Year Three

Dear Year Three Community,

Over the past fortnight, we’ve been engaging in many different learning opportunities. On November 11th, we participated in a whole school assembly and made a wreath, where we acknowledged the sacrifice of those who served in World War 1. We also had the chance to celebrate the amazing work done by the Year Threes in helping our school community, as well as the local ecosystems by ensuring the yard was free of rubbish. The cohort engaged in a friendly game of soccer, playing against the Year Three teachers.  

Reading

In Reading, students have been developing the skills to distinguish between what is a fact and what is an opinion. They have engaged in tasks that allow them to differentiate between the two, and once confident of their characteristics, moving to identify these in various texts and then using them in our writing unit.  Students have also spent some time refreshing their comprehension skills, where groups used information reports to visualise, question and summarise to demonstrate their understanding of texts. 

Writing

In Writing, students have been continuing to explore how to persuade others of ideas and opinions. Firstly, students looked at being able to identify the topic of a persuasive piece, then the author’s opinion, followed by the reasons/arguments supporting the opinion. They also focused on breaking down each part of a persuasive text, using use thinking skills to implement the correct structure in their own persuasive writing. 

Maths

In Maths, students have continued to engage in learning about measurement, focusing on mass, volume, capacity, area, and perimeter to consolidate understandings. Through both explicit learning and open questions, students used their thinking and communication skills to demonstrate their understanding of ordering objects from shortest to longest, lightest to heaviest and which holds the least to which holds the most. They have been furthering their understandings by experimenting with halves and using various operations to calculate totals of measurements. 

Inquiry

In Inquiry, students have been exploring how parts of an ecosystem need each other to survive. They explored abiotic and biotic components in vermicompost, and the benefits this provides to the soil, and then to the crops that use the soil.  Next, they looked at the “web of life” to build understanding of the relationship between plants and animals, becoming part of the web to see and reflect upon how an ecosystem could be affected if one element is missing. From there, using their own thinking and research skills, they began to sort the specific components of a food chain and a food web, including producers, consumers and decomposers.

Reminders:

-Students are expected to bring their fully charged iPads to school every day. 

-Late arrivals (8:40 am onwards) require a late pass from the office.

-School hats are compulsory for all students to wear during recess and lunch this term, 

-Please make sure all student absences are recorded on XUNO.

-TTB Christmas Carols are on the 9th of December.

-TTA Christmas Carols are on 10th of December. 

Kind Regards,

Year Three Teaching Team.