Grade 3/4
3/4A - Miss Pino (M-W) and Mrs Oxley (Th/F)
3/4B - Ms Tree (M) and Mrs Ayoubi (T-F)
3/4C - Ms Resul
Literacy
During Literacy in Term 4, students will be exploring narratives through a range of genres (mystery, fantasy). Students have also been looking at using direct speech in their writing and have experiemented with using quotations marks and using speech tags other than 'said'.
Numeracy
During Numeracy sessions, students have reviewed fractions and made connections to decimals to the tenths and hundredths place. Students have shown their knowlege of converting fraction to decimals using decimats.
Try this at home - Draw the decimat and see if you can show:
- 43 hundredths
- 64 hundredths
CHALLENGE - 2 tenths and 5 hundredths
Inquiry - Rules and Laws
The students will be exploring the differences between rules and laws. They will also be exploring the importance of laws. This week students were thinking about how rules are made in a school and thinking about what rules we have at our school to keep us safe, happy and healthy.
School start
School begins at 8:35am sharp. Students will begin their learning by participating in the Morning Circle. If you child is late to school, please make sure they attend the front office to have their attendance recorded as late.
Homework/Home Reading
Homework will be given out weekly on Mondays and come back to school on Fridays. Homework includes 1 sheet of 4 activities that support the learning that has happened during class time, and one thick chapter book, two shorter chapter books that will last them throughout the week.
Tutoring Learning Program - Homework
Students in the Tutoring Learning Initiative (TLI) program with Ms Pino will receive homework on Fridays to be returned on Thursday of the next week. Homework will include the book that we have read and a task or activity that supports the learning. The students also have a reading log to record when they have read the books by themselves and to a parent or older sibling. If homework is not returned on time, children will receive an orange note listing what is missing, and requesting it to be returned as soon as possible.
Student Values Certificate awards
Join us at our assembly to celebrate the award winners fro this week:
3/4A - Nahla A
3/4B - Kagan B
3/4C - Alijah L