Year Three/ Four

Communicating with the Year Three/Four Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2022, and welcome your input:

Melinda Rowe (Class 34A) Melinda.Rowe@education.vic.gov.au 

Rebecca Tilley (Class 34B) Rebecca.Tilley@education.vic.gov.au

Michelle Wright (Class 34C) Michelle.Wright@education.vic.gov.au 

Welcome to Term Three!

Halfway through the year already, and a busy term ahead with Production (August 24 & 25). Congratulations to all of our students on such a great start to the term. We would like to thank you for bringing in newspapers for our students to explore and use as writing prompts. They certainly came up with some very interesting headlines.

My Country

This term, the Year Three/Four students will be exploring "My Country" in their Inquiry lessons. 

These are just some of the questions we will be answering as we learn all about "My Country" this term. 

• How is Australia represented as states and territories?
• What are the features of these states and territories?
• How are the many Countries/Places of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout Australia represented?
• What are some of our neighbouring countries?
• How does our environment different to other places in the world?
• How can we represent the geographical characteristics of places on simple graphs and maps?

To answer these questions, the students are going to complete a major project. Each student will choose a state (other than Victoria), create an information report and deliver an oral presentation. The students will:

• Mark their state on a map of Australia, identify the capital city and population size.
• Identify the geographical features of their state.
• Identify the aboriginal peoples who live/d in their state. 
• Identify the climate of their state.
• Identify the natural vegetation/biome in their state.
• Identify the native animals found in their state. 

To complete their project, students will learn research skills; including how to find reputable webites and how to paraphrase information. They will learn how to structure an information report, and how to read and interpret maps. Lastly, the students will learn presentation skills so that they may orally present their work to their classmates.

Before beginning the project, the Year Three/Four students have been exploring Australia's place in the world, our neighbouring countries and how Australia is divided into States and Territories.

The students thoroughly enjoyed studying a world map; identifying countries they knew and had heard of, and discovering countries they hadn't heard of. 

To deepen our understanding of the similarities and differences between Australia and neighbouring countries, the students worked in groups to read information about our neighbouring countries and discuss how they compared to Australia.

Camp

The Year 3/4 Forest Edge Camp is fast approaching (Term 4: October 24-26).

Over the coming weeks, you will receive more information regarding the camp.

If you know that your child will not be attending camp, could you please notify your child's classroom teacher. 

REMINDERS and IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Messages - Please contact the office if you have a message for your child during the day. We cannot guarantee teachers will check their emails during the day.
   
• Diaries - Your child should be bringing home their school diary each night. Your child should be recording their reading each night: title of the book, page numbers read and a parent signature. They should also be writing down which times tables they have worked on that day. Students should be bringing in their diary to school daily.
   
• Times Tables - Please assist your your child to practice these times tables so that they can respond automatically and in any order.

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