Grade 3 Term 2 Curriculum News 2022

Can you believe it is Term Two already? The Grade 3s have been working hard in Term One and are doing a fantastic job at developing their independence and resilience. We have appreciated the support parents & guardians have given students in order to encourage this with their children as well. We greatly appreciate the donation of tissues to our classrooms and if your child is yet to bring in a box, we would appreciate this donation.

LITERACY
This term, we will be developing the student’s comprehension strategies. We will be focusing on re-reading and monitoring our understanding, activating our prior knowledge and inferring in both fiction and nonfiction texts. We will continue to emphasise the importance of selecting ‘Just Right’ books to enable students to practice these strategies. The students Reading Journals will continue to serve as a tool to track their individual goals and their daily reading,

In Writing, the students will continue to explore the Writer’s Workshop. We will continue to emphasise the importance of using our Writer’s Notebooks to develop and stretch our ideas. Students will also begin to explore the 6+1 Traits of Writing which includes organisation, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, ideas and presentation. We will explore how authors use these to ensure their writing makes sense and interests their target audience. We encourage students to find authentic purposes for their writing and would appreciate parents supporting these endeavours at home as well.
A reminder that the following resources are available for home reading support:
Epic: https://www.getepic.com/ Your child’s teacher will have sent home your class Epic code.
Sunshine online – Username: LLPS3212 Password: LLPS3212

NUMERACY
In Mathematics this term, the children will learn about a range of concepts, skills and strategies. These include repeated addition linking multiplication and multiplication facts. The students will use centimetres, square centimetres and metres to measure, order and compare with a focus on area and perimeter. The students will identify angles and compare angle sizes in everyday situations. They will work towards an understanding of location with a view to create and interpret simple grid maps to show position and pathways. They will identify and describe key features of three-dimensional objects. They will also continue an emphasis on recalling basic number facts quickly and accurately (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). It would be appreciated if you could help your child to learn these facts at home in addition to their homework. Families can also support at home by encouraging your child to play games involving counting and number facts.

INQUIRY
During Term 2, students in Grade 3 will be working collaboratively on our topic, ‘The Arrival’. As part of this unit, students will:

• Identify and explain the causes and effects of European settlement and exploration
• Investigate stories of the First Fleet, including causes and reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their experiences and perspectives following arrival.
• The nature of contact between Aboriginal peoples, and the effects of these interactions

We look forward to continuing the connection between school and home in Term Two. Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher. Compass continues to be our main form of communication. Alternatively, you can contact the office directly for more urgent matters. We ask that if you need to speak with your child’s teacher, that you organise a phone call at a mutually appropriate time. The team will endeavour to reply to any queries as soon as possible.

The Grade Three Team