Grade 3 Community News

Dear Year 3 Families,

Welcome back to term 3! We hope you all had a wonderful and well deserved break. We are so excited to see all of our wonderful students back and ready to learn. We loved getting to chat with you all at Parent Teacher Interviews and discussing the amazing growth our students have been showing. 

Knowledge Building Unit

We have begun our new term with a new book! This term we are reading and unpacking the book The Iron Man written by Ted Hughes. The students have been working on their predicting and inference skills throughout the unit. At home, you could ask your child questions about the text and what they think will happen next. 

In writing, the students have been learning about information reports. They have unpacked the purpose and structure of a report to support their writing. Students have begun planning and writing their information reports on Iron. The students have learned many interesting facts about iron, including the origins of iron, what it is used for and where it can be found. You could challenge your child to identify different objects around the house that may be made from iron.

Numeracy

In numeracy, the students have been working on using the CUBES strategy to support their understanding of multiplication. The CUBES Strategy is a tool that provides step-by-step actions/steps to pull apart and understand what is being asked in worded problems. Each letter of the CUBES acronym stands for a different step to follow in order to solve a worded problem.

The students have shown incredible success in understanding and applying the process to finding the answer. 

Vocabulary

Our target words this fortnight are from our novel study, Race for Reconciliation. Our week 1 words were brink, enormous, darted, awkward, immense and spouted. Our week 2 words are gasping, clattering, furious, stupendous, wallowing and lured. 

Students enjoy sharing their learning of these words with you, and we encourage you to support and surprise them by using these words when the opportunity presents itself.

 Friendly Reminders 

• We ask students to read for 20 minutes each school day and then record their reading nights in their student reading journals that we keep at school to track their reading nights. Young readers who read frequently develop essential reading skills.
• We thank and remind families to continue to support their children in charging their iPads and bringing their headphones ready for each school day.
• We would like to remind students and families of our iPad expectations. Students must keep their iPads in their bags before and after school. Students have been reminded of this expectation, and consequences will be applied; students will lose their iPad privileges within the classroom.  

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