Year 3

Hello Year Three Families, 

We cannot believe we are in the last week of Term 3! The students have been working very hard across all learning areas and should be incredibly proud of all the learning they have done.

Literacy

In Comprehension and Literature, we have been reading lots of different types of poetry. Students have learnt how to read poetry with rhythm by pausing at the end of each line and emphasising rhyming words. We have also been identifying language devices and their effect in poetry. Students have learnt that alliteration and onomatopoeia give momentum to poems and enhance the enjoyment of readers.

For Creating texts, we have been writing many different types of poems. Students have created poems that use imagery such as colour poems, shape poems and simile poems. We then constructed poems with syllables such as haikus and challenged ourselves even further by also incorporating rhyme to write limericks that follow a specific syllable and rhyming pattern. Students further expressed their creativity by writing onomatopoeia and alliteration poems. To conclude and celebrate our poetry unit, students will draft and publish a poem of their choice.  

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we have been learning about inverse operations and how we can use addition to solve subtraction problems and vice versa. Students have been working on finding unknown numbers in a number sentence using strategies we have learnt. We have also been consolidating our knowledge of place value through partitioning and renaming. Students have completed number sequences that increase or decrease by finding the rule.

We have also been learning about Chance and the likelihood of events happening. Students have been learning about the language used in Chance, such as “impossible, likely, certain”. We have been practising to use what we have learnt and conduct ‘chance experiments’ such as the Dice Roll experiment. Before completing the experiment, the students predicted what they thought would happen and which numbers would be rolled the least and the most. As students identify the likelihood of chance events, we have also explored variations in a chance experiment and understanding that there are various possible outcomes for each experiment. 

Geography

This month in Geography, we have been exploring Australia from an Indigenous perspective. Students have identified that sites such as Kakadu National Park and Wolfe Creek Crater are considered sacred to Indigenous Australians for reasons such as extensive historical features and connections to dreamtime stories. To finish off our unit this term, students have collated all their learning from one chosen state or territory and produced a project that they will present to the class. We are excited to see our students do their first oral presentation for our classes!

We hope you have a safe and restful break. We will see you in Term 4!