What’s Happening in Grade 3 in Term 4, 2025
Important Dates:
- Monday 6th October – First day of Term 4
- Friday 31st October – Curriculum Day – Professional Practice Day
- Monday 3rd November – Curriculum Day – Report Writing Day
- Tuesday 4th November – Melbourne Cup Public Holiday
- Friday 19th 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.