Year 3 Term Overview
Year 3 Term 1 Curriculum Outline
Welcome back!
Welcome back to another year of incredible learning and self development at DCC to our existing families, and a big WELCOME to all our new families joining us this year! We have spent the beginning of the term establishing routines and expectations of a grade 3 student, as well as developing a sense of community in each classroom. We have worked really hard to develop strong relationships with each child and an understanding of your child and their learning needs.
We are very excited to see what 2022 holds, and are looking forward to seeing what each child can achieve.
Term 1 Learning:
In Reading, we will be understanding how fiction and non-fiction texts are structures and explain the purpose of them. Students will access background knowledge, compare previous understandings and make connections among texts on the same topic or similar content to create new understandings. They will search for information in sentences with multiple clauses or phrases. Students will summarise the important information in a text in a clear and logical way.
In Writing, the students will be engaged in the 6+1 Writing Traits. They will develop their knowledge around finding a topic, crafting well built sentences, cheating the lead in a sentence, choosing words that add deeper meaning, establishing a tone all while building their spelling and handwriting skills. These will be practiced and explored through persuasive writing.
In Numeracy, we have begun learning about data representations and interpreting them. Students have collected data, organised them into categories and created displays, such as lists, tables and simple column graphs.
We will begin multiplicative thinking and length and area in week 4. Students will be given the opportunity to develop their understanding of multiplication facts and represent and solve problems involving multiplication.
Length and area is another unit that students will be exposed to this term, where they will learn to measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units. Multiplicative thinking is a unit that will continue to be taught to students throughout the duration of the year as it is considered ‘a big idea’ in years 3 and 4. They will be taught strategies in order to recall multiplication facts of two, three, five and ten and their related division facts. They will also be taught how to represent and solve these problems using efficient mental and written strategies.
This term our Social and Emotional learning will focus on students self awareness and management. They will identify and explore the expression of emotions in social situations and the impact on themselves and others. Students will establish a positive classroom environment while focusing on self-control and problem solving.
Within Inquiry we are unpacking the driving question ‘How do we belong and contribute to our democracy?’ Students will identify and explore the roles of local government. They will explain how and why people make rules and distinguish between rules and laws.
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 five weeks and will tell you what your child has achieved in Reading, Writing, Numeracy and Inquiry/Social, as well as their next steps (goals). These have not yet begun.
- Students must read their take home reader every night. They will bring in their satchel each morning to swap over their book from their take home reader box. Your child's teacher will have a day in which all satchels need to be returned so they can view, record and provide feedback on their nightly reading.