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Important Dates
Newsletter Welcome back everyone. We are half way through our year and how times flies!
This term we welcome new students and families to MWNPS and Kimberly
Fitzgerald (Marven) to the 3/4 team who will be teaching on Wednesday and
Thursday. We also welcome Lindsey Bates to the team who will be teaching on
Monday and Tuesday.
This term’s Inquiry topic is ‘Creativity’ where we will be investigating Australian
history through immigration and explorers. In Digital Technologies, students will
deepen their expertise in Microsoft Word and Excel, publishing writing pieces
linked to information reports. In Science, students will participate in physics
experiments looking at forces and heat production. It is an exciting time for
students to be engaged in their learning.
Year 3/4
July 26 Swimming Carnival
July 29-31
Aug 1
Parent Teacher Interviews
Parent Teacher Interviews with an Inter-
preter
Aug 6 Author Visit — Michael Salmon
Aug 19 Students wear hats outside from this date
Aug 22 Footy Colours Day
Aboriginal Culture Incursion
Aug 24 School Open Day (Saturday)
Sep 16
Sep 17
Sep 18
Performance Rehearsal
Whole School Production — Night 1
Whole School Production — Night 2
Sep 20 Last Day of Term
TERM
3
2019
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R E A D I N G A N D V I E W I N G
Students will continue to be
engaged through reading
rotations this term. Students will set personal goals that they
strive to achieve over the course of the term, as they
rotate through four activities with different literary focusses.
We will be looking at comprehension strategies this term,
including locating text and visual features, sequencing texts and visualising. We
will also look at expanding vocabulary, working on the reading accuracy and
their fluency when they read. During library sessions students will completing
Reading Adventure activities to improve their understanding of the texts.
WRITING
In writing this term, students will be studying Information Reports, Procedural
writing and exploring writing used in Media platforms. Writing sessions will focus
on developing various writing skills including writing to specific audiences,
collating information to present in reports, focussing on text structure and using
language features to enhance their writing. Students will edit their own writing;
paying close attention to their spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence and
paragraph structure to ensure their writing is cohesive.
Structured spelling lessons will be included in the weekly
timetable, targeted at developing students’ phonological
awareness. Students will be given weekly spelling lists which
they will be tested on at the beginning of the following
week. Students will be encouraged to include their weekly
spelling words in their writing to further develop their
understanding of the words.
Literacy
CURRICULUM
MATHS
This term students will be
using patterns and algebra to find missing numbers using
function machines. They will investigate transformations
of shapes with symmetrical and tessellating patterns by
flipping, sliding and turning them in their environment.
Students will collect data through surveys, create tables and graphs,
comparing the data sets and analysing their effectiveness. Students are also
encouraged to complete times tables and division patterns for their
homework and mental maths for fast facts.
Numeracy
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION– Miss Edwards In Term 3, Year 3/4 will be participating in volleyball and aerobics units.
Students will practice the skills of setting, digging and serving and
implement these in modified games of volleystars. In aerobics, students
will practice a variety of simple movement skills and creating
movement sequences individually and in groups.
Music – Miss Nicolos In Term 3 in Media, Year 3/4 students will be creating a sequence of images, sounds and
text or a combination of these, to clearly establish the beginning, middle and end of a
story. They will also be applying text to accompany still or moving images, for example
credits in a title sequence selecting appropriate fonts, colour and suitable length of time
for display in a PowerPoint. Year 3/4 students will learn to tell a
story with background sound whilst exploring the layering of
sound effects using an iPad. They will also be learning how to use
responsible media practices when making media artworks, for
example, considering how to represent multiculturalism in a
documentary. As a class, the students will be given opportunities
to describe representations and interpreting meaning in media
artworks from different social, cultural or historical contexts.
SPECIALISTS GERMAN – Frau Sim Year 3/4: Fairytales & Legends
This term in German, students in Year 3/4 have elected to learn
German through a unit about popular German Fairytales and
Legends. By engaging with storybooks, videos, and participating
in games, students will become familiar with German tales such
as “Frau Holle,” and “Rumpelstilzchen.” They will use these texts,
as well as some other classic German fairytales, to develop their
skills in writing and speaking.
STEM– Miss Ellis In Term 3, we introduce STEM to our specialist classes in Year 3/4.
Students will be working in groups to solve problems in Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
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CAMP
We are busily preparing for the Year 3/4 Camp to ‘The Island,’ a camp in Philip Island
from 30th October – 1st November. An expression of interest form will be sent out in the
next few weeks including a deposit to hold your child’s place at camp. Medical and
permission forms will be also be sent out in the near future.
If your child has asthma please ensure you book an appointment with your child’s
doctor to review their asthma plan and complete their camp preparedness form. More
information regarding packing lists, dietary requirements and a suggested payment
plan will be sent home later in the term. We are really looking forward to camp this year,
the camp has great facilities and engaging activities for the students to participate in.
You can learn all about the campsite using their website: http://theisland.cyc.org.au.
For a lot of students this may be their first camp. There are many things you can do to
prepare your child for camp: Having sleepovers at a friend or family member’s house,
packing their own bag to take with them, using public bathroom facilities and eating
communally. We hope to have all of our Year 3/4 students participating in camp. It is a
wonderful opportunity to build community and socialise in a relaxed atmosphere with
peers and teachers.
Naomi Mathews: [email protected]
Ellie Campbell: [email protected]
Andrew Crosby: [email protected]
Lindsey Bates: [email protected]
Kimberly Fitzgerald: [email protected]
THINGS TO REMEMBER School starts at 8:50, by 9:00 we are into our lesson. If a student is late, please sign
in at the office, students must be signed in by their parent.
Please email, Flexibuzz, phone or write a note to your teacher or the school when
your child is absent.
To stop the spread of illness in our level, please keep your child at home when they
are unwell. Home is a much better place for them to recover and minimises the risk
of further illness spreading.
If you haven’t already done so, can you please send a box of tissues for the Year
3/4 learning area.
Please ensure your child is not arriving at school before 8:40am as the yard is not
supervised until this time. Students who are consistently early will be sent to Team
Kids and charged for Before School Care.