Classroom News
Grade 3 & 4

Term 3, Week 2

Welcome back to all of our Year 3 and 4 students and their families! We have hit the ground running this term with our learning and are so impressed with the settled and enthusiastic nature with which students have returned to school.

Please be aware of emails, Compass notifications and reminders throughout the term. We have a lot of exciting upcoming events so we really appreciate the support!

English

In Reading this term, we are using rich mentor texts linked in with our Inquiry unit. We will continue to focus on the Big 6 component of Comprehension throughout the term, building on this learning from Semester 1. Some of the particular areas of focus will be text and picture features for effect, inferring, evaluating and identifying themes. During conferences and mini lessons, we will also continue to develop fluency, oral language and vocabulary skills.

In Writing this term, we will begin the term looking at the text genre poetry. There will be a big focus on the 6+1 Trait of Word Choice, Ideas and Organisation throughout this unit. Later in the term we will also be developing our skills when writing biographies; also continued to be underpinned by each of the 6+1 Traits of Writing. Students will continue to exercise choice during Writers Workshop in the text types and topics they are writing about, but will also work towards their individual learning goals through conferences and mini lessons.

Maths

We will begin our term with a multiplication and division unit in Years 3 and 4. There is a big focus on multiplicative thinking at this level in the Victorian Curriculum and students will be focusing on:

recalling multiplication facts for twos, threes, fours, fives and tens
using a range of problem solving strategies solve every day problems involving single-digit multiplication and division
developing proficiency with multiplication facts for tens (× 10) and related division facts to multiply and divide numbers efficiently
investigating multiplication facts and using these to explore simple patterns

Throughout the term we will also be looking at Measurement areas such as angles, length and time.

Inquiry

Our Inquiry unit in Term 3 will be focusing on the History curriculum, with our focus question being “Who Lived Here First?”. We will specifically be looking at describing the significant events and the experiences and perspectives of people in Australia between 1750 and 1800.

Some of the key historical skills we will be building in addition to this knowledge is the ability to ask a range of historical questions to identify evidence of the experiences of people in the past, describe perspectives of people from the past based on evidence from primary sources and describe the causes and consequences of change.

Stay tuned for details on how students will present their learning at the end of this term!

Reminders

Encourage your child to read 30 minutes every night as part of their regular routine and record this in their diaries each day
7 August - BPS House Athletics
13-15 August - Year 4 Anglesea Camp
14 August - Science Day
27 August - Book Fun Day
29 August - District Athletics (for those that qualify)
4 September - Fathers Day Stall
19 August - Footy Colours Day
19 August - Last day of Term 3 (2:30pm finish)

Bring on another exciting term!