YEAR 3

FROM THE CLASSROOM

This week the year three team has focused on respect in the classroom, to the teachers and educational support, as well as to their peers. Many respect awards have been given this week for students who have shown the expected behaviours. Congratulations to all those students who have received a postcard, your behaviour does not go unnoticed and we appreciated it!!

This week year three students have been furthering their skills in multiplication and division through the use of an array. Students have been both creating their own arrays as well as reading and interpreting arrays provided. We have had great success from all students across this unit, and we are excited to begin our next unit, Fractions!!

Our Inquiry topic, ‘Healthy Eating’ has been quite a hit with the students as they have been very engaged and asking many questions regarding the topic.

Students have been mastering their rule of three. Some sentences created by students in 3E/F were:

‘School is good, fun and exciting.’ - Rudra 3E

 

‘School holidays are fun, fantastic and amazing.’ - Rehat 3F

LEARNING INTENTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK

READING

• We are learning about the morphology behind the base word, <scribe> & <script>.
• We are learning identify words that don’t make sense (speedbumps) while reading.
• We are learning to take responsibility for our own understanding when we read.

WRITING

• We are learning to pile up the information to add intensity with a pattern of 3 (commas in a list).
• We are learning to choose language that exaggerates.
• We are learning to try to tempt your reader and get them on your side.

MATHS

• We are learning how to create fact families for multiplication and division based on the same array.
• We are learning how to solve practical problems involving single digit multiplication and division (2s, 3s, 4s, 5s & 10s).

INQUIRY

• We are learning to read and understand nutritional labels on food.
• We are learning to justify my food choices based on the food labels.

REMINDERS  

HATS

Term 2 is a hat free term. Hats can be kept at home for the remainder of Term 2 and 3. 

LUNCHBOXES

Please check in with your child around their lunchbox. We have many students complaining of not enough food to eat throughout the day. 

ARRIVING ON TIME

Students are expected in the classroom at 8:35am to set up their materials and be ready to learn when instruction begins at 8:45am

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