Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News
Home Inquiry
Reading: Aim to read for 15 minutes per night.
Mathematics: Continue to revise your multiplication facts
Year 3: 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s
Year 4: all facts – keep revising all facts until you have them memorised.
You may like to use your timetables app on your iPad for this.
You can also create flash cards with unknown facts to practice every day.
Inquiry: Discuss with your family what makes your family unique. What traditions do you have that are special to your family?
Learning this week
Literacy:
Spelling: This week, Year 3 students are focusing on the ie for /ee/ sound. Year 4 students are concentrating on the prefix ‘trans’.
You might like to write out your spelling words for additional practice:
Year 3 – ie for /ee/ | Year 4 – prefix /trans/ |
field chief piece brief shield grief relief frieze fielder priest believe achieve diesel thieves besiege audience briefcase unbelievable | transport transfer transmit transept transit translate transpose transverse transmitter transcend transplant transaction transitory transfusion transparent translation transferable transformation |
Writers and Reader’s Workshop
We are continuing to explore spoken poetry, with a focus on how rhythm, emotion, voice, and body language can enhance a performance. Students will analyse these elements and apply them to their own work as they create a personal poetry anthology. This process will help deepen their understanding of poetry and further develop their skills in self-expression.
Unit of Inquiry
We continue with our unit of inquiry—How We Express Ourselves—with a focus on uniqueness. The central idea of this unit is that people, both individually and collectively, express their uniqueness in various ways.
Mathematics
We will be exploring angles in the real world, area and perimeter. We will also be conducting chance experiments and delving into probability with lots of discussions about likely and unlikely events.
Carols Evening
The annual school carols evening is this Friday Week 7 (29th November). Doors open at 6:30pm with a start time of 7pm. Please save the date, with more information to come.
School Calendar:
For other important dates please see our school calendar
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
Chelsie Riches, Jade Fielke and Cloe Richardson
Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au