Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read for 15 minutes per night.
Inquiry: Share with your family your significant feature that you have started designing. What social and cultural significance will it have? What materials will you be using?
Mathematics: Continue to revise your multiplication facts.
You may like to use your timetables app on your iPad for this.
Year 3: 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s
Year 4: all facts - start with those that you are least confident with.
You can also create flash cards with unknown facts to practice with.
Learning this week:
Literacy:
Spelling: Year 3 sound focus this week is the ‘ear’ sound. Year 4 sound focus is on the schwa ‘il’.
You might like to write out your spelling words for additional practice:
Year 3 – ‘ear’ | Year 4 – schwa ‘il’ |
deer hear steer peer rear cheer
here clear mere gearbox fearful sneering
interfere dreary disappear smeary appearance atmosphere | civil pupil pencil weevil evil peril
nostril basil April fossil gerbil anvil
utensil tendril lentil council stencil tranquil |
Writer’s Workshop:We have pushed the pause button on our collaborative graphic novel, as we will be deep diving into inquiry this week. Students will design and plan a 3D model to share with you in our celebration of learning.
Reader’s Workshop: We are focusing on stamina reading this week to ensure students have completed their Premier’s Reading Challenge. Please continue to read at home as well.
Mathematics: We will continue exploring fractions and looking at fractions as numbers. We are beginning to add fractions with the same denominator whilst continuing to apply our understanding to real-life situations.
Unit of Inquiry:
We are beginning to design our significant feature that students will then create a 3D model of. They will need to ensure their design has social and cultural significance, whilst considering what materials/resources would be appropriate to construct it in the real world and what supplies, such as pop sticks, cardboard, clay, alfoil etc. they could use in the classroom to replicate them.
Reminders:
Celebration of Learning:
We are excited to invite you to our Celebration of Learning on Wednesday, September 11th, at 6:00 PM. Join us for an evening dedicated to showcasing the incredible work students have accomplished during this unit of inquiry. The event will start with a presentation at 6:00 PM and will conclude at 7:00 PM.
We warmly welcome all parents and caregivers to attend.
We look forward to sharing our students' learning journey with you!
Pupil Free Show Day – The Term 3 Show Day is fast approaching. Please note there is a pupil free day Friday Week 7, September 6th.
Premier’s Reading Challenge – Please keep reading books at home to help your children to fill in their PRC lists. It is a good idea to record these somewhere, so they can remember the details for their PRC sheet. We will also be completing books as a class to help as well.
Special Persons Afternoon –Please note that the date has changed for Special Person’s Afternoon (SPA). It will now be Friday the 20th September (Week 9, Friday).
Teachers on leave -
Mrs. Riches will be away on Wednesday the 4th and Thursday 5th of September, as she is heading interstate for her Graduation!
Mrs Richardson will be on long service leave from Tuesday the 27th of August- Thursday the 12th September. Mrs Fielke will be taking the class on Fridays and Mrs Bishop (our Japanese teacher) will be taking the class on Thursdays.
Please direct all 3/4RF class emails to Mrs Fielke.
Thank you.
Enrolment Update: A message from Endeavor College
Year 7 2027
We are about to commence our Year 7, 2027 enrolment process. A friendly reminder to all Endeavour College families, if you have a child in Year 4 at primary school, please ensure that you have submitted an enrolment application in our new system.
We ask that all sibling enrolment applications are completed by the 27 September 2024.
If you have any questions or are unsure of the enrolment status of your child, please contact Justine Buckley, Enrolments Coordinator enrolments@endeavour.sa.edu.au or phone the College on 83683311.
Thank you.
Justine Buckley
Enrolments Coordinator
Blessings for the week ahead,
Chelsie Riches, Jade Fielke and Cloe Richardson
Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au