Year 3 Term 2 Overviews. 

Wominjeka!

Welcome back to a busy and exciting term. The term began with re-establishing the routines and expectations for Year 3 students, as well as building on a sense of community in each classroom. We are continuing to work together to develop strong relationships with your child to understand and support their social, emotional and academic learning strengths and needs. We appreciate the support you are giving your children with their nightly reading and diary entries.

Our learning this term:

In Reading, students are exploring non-fiction text structure and how to extract information from the text’s features. These features include the main idea, supporting detail, vocabulary and graphics. Students will use these to activate their prior knowledge and identify the new information they’ve learnt. They will have opportunities to dig deep into weekly mentor texts, guided reading and reciprocal teaching texts and examples of non-fiction texts from our school and class libraries. They will be writing a range of information texts, including an autobiography and information report. These will build their skills using the writing process, (plan, draft, revise, edit and publish). Students are using their writer’s notebooks to collect and develop seed ideas and research questions to guide their writing.

In Maths, students are developing their understanding how addition and subtraction relate. We have been exploring this through number bonds and fact families. Students will investigate by creating equations to show how addition and subtraction are the inverse of one another. Students will also explore the properties of odd and even numbers and how to use them. They will develop efficient mental strategies to solve addition and subtraction. Students will be exploring the place value of up to 5 digit numbers. Through this they will recognise, order, represent these numbers. With this knowledge, students will learn how to recognise the relationship between dollars and cents and represent money in different ways. Students will be estimating and comparing duration of events using formal units of time. They will build on their knowledge of reading analog and digital clocks to the nearest minute. Year 3’s will begin to use formal units to measure length, mass and capacity. They will identify the appropriate units of measurement for different objects. Students will then explore the features of 3D shapes and how these key features make them suitable for their use.

Multiplicative thinking is continuing to be taught to students throughout the duration of the year as it is considered ‘a big idea’ in years 3 and 4. They are engaging in maths games to practise strategies during regular Number Sense Workshops in order to deepen recall of multiplication facts of two, three, five, ten and beyond and their related division facts. Students are continuing to build their Maths reasoning through weekly opportunities to solve real life worded maths problems using efficient and creative mental, written and representational strategies, such as drawing diagrams and tables and making models and writing number sentences (equations). 

Throughout Term 2 our Social and Emotional learning will focus on understanding the value of a range of perspectives and learning a variety of strategies and skills for effectively solving problems with their peers. Students will develop an understanding that there can be more than one resolution to a conflict and how to adapt when one approach is unsuccessful. Year 3’s will identify factors that foster positive relationships and what respect looks like for a range of people.

Our Unit of Inquiry this term is around the statement “Nature operates in predictable and rhythmic patterns that demonstrate the inherent cycles of life.” We will be exploring the connection between plants, humans and animals and compare how their life cycles are similar and different. They will discover that each part of the life cycle has a purpose.

This learning connects with our excursion to the Melbourne Museum in Week 7.

Payment and consent for the excursion will be due on Friday May 23, 2025. More information will be provided closer to the date.

Year 3 A,B,F,G,I - Wednesday 4th June

Year 3 C,D,E,H,J - Thursday 5th June

General Reminders:

• Please ensure that your child is at school and ready to learn at 8:35am.
• Please check Compass daily, as this will be the main portal that we (the teachers) and the school will use to communicate information to you. 

Students will transport books from school to home and back each day in their satchels. Each morning, readers will be exchanged from the take-home reader boxes in classrooms. Your child's teacher will have a day when all Green Home Reading Diaries need to be handed in so they can view, record, and provide feedback on students’ nightly reading.

Learning apps, Wushka, IXL and Google Classroom are being accessed by students. The safest place for login details is in Green Home Reading Diaries, and we recommend that families take a pic of their child’s login details and store them on phones as a backup.