Level 3 & 4 Wonga Weekly

WEEK 7 LEARNING

🌈 It's Naplan Week for Grade Threes! 

Help to set your child up for success by - 

• Assist your child in remembering to bring their iPad to school, fully charged and a set of headphones. If your iPad does not have an input for headphones, please ensure they bring a pair of wireless headphones.
• Help your child to maintain a normal routine and acknowledging any worries.
• Go to bed early the night before Naplan tests, have a good breakfast, bring a water bottle and a healthy lunch.
• If you would like to, you could have a look at the practice website to help your child familiarise themselves with the digital format - https://pages.assessform.edu.au/pages/year-3-demos

📚 LITERACY

Reading

This week we are reading a range of non-fiction texts to build knowledge and vocabulary. We will be exploring our Prior Knowledge and Connections to prepare for reading and develop our understanding.

What you can do at home:

Encourage your child to discuss their understanding of a topic before reading a text. Please don't forget that your child has access to Reading Eggs Library, which has a range of fiction and non-fiction texts that they might find interesting.

Writing

Students have been enjoying opportunities to create their own narratives. We will be working towards creating a narrative to be shared at home.

What you can do at home:

Discuss the stories that your child is writing here at school and encourage them to add descriptive language to their ideas, building on current skills.

Spelling

We have comparing long and short vowel sounds and this week are looking at the long and short i vowel sounds. Syllabification is a helpful tool that we use regularly.

What you can do at home:

Attempt to spell some words with short and long i sounds in them

Short i - Build a pretty igloo near the gym 

Long i - I spy a bright lime pie

🎲 NUMERACY

Students will revise the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and recognise the relationship and connections between them.

What you can do at home:

Use real life experiences to develop your child's number skills. Things such as baking and budgeting are great ways to practice using maths in daily life.

Classroom Learning and Expectations

Our strong focus over the next couple of weeks is classroom behaviour and expectations, with the intention to create a happy and productive learning environment. 

What you can do at home: encourage discussions about respectful behaviours and what they look like both at home and at school.

🏡 HOMEWORK

Homework is optional, however we strongly encourage students to read for 20 minutes daily and use Mathletics as a resource to strengthen their Maths skills.

We will be sending Reading Logs home on Monday the 26th February and checking them on Fridays.

3/4 SPECIALIST CLASSES

Please find below an overview of our specialist classes in 3/4.

📆 DATES

• Wednesday 13th March - Monday 25th March: Grade 3 NAPLAN testing window
• Tuesday 30th April -Wednesday 1st May: Grade Three Camp - approximate cost is $250
• Wednesday 27th March - Colour Run 

🌟 REMINDERS

There are many reports of Covid being active in our community. Please be aware of symptoms if your child is unwell.

Thanks to the many families that have already brought in tissues and wipes. If you have not been able to already, we would greatly appreciate your contribution. 

Please ensure your child brings these items to school every day;

• Fully charged iPads
• Please log on to Sentral on a laptop or desktop computer to complete permission for Mosyle Device Management (MDM) to enable your child has access to wifi at school. This will not work through the app on your phone or tablet.
• Headphones
• Hats