Year 3/4 Team News

Hello Year  3/4 families,   

We are looking forward to some fun events coming up over the next few weeks with our fabulous 3/4 Willy Kids.

Coming Up Next Week: Melbourne Museum Excursion.

As part of the Grades 3/4 Inquiry Unit on Geography, students will be learning about the  major geographical divisions of the world including continents, oceans and hemispheres as well as vegetation and the main climatic types in Australia.To enhance this learning the Grade 3/4s will be visiting the Melbourne Museum’s new workshop and exhibition titled ‘Climate and Environmental Change’ and ‘Our Wondrous Planet’ on Tuesday 18th November (3/4G & 3/4M) and Thursday 20th November (3/4T, 3/4S & 3/4P). 

You are now able to give consent and pay for this event on COMPASS. Thank you to those who have already done so.

**Last week a note was sent out via COMPASS asking for parent helpers to join us for the day. Please see your class teacher if you can come along.

Ways To Tell A Story – Term 4 Literacy Project: 

A note came home last week about an exciting learning task the students will be participating in. To conclude our literacy program for 2025, students will be exploring a unit called “Ways to Tell a Story.” Working in pairs, students will re-write a classic fairy tale with their own creative twist and voice. Throughout the unit, they will: 

• Read for inspiration and plan their story together
• Follow the writing process to draft, revise and publish
• Create a storyboard of their key elements
• Design and build backdrops using a range of materials
• Sculpt 3D characters from clay
• Use the Stop Motion app to produce their own Claymation film

Please ensure your child has the Stop Motion Studio app downloaded on their iPad by the start of Week 7 (Next week, November 17).The basic version is free. Families are welcome to purchase the paid version (Stop Motion Studio Pro) if they wish — it includes extra features such as green-screen backgrounds and more detailed editing options.

Tomorrow is Seaside Fair Lucky Jars - Casual Clothes Day

Bring in your jars filled with goodies and wear casual clothes.

Reminders

• Students are now required to wear a wide rimmed school hat whilst outdoors.
• Students are still required to bring a filled water bottle each day.
• Please ensure that iPads from home are fully charged and brought to school every day. 

Fortnightly Curriculum Focus:

Literacy: Students will work in groups to re-write a fairy tale narrative with VOICE. They will read for inspiration and collaboratively write as a team following the writing process to publish their piece. They will make a storyboard of their key elements, creating backdrops using a variety of textiles, clay to make 3D characters and use Stop Motion to produce a Claymation version of the story. Students will then have opportunities to publish their creation in more ways such as recording it as a Pod Cast, creating a comic using Comic Life and publishing the narrative as a Digi Book on Pages.

Numeracy:  Location- We will be learning how to use directional language to create routes, describe routes using landmarks, pathways and directions, and using grid references to find plots on a map. We will be learning to read and interpret points on a Cartesian coordinate system and how to use all 4 quadrants. We will be learning how to give coordinates, plot points on a Cartesian plane and find the coordinates of a given point.

Inquiry: Geography ‘What in the World is Worth Protecting’. We will be learning about the natural and ancient wonders of the world and where they are located. Students will choose one of these that they would like to protect and complete a research project about it.

Respectful Relationships: Help Seeking.  Students will describe why it is important to seek help from an adult for serious problems. Students will identify which problems are serious enough to mean that it is important to seek help from an adult. How do we know when a problem is/or is getting too large to manage alone? If the problem is too large, what can the person do? (Seek help from someone they trust). 

Warm regards, 

The Year 3/4 team – Rebecca Givogue & Mary Colangelo (3/4G), Katja Morris (3/4M), Grace Pante & Steven Puhar (3/4P), Alison Standish (3/4S) & Hayley Thibou (3/4T)