Term 4 Overview 2025

Grade 3 

3A: Virginia Greenwood          3B: Steve Hallam        3E 3E Leah Dusenjko

3C: Tracey Sullivan               3D: Jessica Moree 

Weekly schedule:

PE and HEALTH - 3B, 3C and 3E: Wednesday, 3A and 3D: Tuesday

ART – 3C & 3D: Wednesday & 3A, 3B and 3E: Thursday

PERFORMING ARTS - 3B: Tuesday, 3A & 3D: Wednesday & 3E & 3C: Thursday

AUSLAN – 3E: Tuesday, 3A and 3B: Wednesday, 3C and 3D: Thursday

Library - 3E: Wednesday, 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D: Friday

Important Dates

17th October - Festival of Colours

3rd November - Curriculum Day - No School for students

4th November - Melbourne Cup Day - No school for students

6th November - Scienceworks Excursion

11th November - Remembrance Day service

10th December - Step Up Day 

12th December - Curriculum Day       

19th December - Last day of school. Finish @ 12:15pm

Learning

In Term 4, the Grade 3 students are focusing on the following:

• Reading: We are focusing on predicting, visualising, and summarising texts while exploring vocabulary across a wide range of narratives. Students continue to practise reading with fluency and expression to improve their comprehension and oral skills.
• Writing: Our focus is on learning new vocabulary and understanding text structures, specifically the OREO persuasive writing framework (Opinion, Reason, Example, Opinion restated). Students will apply this knowledge by writing their own persuasive letters to the council, advocating for the planting of new trees in their community
• Numeracy: In Numeracy this term, we will be focusing on Number and Place Value, learning to partition (break apart) two- and three-digit numbers and order numbers beyond 10,000. We will use these skills to solve addition and subtraction problems without a calculator. Students will also develop their estimation skills to check if their answers are reasonable. In Measurement, we will explore angles as 'measures of turn' and practice reading time to the nearest minute. Finally, we will investigate Chance by conducting experiments, recording the outcomes, and discussing the results.

• Wellbeing: This term we are focusing on building positive relationships and a supportive classroom community. Students will learn what it means to be an upstander rather than a bystander, exploring how their words and actions can impact the feelings and wellbeing of others. Through class discussions, role plays, and group activities, we will practise ways to show kindness, include others, and stand up safely when we see unfair or unkind behaviour. We will also work on collaboration skills, learning how to listen, share ideas, and solve problems together so we can be a great team.
• Inquiry: During Term 4 students will be investigating Earth and its relationship to the sun and other planets. As a part of this they will find out how the Earth moves and how this affects seasons and also how this helps us measure time. We will visit the Planetarium at Scienceworks to complement the in class learning. Students will design and build a “solar oven” and predict and record the ways different items change their state of matter. Students will investigate solids, liquids and gases and how outside influences can change an item’s state of matter.
• Digitech: Students will begin learning coding. This will include planning the steps, identifying If/Then statements and using Scratch to create simple codes to achieve an end result.

Home Learning

Home Reading – read every day for at least 20 min using books borrowed from the library.

Finish any unfinished class tasks sent home to complete.