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

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

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.

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: mathews.naomi.r@edumail.vic.gov.au

Ellie Campbell: campbell.ellie.r@edumail.vic.gov.au

Andrew Crosby: crosby.andrew.a@edumail.vic.gov.au

Lindsey Bates: bates.martha.l@edumail.vic.gov.au

Kimberly Fitzgerald: marven.kimberly.k@edumail.vic.gov.au

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.