Year 3 Term Overview

What an incredible Term 2 we had! 

Welcome back to another term of exciting learning at DCC. We would like to commend all students in Grade 3 for successfully completing NAPLAN in Week 4 of Term 2. We are so proud of you! We look forward to continuing celebrating success throughout this term. We appreciate all the support from parents and carers. 

Term 3 Learning: 

In Reading, students will continue to develop the ability to identify the genre based on its text type, structure and features using words, phrases and visuals. They will use clues in the text to make inferences using and building upon their own experiences. Students will continue to build their capacity to visualise while reading a text. This includes using their five senses to create a mental image in their mind. They will analyse how different texts use verb groups to represent different processes (action, thinking, feeling, saying and relating). In Writing, the students will be exploring biography, descriptive, information and procedural texts. Throughout the term students will have multiple exposures using writing traits within a text type, such as the organisation and structure of each text type including its features. Exploring word choice and presentation when writing information texts and generating ideas when writing procedural texts. They will also reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation. In Numeracy, students will continue exploring Multiplicative thinking and will continue to use strategies in order to recall multiplication facts of two, three, five and ten and their related division facts. Students will also explore and explain commutativity through an array, area and region model. Students will also continue learning about ‘Additive Thinking and Financial Math’ and understand the connection between addition and subtraction. They will continue to represent money values in multiple ways and count the change required for simple transactions to the nearest five cents. Students will learn about naming, drawing and modelling halves, quarters, thirds and fifths and how to represent these in multiple parts. They will apply place value to partition, rearrange and regroup numbers to at least 10,000 to assist calculations and solve problems. In addition, students will apply their knowledge of the concepts taught throughout the term and apply it in problem solving. During problem solving, students will have the opportunity to use a range of appropriate problem solving strategies and equipment to problem solve. This term our Social and Emotional Learning will focus on ‘Strong Emotions, Self Control and Friendships.’ Students will develop positive coping strategies when faced with situations including when experiencing angry feelings. They will identify friendships and the different dynamics they can experience while working on self control. Within Inquiry, we will be starting the term looking at Our Land, Our Stories with a focus on Significant Aboriginal People. The students will be researching a famous female indigenous athlete in relation to their house colour and write a biography. Later in the term we will explore aspects in a Geography unit and a Health unit.

General Reminders:

Please ensure that your child is at school and ready to learn at 8:40am.

Please ensure that you check and log into Compass and Seesaw regularly, as these will be the main portals that we (the teachers) will communicate information with you on. Compass is also the place where you will be able to access your child’s goals and achievements, these will be released every three weeks and will tell you what your child has achieved in Reading, Writing, Numeracy and Inquiry/Social, as well as their next steps (goals).

Homework this year:

Reading: Every night for a minimum of 30 mins, with 1-2 follow up questions relating to the book. 

SMART SPELLING: Students will have spelling words each week that they will need to practise, relating to the ‘spelling choice’ we are focussing on that week in class.

Homework Matrix: There are 30 activities, these will be sent out each month, ideally students are to pick one activity each night and complete it.

Excellence Hub: Watch Reading teaching video on Seesaw that explicitly teaches your child’s reading goal and practise it with your take home reading book