Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Home inquiry: We are nearly halfway through our class text, The Star of Deltora: Shadows of the Master. We would love for you to discuss this with your child; what is the story about? Who are the main characters? What is happening in the text so far?
Learning this week:
Word Study:
| Year 3 – i for ie | Year 4 – ically |
icy icon diet child idea wild behind spider pirate diary Viking horizon phial quiet gigantic diagonal microphone hibernate | artistically critically logically quizzically basically vertically historically politically romantically technically typically chaotically alphabetically traumatically majestically rhythmically sarcastically catastrophically |
Christian Studies: Exploring Christian Beliefs, focusing on the Trinity and how this informs a Christian view of the world. We will be focusing on who is God the Holy Spirit in closer detail.
Unit of Inquiry: As part of our ‘Who we are’ unit of inquiry we are continuing to explore mindfulness strategies through the Mindup Program. This assists student’s emotional wellbeing and social skills and develop their understandings of how the brain operates.
For our current How We Organise Ourselves inquiry unit on Trade and Transport, we continue to explore processes involving trade and transport locally and globally. As part of our learning in mathematics we are also focusing on money. Students learn to represent money values and calculate change for transactions using addition, subtraction and multiplication. Classes will also look at solving problems with money and develop understandings of financial literacy to plan a trade trip using a budget and look at fair trade and profit.
Reminders and information:
Parent Request: We are optimistically seeking expertise from any families or parents involved in trade or transport that may have resources or time to share with our classes about their role and responsibilities within this sector.
Celebration of Learning: This term the year 3 & 4 students will be holding their celebration of learning on Tuesday 16th September, beginning at 6pm with a presentation. We look forward to you joining us for this and sharing in your child's learning.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
May God bless your week,
Chelsie Riches, James Salisbury and Lauren Neumann
Chelsie Riches
Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
James Salisbury
Salisbury.james@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Lauren Neumann