Around the Classes - Year 3

School Arrivals

Class starts promptly at 8.40am. To avoid disruptions to student’s learning could you please ensure your child is at school on time. 

The school gates open each morning at 8.15am.

Religious Education

Students will learn about God's Creation and its significance.

They will develop a deeper understanding of the statements: 

• God created us with a body and soul
• God calls us to love 
• God has given each person free will and the power to choose

Students will explore:

• Free will in the Catholic Tradition
• Interpretations of the Catholic understanding of right relationship and its broader significance
• Choices in light of the Catholic understanding of right relationship

Students are preparing for the Sacrament of Eucharist

Literacy

Reading and Viewing

Students will be participating in reading group rotations. Each rotation will consist of a focus: grammar, spelling/phonics, comprehension, vocabulary development and oral fluency. Students will rotate through focus activities to experience learning in each element of reading on a weekly basis. 

COMPREHENSION

Reading comprehension strategies include: making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, visualising, summarising, main idea and cause and effect. 

GRAMMAR

• Punctuation
• Parts of Speech e.g. adjectives, nouns and verbs

SPELLING/PHONICS

• Smart Spelling program focusing on phonics

VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT

• Word study 
• Dictionary work

ORAL FLUENCY

• Readers Theatre
• Guided Reading

Writing

Throughout the term, children will be focussing on Information Report Writing and Procedural Writing. Students will learn about each genre's planning and construction. They will enhance their pieces through conference work that will focus on idea formation, text structure, grammar and editing.

Speaking & Listening

Children will have opportunities to develop skills required for; asking clarifying questions, reporting back to groups and responding appropriately when part of an audience.

Mathematics

NUMBER & ALGEBRA

• Multiplication and Division Strategies 

-Students will learn to apply various strategies to multiply and divide numbers for one by two digit equations e.g. 2x34

-Students will practice instant recall of multiplication facts two, three, five and ten and their related division facts 

-Students will learn about the inverse relationship between multiplication and division 

• Fractions

-The students will learn about fractions through hands on activities and games

- Model and represent unit fractions including 1/2, 1/4, 1/3, 1/5 and their multiples to a complete whole

- Locating unit fractions on a number line 

• Money 

Students will represent money values in multiple ways and count the change required for simple transactions to the nearest five cents

MEASUREMENT

• Location, Geometric Reasoning, Length & Area

Students will learn to measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of length and area

Students will learn to recognise and use centimetres and metres, square centimetres, grams and kilograms, and millilitres and litre 

Students will measure the area of rectangles (including squares) by counting the number of square centimetres

• Time

Students will learn to tell time to the minute and investigate the relationship between units of time

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY 

• Chance 

Students will conduct chance experiments, identify and describe possible outcomes and recognise variation in results.

Students will conduct repeated trials of chance experiments such as tossing a coin or drawing a ball from a bag and identifying the variations between trials. 

Inquiry

The students will be engaged in the connections of the Geographical world as they learn about different environments, climate zones and natural vegetation. They will learn about Australia's neighbouring countries and about changes caused by adding and removing heat, and heat conductivity.  Students will work in groups as they consider the location, climate, and values of their own artificial island nation. The year 3’s will also participate in an excursion related to the environmental changes and complete a sustainability incursion with Monash Council. 

ICT

The focus will be on developing skills in:

• The correct and safe use of the internet including safe searching and critically thinking about what they read and post online.
• Use of Chromebooks and their functions.
• Effective online research. 
• Coding

Wellbeing

The students will continue participating in the Resilience Project. During the wellbeing unit students will learn about three key pillars proven to cultivate positive emotion; Gratitude, Empathy, and Mindfulness (GEM). 

Students will be provided with emotionally engaging learning opportunities to develop practical wellbeing strategies and build resilience. 

Specialist Days