK!!!

Welcome to Term 4. What an exciting term we have coming up at school!

A new term brings a new Inquiry topic! In term four we will be exploring ‘Celebrations’ in its many different and fascinating forms. We will be focusing on:

Celebrations from the past, Australian Celebrations and Celebrations and commemorations from around the world.

Literacy: This term in Literacy, we will focus on:

Reading:

Using individual book boxes to help students work on their individual reading goals as well as to develop their independence. Learning techniques to support researching factual information such as skimming and scanning,

llooking at how to research effectively using technology (search engines, trustworthy websites); documenting and comparing information from at least three different sources

unpacking the structure and features of narrative and poetry texts.

Writing:

We begin the term by setting a new SMART goal relating to an aspect of the writing process. This can be to do with spelling; editing; use of punctuation; an element of text such as introductions or connectives or a goal relating to genre

In the first few weeks, we will be revising and developing understanding about writing narrative/Dream time stories. This links in with our main topic for the term: Celebrations.

After the focus on narrative texts, we will turn our attention to poetry.

Literacy: This term in Literacy, we will focus on:

Reading:

Using individual book boxes to help students work on their individual reading goals as well as to develop their independence. Learning techniques to support researching factual information such as skimming and scanning,

llooking at how to research effectively using technology (search engines, trustworthy websites); documenting and comparing information from at least three different sources

unpacking the structure and features of narrative and poetry texts.

Writing:

We begin the term by setting a new SMART goal relating to an aspect of the writing process. This can be to do with spelling; editing; use of punctuation; an element of text such as introductions or connectives or a goal relating to genre

In the first few weeks, we will be revising and developing understanding about writing narrative/Dream time stories. This links in with our main topic for the term: Celebrations.

After the focus on narrative texts, we will turn our attention to poetry.

Spelling

Spelling will continue to look at phonemes (specific sounds in words), suffixes, prefixes and etymology (the study of words themselves and word meaning).

How can I help at home?

Keep up the daily reading at home

Borrow information books about Celebrations around the world.

Draw your child’s attention to current celebrations happening around the world that have been mentioned in the news or newspapers (kidsnews.com)

Mathematics: This term in Mathematics, we will focus on:

We continue with Fractions- Comparing and ordering fractions, counting by fractions, identifying equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions, converting between fractions and decimals. We then work on our money unit

Shape, Geometric Reasoning-

Identifying and measuring and comparing angles.

Homework

The purpose of the weekly homework tasks is to encourage independence, good time management skills, responsibility and a better preparedness for high school.

Reading: Please encourage and support your child with daily reading. Please reach out to your child’s teacher if you have any questions.

DREAMTIME STORIES IN grade 3/4

This week in reading and writing we have been looking at dreamtime stories. We have been looking at why dreamtime stories exist and how they are an important part of our countries history. We have learned how kangaroos and wombats were originally human friends and we found out how and why specific birds have colours and why others may not. We are looking forward to hearing more dreamtime stories and using our creative thinking and literacy skills to develop our own dreamtime stories.

School Council President

The Lion King JR