Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
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 ‘ure’ sound. Year 4 students are concentrating on the ‘or’ for ‘er sound.
You might like to write out your spelling words for additional practice:
Year 3 – ure | Year 4 – or for /er/ |
capture fixture vulture feature puncture moisture pressure leisure pleasure treasure composure measurement
figure failure conjure mature secure manicure | worm word world worst worker worse workable worthy worship fireworks worksheet worthless
workmanship worldliness workforce worldwide worthwhile worthlessness |
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 begin our next 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 revising time and starting to explore angles in the real world.
Movie day: Friday Week 4
A friendly reminder to return the electronic permission slips for our movie screening this Friday. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Incursion
As part of our Uniqueness unit, we have an incursion the morning of Thursday week 5 (14th November) with Marra Dreaming. This will involve a visit from 2 Indigenous Artists, and they will run a basket weaving, painting and a joint canvas workshop with us, as well as bring some artefacts out for us to look at.
Pupil Free Day – Term 4
Please note that Friday Week 5 (15th November) is a Pupil Free Day.
Carols Evening
The annual school carols evening is Friday Week 7 (29th November). Please save the date, with more information to come.
Blessings for the week ahead,
Chelsie Riches, Jade Fielke and Cloe Richardson
Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au