The Year 3 Spotlight
The Year 3 students have had an incredible start to the year! They are beginning to settle into the senior school and are working hard to demonstrate our PRIDE values both in and out of the classroom.
Term 1 is packed with exciting learning opportunities, beginning with our first inquiry unit, "Food is Fuel." This unit explores how food fuels our bodies and what influences our food choices.
Central Idea:
Food choices affect our health and wellbeing.
Lines of Inquiry:
- How our senses influence the foods we prefer to eat.
- How food presentation and preparation can make food more appealing.
- How food technologies and levels of processing affect nutrition, safety and waste.
To spark curiosity about this unit, students were asked, “What do you think makes a balanced meal?” They created meals on paper plates and presented their choices to the class, explaining their reasoning.
After exploring the central idea, here are some wonderings students had:
“Why are veggies important?”
“What is physical energy?”
“What makes a balanced meal?”
“What sort of foods make your wellbeing better?”
In Literacy, we have begun planning and drafting a narrative from the prompt “Vegetable Superheroes”. We have been focussing on generating ideas, correct punctuation and beginning our stories with a leading sentence to draw in the reader. This will be an ongoing piece that students will type up and illustrate.
In Mathematics, students have been focusing on building their understanding of place value. They used Base 10 Blocks to construct four- and five-digit numbers in groups, then moved around the room to figure out the numbers created by their classmates. We have also been practicing using our “x-ray eyes” to rename numbers in different ways using place value. What a fun start to the year!
Shae Glass, Jordan Kappa, Nicole Silpert
Year 3 Teachers