3/4 B

Literacy

To begin Term 4 our focus for writing is Dynamic Dialogue. Dialogue is such an important part of our writing and used effectively enhances it in many ways. Good dialogue can: 

- Reveal something about a character 

- Should move the plot forward 

- Make our writing more powerful

In our reading the focus will be on visualising. We are learning to visualise as we read to help us understand the text. We will be successful when we can: 

• Use our senses to help us understand the text; 

• Ask ourselves the question: What do we see, hear, taste, smell and touch as we read?; 

• Think and talk about how the words, phrases, pictures, headings and punctuation in the text help us create a picture in our minds as we read.

Below the children are reading a shared text and using their visualising skills to fill in their graphic organisers.

Respectful Relationships

Our Respectful Relationships topic for term 4 is Positive Gender Relations. Activities will assist students to:

• Identify different forms of gender based violence, including physical, verbal and psychological

• Examine the effects of gender-based violence on targets, witnesses and perpetrators

• Describe and demonstrate what respectful, gender inclusive behaviours look like in action informed by human rights

• Assess conflict situations to consider possible responses (safely end, intervene or withdraw)

• Describe and practice help-seeking skills and strategies that can be used when encountering uncomfortable or unsafe situations involving peers or adults.

Some of the topics we'll be covering include: What is violence? Building a definition, Rights and Responsibilities, What is respect? Respect in action, It starts with me: a gender friendly community and finally Seeking Safety, seeking help - trust, help seeking, warning signs and staying safe. 

Inquiry

Our Inquiry unit this term is called Frame by Frame. Our over-arching theme is Creativity. Over the course of the term the students will be creating their very own stop motion animations. The students will create a simple story with characters, a setting and props. They will draw a storyboard that depicts an interesting scene in their story and use the storyboard to make a stop motion animation. The students will build a set with props, capture images using a device and present their animation at our very own creativity expo! In the coming weeks we will start planning and designing. 

Circus Spectacular

Here are some of the photos from term three's Circus Spectacular! These were posted to Seesaw, however some parents may have missed them! It was just an awesome evening, the children can be so proud of their performance. There was a great sense of achievement at the end of it. A big thank you to the parents and families for coming along and supporting these wonderful kids. Hopefully at some stage soon we will be able to watch a recording of the performance. 

Looking forward to a great term, Brendan.