Important Dates

17th Oct: School Performance

Three Billy Goats Gruff &

The Wizard of Oz

18th Oct: School Performance

Eddie The Penguin &

The Wizard of Oz

29th - 31st Oct: Dental Van

1st Nov: Inquiry Incursion

5th Nov: Curriculum Day

6th Nov: Melbourne Cup Day

15th Nov: Media Studies Workshop

7th Dec: Colour Run

13th Dec: Carols Evening

21st Dec: Last day Term 4

Year 3/4 Welcome Back!

Term 4 is here and we‘re back in the thick of it. With our production fast approaching,

students have been practising tirelessly. We had an amazing time at Camp Jungai

including some memorable activities such as possum pull, ropes courses, canoeing,

rafting and decorating and throwing boomerangs. This term we are investigating food

and fibre production from farm to plate in Design Technology. In Digital Technology

students will explore different digital systems and devices to transmit data to provide a

digital solution. They will also build an understanding of Australian Government in

decision making processes, roles and responsibilities in Civics and Citizenship. We look

forward to a jam packed unit of inquiry to finish off the 2018 year.

Camp Jungai

Activities

READING: Term 4 sees students building on their understanding of phonics and

building their vocabulary through a love of reading. They will incorporate

a use of word processing to edit and publish print, visual and audio

elements.

WRITING: To begin the term students will be writing transactional texts including

letters; both formal and informal, text messages, emails, tables and

invitations. In persuasive writing we will be using persuasive devices such

as emotive language through advertising and debating. Students will write

narrative pieces looking closely at the structure and language features to

write interesting stories.

SPELLING, GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION: This term we will be developing an understanding

of letter-sound relationships, blending and segmenting words using long

vowel sounds. Students will increase their vocabulary through a use of

apostrophes, contractions, verb/adverb agreements and clauses.

They will edit for meaning by adding, deleting and moving words.

Literacy

Curriculum

NUMBER & ALGEBRA: Students will investigate equivalent number sentences using

addition and subtraction as inverse operations. They will look at

multiplication and division facts to 10 x 10.

MEASUREMENT & GEOMETRY: Students will identify and describe transformations as

flips/reflections , slides/translations , and turns/rotations. They will

use BOLTS to identify features on a map and give directions.

STATISTICS & PROBABILITY: They will select and trial different methods to collect data

using survey questions and recording sheets. From this data

they will evaluate the effectiveness of their data.

Numeracy

PHYSICAL EDUCATION – Todd Klein

In Physical Education and Health in term 4, the students will be

focussing on Fitness testing, Tennis, Lacrosse, lifelong sports &

working on understanding the effects of physical activity on the body.

They will be learning these skills through a variety of sports based games,

structured practice, & team activities.

MEDIA – Vicki Nicolos

In Term 4 the Middle students will be learning about Media. They will explore

taking a series of photographs for their animation that show themselves and

their friends as comic superheroes and villains, through setting, costume and

body language. The students will plan and script a radio advertisement for a

school event representing the public image the school seeks to promote

and organise a talk back radio show. They will also film a short TV show by

selecting camera angles, lighting and costume to convey meaning with

dialogue. They will practise recording sound on a variety of devices to

explore volume, layering and the use of voice to create a

sense of place. On Thursday the 15th of November the

Middle students will participate in a Media Studies

workshop revolving around Animation, Radio and Television.

GERMAN – Madeleine Sim This term in German, the students in Year 3/4 will continue learning about

animals. This term, they will not only be looking at sea creatures, but also at

animals that live on the land in a variety of habitats and ecosystems. They

will continue using simple sentence structures and

adjectives to talk about these animals and habitats in

both written and spoken German. Students will engage

with German through a variety of written and spoken

activities and games.

Specialists

Naomi Mathews: mathews.naomi.m@edumail.vic.gov.au

Tara King: king.tara.t@edumail.vic.gov.au

Ellie Campbell: campbell.ellie.r@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.

To help with sniffles, we would love boxes of tissues to be shared in our

learning spaces.

Students eat ’Brain Food’ throughout the day to help them focus.

Brain food

consists of fresh fruit and vegetables.

If your child walks to and from school without an adult can you please

let the classroom teacher know.