3/4 Mainstream 

It has been great to meet with so many parents and carers this week and discuss all the amazing things that the 3/4s are doing. We thank you for making the time to meet with us and celebrate your wonderful learners.

We have well and truly settled into the year and it has been a busy and productive term. Last week we celebrated NAIDOC Day where students were able to learn about First Nations cultures and engage in a number of activities including Cooking, Marngrook and Art.

In Reading we continue to work through Reciprocal Reading roles focusing on building Predicting and Clarifying skills. 

We have started working on a couple of persuasive texts as a class. 3/4A - Bulen Bulens are writing a text on why Education should be Free while 3/4B - Darebins are persuading us Why Every Class Should Have a Pet.

We have concluded our unit on Time with students making great progress with using analogue clocks to tell the time and calculating elapsed time. Encourage them to keep practising at home and use analogue clocks and watches where possible to consolidate this skill. We will next look at Angles - using clock hands to illustrate that angles and measure of turn and as the clock hands turn, they create different sized angles. After this we will begin a unit on Multiplication and Division, practising times tables at home will greatly support the learning in this area. A times tables poster and some practice activities were handed out at interviews. If you would like a copy, please contact your class teacher. 

For our Integrated Unit, we have begun to look at the differences between weather and climate. We completed a scavenger hunt and answered questions relating to these. Next we will look deeper at the different climate zones that exist around the world. 

Our school gardening program officially kicked off this week with an exciting focus on the art of composting! Students dove straight into action, gathering dry leaves from around the school grounds and combining them with wet ingredients to "cook up" rich, nutrient-dense compost for our garden beds. Everyone got their hands dirty tackling a variety of essential jobs - from moving and raking mulch to collecting soil, spinning the compost bins and clearing out weeds. There is fantastic energy in the group as our young gardeners get ready to watch their hard work bloom!