Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Explore and discuss with family: where you use decimals around the house and why are they important? (For example; catalogues, scales, maps, tape measures)
Learning this week:
Word Study:
| Year 3 – o for oa | Year 4 – schwa (el) |
hero dodo zero echo hello mango pianos radios videos tornado volcano flamingo memento mosquito torpedoes tomatoes | vowel novel camel model marvel tunnel barrel travel towel cancel mussel morsel snorkel sequel yodel cockerel |
Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop: Comprehension learning based upon our class text and drafting and publishing a Narrative story for our Buddies in Year 1/2.
Christian Studies: Exploring Christian Beliefs, focusing on the Holy Trinity and how this informs a Christian view of the world. We will also start looking at the reason and purpose of Holy Communion. 3/4R will be preparing the Friday Chapel message. The class is leading Worship on Friday 12th September at 8.50.
Unit of Inquiry: As part of our ‘Who we are’ unit of inquiry we are continuing to explore mindfulness strategies through the Mindup Program. This assists student’s emotional wellbeing and social skills and develop their understandings of how the brain operates.
We collate and reflect upon our learning for the ‘How We Organise Ourselves’ inquiry unit on Trade and Transport and prepare presentations for celebration of learning to share processes involved trade and transport of products and resources locally and globally.
During Mathematics learning time, classes will continue to build their understanding of decimals as part of the base-ten system. We will explore real world scenarios such as (weight, length, time, sports, prices) to understand parts of a whole and to make decimal learning meaningful. Students will apply decimals to represent money amounts; solve problems involving addition and subtraction of decimals.
Reminders and information:
Assembly sharing: 3/4 classes are sharing learning at Assembly on Monday 8th of September. We look forward to having families attend!
Celebration of Learning: This term the year 3 & 4 students will be holding their celebration of learning on Tuesday 16th September, beginning at 6pm with a presentation. We look forward to you joining us for this and sharing in your child's learning.
Special Person’s Afternoon (SPA): By now, your child/ren would have received an invitation to send to their special person to invite them to our event on Friday 19th September. In the back, there is a parent permission slip that gives permission for your child to leave with their special person.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
May God bless your week,
Chelsie Riches, James Salisbury and Lauren Neumann
Chelsie Riches
Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
James Salisbury
Salisbury.james@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Lauren Neumann