Year 3/4

Year 3/4 Cluster News 

Reading: Aim to read for 15 minutes per night. 

 

Mathematics: Continue to revise your multiplication facts   

Year 3: 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s 

Year 4: all facts – keep revising all facts until you have them memorised. 

You may like to use your timetables app on your iPad for this. 

You can also create flash cards with unknown facts to practice every day. 

 

Inquiry: Discuss with your family what makes you, you. We are all unique—how would you describe what sets you apart? 

 

Learning this week 

 Literacy:  

Spelling: This week, Year 3 students are focusing on the ‘dge’ sound. Year 4 students are concentrating on the ‘ear’ for ‘er sound. You might like to write out your spelling words for additional practice: 

 

Year 3 – dge 

Year 4 – ear for /er/ 

edge 

judge 

sledge 

badge 

badger 

bridge 

gadget 

budge 

fidget 

ledge 

hedgerow 

hedgehog 

knowledge 

begrudge 

porridge 

budgerigar 

drawbridge 

partridge 

earn 

learn 

earth 

search 

earnings 

heard 

yearn 

early 

pearl 

dearth 

hearse 

earnest 

rehearse 

overheard 

researcher 

searchlight 

earthworm 

earthquake 

 

Writers and Reader’s Workshop 

We will begin to explore spoken poetry, focusing on how rhythm, emotion, voice, and body language enhance performance. Through engaging activities, students will learn to analyse and apply these elements to their own work, deepening their understanding of poetry and self-expression. 

 

Unit of Inquiry  

We will continue our unit of inquiry—How We Express Ourselves—with a focus on uniqueness. The central idea of this unit is that people, both individually and collectively, express their uniqueness in various ways. 

 

Mathematics 

We will be exploring angles in the real world, area and perimeter. We will also be conducting chance experiments. 

 

Carols Evening 

The annual school carols evening is Friday Week 7 (29th November). Please save the date, with more information to come. 

 

School Calendar:    

For other important dates please see our school calender 

https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/   

 

 

Blessings for the week ahead,  

Chelsie Riches, Jade Fielke and Cloe Richardson 

 

Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Richardson.cloe@goldengrove.sa.edu.au