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

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