Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read 15 minutes at home per night.
Maths:Focus on 8 times tables for this week. Spend 15 minutes working on study ladder fractions pod.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_BJjR9rdwA
Word Study-
Year 3 sound of the week is soft c.
Year 4 sound of the week is the sufix ‘ery’.
Grammar focus is concrete and abstract nouns.
Year 3 – Soft c | Year 4 – ery |
race space since twice cancel princess
office palace voice silence bounce incident
accident medicine cereal vacancy advance cinnamon | gallery pottery archery lottery bravery slavery
butchery scenery bakery delivery imagery discovery
surgery nursery treachery stationery confectionery skulduggery |
Reader’s and Writer’s workshop: We have continued exploring animal classifications through our Unit of Inquiry, How We Organise Ourselves. In Reader’s and Writer’s workshop we are researching invertebrates and practicing our note taking skills. We are then transfering our notes onto our powerpoint presentation about our chosen invertebrate.
Mathematics: As part of our Mathematics learning, we are beginning to explore classifying shapes. Students will be learning to identify and describe shapes by looking closely at their properties, such as the number of sides, vertices (corners), angles and whether sides are equal or parallel. We will be sorting and grouping shapes according to their similarities and differences and explaining the reasoning behind our classifications.
Unit of Inquiry: In our Unit of Inquiry, How We Organise Ourselves, students are learning about classification and how people organise information, objects, and living things into groups based on shared characteristics. This week we have a focus on states of matter; solids and liquids.
Books week- book swap
We need your help. If you have any books at home in excellent condition that no longer serve a purpose, please donate them to our book swap in support of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF). All funds raised will go directly to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, this money helps to provide books and literacy resources to children in remote indigenous communities across Australia.
Reminders:
Community Breakfast – Tuesday 25th August
Book Week Dress Up Day – Tuesday 25th August
Uniform Days
- Monday and Tuesday: Sports Uniform
- Wednesday and Thursday: Formal Uniform
- Friday: Optional Uniform
Formal Uniform Requirements
Weekly timetable - 3/4H and 3/4R
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Assembly Cluster PE Canteen | PE Drama/Dance | Library Japanese Canteen | Band STEM (odd weeks) | Chapel Choir Music Golden Time Canteen |
PE Uniform | PE Uniform | Formal Uniform | Formal Uniform | Optional PE Uniform |
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
May God bless your week,
Chelsie Riches and Amy Hughes
Chelsie Riches
Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Amy Hughes