Year 3/4

Year 3/4 Cluster News 

 

Home Inquiry: 

 

Reading: Aim to read for 15 minutes per night. 

 

Inquiry: Write a list of ways you can show kindness at home and at school. Do a few of those things and get ready to talk about it in class! 

 

Mathematics: Survey family members about their favourite activities (playing sports, watching movies, baking, etc.) and create a graph to show the results. 

 

Learning this week:   

 

Literacy:  

Spelling: Year 3 sound focus this week are homophones, with a grammar focus on using a dictionary. Year 4 sound focus is also homophones with a grammar focus on verb tenses. 

You might like to write out your spelling words for additional practice: 

 

Year 3 – homophones 

Year 4 – homophones 

reed 

read 

sum 

some 

blue 

blew 

 

brake 

break 

wood 

would 

ate 

eight 

 

weather 

whether 

stare 

stair 

aloud 

allowed 

 

 

die 

dye 

mail 

male 

steak 

stake 

 

waste 

waist 

thyme 

time 

groan 

grown 

 

air 

heir 

wait 

weight 

bazaar 

bizarre 

 

 

Writer’s Workshop:We will be exploring parts of speech to make our writing the best it can be! 

 

Reader’s Workshop: To link with our Inquiry, we are exploring character perspectives. 

 

Mathematics: We will be continuing our unit on exploring data and graphing.  

 

Unit of Inquiry: Through “Peacemaking”, we will be exploring the topics of emotion, connection and kindness. 

 

 

Blessings for the week ahead,  

Chelsie Riches, Emily Gower and Jade Fielke 

 

Riches.chelsie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Gower.emily@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au