25 May 2018

Year 3 Update Wk 31

Tuesday 29th May – Year 1 Bake Sale
Wednesday 30th – May Year 3 Dance Off in the hall 12:45 to 1:30 pm
Monday 18th June – Public Holiday
Monday 25th June – End of Year Reports to parents
Friday 29th June – End of Term 3. School finishes at 12pm.

The children are all now very familiar with the language of the ‘Zones of Regulation’, understanding that their main aim to is to be in the Green Zone at school (ready to learn) but that sometimes you may feel something else. We have been looking at when we feel these different emotions by playing card games and board games. It would be great for the children to have this language reinforced at home. Maybe you might like to play a board game together at home. Talk about when do you feel safe and happy and when might things change? What different behaviours might you see when playing together?

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Our Home Learning and handwriting practice.

In Inquiry this week the children have looked at some behaviours when playing together. They have linked the emotions and behaviours to the zones of regulation to show how they are feeling.

In Maths this week the children have been reviewing different things we have learned this year, including shape and space and pattern and function.They have looked at sorting, describing, comparing and labelling regular and irregular 2D and 3D shapes.

In English this week the children have begin to look our final text type of the year, exposition with the purpose of writing to persuade. So far they have looked at some of the features of a persuasive text. We have also made a start with the last comprehension strategy, making connections, which we will continue with until the end of the year. The children will make links between the text and what they already know. They will be looking at text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world connections.

By working together people can achieve more.

We will be inquiring into:

Shared goals in group situations (connection)
Skills and behaviour that support collaboration (responsibility)
Impact of their behaviour on a shared goal (reflection)

This coming week the children will be learning about why we feel different emotions and what to do when we are not feeling in control. We will be looking at how our brains react and how we can make mindful decisions. We will be watching different videos of the children playing games and looking for different behaviours. We will be continuing with our circle times and Information Literacy lessons.

Multiplication and Division are related and are used to solve problems

The roles of symbols and the language of multiplication and division
Mental and written strategies for multiplication and division
The relationship between multiplication and division

This coming week the children will be learning about different mental multiplication and division strategies (without paper and pencil or using paper and pencil afterwards to show what they did). Here are some of the strategies we will be focussing on,Multiplication: doubling , split strategy, compensations strategy

Division: sharing and grouping, leftovers

and linking multiplication and division facts.

Mathletics passwords are in your child’s diary. Please make sure that an adult supports your child when working through the activities.

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Next week the children will continue to learn and understand about the features that makes a persuasive/ exposition text by highlighting a good example of a persuasive text. and writing a checklist that will prompt writing. We will especially be focussing on expositions about friends. Also this week the children will be collecting vocabulary related to collaboration skills.

Over the next few weeks we will continue to look at the comprehension strategy making connections. The children will make links between the text and what they already know. They will be looking at text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world connections.

PHONICS

Year 3 will read books from Big Universe on a Monday and Friday.

They will borrow home readers on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

We did not have any Golden Book Winners this week as Monday was a Public Holiday. Golden Book Assembly will be back as usual on Monday.

The next two themes will be EXPLORE and ANIMALS.

Students were told the next two themes for their Home Learning. Please encourage your child to choose the theme that interests them. They can decide to use one of the ideas listed or choose their own. We look forward in seeing all the home learning on Wednesday 6th June.

Please make sure that they spend time at the weekend learning their five individualised words. In the back of their Spelling Journal is a list of words for the Unit. Students can learn these if they wish to challenge themselves. You could also use these words to discuss their meaning and put them into sentences together.

Mandarin – All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.

Ms Lynn – Please read this week’s assigned book in Mandarin Matrix。

Ms Xu: 完成Google Classroom功课。记得借书读书。

Student Council Fruity Friday

Please don’t forget to continue to support Fruity Friday. Make sure your child has delicious and healthy snacks each Friday. Thank you to the parents who have been remembering about Fruity Fridays.

Year 3 Update Wk 31

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