Year 3 Term 3 Overview 2022
Term overview
Welcome back to TBSS, Term 3. We hope you all had a safe and happy holiday and look forward to a very productive and successful 10 week term. We would like to take this opportunity to tell you what your children will be learning this term and let you know some of our expectations.
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.
Hats and Shoes
Broad-brimmed or bucket hats and shoes are compulsory at Trinity Beach, so please ensure your child always has these and that they are clearly named.
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.
Religious Instruction
Religion classes will commence Monday week 2. During this time, students who do not participate in Religious Instruction, will be doing a values lesson. Please contact the front office if you wish to change your child’s religious preference.
Personal Items - Departmental guidelines stipulate that to help maintain hygiene regulations, all students are to avoid bringing personal items to school. These include toys and other items that may result in other students sharing contact with the personal items.
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
Engaging with Poetry
In this unit, students listen to, read, view and adapt poems featuring a setting. They analyse texts by exploring the context, purpose and audience and how language features and language devices can be adapted to create new meaning. Students will write and present an adaptation of a poem to an audience using appropriate speaking skills. We will be going on an exciting excursion in week 7 to the beach this term for poetry inspiration.
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 – count and manipulate numbers beyond 1000, represent multiplication in various ways, including part-part-whole relationships, recall and represent addition, subtraction and multiplication facts
- Patterns and algebra - identify number patterns to 10 000, identify pattern rules to find missing elements in patterns and continue number patterns to 10, 000
- Units of measurement - order, compare and measure objects using metric units, explain measurement choices, measure length, represent and tell time to the minute on digital and analogue clocks and transfer knowledge of time to real-life contexts.
Science
Melting Moments
Every day we see or use things that have been melted or frozen, heated or cooled. All around us are items that we find both useful and attractive that have been moulded into different shapes using heating and cooling. These can range from cast iron frying pans and plastic rubbish bins to chocolate bilbies. Understanding the properties of materials and how they change state under different conditions can help scientists to develop even more extraordinary products to help improve our quality of life.
The Melting moments unit is an ideal way to link science with literacy in the classroom. While exploring how solids or liquids are influenced by temperature, students experience and articulate the way items from their everyday lives can change.
HASS
How and why are places similar and different?
In this unit, students identify connections between people and the characteristics of places. They describe the diverse characteristics of different places at the local scale and explain the similarities and differences between the characteristics of these places. Through interpret and record data, explain the purpose of rules in their community and share their views on an issue related to rule-making.
Homework
Reading - At Trinity Beach State School, regular Home Reading is a priority. Please read with them during the week. Children will be encouraged to borrow books from our Library for enjoyment and relaxation.
HPE
In PE, students in year three will perform specialised tennis skills and combine movement concepts and strategies during games. Students will also demonstrate fair play and skills to work collaboratively during tennis activities and games. In Health, students investigate the concepts of physical activity and sedentary behaviours while exploring the recommendations of physical activity for five to twelve year olds. They examine the benefits of physical activity and investigate ways to increase physical activity in their lives.
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
Students will develop mime improvisations based on sport and fitness activities. They will sustain and build belief in roles and use drama elements to create effects like freeze frames and slow motion. Students will explore gestures and postures and how they relate to and reveal character.
Assessment schedule
| LEARNING AREA | UNIT OUTLINE | TASK | DUE DATE |
| ENGLISH | Create a Poem of the senses Poetry Presentation Poetry Reading Comprehension | Written & oral | Week 6-8 |
| MATHS | Measurement (Length, Mass, Capacity Time to the nearest minute Patterning and Connecting Addition and Subtraction | Written | Week 5 Week 7 Week 9 |
| SCIENCE | To conduct an investigation about liquids and solids changing state when heat is added or taken away | Written | Week 7 & 8 |
| HASS | Students identify, describe and interpret data about Australian places and explain the importance of making decisions democratically, the role of rules in the community and action in response to an issue. | Written | Term 4 |
| HPE | Health - I am healthy and active PE - Game, set and match | Written | Week 9 & 10 |
| MUSIC | Singing the core song ‘Who’s that tapping on my window’ with lyrics, solfa and handsigns, and rhythm names and playing an ostinato on glockenspiel. | Practical | Week 7 & 8 |
| DRAMA | Students perform in a whole class improvisation about a crowd gathering in a stadium before a major event using slo-mo, freezing and ‘normal’ speed mimes. | Practical | Term 4 week 5 |
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