Level 3 & 4
Welcome back!
We hope all of our students and families have enjoyed a relaxing and happy Easter break. As we look ahead to the start of Term 2, we are excited to welcome everyone back to school and are looking forward to another fantastic term of learning, growth, and fun together.
Grade 3 Camp
Our Grade 3 students headed off to Mount Evelyn Discovery Camp early on Monday morning. With beautiful weather forecast, we’re sure they will enjoy a fantastic experience while developing their independence and building new skills. Students will return on Tuesday afternoon, with normal classroom learning resuming for them on Wednesday.
CURRICULUM
Literacy
Our mentor text is Welcome to Country by Aunty Joy Murphy. We are using this book to help us learn and introduce our Big Idea in CBL, which is “Country.”
Students will be learning about the author, who she is and her purpose for writing the book. They will also spend time unpacking the more complex vocabulary in the text and developing an understanding of the Aboriginal language used throughout.
What you can do at home: Please encourage and support your child in returning to regular home reading routines. We recommend that all students read for at least 20 minutes each night to help build their fluency and reading pace. It is also beneficial to ask your child to retell what they have read, as this supports their understanding and comprehension.
In Writing, students will be recounting their recent experiences, such as their school holidays or camp. They will use these experiences to create a published piece in a newspaper-style format.
What you can do at home: Encourage your child to talk about their recent experiences and discuss how they could turn these ideas into a piece of writing.
Numeracy
Grade 3 students will be focusing on the concept of time. This week they will be revising the formal units of time, revising the many instruments used to measure time in days and hours. They will be revising hours, minutes and seconds when reading time on analog and digital devices.
What you can do at home: Please revise reading time with your child at home, both with an analogue and digital clock. Discuss duration, such as we will have dinner at 6:30pm tonight, how much longer is it to dinner time? We are leaving for school at 8:15am, how much time do you still have to get ready?
Grade 4 students will be focusing on the concept of fractions. This week they are learning to identify and represent halves, quarters, thirds, fifths and tenths of shapes, collections and number lines. They will take time to identify and review to components of a fraction and counting fractions to the whole.
What you can do at home: There are lots of simple and fun ways to build your child’s understanding of fractions in everyday life. When cooking or baking, encourage your child to measure ingredients using halves and quarters, or to double and halve recipes. When sharing food such as pizza, fruit, or sandwiches, ask them to describe the portions using fractions (e.g. “If we cut this into 4 equal parts, what fraction is one piece?”).
CBL
Our Big Idea is Country. Students will explore this concept through a range of Guiding Questions, including:
-What does Country mean to Aboriginal people?
-How has colonisation impacted First Nation Peoples connection to Country (land, cultures and languages)?
-Why is it important to respect, understand and learn about all cultures, and continue our reconciliation journey?
Students will also consider the Essential Question: How can we learn from First Nations peoples, histories and cultures to understand Country, community and our place in the world?
To bring their learning to life, Celebrate the histories, cultures, achievements and survival of Victoria’s Aboriginal peoples through an Immersion of Country Expo.
Wellbeing
Respectful Relationships
We will be learning about positive coping. As they grow and develop, all children
will encounter situations where they feel worried, nervous and sometimes even
scared. Individuals deal with the demands on them by drawing on a range of
coping strategies. Some strategies are more productive than others. Helping students
to learn a range of positive coping skills and allowing them to develop and practise them
will enable them to cope more successfully with future changes and challenges.
This week we will be focusing on:
-identifying ways that they are similar to and different from others.
-describing things they do that help them to cope with challenge or stress.
SWPBS
This week our focus is: Be a learner outside. Students will be revising the concept of, Accept and follow the rules of games.
Kitchen Garden
We will be resuming this program in Week Two. Please keep an eye out for the parent helper link that will be sent as an email during the week.
We rely on the support of our wonderful parent helpers to ensure this program is safe and successful. We also warmly welcome help from extended family such as grandparents, aunts, and uncles. If you or a family member are able to spare some time to support the program.
We post our recipes on Showbie for students who would like to recreate the amazing dishes they make in our cooking classes.
Please use the Showbie code below if your child would like to access these recipes:
9JYVE
Term Two Dates
April
20th-21st April- Grade 3 Camp to Mount Evelyn Discovery Camp
27th- Anzac Day Assembly
29th- Parent/Teacher Progress Interviews
Reminders
- Please ensure iPads are coming to school fully charged each day, with required apps installed and enough storage available for learning tasks
- Sun Smart hats are required for outside play until the 1st May. Please ensure your child has a hat at school this week
- Please send your child to school with a full drink bottle