Grade 3

What a fantastic first half of the year! We’re looking forward to another great term of learning ahead.

INTEGRATED STUDIES

Our Integrated Studies unit this term is “Designing a Difference - Food and Our Planet”. We will be investigating ways of producing food and fibre, and where our food comes from before it gets to our plate. We are looking forward to visiting Edendale Farm where we will explore our food footprint, sustainable farming and how to reduce waste by shopping smarter. 

MATHS

In Maths this term we will be reinforcing the learning taught in Semester 1 as well as introducing some new topics. We will be learning about shape, multiplication, division and money. As always, we encourage all students to practise their maths skills at home in their everyday lives and practise the recall of their times tables.

SPELLING AND HANDWRITING

In Term 3 we will continue to investigate words to assist students to become metacognitive, strategic spellers. We will explore various grapheme-phoneme correspondences, word families, prefixes and suffixes, morphology, compound words and homophones.

In Handwriting, the Grade 3’s will be practising joined cursive handwriting and will work towards gaining their pen licence. We know the students are very excited by this! 

WRITING

In Writing this term we will be exploring writing seeds and using this as motivation to create ideas for writing. Students will be given many opportunities to respond to these seeds by using the structure of a range of text types, particularly narratives and information reports. Students will work to add more complexity and detail to their sentences as we learn more about the features and types of sentences.

READING 

We will continue with our Workshop Model in Reading in which students learn strategies to support their comprehension, accuracy, fluency and reading with expression. We will focus on a different strategy each week. Students will practise these strategies and reading aloud as they practise reading in fluency pairs each week.

DIGITECH

The Grade 3s will commence DigiTech with their classroom teachers in Term 3. Students will be learning how to create, evaluate and safely use technology. They will have 6 sessions through the term. 

SWIMMING

In Week 2, the Grade 3 students will be participating in daily 1 hour swimming lessons at Knox Leisure Works. Thank you to our parents who have already volunteered to help with swimming! Please let your child’s teacher know if you can help as we still have gaps to fill for student supervision.

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