Year 3/4

Year 3/4 Cluster News 

 

Home Inquiry 

 Reading: Aim to read for 15 minutes per night. 

 

Inquiry: We are spending a great deal of time researching for our information reports. Discuss with your family the different ways you have been gathering information. Have you just been using the internet? Are there other resources you can come up with? 

 

Mathematics: Continue to revise your multiplication facts.  

You may like to use your timetables app on your iPad for this. 

Year 3: 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s 

Year 4: all facts - start with those that you are least confident with. 

You can also create flash cards with unknown facts to practice with. 

 

Learning this week:   

 

Literacy:  

Spelling: This week, Year 3 students are focusing on the soft g sound. Year 4 students are concentrating on the suffix ‘-ent'. 

You might like to write out your spelling words for additional practice: 

Year 3 – soft g 

Year 4 – suffix <-ent> 

page 

margin 

angel 

digital 

germ 

stage 

giraffe 

engine 

change 

magical 

strange 

energy 

gender 

genetic 

gymnastics 

emergency 

dungeon 

urgency 

 

event 

present 

parent 

spent 

student 

moment 

movement 

affluent 

equipment 

president 

treatment 

independent 

argument 

settlement 

experiment 

government 

environment 

development 

 

 

 

Writer’s and Reader’s Workshop:We are continuing researching and creating our own information texts on a specific animal, learning how to note take, put into our own words, and crediting our sources. 

 

Mathematics: We are using our knowledge of money, budgeting and addition of decimals to begin an exciting party planning investigation! 

 

Unit of Inquiry: We continue to deep dive into our classification unit, specifically exploring how we identify appropriate classifications. 

 

Blessings for the week ahead,  

Chelsie Riches, Jade Fielke and Cloe Richardson 

 

Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Richardson.cloe@goldengrove.sa.edu.au