The Year 3s have had a great time at school, both this fortnight and in the last week of Term 2.
In the last week of last term, we finished up our electives and cooked, played sport, created art, were mindful and watched experiments. We were also very fortunate to listen to the author of our novel study ‘Brindabella’, Ursula Dubosarsky, via Zoom. She told us about growing up, how she became an author and all her different books. Special thanks Miss T for helping us out with your magical connections, the kids really loved listening to a real life author and from this feedback, she had a ball with us too!
"That was delightful - the children were just lovely - and so well-behaved! Great questions too.” - Ursula Dubosarsky
So far this term, in reading, we have started a literature focus where we are responding to texts. We have all been split into groups and we have a book that we are studying. Each lesson, we read an allotted amount of pages and then discuss themes such as characters, settings and events. We are finding this very enjoyable and look forward to continuing.
In Writing, we are beginning our focus on informative texts. So far this term, we have looked at the types of informative texts and their structure. We have also looked at the difference between a fact and an opinion and which type we would generally find in an information text.
Our Connected Learning topic this term is Science Challenge. This week, we discussed the concept of discovery. We thought about the importance of discoveries and how things are made and all the things that were required to make things like cars, bridges, laptops, schools, cars and supermarkets.
In Maths, we started the topic of fractions. We have been working with halves, quarters, fifths and tenths.
We can’t wait to continue to do our best and learn more this term.