Year 3/4

Year 3/4 Cluster News 

 

Home Inquiry: 

 Reading: Aim to read for 15 minutes per night. 

 

Inquiry: Have a talk to your family about who the biggest peace makers are in history. 

 

Math: Revise your multiplication facts 

Year 3: 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s 

Year 4: all facts 

 

Learning this week:   

 Literacy:  

Spelling: Year 3 sound focus this week is the /ow/oa/o_e sound, with a grammar focus on present continuous. Year 4 sound focus is on prefix (pre) with a grammar focus on grammatical person. You might like to write out your spelling words for additional practice: 

 

Year 3 – ow / oa / o_e 

Year 4 – Prefix (pre) 

float 

joke 

croak 

elbow 

owner 

alone 

follow 

explode 

homework 

moaning 

shadow 

slowest  

rainbow 

approach 

tightrope 

cockroach 

hormone 

envelope 

prepare 

prevent 

prefix 

preview 

prevail 

predict 

precede 

premiere 

precedent 

prehistoric 

preference 

premature 

previous 

predecessor 

prearrange 

preliminary 

presumption 

precautionary 

 

 

Writer’s Workshop:We will be finishing our polished piece and writing fact files on peacemakers. 

 

Reader’s Workshop: To link with our Inquiry, we will explore different perspectives in literature.  

 

Mathematics: We will be revising and exploring the relationship between multiplication and division to finish off the term. 

 

Unit of Inquiry: We will continue to explore peacemaking throughout Australian and World history, with a specific focus on 1780 – 1788. We will then be focusing on key peacemakers in Australian history.  

 

 

Reminders: 

 

Premier’s Be Active Challenge: Students can join us as we complete the challenge as a class or individually track and record their physical activities over a four–week period. We will likely do this as a class at the beginning of Term 3.   

 

Glow Week   

Dear Parents and Families,  

If you do not do 10c recycling but have cans and bottles at home that go in the normal recycling, we would love to collect these for Glow Week. There are bags out the front of the maintenance shed to deposit these into, otherwise please put them in the wire bins in the courtyard.  

Kind regards,  

The GLOW Week Team 

 

Japanese Host Families (Year 4 families) 

We are 6 families short to host students (they are all boys). Please contact Melissa Bishop for more information and if you are interested. 

 

 

Blessings for the week ahead,  

Chelsie Riches, Emily Gower and Jade Fielke 

 

Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Gower.emily@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au