Level 3 & 4 

Important Information!

iPads and Headphones

Grade 3 and 4 are commencing end of year assessments, please ensure your child has a set of headphones that are compatible with their iPad and bring them to school each day. We have also noticed a decline in charged iPad coming to school, please ensure they are fully charged and brought every day as per the iPad agreement.

Grade 3 Camp

We will be having a camp information session online on Thursday 27th of November at 4pm. We will send the Webex link by email this week. This is a great opportunity to ask any questions and get a greater sense of how camp in grade 3 works. 

Events

Swimming

We have a busy week ahead in Grade 3 and 4 with our kids hitting the pool for swim safety! Children who are not attending will be completing swim safety activities on dry land in one of the classrooms at school.

Grade 3 students will be departing 11:30am and returning to school at 1:45pm. Students will eat prior to going out for a shortened play and getting on the bus. Please pack some additional food for them to eat upon their return to school before going out to lunch play as normal. 

Grade 4 students will be departing 12:15am and returning to school 2:45pm. Students will eat after recess upon returning they will eat before their modified lunch play, please pack some additional food for them. 

Kitchen Garden

Our students will still be participating in SAKG this week with Dimi organising our sessions to take place in the morning from Tuesday 9:00 – 11:00 for 4B and Thursday 9:00 – 11:00 for 4A, we will be making pancakes! Some photos below from last week when we enjoying composting, making apple and rhubarb crumble and appreciated some spring flowers from the garden at our dining tables.  

Parent Helpers

We are so thankful for the support we have from our parent helpers which includes parents, grandparents and older family members. Thank you to our SAKG helpers for modifying your schedules to support us this week and also to our swimming super stars for supporting this invaluable program. 

Wellbeing

In Cyber Safety we will be exploring ways online communication could be interpreted by different audiences and explore strategies to avoid misinterpretation when communicating online. In SWPBS grades are continuing to work on Be Safe focusing on transitions and walking through classrooms and grounds.  

CBL

Making comparisons between Victoria and countries in South America focusing on population, currency, capital cities and geographical landmarks. Your child has been assigned a South American country to research in CBL. Students will be focusing on finding evidence through research and answering the prompt questions in their own words. We are highlighting the importance of summarising in their own words rather than copying information (plagiarising) from the internet. 

What you could do to support your child

You could ask your child which country they have been allocated and discuss what they have learnt about the population, currency, capital cities and geographical landmarks of their country. Encourage them to be curious and brainstorm more questions about their country that they want to explore next.

Literacy

Students will be doing a fun narrative writing activity this week where they will choosing a title for their narrative from a selection of paint cards. Students will be continuing to work to create an engaging piece, written descriptively in their own author’s voice. 

What you could do to support your child

Please discuss the narrative title with your child, what is the genre of the story be, what direction do they want to take the piece in? Please support them to consider possible character traits, setting, complications and resolution. 

Maths

Over the coming weeks students will be introduced to probability they will describe possible everyday events and order outcomes based on their likelihood of occurring. They will conduct repeated chance experiments to observe relationships between outcomes in games and other chance situations. 

What you could do to support your child

Many board games involve chance and probability; we encourage families to spend some time together playing games at home. You could discuss words such as likely, unlikely, certain, impossible, fair and unfair.