Super Scientist Competition

A huge congratulations to all the incredible Year 3s of Room 16 for the ginormous effort that you all put into your Science presentations. I learnt so many incredible facts about your choosen animal. Well done!

I would also like to thank all the fabulous parents of Room 16 who helped prepare for these amazing presentations. Thank you for your ongoing support!

A special congratulations to Raj and Arisha, who were the Super Scientist Winners from our class. Raj did a magnificent presentation about Bengal Tiger and Arisha told us all about the Orca Whales. Impressive work Raj and Arisha!

Super science from carisheppener

Sharing a Hills Christmas

Dear Parents and Carers, 

Last year Wattle Grove Primary School families were involved in providing food and gifts for Christmas parcels that where distributed to needy local families. We are again asking for your help to support this local endeavour by donating items needed to make up these Christmas hampers.

Each class will be asked to kindly donate items. The list is a guide line only.  All donations will need to be in by Wednesday 6^th December. 

Rooms 1, 2&3: Biscuits/cereal/gifts for children (e.g. toys, books, games)

Rooms 4, 5&6: Wrapping paper/pasta and pasta sauce/condiments

Rooms 7, 8 &9: Tea/coffee, & presents for children (e.g. Toys, books, games)

Rooms 10, 11, &12: Christmas puddings/ tinned fruit/cool drinks

Rooms 13, 14, 15: lollies/candy cane/potato chips/nuts/fruit juice

Rooms 16, 17, 18: Custard (long life)/cream (long life)/milk (long life)/lollies

Rooms 19, 20, 21, 22, 23: Presents for teenagers and adults (e.g. toiletries, makeup, books, chocolates, tea towels, notepaper, games)

Rooms 24, 25, 26,27,28,29 Christmas cakes/tinned meat/ tinned fruit tinned vegetables/ cool drinks

Thank you for your generosity,

Daphne Bennett

Wattle Grove Primary School Chaplain

Homework Week 5

For those of you who would like to do Week 5 homework or have finished your Science Superstar Presentation, I have put the homework sheet below.

Homework

As we are focusing on the Science Superstar Competition, there will be no homework except for spelling Week 4 and 5. If you still want to complete your homework I have attached the sheet below. Good luck!

Science Superstar Competition

Literacy Pro Reading

Dear Parents,

Just a reminder that students need to complete 2 - 3 Literacy Pro quizzes per week, as part of their homework. Reading is an extremely important skill to develop, and Literacy Pro is a fantastic program, which allows students to not only practise their reading skills but their comprehension skills too. If done continuously, it has enormous positive effects on students reading, which I have had the pleasure of witnessing this year.

As students Literacy Pro levels go up the books becoming more complex texts, such as chapter books. I understand that reading 3 chapter books a week can be a difficult task, so I have asked the students to aim for 2. It is their responsibility to select the books at their level from the Library during their session and/or the classroom book boxes. If they need to get new books from the Library, they can do this before school at 8.30am Tuesday - Friday.

Next week we will be resitting our final Literacy Pro Test to see how much our reading has improved from the start of the year.

Thank you for your ongoing support, as positive parent teacher partnerships lead to a successful education.

Kind regards,
Mrs Caris Szczepanik 

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