Year 3 Term 2 Overview 2022
Term overview
Welcome to Term Two … time does fly! So much has been covered this Semester and everyone has been working hard to achieve great results. It is most important that we continue doing our best to improve in every possible way.
Organisation
It is imperative that students are organised and that they have all equipment needed each day to be the best learners they can be. Students are required to be in class and unpacked by 8:50am so they are ready to start by 9am. An early bedtime routine (scientists recommend 10-11 hours’ sleep per night) and a healthy diet will assist your child in performing fully while at school.
Equipment & Materials
Please check with your child regularly throughout the year to ensure they have everything they need for school, particularly consumables and easily misplaced items such as pencils, erasers, glue, rulers etc.
Assessment and Reporting
Assessment this Term will be completed between weeks 7 and 9, ready for Semester 1 Report Cards to be emailed out in Week 10.
Attendance
How to report an absence:
- Email attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au or
- Call the school's absence line on 4057 1444, then press #1 and don't forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, or
- Send a note to the classroom teacher on their return
Our schools attendance target is 95%
English
Narratives
Students listen to, view and read a novel to explore the authors’ use of descriptive language in the construction of characters. Students read an extract from the novel and answer questions using comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning of the text. They write a short imaginative narrative based on a familiar theme.
Reading / spelling
Our school is implementing a systematic synthetic phonics approach that has a teaching sequence for reading and spelling which goes across the entire school. This provides teachers with an innovative, evidence-based approach to literacy and advocates that children’s literacy and learning outcomes are maximized when the areas of literacy, oral language and movement & motor skills are simultaneously targeted. With this change, we will be working with decodable texts instead of predictable texts in the teaching of reading.
Maths
In this unit students apply a variety of mathematical concepts in real-life, lifelike and purely mathematical situations.
- Number and place value - compare and order three-digit numbers, partition three-digit numbers into place value parts, investigate 1 000, count to and beyond 1 000, use place value to add and subtract numbers, recall addition number facts, add and subtract three-digit numbers, add and subtract numbers eight and nine, solve addition and subtraction word problems, double and halve multiples of ten.
- Fractions and decimals - describe fractions as equal portions or shares; represent halves, quarters and eighths of shapes and collections; represent thirds of shapes and collections.
- Money and financial mathematics - count collections of coins and notes, make and match equivalent combinations, calculate change from simple transactions, solve a range of simple problems involving money.
- Patterns and algebra - infer pattern rules from familiar number patterns, identify and continue additive number patterns, identify missing elements in number patterns.
- Shape - identify and describe the features of familiar three-dimensional objects, make models of three-dimensional objects.
- Location and transformation - represent positions on a simple grid map, show full, half and quarter turns on a grid map, describe positions in relation to key features, represent movement and pathways on a simple grid map.
- Geometric reasoning - identify angles in the environment, construct angles with materials, compare the size of familiar angles in everyday situations.
Science
Heating Up (Physical Sciences)
Heat is important to us in many ways in our everyday lives. We use heat in practical ways, such as drying our hair, cooking our dinner and warming our water. We enjoy the feel of the Sun’s warmth on our skin on a spring day or the satisfying warmth of holding a cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter’s night. But we also know about the dangers of heat and react instinctively when we touch a hot stove or walk barefooted on hot sand. However, heat also preoccupies us. We worry about things being too hot or too cold—the daily temperature, our coffee, our food, the water in the shower, how we sleep.
The Heating up unit is an ideal way to link science with literacy in the classroom. It provides opportunities for students to investigate different heat sources and how heat moves from one object to another. Through hands-on activities, students investigate the difference in conductivity of materials.
HASS
Our Unique Communities (continuation from last term)
In this unit students:
- Identify individuals, events and aspects of the past that have significance in the present
- Identify and describe aspects of their community that have changed and remained the same over time
- Explain how and why people participate in and contribute to their communities
- Identify a point of view about the importance of different celebrations and commemorations to different groups
- Pose questions and locate and collect information from sources, including observations to answer questions and draw simple conclusions
- Sequence information about events and the lives of individuals in chronological order
- Communicate their ideas, findings and conclusions in visual and written forms using simple discipline-specific terms.
Homework
At Trinity Beach State School, regular Home Reading is a priority. Please check your child is bringing home up to two library books per week. Please read with them during the week. Children will also be encouraged to borrow books from our Library for enjoyment and relaxation.
HPE
The Year 3 students will develop the fundamental movement skills of running, jumping and throwing. They will practise and refine these skills in individual based activities in preparation for the athletics carnival at the end of the term. In Health, students continue to identify influences that strengthen identities. They investigate how emotional responses vary and how to interact positively with others.
Music
In this unit, students will appreciate and analyse the music of Mussorgsky. Through this, they will learn about dynamics, legato and staccato, tied notes and slurs. They will consolidate their knowledge of C-Pentatonic scale. They will learn about string instruments in an orchestra. Students will be introduced to the ABA musical form.
Drama
'Our Special Place'
Students continue working in groups to create, present and respond to a drama story that expresses their ideas and feelings about their special place in the school.
Assessment schedule
| LEARNING AREA | UNIT OUTLINE | TASK | DUE DATE |
| ENGLISH | In this unit students listen to, view and read a novel to explore the authors' use of descriptive language in the construction of characters. Students read an extract from the novel and answer questions using comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning of the text. They write a short imaginative narrative based on a familiar theme. | Task 1- Written Students write an imaginative narrative Task 2- Reading Comprehension | Week 8 |
| MATHS | Students develop understandings of:
| Short answer questions | Week 5 Week 8 |
| SCIENCE | The Heating up unit is an ideal way to link science with literacy in the classroom. It provides opportunities for students to investigate different heat sources and how heat moves from one object to another. Through hands-on activities, students investigate the difference in conductivity of materials. | Written investigation | Week 8 |
| HASS | Our Unique Communities
| Written | Week 8 |
| HPE | Athletics Health | Written | Week 3 |
| MUSIC | Making — Composing Create a rhythm and write it in canon at 2 beats. Responding Responding through an aural written test that includes recognition, application and analysis of known concepts and Art and World music. | Responding and performing | Week 7-9 |
| DRAMA | Our Special Place | Performing Responding | Week 5/6 Term 2 |
Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
3A Kate Archer karch11@eq.edu.au
3B Steve Kotzikas sskot0@eq.edu.au
3C Alison Simpson-Taylor asimp26@eq.edu.au
3D Carly Smyth cxsmy0@eq.edu.au
3ETimena Rhodes – trhod8@eq.edu.au & Ariel Ballou – nabal2@eq.edu.au
3F Christina Stanfield Roche - cesta0@eq.edu.au