Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night.
Maths: Focus on 4 and 5 times tables for week 6
Word Study
Year 3 sound for the week: s = /z/
Year 4 sound for the week: se = s
Grammar focus- Past, present and future tense
| Year 3 – s = /z/ | Year 4 – se = s |
easy busy nose result prison dismal
cosmic positive misery present president raspberry
phase invisible business inquisitive preposition enthusiastic
| goose geese sparse corpse dense horse
increase promise reverse pulse cease collapse
immense disperse converse suspense nonsense lighthouse
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Reader’s and Writer’s workshop: We continue to read our class text, Charlotte's Web. Together, we are exploring the novel and making connections to our unit on systems by discussing the different systems we notice throughout the story. We are learning how to summarize chapters, identify key events, and use our inferencing skills to think deeply about what the text is saying beyond the words on the page.
Alongside this, we have been focusing on nonfiction texts, exploring how they differ from fiction texts and developing strategies to help us extract important information from them.
Mathematics: We are continuing to explore measurement and the metric system. We continue to learn about the system of measurement and have been exploring length, capacity, mass and temperature.
We have had a focus on multiplication and division and explored how we use these mathematical skills in everyday situations. Students have been developing their understanding of groups, sharing, and repeated addition, while making real-life connections to shopping, cooking, sharing items, and solving practical problems.
Unit of Inquiry: Our “How the World Works” unit on systems continues, and we have been exploring what a system is and the different types of systems we use in everyday life. We have been learning about life cycles and investigating how living things grow and change through predictable stages, helping us understand how a life cycle is an example of a system.
Reminders
3/4H Chapel – Friday 31st July, Term 3 Week 2
Weekly timetable - 3/4H and 3/4R
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Assembly Cluster PECanteen | PE Art | Library Japanese Canteen | Band STEM (even weeks) | Chapel Choir Music Golden Time Canteen |
PE Uniform | PE Uniform | Formal Uniform | Formal Uniform | Optional PE Uniform |
Premier’s Reading Challenge: This year in the 3/4 cluster, students will have their own individual records to track the books they read. Students are required to read eight books from the book list and four free choice books. The full list of suitable books for your child can be found online at this link: https://premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au/book-list/
As you read books at home, please feel free to email them to me so I can help your child to add them to their list or alternatively feel free to visit the classroom before or after school to add them to the list with your child. The recording sheets will be kept at school. We will also aim to read some books as a class to help to complete our records.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
May God bless your week,
Chelsie Riches and Amy Hughes
Chelsie Riches
Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Amy Hughes