Â鶹¹û¶³

What’s Happening in Grade 3 in Term 2, 2025

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…).