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This Term, the Year 1 students have been building on their number and place value knowledge. They have been working in a variety of ways by experimenting with many forms of making and naming numbers through hands on and small group activities.
Students have used hands on materials to represent numbers and understand what they physically represent.
This Term, the Grade 3 students have been developing their understanding on place value of 4 digit numbers. They have been completing problem solving tasks that require them to apply place value to model, partition, rearrange and regroup numbers.
The Grade 3’s created place value flowers, that they used to add and subtract from using a 4 digit number. They utilised a range of mental math strategies while completing their task. The students have also been creating number expanders and using place value arrows and MAB to rename 4 digit numbers.
Below are some pictures of the students’ learning tasks.
Grade 3 Term One Overview
Welcome Grade 3 students and parents to 2020! We have had an exciting start to Term 1! Teaching this year in 3A is Marissa Reilly, in 3B is Ashlee Zuvela and in 3C is Jodi MacDonald. We look forward to getting to know all of the Grade 3 students over the coming weeks. Below is an overview outlining what the students will be learning this term and information about the school events that are taking place.
Reading
Throughout the term, students will be continuing to develop fluency, accuracy, decoding and comprehension skills in reading. Students will explore Fountas and Pinnell reading and comprehension strategies to target their individual reading needs. Students will participate in reading activities, including Guided Reading and independent tasks to practise these skills. Students are expected to complete 15 minutes of reading at home at least 5 nights a week.
Writing
This term, students will be students will be writing recounts and narratives. They will continue to develop strategies to engage their readers and develop correct sentence structure and punctuation. Students will complete weekly Home Talk in preparation for their Big Write on Thursdays and will be completing weekly Spellodrome homework.
Numeracy
This term in Maths, students will be continuing to develop their place value number knowledge. The Grade 3s will also be exploring statistics and probability. They will be completing learning tasks that collect data and they will be creating displays using lists, tables, picture graphs and column graphs. Students will complete weekly homework tasks on Mathletics.
Inquiry
Throughout the term, students will be exploring new concepts in Inquiry about Civics and Citizenship. Students will be learning about how and why rules and laws are made and they will be exploring features of government and democracy.
School events
Term 1 has lots of exciting events for the Grade 3 students. On the 11th of March students will participate in Multicultural Day. On the 20th of March students will run in the school’s Cross Country. On the 25th of March the Grade 3s will be watching the performance called ‘Bully Zero’ in the hall.
Kind regards,
Grade 3 Team
The Grade 3 students had an amazing time exploring the beautiful surrounding of the Botanical Gardens on Friday. This term, the Grade 3’s have been learning about different types of biomes and ecosystems in their Inquiry unit.
The day was filled with lots of walking and exploring the different types of environments and plants that the gardens have to offer. The students compared biotic and abiotic features found in wetlands, arid landscapes, Australian forests, bamboo forests, tropical environments and rain forests.
Over the last couple of weeks, students in Grade Three and Four have been working on their Italian Passports as part of the ‘Travelling Around the World’ unit. Students included personal details such as their date of birth and address as well as their nationalities. Throughout the lessons, students learned how to write and translate all of their information into Italian! They are now ready to travel the world!
The Grade 3’s have had a busy start to their Term 3. Following the writing process, students have enjoyed sharing wonderful holiday memories through their written recounts. During math sessions, students have been consolidating their knowledge of place value through a range of different activities such as games, MAB, think sheets, digital media and focus groups.
Inquiry
This term, the Grade 3’s inquiry topic is ‘Ecosystems’.Through this engaging topic, students will investigate an ecosystem and how it is made up of living (biotic/biological) and non-living (abiotic) components that work together. They will learn that an Ecosystems exist in many different physical environments and discover there are different categories of ecosystems. During week 5, students will go on an excursion to the Royal Botanical Gardens and build on their learnt knowledge of ecosystems and what can have negative and positive influences on them.
Reading
In Reading, students will continue to participate in daily reciprocal reading and complete weekly roles focusing on strengthening their use of reading strategies; link maker (making connections), summariser, visualiser, questioner, predictor, clarifier and illustrator. During shared reading, students will be exposed to a range of different genres and topics, linking their reading of Non Fiction texts to our Inquiry topic.
Writing
During writing sessions, students will continue following the writing process and participating in VCOP sessions including BIG Writes and COLD Writes. They will further build on Up-Leveling their writing and extending their vocabulary. This term, students will link their inquiry topic by writing information texts. They will focus on correct structure and the key features of this genre including illustrations and diagrams. During the second half of the term, students will complete a poetry topic. Through this sequence of lessons, students will create a range of different types of poems and utilise figurative language to craft their writing.
Maths
This term in maths, students will build on their understanding of fractions. They will name, label, create and represent fractions in different ways. They will compare fractions and transfer their understanding to real life situations. Students will enhance their ability in reading the time to the minute using an analogue clock. They will build on their understanding of money and consolidate their problem solving skills through real life scenarios. There will be an opportunity for students to be creative when learning about symmetry and utilising 2D shapes to create tessellations. Students will learn about probability and the language of chance in mapping the likelihood of everyday events.
This term, The Grade 3 classes have been further learning about the concept of measurement and measuring the area of a shape. Students have been using familiar metric units and grid paper to calculate the area of shapes.
One of the fun activities students completed was creating their names using the grid paper and calculating the area of each letter and the total area their name covered.
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