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 11^th of March students will participate in Multicultural Day. On the 20^th of March students will run in the school’s Cross Country. On the 25^th of March the Grade 3s will be watching the performance called ‘Bully Zero’ in the hall. 

Kind regards,

Grade 3 Team