Year Three Team News

Hello Year Three families,   

We hope you have had some time to recharge over the Melbourne Cup weekend, ready for our marathon second half of Term 4.

The student’s Oral Presentations on an endangered Australian animal have begun this week and will be happening over the next two weeks. Thank you for supporting your children with these.

Zoo Snooze

We are getting very close to our Zoo Snooze in Week 9. Please return the medical forms to your class teacher and make payment and give consent via compass if you have not already done so:

• Monday 27th November – 3C
• Tuesday 28th November – 3D
• Wednesday 29th November – 3R

The students will attend school on the day as normal and will be dropped off outside the main entrance of the Melbourne Zoo, in the evening, where they will be greeted by their class teacher. They will spend the following day at the zoo and return to school by bus in time for normal school pick up. More details about what to pack etc will come as we get closer.

School Disco

Next Thursday 16th November will be the Willy Primary school disco. Please confirm your child’s attendance and make payment as soon as possible.

Fortnightly Curriculum Focus:

Reading: Learning about different homophones and comparing/contrasting when reading different texts.

Writing:  Learning when to use paragraphs in writing. Follow the writing process to write an information report on an imaginary animal.

Numeracy: Angles - Identify angles as measures of turn and compare angle sizes in everyday situations. Data -   Refining questions and planning investigations that involve collections and carrying out the investigation. Creating a graph based on the data collected. 

Inquiry: Endangered Species- What Can We Do?  Oral presentations about an endangered Australian animal. Preparation for the Zoo Snooze.

Child Wise/Respectful Relationships: How big is the problem?  Students differentiate between the different levels of problems. Students plot a range of problems on a problem scale

Homework

Literacy:  15-20 minutes of reading daily.  10 minutes of spelling practice related to the SMART spelling focus or personal words.

Numeracy: 10 minutes of revision focusing on concepts taught at school. Keep working on times tables recall.

Warm regards,  

The Grade 3 team - Katja Rosic (3R), Emil de Vries (3D), Mary Colangelo and Carmel Byrne (3C),