Level 3 & 4 Wonga Weekly

WEEK 7 LEARNING

CBL

We will be working in small groups through a variety of activities to create a toolkit for students to use to support a positive growth mindset and emotional regulation.

We will continue to look at negative and positive mindset loops and how we can be aware of the influence that impact our mindset. This links in with our Big Idea of 'Respect' by gaining an understanding of how our mindset and actions can positively or negatively impact our social interactions and relationships with others.

📚 Literacy

Phonics

We are looking at the doubling rule (run > running) and morphology surrounding the prefix of 'ex' and 'e' (excited, exercise and eject).  Students continue to build their vocabulary through daily exposure to word definitions and how these can be used in writing. They will practice joining vowels to and from consonants with a focus on sizing and spacing.

What you can do at home:

Log in to your Reading Eggs account and complete the 'suffix - ed' and 'suffix -ly' revision lessons that has been assigned by your teacher.

List words with the above patterns and sounds and sort them. You could find these in your reading. 

Reading

Students will be immersed in a range of poetry and will identify rhyming patterns and alliteration. We will focus on developing confidence when reading aloud in fluency pairs with a selection of poems. 

What you can do at home:

We encourage you to model reading different types of poetry (rhyming books like Dr Seuss, Mem Fox and Pamela Allen) to your child as well as listening to them read at home. Encourage your child to set aside time to read every night, include time to read aloud and or record themselves reading on their iPad. Some students are participating in the Premiers Reading Challenge, this is a great way to expose your child to a variety of literature.

Writing

This week students will explore writing poems using a range of rhyming patterns and literary devices, such as alliteration. 

What you can do at home:

Support your child to make lists of rhyming words and have a go at putting them into a poem - you could say it, sing it or write it down. If you would like something harder, write down some nouns and adjectives that use alliteration (bouncing Ben, laughing llama).

🎲 Maths

This week we continue to explore fractions. The language we are using relates to 'equal parts'.

Numerator - How many equal parts do you have?

Denominator - How many equal parts in the whole?

We will look at fractions of a whole as well as fractions of a collection. Students will order fractions on a number line and comparing their size using the symbols for greater than, less than and equal to. The concepts of tenths, hundredths and percentages will also be introduced.

What you can do at home

Encourage your child to show fractions in every day life and in different ways ie - cutting a sandwich in half in two different ways, finding fractions of a collection.

Complete 400 points of Mathletics including all set task.  You can support your child to practice their times tables. In Grade Three, our focus is on 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s. In Grade Four we continue to strengthen these as well as building in 4s, 6s, 7s, 8s and 9s.

📆 Dates to remember 

Friday 30th August - Father's Day Breakfast

Monday 2nd - Friday 6th September - Book Fair

Wednesday December 11th - Friday 13th - Grade 4 Camp @ The Y Discovery Camp Mount Evelyn.

Friday 18th October - Springtime Soiree (see poster for details) This is our biggest fundraiser for the year and we would love to see you there (finally an event for the parents!).

🌿 REMINDERS

🌱 Students are encouraged to bring their iPads fully charged each day

🌱 We are quickly running out of tissues and wipes, we would accept any donations with gratitude

🌱If you can help out for SAKG, please check your emails for the volunteer link.

🌱We are using whiteboard markers and boards everyday. We recommend that students could bring a set of their own that are labeled.