Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News Term 4 Week 1
HOME INQUIRY
Reading: Spend 15 minutes reading. If the main character in your story went to your school, would you be his or her friend? Why or why not?
Maths: What data does your family collect at home? What do you use it for? It could be things to do with the weekly shopping or running the car, or the garden…
Continue practising your times tables – get an adult to test your skills.
Home Inquiry: Please bring along a box from home (about shoebox size) that you can use for our final assessment challenge for “How the World Works” in week 2.
Learning this week
Literacy:
Jolly Spelling: Year 3: “soft “c” as in race, space. Year 4: suffix “– ant” as in distant, servant.
Jolly Grammar: Year 3: Irregular plurals Year 4: Noun phrases
Writer’s Workshop: Students will be working on their revising, proof reading and editing skills.
Reader’s Workshop: Students will participate in “Book club” where they can share and talk about what they are reading with their peers. What sorts of things would you share or talk about? What might make others want to read your book?
Mathematics:
This week we will continue to work with chance and data. What is the chance of an event happening? Why collect data? How can we use data?
Unit of Inquiry:
We will be finishing up our unit of “How the World Works” with a final assessment challenge involving the boxes your child brings to school.
Christian Studies:
This term Christian Studies will link in with our “How we Organise Ourselves” - the role of (Christian) organisations in the community. Students will describe the connections between what Christians believe and the decisions they make.
Health:
This term, we will spend some time talking about the changes which occur in our bodies as appropriate for the year 3-4 age group.
Announcements / Diary Dates:
Swimming Week - Monday 6th November – Thursday 9th November. The bus will depart at 12.35pm and will return to school by approximately 2.30pm. Students will wear sports uniform for the swimming days. We suggest that they wear their bathers under their sports uniform, perhaps just putting their rashie on at the pool. Students will change back at school. Please provide two towels – one for use at the pool and one to protect the bus seats as they return wet to school. All students compulsorily require a rashie or bathers that cover their shoulders.
3/4S will lead chapel in week 4 (Friday November 10th)
Apps to install: Please ensure that your child has “Word” or “Pages” on their iPad. We will be increasing our use of these word processing apps.
Yours in Christ,
Jacquie Paech, James Salisbury, Brodie Trezona and Lauren Neumann
paech.jacquie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
salisbury.james@goldengrove.sa.edu.au