Year 3B
Week 5 Newsletter – Year 3B
Hi Parents and Carers,
What a start to our year in Year 3B! I can’t believe we are already halfway through the term. It has certainly been busy, with lots of learning and exciting activities happening in the classroom and at school.
This term in reading, students have been working in groups and participate in reading groups four times a week. During reading groups, students have the opportunity to build their word recognition, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension skills through different activities, and through modelled, shared, guided and independent reading.
In mathematics, students have been exploring place value and numbers beyond 10,000. They have done a fantastic job so far at representing and comparing numbers using MAB Blocks, in thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. As a whole class we complete daily mathematics warm up’s that readily prepare students for the lesson through activities such as continuing number patterns, number of the day, expanding numbers and friends of ten.
We have had lots of fun exploring persuasive writing in English so far this term. Students have reviewed nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, whilst also being exposed to new learning through introducing high modality words, emotive language and time connectives in their writing. As a class, we are currently co-constructing our own piece of persuasive writing on ‘Why St Joseph’s School must have a pool!’. Following this class co-construction students will gradually begin planning and writing their own pieces of persuasive writing.
Entries and exits have been the focus in handwriting during the first five weeks of learning in our classroom. Students have been practicing their entries and exits on letters such as w, m, n, a, and h. The aim of entries and exits in handwriting it to ultimately improve students’ accuracy, legibility and efficiency when writing.
To the student’s excitement, we began our swimming lessons this week! Participating in swimming lessons builds pool safety and awareness, as well as helps students to learn a variety of swimming strokes and floating and streamlining techniques.
Week 8 brings the beginning of NAPLAN for Year 3. This is the students first year of participating in NAPLAN and although it can be a nervous time for students, please encourage them that it is a time that they can show everything they know and have learnt so far throughout their years at school! NAPLAN will be completed online via laptops this year. More information on dates, sessions and times will be sent out to families in the coming weeks.
Thank you to all of the families that have taken homework, swimming and the beginning of the school year in their stride! It has certainly made the beginning of Year 3 smooth, and I know that you children appreciate everything that you do for them to get them ready for school each and every day.
Reminders
- Homework will continue to be issued each Monday and is expected to be returned completed each Friday morning.
- Thursday’s – Swimming – PE Uniform
- Library borrowing day is Monday
- Week 7 – Friday 8th March (International Women’s Day) – Year 3B presenting on Assembly
- Week 9 – Wednesday 20th March – Parent Teacher Interviews
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to me via SeeSaw messages or email – mlehmann@cns.catholic.edu.au
Kindest regards,
Maddi Lehmann
Year 3B Classroom Teacher
