Important Dates:

• Monday 6^th October – First day of Term 4
• Friday 31^st October – Curriculum Day – Professional Practice Day
• Monday 3^rd November – Curriculum Day – Report Writing Day
• Tuesday 4^th November – Melbourne Cup Public Holiday
• Friday 19^th December – End of Term 4

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.
• Explicitly taught a range of vocabulary relating to Australia’s rules and laws.
• Reading and discussing non-fiction texts that are read as a class.
• Reading for fluency, expression and understanding.

In Mathematics students will be:

• Using the CUBES strategy and bar models to solve subtraction problems.
• Creating addition and subtraction number sentences from word problems.
• Converting between analogue and digital times and solving related problems.
• Identifying perspectives, representations, and landmarks on maps.
• Creating and interpreting map symbols and legends.
• Representing money values in different ways and calculating change by counting on.
• Exploring different representations of multiplication and division.
• Creating and solving worded problems using multiplication and division.
• Solving two-digit multiplication and division problems with materials, with and without regrouping.
• Estimating, measuring, comparing, and reading mass using scaled instruments.
• Estimating, measuring, comparing, and reading capacity using scaled instruments.
• Comparing the strength of three-dimensional models and constructing them using objects.
• Identifying the correct operation (multiplication or division) to solve worded problems.
• Interpreting and creating picture and column graphs.
• Conducting chance experiments with more than two outcomes.
• Identifying variations in the results of chance experiments with more than two outcomes.

In Inquiry students will be learning about Geography through:

• Learning how rules, fairness, and shared decision-making help society’s function.
• Explore the key features of democracy, compare different systems of government, and examine how people have worked to make Australian democracy more inclusive over time.
• Historical case studies, class discussions, voting simulations and analysis of rights and responsibilities, students will develop an understanding of how democratic values shape Australian society and how citizens can participate actively in their communities.

Wellbeing:

WIn 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 Gender Norms and Stereotypes.

Important Dates:

• Friday 8^th August – House Athletics
• Thursday 28^th August – Italian Day
• Thursday 4^th September – Father’s Day/ Special Person Day Stall
• Friday 5^th September – Curriculum Day
• Monday 15^th September – Celebration Week
• Friday 19^th September – Celebration Week Dress Up Day and Book Parade
• Friday 19^th September – End of Term 3 (2:30pm dismissal)

In Literacy students will be:

• Engaging in daily fluency reading to improve expression, rate and accuracy of reading.
• Engaging in daily phonological exposure to explore a variety of spelling rules and patterns.
• Learning to use letter sound knowledge to blend letter sounds together to read words and sentences.
• Introduced to the core knowledge units of the First Australians, Australia and its Neighbours, and Celebrations of Different Cultures where students will answer a range of literal, inferential and evaluative questions to build their background knowledge.
• Participating in daily formal handwriting sessions learning how to form letters correctly and how to correctly hold a pencil.
• Engaging in genre writing, exploring the text structure and features of a narrative text.
• Completing sentence stems starting with a subordinating conjunction to form a complex sentence. 
• Combining and punctuating sentences using subordinating conjunctions.
• Identifying appositives in sentences and match appositives to nouns and noun phrases.
• Combining two sentences and match appositives to nouns and noun phrases.

In Mathematics students will be:

• Using the CUBES strategy to solve multiplication and division word problems.
• Representing multiplication and division problems with bar models.
• Creating multiplication and division number sentences from word problems
• Recognising angles as a measurement of turn.
• Identifying right angles.
• Reading analogue times to the quarter hour, five minutes and to the minute.
• Identifying certain and impossible chance events.
• Identifying likely and unlikely chance events.
• Writing digital times.
• Matching analogue and digital times.
• Identifying, describing and naming three-dimensional objects.
• Using a calculator for multiplication and division.

In Inquiry students will be learning about Geography through:

• 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:

• Help-seeking
• Gener norms and stereotypes
• Positive gender relations

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

Important Dates:

• Friday 6^th June – Curriculum Day
• Monday 9^th June – King’s Birthday
• Wednesday 2^nd July – 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 fluency reading to improve their expression, rate and accuracy of reading.
• learning to use their letter sound knowledge to blend letter sounds together to read words and sentences.
• introduced to the Core Knowledge units of Ancient Rome and The Vikings where students will answer a range of literal, inferential and evaluative questions to build their background knowledge.
• explicitly taught content specific vocabulary related to the Knowledge units they will explore.
• 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:

• Finding unknown values in addition and subtraction equations.
• Writing the standard and non-standard expanded form for numbers up to six digits.
• Planning a sequence of events and estimating duration.
• Identifying halves, quarters, thirds, fifths and tenths of collections.
• Exploring the connection between multiplication and division.
• Create number patterns with digital tools and design algorithms to generate number sets.
• Comparing, ordering, counting, making, naming and recording numbers to 6 digits and beyond.
• Extend their understanding of addition and subtraction.
• Explore data representation including writing survey questions and using software to sort data and perform calculations.

In Inquiry students will be:

• Building their background knowledge and showcasing their understandings of Knowledge units of Ancient Rome and The Vikings with a focus on History.

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.

Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning:

In addition to supporting your child to complete the Expected Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning tasks each week, you may also like to encourage your child to select one or more of the following tasks:

• 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…).

Important Dates:

• Wednesday 12^th March – Photo Day
• Monday 11^th March – Labour Day
• Monday 17^th March – Cross Country
• Week 7 – 8 – NAPLAN testing
• Friday 4^th April – Last Day of Term 1

In Literacy students will be:

• In Term 1, Grade 3 students will be engaged in the Core Knowledge unit, The Wind in the Willows. 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.