Level 3 & 4 Wonga Weekly

🌿 WEEK TWO LEARNING

CBL

The Big Idea for Term Three is CURIOSITY. We will explore curiosity through the lens of exploration of geography and impacts on natural life. This week we will be recording our curiosity about the geography of Earth.

At home you can: talk about places you have visited in Australia and overseas and places you would like to visit.

We will also be watching 'Ahn's Brush with Fame', featuring Adam Goodes, to explore the importance of acceptance of all nationalities and cultures. You will receive a link through Sentral very soon, that will give your child permission to watch carefully selected PG rated shows at school.

What you can do at home:

Have open discussions with your child about examples of racism or other types of discrimination in society and how it affects others.

📚 Literacy

Reading

Our mentor text for the beginning of Term Four is 'The One and Only Ivan'. We will use this text to build vocabulary, discuss literary themes, and as a springboard for writing persuasively later in the term.

What you can do at home:

You can read 'The One and Only Ivan' with your child via Showbie in the Level 3/4 'Reading' folder. Encourage your child to set aside time to read every night, include time to read aloud and or record themselves reading on their iPad. 

Writing

Students will be practicing sentence level writing by improving simple verbs to elevate writing. We will also be writing creatively and persuasively in response to our class novel.

What you can do at home:

Ask your child to replace boring verbs in sentences with more interesting ones.

🎲 Maths

This week we will continue investigating time. We will build our understanding of analogue clocks and explore the vocabulary and measures of time.

What you can do at home

Encourage your child to read the time at home using both analogue and digital clocks. Discuss vocabulary use to describe different times, eg dawn and dusk, 7.30/half past seven.

Complete 400 points of Mathletics including all set task.  You can support your child to practice their times tables. In Grade Three, our focus is on 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s. In Grade Four we continue to strengthen these as well as building in 4s, 6s, 7s, 8s and 9s.

📆 Dates to remember 

Friday 18th October - Springtime Soiree (see poster for details) This is our biggest fundraiser for the year and we would love to see you there (finally an event for the parents!).

Wednesday December 11th - Friday 13th - Grade 4 Camp @ The Y Discovery Camp Mount Evelyn.

🌿 REMINDERS

🌱 Students are encouraged to bring their iPads fully charged each day

🌱 We are quickly running out of tissues and wipes, we would accept any donations with gratitude

🌱If you can help out for SAKG, please check your emails for the volunteer link.

🌱 We are using whiteboard markers and boards everyday. We recommend that students could bring a set of their own that are labeled.

🌱 Hats On

As of September 1st, we would like to remind you that our school adheres to the SunSmart policy set by the Victorian Government. All students are required to wear a broad-brimmed hat when outdoors from the 1st September when UV levels are typically higher.

Please ensure your child brings a hat to school every day to protect them from the sun's harmful rays.

Thank you for your support in keeping our school community safe and sun-smart.