Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read for 15 minutes per night.
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 – keep revising all facts
You can also create flash cards with unknown facts to practice with.
Learning this week:
Literacy and Reader’s Workshop:
We will begin to explore how to design and write an experiment that investigates forces. We will focus on formulating a hypothesis, identifying variables and writing detailed procedural steps to conduct our experiments.
We are continuing to use our knowledge of money, budgeting and addition of decimals to plan an exciting party planning investigation!
Unit of Inquiry and Mathematics:
We are delving into a big week exploring forces, where students will be designing and creating their own balloon vehicles. We will be testing how far they do under different conditions and using mathematical knowledge to communicate our findings.
Swimming Week – Swimming week is here!
Things to remember to pack:
-Appropriate swimwear that covers their shoulders
-Towel
-Goggles
-Plastic bag/wet bag for wet clothes
-Spare underwear and socks
-long hair to be tied back (ideally braided for girls) to avoid those pesky after swim knots.
-It is also a good idea to pack some additional food in your child’s lunch box on these days, as swimming makes them extra hungry.
Movie day: Friday Week 4
A friendly reminder to return the electronic permission slips for our movie screening Friday afternoon. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Incursion
As part of our upcoming Uniqueness unit, we have an incursion the morning of Thursday week 5 (14th November) with Marra Dreaming. This will involve a visit from 2 Indigenous Artists, and they will run a basket weaving, painting and a joint canvas workshop with us, as well as bring some artefacts out for us to look at.
Pupil Free Day – Term 4- Please note that Friday Week 5 (15th November) is a Pupil Free Day.
Carols Evening – The annual schools carols evening is Friday Week 7 (29th November). Please save the date, with more information to come.
Blessings for the week ahead,
Chelsie Riches, Jade Fielke and Cloe Richardson
Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au