What’s Happening in Grade 3 in Term 4, 2024

Important Dates:

• Monday 7^th October – First day of Term 4
• Monday 7^th – Friday 11^th October – Australian Ballet workshops
• Friday 1^st November – Curriculum Day – Professional Practice Day
• Monday 4^th November – Curriculum Day – Report Writing Day
• Tuesday 5^th November – Melbourne Cup Public Holiday (No school)
• Monday 11^th November – Remembrance Day Ceremony
• Thursday 21^st November – Art Show (3:30-7pm)
• Friday 20^th December – End of Term 4 (12:30pm dismissal)

In Literacy students will be:

• Expanding their understanding of adding suffixes to words and applying the ‘ti’, ‘ci’, and ‘si’ spelling patterns.
• Learning how to recognize common silent letters in words and understand the patterns in which they appear.
• Exploring the specific spelling rules for forming plurals of words that end with the letter ‘x.’
• Further exploration of homophones to understand how their different spellings affect their meanings.
• Learning how the letter ‘y’ changes to ‘i’ when adding certain suffixes.
• Exploring Latin and Greek Morphology to further understand the origins of words, such as ‘port’ and ‘bio’.
• Consolidating their handwriting skills to correctly join upper- and lower-case letters.
• Identifying and using the skills of notetaking.
• Taught to create a Single Paragraph Outline (SPO) – a tool used to plan and organize ideas for writing a well-structured paragraph.
• Exploring, identifying and using suffixes, tenses, and technical vocabulary when writing for the purpose to inform.
• Taught how to create Multiple Paragraph Outlines (MPO) – a tool used to organize ideas for writing a longer piece of text, such as an information report, that requires multiple paragraphs.
• Identifying and using quotation marks to punctuate direct speech.
• Reading nonfiction texts to expand their knowledge of Australia’s modern democracy and animal adaptations.
• Explicitly taught a range of vocabulary relating to Australia’s rules and laws and animal adaptations.
• Reading and discussing non-fiction texts that are read as a class.
• Reading for fluency, expression and understanding.

In Mathematics students will be:

• Mentally solving addition and subtraction equations using a range of strategies, such as compensation and constant difference.
• Representing money and calculating change.
• Using the bar model to represent fractions and division equations.
• Using chance language to identify likelihood of scenarios (certain, likely, equal chance, unlikely, impossible).
• Representing and interpreting data on a range of graphs, including picture graphs and column graphs.
• Using grid references and directional language to locate landmarks on a map.
• Applying the division algorithm to solve equations by 2, 3, 5 and 10.
• Conducting chance experiments, such as flipping a coin, and recording the outcomes.

In Inquiry students will be:

• Identifying and describing the differences between rules and laws.
• Identifying how and why decisions are made democratically in communities.
• Exploring and explaining the various roles found in local governments.

Wellbeing

In Term 4, we will continue to use the Respectful Relationships program to focus on emotional literacy, as mandated by the Department of Education.

Students will engage in lessons looking at Positive gender relations.

As well as these structured lessons, students will also be using the Smiling Mind program to support their development of resilience, empathy, optimism and gratitude.

With the new year fast approaching, we will spend time unpacking stressors (such as anxiety and uncertainty surrounding the changes to 2025 classes and teachers) and work together to establish strategies that students can use to relieve stress.