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

Important Dates:

• Monday 15^th July – First day of Term 3
• Monday 22^nd July – House Athletics
• Friday 30^th August – Curriculum Day
• Monday 16^th September – Celebration Week
• Friday 20^th September – Celebration Week Dress Up Day and Book Parade
• Friday 20^th September – End of Term 3 (2:30pm dismissal)

In Literacy students will be:

• Expanding their knowledge of homophones to understand how their different spellings influence their meaning
• Taught irregular spelling patterns like o representing the /u/ sound in words like love and ie and ei spelling rules
• Consolidating their handwriting skills to correctly form all upper- and lower-case letters
• Extending their use of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences in writing
• Explicitly taught to use correct punctuation when using dialogue in their writing
• Creating a class text that includes a range of genres
• Reading nonfiction texts to expand their knowledge of Australian history
• Explicitly taught a range of vocabulary relating to Australian History and First Nations peoples
• Reading and discussing non-fiction texts that are read as a class.
• Reading for fluency and understanding

In Mathematics students will be:

• Exploring multiplication and division of 2 digit by 1-digit numbers, with and without the use of concrete materials
• Calculating area using grid squares
• Rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
• Creating fractions within shapes
• Exploring symmetry and transformation of shapes and pictures
• Estimating to solve problems
• Using various addition and subtraction strategies such as finding unknown values when adding and subtracting, the jump strategy, and bar model.
• Creating 3D models (objects)
• Investigating number patterns
• Measuring the capacity of objects
• Counting collections of money
• Calculating the duration and units of time

In Inquiry students will be:

• Studying the Countries and Places of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their connection to Country.
• Describing the cultural diversity of groups of First Nation peoples and how this forms cultural identity.
• Identifying and describing the characteristics of places in different locations.
• Locating Australia’s neighbouring countries on a map.

Wellbeing

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

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• Positive gender relations

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

Additionally, student will be participating in this year’s National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence (Friday, August 16^th) and RUOK Day? (Thursday, September 12^th).