Year 3/4
Year 3/4 Cluster News Term 3 Week 10
Home Inquiry
Reading: Spend 15 minutes reading. Can you write a headline to summarise what you have just read about? Share your headline with an adult.
Maths: If you had to put new carpet in your bedroom, how could you work out how much you would need? Write down how much you would need and how you worked it out.
Home Inquiry: What are you curious about? From what you have been learning about at school, what you are curious about at home? What would you like to learn more about?
Learning this week
Literacy:
Jolly Spelling: Year 3: gn for <n> sound as in gnat, design. Year 4: suffix “– ary” as in literary, primary.
Jolly Grammar: Year 3: Subject and object pronouns. Year 4: Simple / compound sentences
Writer’s Workshop: Students will continue to learn about notetaking when reading non-fiction and researching on given topics. They will identify and use strategies to help them find key ideas in texts and form written notes from them.
Reader’s Workshop: Students will work on strategies to help them with understanding the texts they are reading. (comprehension strategies). There will be a focus on visualising what is happening in the text, what the characters might look like and so on.
Mathematics:
This week we will continue with our work on measurement, with an emphasis on volume, capacity and mass.
Unit of Inquiry:
We will continue our unit on investigations in “How the World Works”. We continue to carry out some investigations and learn about how to conduct fair experiments as well as record our observations scientifically and accurately, including predicting and hypothesizing.
Christian Studies:
This term Christian Studies has been a part of our “How We Express Ourselves” unit and we have been looking at different writing genres we find in the Bible. Students will respond by either writing. their own Psalm or choosing one they like and producing an iMovie with themselves reading their Psalm.
Health:
This term in health we will begin with healthy lifestyle choices and healthy eating: leading a balanced life.
Announcements / Diary Dates:
Apps to install: Please ensure that your child has “Word” or “Pages” on their iPad. We will be increasing our use of these word processing apps.
Yours in Christ,
Jacquie Paech, James Salisbury, Brodie Trezona and Lauren Neumann
paech.jacquie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
salisbury.james@goldengrove.sa.edu.au