Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Home Inquiry will commence in Week 3. More information will be provided about this at PIN and in the newsletter next week. For now, any reading at home, (preferably every night- even just 15 minutes) would be wonderful.
Weekly Timetable – for both 3/4R and 3/4H
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Assembly Cluster PE Canteen
| PE Art | Library Japanese Canteen | Band STEM (even weeks) | Chapel Choir Music Golden Time Canteen |
PE Uniform
| PE Uniform | Formal Uniform | Formal Uniform | Optional PE Uniform |
Learning this week:
Word Study begins in Week 2. Year 3’s will be focusing on diagraphs, which are a combination of 2 letters making one sound. Year 4’s will be focusing on the digraphs ch, sh and th.
| Year 3 - Digraphs | Year 4 – ch, sh, th |
sank neck magpie rapid quench outing rescue jumped disagree correct mushroom raincoat spoilsport backyard swimming thunderstorm | smooth famish thorny loathing backlash cheerless benchmark archway bashful faithful outlandish parchment gibberish mythical achieve anchovy squashed betrothed |
In Reader’s and Writer’s workshop we will be:
Setting up the reading and writing community and our expectations
Idea generation
Setting up ideas, quick writes and tool kit
What makes a good reader/writer
Mathematics: We will begin looking at mental computation strategies, focusing on addition and subtraction through games. We will discuss what mathematicians do and what characteristics they have.
Unit of Inquiry: We will continue building our class learning community and developing our class expectations through our Essential Agreements and school values. We will also be continuing inquiring into the Learner Profile Attributes: Caring, Inquirers, Principled, Balanced, Knowledgeable, Communicators, Thinkers, Risk-Takers, Open-Minded and Reflective.
Reminders:
Parent Information Night (PIN), Wednesday Week 2, February 4th
iPads are to remain at home until the ICT agreement has been discussed and signed, which we assume will be around Week 3. Further information will be provided at PIN.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
May God bless your week,
Chelsie Riches and Amy Hughes
Chelsie Riches
Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Amy Hughes
Hughes.amy@goldengrove.sa.edu.au