Year 3/4 News

Year 3/4 have well and truly settled into the new school year. Our first excursion to Bundoora Park Farm was a huge success, and students thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Homework has already been handed in for the first time, and we loved seeing the effort and care put into each task. Our classroom routines are now well established, with students remembering to bring their lunchboxes each morning and, of course, taking them home again at the end of the day. It has been a fantastic start to the year!

Term 1 Key Dates:

13th March: Homework due (you can hand it in early!)

11 – 20th March: Yr 3 NAPLAN period

20th March: La Vuelta de Newlands -dress up your bike!

30th March: School Photos

2nd April: Last day of Term 1 ​

English Zone

In reading, we are now halfway through Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White. Our excursion to Bundoora Park Farm helped students to better imagine life on a farm, making the setting and events in the story feel more real and meaningful. As students read and discuss each chapter, they are developing their literal comprehension skills by identifying key details from the text, as well as strengthening their inferential comprehension skills by reading between the lines and thinking more deeply about the characters and their actions.

In Writing, students have been creating fantastic narrative stories that include well-developed characters, clear settings, interesting problems, actions and conclusions. Students have also been describing the emotions their characters are feeling to make their stories more engaging for the reader. Students are becoming more confident in structuring their work by remembering to leave a line between paragraphs to clearly show the organisation of their ideas. They have also been practising how to use correct punctuation in dialogue, including quotation marks and commas, to make conversations in their stories clear and accurate.

In Maths, students have been tackling worded problems with growing confidence. By carefully reading each problem and identifying the important information, they are learning how to decide what steps are needed to work out a solution. Students have also been practising how to find and interpret information presented in tables, graphs and written text, helping them to apply their mathematical thinking in a variety of ways.

Spanish Zone

In Literacy, students have been creating amazing narrative stories that include characters, settings, problems and emotions so far. They have been working on describing with adjectives and connectors and using their dictionaries, laptops and booklets to help them with vocabulary.  Students are becoming more confident in structuring their work by going through their checklists and making sure their paragraph's structure is the right one. They have also been practising pronouns, coordinated connectors and present simple in grammar, writing sentences. 

In Maths, students have been in addition and subtraction of numbers, part part whole and fact families. They have also been partitioning numbers in their extended ones. They have been practicing step by step how to identify place values in each number of 2, 3 and 4 digits.