Level 3: Connect

Looking into Week 6 and 7 

Literacy

The next two weeks will be filled with revising persuasive pieces. Have you ever had a moment with your child where they feel strongly about something ? Use this as an opportunity to think of reasons why and evidence to support them with their own persuasive writing pieces. 

Classes will continue to explore the different roles for Literacy Circles using class novels. When reading at home with your child discuss with them what might be the authors purpose of the text and how does it make them feel? Students are encouraged to be reading daily. They have access to Wushka's online library. 

https://wushka.com.au/

Numeracy

Students will continue to explore concepts of Place Value. Traditionally when thinking about our numbers we often think of them on a horizontal number line from L-R. Students will explore using a vertical number line to assist with rounding to the next 10, 100 and 1000. 

An excellent game to play with your child is Number Mastermind! 

Students have been challenging each other in the classroom. 

All you need is a pencil and paper. 

The partner tries to guess the number. If a number is correct and in the correct place value position, player one draws a tick, if the number is in player one’s number but in the wrong place value position, then player one recognises this by recording a circle below the number, if the number is not part of player one’s number then this is shown by Player one recording a cross below the number.

Good questions to ask while playing:  “Can you read that number?”; “How much is the 8 worth now?”; “Which is the largest/smallest number on our board?  How do you know?”; “How did you know the 7 went in the tens?”; “What would you do differently next time you play?”

Social Emotional Learning

The Respectful Relationships initiative teaches our children how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence. It also supports school leaders, educators and our school communities to promote and model respect and equality. Over the next few weeks, Level 3 students will continue to focus on emotional literacy. 

Activities will assist students to:

• Describe the influence that people, situations and events have on their emotions

• Investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength

• Understand how to interact positively with others in different situations

• Examine how success, challenge and failure strengthen personal identities.

Homework

It is true... there hasn't been any formal homework so far. We have asked students to keep reading for enjoyment and to complete Mathletics tasks.

https://www.mathletics.com/au/ 

Please continue with these but if you would like something else, have a go at practising our Spelling and Grammar concepts. We have learnt:

• or as in fork
• air as in hair
• a_e - magic e making the vowel before the consonant say it's name
• plurals - change the y to an i and add es
• Pronouns - I, he, she, his, her, they etc

Ask your child to show you how we learn our spelling strategies in the class.

Say it, sound it out, spell it, write it, dot and dash it

NAPLAN - week 7 and 8

Students have been working in classrooms to familiarise themselves with the online platform. They are being exposed to practice NAPLAN-style questions and passages to prepare them for the assessment period.

The structure for the NAPLAN is as follows; 

Writing: 40 minutes - handwritten. Students are provided with an idea or topic called a “writing stimulus” or “prompt” and asked to write a response in a particular genre (narrative or persuasive writing)

Reading: 45 minutes- online. Students read a range of informative, imaginative and persuasive texts, and then answer related questions

Conventions of Language: 45 minutes online. Students are assessed on spelling, grammar and punctuation

Numeracy: 45 minutes online. Students are assessed on number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability

Laptops

Thank you to all of the Grade 3 students for remembering to charge their laptops at home every night and return them to school the next day. Keep it up! 😊 

We encourage students to become more familiar with their laptops at home by utilising the Tux Typing program. 

Inquiry 

What better way to start an inquiry process than self reflection! This term, students will learn to recognise personal strengths and challenges and identify skills they would like to develop. 

Wishing you a wonderful fortnight ahead with some cooler weather as Autumn arrives!

Claire, Eileen, Amanda, Jana and Lizzie 

The Level 3 Team