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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.

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:

• 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…).