Level 3

Welcome to 2023!

All of the Level 3 teachers are very excited to be starting off the new school year with all of the wonderful Level 3 students. Hopefully everyone is feeling refreshed, eager to learn and ready to go for another amazing year at HEPS. 

We will be starting off the year with our annual Start Up Program for the first week in order to revisit the school values, to build connections in the classroom and to get to know all of the students. 

As always we welcome parent helpers into our classrooms. Please contact your child's teacher to organise a time and day to volunteer.

Please read below to hear more about what is happening in Level 3 this term in a variety of subject areas. 

Reading

Weekly Focus

Week 1: Start Up Program

Week 2:  Setting up expectations and building routines during Reading sessions

Week 3:  Text study: Analysing 'Pig the Blob'

Week 4: Searching for and using information - nonfiction

Week 5:  Searching for and using information - fiction

Week 6: Preparing for Naplan

Week 7: Naplan 

Week 8: Text to self connections

Week 9: Text to text connections 

Week 10: Text to world connection 

Writing

This term students continue to use the 6 + 1 traits of writing. We are beginning our unit on persuasive writing to refresh and build on our learning from the previous year, focussing on developing a solid argument and using evidence to support our thinking.  We will then be working on writing information reports that are detailed and interesting to read. As always we focus on a different writing trait and plan, draft, edit, revise and publish our work. 

Weekly Focus

Week 2-5:  Persuasive writing 

Week 6-7: Naplan

Week 8-10: Information texts 

Spelling and Grammar

Using our Jolly Phonics program, students will develop an understanding of various adverbs, nouns and adjectives, irregular plurals, the subject and object of a sentence and homophones. Students will have daily exposure to spelling strategies, practise and vocabulary building. 

Weekly Focus

Week 1:  Start Up Program

Week 2:   Ai ay a_e/ Parts of speech and Parsing

Week 3: Ee ea e_e / Simple Tenses

Week 4: Ie, y, igh, i_e / 3rd person singular: Verbs ending in ‘y

Week 5: Oa, ow, o_e / Verb ‘to be’: past, present and future

Week 6: Ue, ew, u_e / Syllables (1)

Week 7:  Naplan

Week 8: e_e / Present participle

Week 9:  N for ng / Present continuous

Week 10:  Soft c / Past continuous 

Maths 

This term we continue to focus on Number, including odd and even numbers and counting with fractions. We then focus on Measurement and Geometry including learning about length and 3D shapes. We end the term with data representation and interpretation. We include daily practise of times tables and mental maths to increase our fluency and accuracy. We also collaborate and investigate problem solving and open ended tasks with multiple answers and several ways to solve the problem. We encourage students to continue to have a growth mindset, experience challenge and work towards improving their own personal skills. A focus on the process not the product is important, an example of this includes students focussing on learning how they can solve problems more effectively rather than always just focusing on the answer. An understanding that we are all learning and are allowed to make mistakes is normalised in our classrooms. 

Weekly Focus

Week 1: Start up program

Week 2-3:  Odd and even numbers 

Week 4 & 5: 3D shapes 

Week 6: Measurement - Length

Week 7: Naplan

Week 8 & 9: Counting with fractions

Week 10: Data representation and interpretation

Inquiry

This term the Level 3 students will be learning about 'The Game of Life'. They will be learning about the choices they make in their own lives for their own health, their community and role models and how to interpret different health messages. The unit will cumulate in the students designing and creating their own 'Game of Life' board game. 

Important questions include:

*Who am I?

*How can I be the best I possibly can be?

*What is my identity? 

Important dates 

Thursday 9th February - Information Night

Sunday 5th March - Clean up Australia Day

Monday 13th March - Public Holiday - Labor Day

Wednesday 15th -Monday 21st March - Naplan

Monday 20th March - Harmony Day

Friday 24th March - National Ride to school day

Monday 3rd April - Easter Bonnet Parade and raffle

End of term: Thursday 6th April 2022

Homework

Homework will begin this year for the first time for the Level 3 students. They will be expected to participate in the following activities each week:

*My Numeracy and My Literacy tasks each week 

*Read for 20 minutes or more every night and record this in their journals

*Pick 1-2 activities from the Homework grid each week (more information about this will be sent home over the next few weeks)

Please as always continue to contact your class teacher via email or phone the school to make an appointment. 

Mrs. Terri McClare: terri.mcclare@heathmonteastps.vic.edu.au

Miss. Genevieve Edgell: genevieve.edgell@heathmonteastps.vic.edu.au

Mrs Sarah Hunting: sarah.hunting@heathmonteastps.vic.edu.au 

Mrs. Michelle Wridgway:  michelle.wridgway@heathmonteastps.vic.edu.au

Mrs. Ruby Whitfield: ruby.whitfield@heathmonteastps.vic.edu.au