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Year 3/4

Year 3/4 Cluster News 

Word Study 

Year 3s will be learning about the long vowel ‘e’ sound. 

Year 4s will be learning about schwa u (when the letter ‘o’ makes a ‘lazy’ sound, similar to ‘ah’). 

Year 3 – i for I 

Year 4 – schwa ar 

icy 

icon 

diet 

child 

idea 

wild 

behind 

spider 

pirate 

diary 

Viking 

horizon 

phial 

quiet 

gigantic 

diagonal 

microphone 

hibernate 

 

grammar 

custard 

cellar 

sugar 

wizard 

dollar 

popular 

coward 

burglar 

regular 

orchard 

forward 

standard 

separate 

calendar 

familiar  

particular  

spectacular  

 

Reader’s and Writer’s workshop: We will begin to unpack narrative texts and practice planning and writing our own. 

 

Mathematics: We will continue to explore addition and subtractions strategies through games and revisit Place Value. 

 

Unit of Inquiry: We have started our unit by looking at who we are as a person and how we express ourselves. 

 

Throughout this year we will be exploring how our digital actions influence our identity, relationships, and wellbeing. 

 

Reminders 

 

Chat Academy – Year 4s only, Week 6 

 On Monday 2nd March and Friday 6th March, Year 4 students will have two incursions run by the Chat Academy focusing on Growth and Development topics. 

Please refer to the parent communication you received via TASS for more detailed information about the session content. 

Year 3 students will be involved in alternative learning at this time. 

 

NAPLAN- Year 3s only 

NAPLAN is fast approaching. Please ensure that your child has a working keyboard and headphones and that these are charged (including the iPad and any Bluetooth keyboards & headphones). 

 

Weekly timetable - 3/4H and 3/4R  

Monday  

Tuesday  

Wednesday  

Thursday  

Friday  

Assembly   

Cluster PECanteen  

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   

 

  

Premier’s Reading Challenge: This year in the 3/4 cluster, students will have their own individual records to track the books they read. Students are required to read eight books from the book list and four free choice books. The full list of suitable books for your child can be found online at this link:  https://premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au/book-list/   

 

As you read books at home, please feel free to email them to me so I can help your child to add them to their list or alternatively feel free to visit the classroom before or after school to add them to the list with your child. The recording sheets will be kept at school.  We will also aim to read some books as a class to help to complete our records. 

 

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