What’s Happening in Grade 3 in Term 2, 2024

Important Dates:

• Wednesday 24^th April – ANZAC Day ceremony
• Thursday 25^th April – ANZAC Day (Public Holiday)
• Friday 26^th April – Curriculum Day
• Thursday 9^th May – Mother’s Day/Special Person stall
• Monday 10^th June – King’s Birthday
• Wednesday 26^th June – Three Way Conferences

In Literacy students will be:

• Explicitly taught spelling generalisations for words containing the ‘ors’, the ‘I’ sound at the end of the word, the 111 rule and spelling choices for homophones.
• Engaging in daily activities that involve manipulating sounds and forming words when reading a range of fluency passages.
• Learning to use their letter sound knowledge to blend the sounds together to read words and sentences.
• Introduced to the Core Knowledge units of Ancient Rome, The Vikings and The First Australians, where students will answer a range of literal, inferential and evaluative questions.
• Participating in daily formal handwriting sessions learning how to form letters correctly and how to correctly hold a pencil.
• Identifying and upgrading verbs within a complete sentence, and identifying the tense of a verb.
• Adding detail to expand simple sentences (who, what, when, where, why, how).
• Locating and using a range of conjunctions to connect ideas within a sentence (and, so, but, or).
• Engaging in genre writing, exploring the text structure and features of an informative, persuasive or narrative text.

In Mathematics students will be:

• Exploring the connection between multiplication and division.
• Extend their understanding of addition and subtraction.
• Comparing, ordering, counting, making, naming and recording numbers to 5 and beyond.
• Defining angles and identify the direction of lines.
• Telling the time to the nearest minute.
• Estimating, measuring and comparing lengths.
• Identifying fractions of collections and shapes.
• Creating models of 3D objects, such as prisms and pyramids, and describing their features.

In Inquiry students will be:

Exploring further the Core Knowledge units of Ancient Rome, The Vikings and The Solar System with a focus of History, Geography and Space.

Wellbeing

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

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• Developing positive coping strategies for their emotions.
• Developing gender identity and positive gender relations.
• Using Smiling Mind for lessons and meditation.

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

Home Learning

In addition to supporting your child to complete the Expected Home Learning tasks each week, you may also like to encourage your child to select one or more of the following tasks:

• Timestables.com or Times Tables Rockstars, practicing multiplication for automatic recall.
• Addition and subtraction practice (flip cards and quickly add or subtract the numbers verbally – can combine cards to make 2-3 digit numbers for written computation).
• Help with mealtime preparations (measuring ingredients, reading a recipe, giving instructions…)
• Researching a family holiday (calculating costs, creating a timeline/itinerary, reading timetables)
• DIY project – building something, crafting or assembling furniture (write a procedure explaining how it was made or how it functions).
• Free choice writing (write any genre, ensuring punctuation, spelling, sentence/paragraph structure are accurate and that ideas flow. E.g. narrative, procedure, biography/autobiography, persuasive…).