What’s Happening in Grade 3 in Term 1, 2024

Important Dates:

• Wednesday 6^th March – Photo Day
• Monday 11^th March – Labour Day
• Monday 18^th March – House Cross Country
• March 13 – 25 – NAPLAN testing
• Thursday 28^th March – Last Day of Term 1

In Literacy students will be:

In Term 1, Grade 3 students will be engaged in Core Knowledge units, reading The Wind in the Willows followed by World Rivers. Students will listen to the text being read aloud to them and then answer comprehension questions both verbally and written, to show their understanding of the text.

For Writing, we will be focusing on sentence level writing working on verbs, subject, tense, using apostrophes for contractions, converting fragments to full sentences, and identifying the 4 sentence types (command, statement, question, exclamation). We will also be looking at writing a persuasive text as part of our genre study unit.

Students will also be continuing their learning of phonics and spelling. They will learn to spell words that contain homophones, words with more than one-syllable and recognise the difference between open and closed syllables.

In Mathematics students will be:

In Term 1, students will be learning about Place Value. Students will read, write and model numbers up to 10,000. They will expand numbers and regroup numbers in different ways using MAB materials. Students will also participate in lessons involving Addition and Subtraction and they will learn about the relationship between addition and subtraction. They will learn the vertical addition and subtraction algorithm with and without regrouping. Students will also be learning to recall multiplication facts for 2s, 5s and 10s to help them with their timetable knowledge. They will learn how to recognise and represent 1/2, 1/4, 1/3, 1/5, 1/10 and combined fractions to make a whole. Students will be continuing to learn how to read analogue and digital time to the nearest five minutes. They will be posing questions to collect and represent data in various forms.

In Inquiry students will be:

In Inquiry this term, students will engage in lessons about cyber safety and cyberbullying. They will learn about how to stay safe online and how to recognise unsafe behaviours on online platforms.

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on emotional literacy.

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• understanding, expressing and managing emotions.
• learning about their personal strengths, including participating in cooperative games and setting goals.
• looking at positive coping strategies and learning about understanding strong emotions.

There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.