Year 3 Term 1 Overviews
Year 3 Term 1 Overview
Wominjeka!
Welcome, to our new and returning families. The term has begun with establishing the routines and expectations for grade 3 students, as well as developing a sense of community in each classroom. We are working together to develop strong relationships with your child to understand and support their social, emotional and academic learning strengths and needs. Our vision at DCC is to inspire and empower thinkers, and we look forward to a wonderful year of learning together.
Learning:
In Reading, we will be investigating how fiction and non-fiction texts are structured and explain their purpose. Students will access background knowledge, compare previous understandings and make connections between texts on the same topic or similar content to create new understandings. Students will summarise the important information in a text in a clear and logical way. This year we will be implementing reciprocal reading where students focus on predicting, clarifying, summarising and questioning as comprehension strategies.
Our Reading and Writing sessions will be merged and referred to as a literacy block. Students will be exploring persuasive writing first up this term. They will broaden their understanding of persuasive features and techniques. Students will also develop their knowledge around sourcing and recording ideas, building their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to help them craft simple and complex sentences. They will continue to improve their spelling and handwriting skills.
In Numeracy, we have begun learning about the connection between addition and subtraction, and solving problems using efficient strategies for multiplication with and without the use of digital technology. Students will be using Google Classroom and IXL learning platform for the appropriate mathematical tasks during the term.
Students recall addition and multiplication facts for single-digit numbers and related division facts. They will represent and solve problems involving multiplication using efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies. They will also learn how to represent and solve real life worded math problems using efficient and creative mental, written and representational strategies, such as drawing diagrams, making models using maths materials and tables. Students will be making models and writing number sentences (equations). They will also learn the use of a function machine and the inverse machine as a model to apply mathematical rules to numbers or shapes.
In Term 1 2024, the Year Three Social and Emotional Learning Program will provide explicit learning experiences that will assist students to develop: An awareness of self, and others as well as the appropriate tools to self regulate. Additionally, students will continue to work towards identifying and exploring facial expressions, naming emotions in a range of social situations and their impact on self and others. Teachers and students will establish a positive classroom environment based upon our school values system.
Students will be investigating the driving question, ‘How can our decisions impact our physical and mental health?’ during our Identity, Creativity and Wellbeing Unit of Inquiry. Students will identify and explore how healthy relationships require the acceptance of differences and diversity. They will explore different communities they are apart of and the different behavioural expectations. This learning will help develop students' sense of inclusivity within DCC and the wider community.
General Reminders:
• Please ensure that your child is at school and ready to learn at 8:40am.
• Please check Compass daily, as these will be the main portals that we (the teachers) and the school will communicate information to you. Compass is also the place where you will be able to access your child’s goals and achievements, these will be released every five weeks and will tell you what your child has achieved in Reading, Writing, Numeracy and Inquiry and Social Emotional Learning, as well as their next steps (goals). These have not yet begun.
• Students are required to read their take home reader every night and record a brief reflection in their Green Home Reading Diaries. They will transport books from school to home and back each day in their satchels. Each morning, readers will be exchanged from the take home reader boxes in classrooms. Your child's teacher will have a day in which all Green Home Reading Diaries need to be handed in so they can view, record and provide feedback on students’ nightly reading.
•Learning apps, Wushka, IXL and Google Classroom are being organised and distributed to students. The safest place for these is in their Green Home Reading Diaries.
• Students in year 3 are also now expected to bring their own devices to school charged and ready each day. Due to OH&S these devices cannot be charged at school. These devices will also be used in the preparation and completion of NAPLAN. Students are responsible for the same keeping and usage of their laptops whilst at school.
Kind Regards,
The 2024 Year 3 Team
3A Arta , 3B Russell, 3C Amber, 3D Palika, 3E Jake, 3F Amanda, 3G Alex, 3H Arline, 3I Anna & 3J Gary.