Connect: Year 3

Welcome to another week of Connect! We have some gorgeous pictures from last week, some reminders for the upcoming excursion and some curriculum updates. Please enjoy!

Magical Maths World!

3/4 Hoop-time

For those children that are participating in YEAR 3 & 4 Hooptime, unfortunately it has been postponed until Early Term 3.

A new date will be confirmed at a later time.

If your child can no longer attend you will be refunded.

BRONZE Awards

Congratulations to the following students on receiving their bronze awards this fornight!

3A - Jade Temby, Penelope Roth, Evie Chu & Lincoln Rock

What's happening in the classrooms this fortnight?

Literacy: We have been immersed in the world of explanation texts! We have looked at what makes an explanation texts, their features and purpose. Students have been practising writing facts in their own words which will be important for their inquiry research project in a few weeks time. The students have also been working hard on their understandings of grammar and types of sentences. 

Numeracy: 

This fortnight we have re-visited the concept of time. This can be a tricky concept! We have been proud of the students and their persistence, especially reading analogue time. 

We have also moved onto learning about fractions and data representation. Check out our investigations into fractions below!

Inquiry:  

We are well and truly immersed in our unit 'Blue Marble'. The students have looked at lifecycles of frogs and chickens as well as looking at ecosystems and how plants and animals work together in various environments. We are very excited for our excursion next week which will help inform us and guide us with our animal conservation projects in a few weeks! See the excursion information above!

Wellbeing: 

We have continued with our topic 'Positive Coping'. These lessons have explored the levels of emotions we can feel. This week we have learned about coping mechanisms and things we can do to help us calm from anger. We have looked at an emotions wheel which has a large vocabulary of words to describe our feelings.

An update from the KITCHEN!

The Grade 3's are quickly becoming experts in the kitchen! They take great care to look after the garden, help in the kitchen with cooking and tend to the chickens!

Mother's Day

We would like to say a heart felt thank you for everyone who came to visit our classrooms on Friday last week. It was so lovely to see everyone and we hope you all felt the love (as you should!) on Sunday. Here are some gorgeous pics from the day:

3A - Amy Jung (M-W)- amy.jung@education.vic.gov.au 

& Taryn Clough (Th & F) - taryn.clough@education.vic.gov.au 

3B - Helen Hamill - helen.hamill@education.vic.gov.au

3C- Shanae French - shanae.french@education.vic.gov.au

We hope you all have a lovely fortnight.

Kind Regards,

Amy, Taryn, Helen & Shanae