Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read for 15 minutes per night.
Inquiry: We will be learning about Australia’s resources. Can you identify what resources are found in your home?
Mathematics: Continue to revise your multiplication facts.
You may like to use your timetables app on your iPad for this.
Year 3: 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s
Year 4: all facts - start with those that you are least confident with.
Learning this week:
Literacy:
Spelling: Year 3 sound focus this week is the ‘e’ for /ee/ sound, with a grammar focus on syllables. Year 4 sound focus is on the prefix ‘sub’ with a grammar focus on root words.
You might like to write out your spelling words for additional practice:
Year 3 – e for /ee/ | Year 4 – ‘sub-’ |
evil secret legal fever regal female prefect recent media create medium frequent adhesive medieval chameleon immediate prehistoric
| submit subdue subplot subside subvert subway subdivide submission submerge subtitle sub-zero submersible subheading subordinate submarine submissive subconscious subterranean
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Writer’s Workshop:We are starting a new unit on how we describe place and location, which will prepare us for our excursion.
Reader’s Workshop: We are continuing to explore significant natural and built features in Australia and in the world, before moving into researching Australia’s resources. Specifically, we are exploring digital texts, and how to know if they are trustworthy for research.
Mathematics: We will continue exploring fractions through hands-on activities. We will learn about how fractions represent equal parts of a whole and apply our understanding to real-life situations
Unit of Inquiry: We are well into our Unit of Inquiry – Where we are in place and time. This week, we begin exploring Australia’s resources; where they come from, and what they are used for.
Reminders:
Premier’s Reading Challenge – Please keep reading books at home to help your children to fill in their PRC lists. We will also be completing books as a class to help as well.
Connected Schools Worship – Year 4 to 6 only. Thursday the 8th August. We will be taking buses to Endeavour College for the 10:15am worship. Please confirm via the online form sent home.
Special Persons Afternoon – Friday the 20th September (Week 9, Friday).
Blessings for the week ahead,
Chelsie Riches, Jade Fielke and Cloe Richardson
Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au