Curriculum Outline Term 2

Grade 3 

3A: Virginia Greenwood   3B: Steven Hallam

3C: Tracey Sullivan           3D: Jessica Moore

Weekly schedule:

PE and HEALTH - 3A -Tuesday 3B & 3C - Wednesday 3D - Tuesday

ART – 3C & 3B - Wednesday 3A & 3B  - Friday

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

AUSLAN – 3A & 3B - Wednesday 3C & 3D - Thursday

Library - 3B Friday 3A even weeks Friday. 3C & 3D Friday

Important Dates

Week 1 is a 3 day week Athletics on Wednesday

week 3 Mother’s Day stall

Week 6 Reconciliation  - Cultural incursion and Wild Action Incursion

week 7 Grade 2 transition

Learning

In Term 2, the Grade 3 students are focusing on the following:

• English –   exploring the difference between narratives and information texts and learning about text features, along with a focus on reading fluency. Students will be focussing on phonics and sentence structure while students create information texts related to their chosen animals for Inquiry
• In Mathematics, students will develop their understanding of number and place value, including working with numbers up to five digits. They will build fluency in addition and subtraction strategies, explore multiplication and division concepts, and begin working with fractions.
  In non-number topics, students will investigate time, measure and compare length and mass, explore the properties of 2D shapes, and learn how to collect, represent, and interpret data.
• Inquiry – Students will be learning how animals are classified into different groups based on their observable characteristics.  To show their understanding students will be completing a project based on their chosen Australian animal and what they have learnt about their appearance, habitat, threats and how people are helping to improve the survival of these animals.

• Wellbeing - This term students will continue to learn some skills needed to regulate their feelings. They will learn to identify their strengths and those of others. Students will learn to work together cooperatively and energetically and to aim to uphold the school values.

• Digitech - Students will begin to learn how to type texts on a keyboard using correct fingers for keys. They will also learn how to word process including creating different punctuation in Google docs.

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.