Year 3 News
Year 3 Dreaming Stories
The Year 3 students were very excited to read their Dreaming Stories to the Year One students last week.
Some of the titles included:
How the Echidna got its Spikes
How the Kookaburra got it’s Laugh
How the Platypus got it’s Bill
How the Emu got it’s Long Neck
The Year One students loved listening to the stories and enjoyed discussing the illustrations and the meaning behind the stories with the Year 3 students.
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Tippy and Jellybean
Written by Sophie Cunningham and Illustrated by Anil Tortop
The students read the story ‘Tippy and Jellybean’ an uplifting true story of a koala who saved her baby from a bushfire, and the dedicated vets who looked after them until they were healed and ready to go home.
Using similar structure to the mentor text, students have written their own version of an Australian animal endeavouring to survive a bushfire
Maths
Year 3 has completed formal division lessons but will continue to revisit division along with other mathematics processes throughout next semester. We have been very impressed by the growth in their understanding of division and its connection to multiplication.
The students have started their unit on fractions, beginning with a brainstorm of what they already knew. As we were doing this Mr. Hall visited the classroom and introduced the fancy mathematical term 'vinculum' to describe the 'cross bar' symbol in a fraction.
The students were engaged in a hands-on activity where they created and labelled fractions of a whole. Next, they will be working on comparing fractions and placing them on a number line, with the help of their fraction wall reference sheet.
Last week was the Truth Tiles challenge where students were required to explore different ways to manipulate the digits from 1 to 9 to create a set of three equations. There was a lot of trial and error at the start and there are multiple ways to solve it. Everyone completed the challenge to create 3 equations that told the truth!
