Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News Term 4 Week 2
HOME INQUIRY
Reading: Spend 15 minutes reading. Talk with an adult about your book. What do you find amusing, sad, interesting, hard to understand? Would you recommend the book you are reading to someone else? Who and why?
Maths: Practise your times tables. Access the “Times Table a Day” app. Get an adult to test your skills.
Home Inquiry: Are you or member of your family a part of an organisation? Maybe you belong to more than one organisation. Discuss the. purpose of these organisations?
Learning this week
Literacy:
Jolly Spelling: Year 3: “soft “g” as in page, angel. Year 4: suffix “– ent” as in movement, parent.
Jolly Grammar: Year 3: Homophones there/their/they’re Year 4: Antonyms and synonyms.
Writer’s Workshop: Students will be working on their revising, proof reading and editing skills. They will use what they learn to also make improvements to the quality of their writing. Students will be building their stamina in writing so that they can sustain writing for a longer period of time.
Reader’s Workshop: Students will continue to 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 be the final week of working 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” and beginning our final unit of the year, about organisations in our community. More details ion newsletters to come.
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 in Health, students will focus on protective behaviours to support their understanding of safe and healthy relationships, responding to different scenarios, valuing and respecting their bodies, developing personal boundaries, understanding safety and privacy.
Announcements / Diary Dates:
Swimming Week - Monday 6th November – Thursday 9th November.
Please return the consent forms for this as soon as possible, which assists instructors in grouping students prior to the sessions. 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