Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Unit of Inquiry: We would love to hear from families who have or know someone who has skills in painting, sculpture, music, literature, theatre that may be willing to share with our 3/4 students? We are also encouraging students to bring in some family cultural art to support our Harmony day learning and our Unit of inquiry. This may even be shared as a photo of the artefact or art form.
For our ‘How we express ourselves’ unit, we are exploring the messages and ideas behind artwork and how the art connects with the audience. We are improving our understanding of the central idea and lines of inquiry and exploring different techniques and perspectives of different art forms.
Learning this week:
Word Study in Week 9:
Year 3’s will be focusing on the ‘less’ suffix
Year 4’s will be focusing on 'schwa’ sound in words
Year 3- less
| Year 4 - schwa |
useless helpless endless painless flawless worthless fearless speechless bottomless priceless careless breathless flightless weightless
| pasta avoid banana panda comma hexagon magazine embarrass exclamation paragraph guarantee entrance abominable announcement |
In Reader’s and Writer’s workshop classes we will look at written art forms and go through different structures and types of poetry such as songs, psalms, proverbs, cinquain poems, free verse poems and explore features such as rhyme, verse, imagery, onomatopoeia, alliteration.
In Mathematics we will turn our focus to division strategies and engage in learning around features of shapes, symmetry and rotation.
Reminders:
Premier’s Reading Challenge: This year in 3/4 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. Students will be borrowing yellow dot books from the Library. 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 class teachers so we 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.
Year 3/4 Camp – Wirraway
Year 3/4 camp is fast approaching (Term 2, Week 2, May 7th – May 9th). We are looking for expressions of interest for parent volunteers. Please email these through to your child’s classroom teacher by no later than Friday 21st March. Please also ensure all volunteer requirements are up to date. These can be found here:
Parent/Teacher Interviews
Parent/Teacher interviews for 3/4R will take place Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd April and Wednesday 2nd April and Thursday 3rd April for 3/4NS in Week 10.
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