Grade 3/4 News

Reminders 

• Grade 4 Camp Kookaburra (31st August - 2nd September): Permission information and payment is available on Compass. Whilst payment is not required straight away, we ask that you please confirm whether or not your children are planning to attend via Compass so that we can send final numbers to the campsite as soon as possible. Thankyou for your assistance with this! 
• Home Reading Diaries must be checked each night and come to school Friday with a parent signature. Students will need to read a minimum of 20 minutes for 4 nights each week.
• Homework - Week 5: Reading Diary and Studyladder Tasks (as given by teacher)
• Homework - Week 6: Reading Diary (no Big Talk Homework this week due to National Science Week)

National Science Week

On Thursday, 18th August (Week 6) students will be designing and creating a 'Rube Goldberg machine' in celebration of National Science Week. For this task, students will need access to a variety of different moveable building materials such as dominoes, marbles, cans, blocks, balls, straws and tubing. If you have any of these kinds of materials at home, please send them along in Week 6 to assist your child/ren in completing this fun activity - thankyou! 

Around the Classroom....

Students (and staff) have settled back into the classroom after a fabulous time away at camp. Here are some pictures of us working hard across multiple different subjects. 

Learning in Weeks 5 & 6

Mathematics: After completing our unit on 'Multiplication', students will be exploring 'Time' in our Fluid Maths groups this fortnight. We will also be looking at 'Patterns and Algebra' during our weekly Applied Maths sessions and consider how number patterns are formed using addition, subtraction and multiplication. 

Writing & Reading: Students have worked hard to wrap up our unit on Narrative writing with a piece on "The day a space ship landed on the school oval!" This fortnight we will move on to Informative Writing with a focus on researching different disabilities. In Reading, we will explore how to summarise both non-fiction and fiction texts.

Topic: Having been introduced to a variety of different disabilities so far this term, students will completing a project over the next fortnight with the aim to gain a deeper understanding about their chosen disability. Some of the questions they will be answering in this research task include:

• What is this disability?
• What challenges does someone with this disability face?
• What aids are available to assist someone living with this disability?