Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read for 15 minutes per night.
Inquiry: Have you visited any natural or built places of significance lately with your family? Now that we have learnt a bit more about what significant means, reflect on family holidays and record any places that you have visited. What was significant about the place? Do you think it is natural or built?
Mathematics: Continue to revise your multiplication facts
You may like to use your timetables app on your Ipad for this
Year 3: 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s
Year 4: all facts - start with those that you are least confident with
Learning this week:
Literacy:
Spelling: Year 3 sound focus this week is the ‘a’ for /ai/ sound, with a grammar focus on the suffix: ful. Year 4 sound focus is on ‘st’ for /s/ sound with a grammar focus on homophones.
You might like to write out your spelling words for additional practice:
Year 3 – a for /ai/ | Year 4 – st for s |
crazy taste basic baby haste maple
inhaler pastry acorn stable vacant chamber
plague chaotic stranger adjacent newspaper conversation | castle bustle listen thistle jostle glisten
bristle fasten hasten moisten whistle gristle
Christmas mistletoe chestnut nestle wrestle chasten |
Writer’s Workshop:We are crafting persuasive texts with the goal of enticing the reader to visit our chosen significant place. Our focus is on using modal words effectively and ensuring our writing is polished with correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Reader’s Workshop: We will begin to explore non-fiction texts, with a particular focus on exploring significant natural and built places. Students will refine their notetaking skills to assist in our research for our unit of inquiry.
Mathematics: We have started exploring fractions through hands-on activities. We will continue to learn about how fractions represent equal parts of a whole and apply our understanding to real-life situations
Unit of Inquiry: We have begun our new UOI – Where we are in place and time – with a focus on natural and built features. We will be exploring different provocations this week and unpacking the central idea and lines of inquiry.
As part of this unit, we will be going on an excursion on Monday the 12th of August. We would love parent volunteers. You will need all the relevant clearance checks.
Please email your classroom teacher with expressions of interest and we will provide more details soon.
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.
Premier’s Reading Challenge – Please keep reading books at home to help your children to fill in their PRC lists. We will also be completing books as a class to help as well.
Special Persons Afternoon – Please note that the date has changed for Special Person’s Afternoon (SPA). It will now be Friday the 20th September (Week 9, Friday).
Touch Typing lessons This semester we will be using the program ‘Typing Club’ to learn touch typing skills. While this can be done on an iPad screen, if you would prefer your child to learn on a keyboard, they are invited to bring their own iPad keyboard in to practice on.
Music
Can you please ensure that your child has a recorder purchased for them to participate in music lessons.
Thank you,
Mrs Ali
Email Communication 3/4RF
Just a reminder to please include both Mrs Fielke and Mrs Richardson when emailing 3/4RF teachers. It helps ensure that we are both aware of what is happening in the classroom, which enables us to best support your children.
Thank you, we appreciate it.
Blessings for the week ahead,
Chelsie Riches, Jade Fielke and Cloe Richardson
Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au