What's happening in 3/4 this term......

Focus

Approx. Timing

Student learning will include:

Students will learn to:Recall key events from a text, focussing on recalling the specific order of events, not just the beginning, middle and end.

Verbally recall the main idea of the story using only one sentence. 

Draw a picture of the main idea in a book that they have read.

Students will learn to:Identify the main characters and discuss why they have made certain decisions, their likely future actions and their feelings.  

Discuss the illustrations, pictures or paintings in a book without looking at the text and investigate what information these images give us.

Students will learn:

The features of and how to write different poetic genres, such as:

• Cinquain
• Haiku
• Limericks
• Odes

A range of language devices and how to use them effectively, including:

• Puns and spoonerisms
• Similes
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Personification 

Students will learn about:

The structure and features of Fantasy texts.

Students will write an alternative ending to a well known fantasy story, such as:

• Alice in Wonderland
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Peter Pan

Students will learn to:

• Model and represent unit fractions including 1/2, 1/4, 1/3, 1/5
• Practise counting by quarters, halves and thirds, including mixed numerals (¼, ½ , ¾, 1, 1¼ …).
• Investigate decimals in real world situations (money, measurements etc).
• Roll dice to create fractions, for example ⅛ and ¾, and add together.

Students will learn to: 

• Make their own clock using a paper plate
• Convert between 12 and 24 hour time. For example 1730 converts to 5:30pm.
• Convert between units of time. For example, 150 minutes is equivalent to how many hours? 93 seconds is equivalent to how many minutes.