Term 4 Overview

Welcome back to Term 4! It is so hard to believe that we have just started our last term of Year 3. I hope you all had a wonderful, relaxing holiday. This term, there is going to be a big focus on consolidating previous learning to ensure that relevant concepts are understood and mastered. We have a very busy term ahead of us with weekly dance lessons and swimming lessons too. This term we are also going to focus on Computer Skills, in particular, typing and publishing our work.

Below, I have broken down the key concepts that we will be focusing on this term for each Learning Area, to give you an understanding of what we will be doing throughout this term. As you can see, we are going to be very busy this term! 

Maths:
- Four operations: Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- Long division
- Money
- Time
- Mental Maths Strategies
- Mass
- Perpendicular and Parallel Lines
- Learning our 6, 7, 8, 9 times tables with related division facts

Literacy:
- Review yearly content
- Using higher level punctuation, sentence structure and vocabulary
- Figurative language
- Persuasive and Narrative Writing
- Reading Comprehension

Science:
We are going to focus on Biological Science and the classification of animals.

HASS:
Our focus this term is on History. We will be studying our local community and how it has changed and/or stayed the same over time.

Health:
For the whole term we will be focusing on protective behaviors. More information about this will be provided to parents later in the term.

If you have any queries please feel free to come and see me. I am looking forward to another fantastic term together!

Thank you for your ongoing support,
Mrs Caris Szczepanik

Special Day Presentation

Last week, Miss Atterton sent home a research sheet for you to complete for your Special Day Presentation. Thank you to all the Super Stars who have already completed this. Your hard work and determination has been incredible to see.

You will be presenting your researched information throughout Week 10. Please look at the table below to find what day you will be presenting on. There is also a copy on our classroom door.

We look forward to listening to your incredible presentations.

Happy practising! 

Monday 18th of Sept Diya Natalina Jonathan Raj Mevindu Arisha

Tuesday 19th of Sept Bella Sohail Leo Shirlina Yingxin Oliver

Wednesday 20th of Sept Calvin Layla Samantha Pari Isabelle Blayd

Thursday 21st of Sept Tane Steve Harry Mia Charlie Albert

Special Event Presentation

 Dear Families,

We are concluding our Humanities and Social Sciences unit of work this term with some short presentations. We have been busy learning all about special days and weeks that are celebrated or commemorated in Australia and around the world.

The students will choose a celebration or commemoration event to research at home and they will fill out their own presentation plan in dot-point form. It is recommended that students use information texts or the ‘Kiddle’ search engine to source their information. During Week 10, students will use their presentation plan to deliver a short talk to the class about their chosen special event.

Please see the attached task outline and assessment rubric.

Kind Regards,

Miss Atterton

Fire Brigade Incursion

Today we had Platoon A from the Welshpool Fire Station come and visit all Year 3 classes to discuss the very important issue of Fire Safety. Our incursion started with a fire safety talk, where we looked at different images and had to pick the fire hazard out of the pictures. Jayden was very impressed with our knowledge about fire safety and we were able to point out many different fire hazards.

Once we learnt all about different fire hazards, we then learnt what to do if there is a fire at home and at school. Over the next few weeks at school, we will be creating a fire action plan to implement at home if there is a fire!

After we learnt all about fire safety, we got to explore the fire trucks. We were very lucky as we had 3 fire trucks come to our school. Mrs S even got to dress up as a fire fighter, but she found the suit was very heavy. We all laughed at her because she looked very funny! The fire fighters were very nice and let us squirt the water from the hoses. It was so much fun!

Some of the main messages we got form this incursion were:
- Call 000 if there is a fire emergency
- If you hear the smoke alarm going off at home, the most important thing is to get out of the house and away from the fire. Don't try to get your favourite toy or your family. They will be waiting for you outside.
- You must keep everything a meter from the heater.
- If there is a fire, drop down low and go go go.
- Matches and lighters aren't toys they are tools.
- Firefighters don't just put out fires they do many, many different jobs. Some of these include rescuing people from car crashes, saving animals, helping people who get locked out of their cars.

We had such a great incursion! Thank you Platoon A!

Fire brigade incursion from carisheppener

Book Week

During Week 6 our school celebrated Book Week by having a Book Week Parade. We all looked amazing dressed up as book characters! Throughout the week, our class also participated in some really fun Book Week activities. We had to choose our favourite book and redesign a cover for that book. We also had to write a book report to tell others in our class what that book was about. We think they look amazing and we hope you will come and see our Book Week activity at our Learning Journey in Week 10.

After our Book Week Parade, we met with our buddy class, Mrs McIlwraith's Year 5 class, and read them our favourite book. We had a great afternoon reading with our buddies!

Book week parade from carisheppener

Fractions

Over the last few weeks in Mathematics we have been busy learning all about fractions! We have learnt how to identify numerators and denominators, compare and order fractions, find equivalent fractions, express fractions in their simplest form, find the lowest common denominator and how to add and subtract fractions.

During our class discussions, we have really enjoyed connecting our fractions learning to real-life experiences. We have talked about the importance of fractions in our daily lives, such as cutting a cake or pizza into fractions! We have played some fun games together in our groups, such as fractions bingo and completed multiple fractions challenges.

Mrs Szczepanik and Miss Atterton have been so impressed with our persistence and determination to master fractions! We are excited to move onto our next Mathematics focus, which will be area.

Assembly

This morning our class hosted the Senior Assembly with Room 19. Our assembly was all about Poetry and we took an exciting trip to Poetry Land. We performed 3 short plays which were really funny! We had a great time performing and used brilliant expression. Mrs S and Miss Atterton are so proud of us and can’t believe we could remember all of those poems off by heart! Thank you to all our parents for helping us with our costumes and getting us to school earlier. We hope you enjoyed our assembly as much as we did.

Not only did we do a brilliant job reciting our poems, but our class also took out the Literacy Pro award for having the highest quiz pass rate. We have been working so hard on reading books at our level and understanding what they mean. It is great to see all our hard work paying off!

Huge congratulations must go to Jonathan for winning the Science Award and Samantha for winning the Values Award. We are all very proud of you. Layla, Blayd, Sohail and Calvin also received Merit Certificates which are very well deserved, so well done to you all.

Our Science Award winner! Well done Jonathan!

Our Merit Award winners!

Literacy Pro Certificate winners!

Values Award winner. Well done Sam!

Congratulations on winning the Literacy Pro trophy Room 16!