Term Overview

Overview of Learning Areas:  Room 19/20    Term 3    2015

Dear Parents/Carers,

This term our major focus will be Science. This topic will allow students to explore a range of concepts across the curriculum. To help you understand the breadth of learning outcomes, we have listed below some of the possible activities in which your child will be engaged.

Kind Regards,

Rachael Agaciak, Kim Long & Anne Booth      

SCIENCE

         

        Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things. Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships.

•          With guidance, identify questions in familiar contexts that can be investigated scientifically and predict what might happen based on prior knowledge.

•          Use a range of methods including tables and simple column graphs to represent data and to identify patterns and trends

·         Looking at seeds, flowers and the life cycle of plants

HEALTH & PE

        Personal, social and Community Health

·         Communicating and Interacting for Health and Wellbeing

·         Formal PE lessons             

ENGLISH

Our genre focus this term will be Procedure Writing.

·        Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense.

·        Read an  increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and self-correcting

·        Understand how to use sound–letter relationships and knowledge of spelling rules, compound words, prefixes, suffixes, morphemes and less common letter combinations, for example ‘tion’

·        Continue to work on individual spelling lists

·        Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations

·        Continue to progress through Read, Write Inc program

·        Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation

·        Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence

·        Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

·        Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts

·        Year 3 students will begin using joined letters that are clearly formed and consistent in size

  

MATHS  

·        Tell time to the quarter hour and minute

·        Investigate the relationship between units of time

·        Measure, compare and order length and area using informal units and formal metric units

·        Compare and order shapes and objects based on volume

·        Recognize and represent fractions including: ½, ¼, 1/8, 1/3 and 1/5

·        Count and represent collections of coins and notes in multiple ways and count the change required.

·        Describe and draw the features of 2D and 3D shapes

DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY

·        Using Study Ladder to support all learning areas.

ARTS 

·        Creates 2-D and 3-D artworks

·        Develops drawing skills

·        Experiments with materials and tools to create different effects

       Look at artworks and talks about features

Term Two Overview

2015

Special points of interest:

Fri 22/5 SES visit

Fri 29/5 School Photos

Monday 1/6 Pupil free Day

Monday 8/6 Public Holiday

Tuesday 23/6 Pupil Free Day

English

Our learning tasks and activities are taken from the  Australian Curriculum Documents

Spelling

This term in spelling we are continuing to work on individualised spelling lists taken from the students writing and test results. It has been good to see the impact this program has had on the spelling abilities of students over the first term.

Speaking and Listening

This term we are consolidating all the skills  we have been practicing in  speaking and listening activities. The students will be involved in oral presentations. Our aim is to:

Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics

Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others' ideas in discussions.

 Writing

This term we are  working on all aspects of writing with an emphasis on using our skills in a variety of contexts.

We will also create and write  texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose .

Reread and edit text for spelling, punctuation and text structure.

Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures

and language features that help the text serve its purpose.

Reading

This term we will  continue to work on comprehension skills and strategies. Some of our aims are to:

Read less predictable texts with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies, for example monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting .

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual  cues. We are also focusing on building vocabulary.

Mathematics

This term our focus on Number will be based on our whole school approach to using Anne Baker’s strategies . This will involve developing students’ skills  in:

Solving problems by using number sentences for addition or subtraction

Describing patterns with numbers and identify missing elements

Describing, continuing, and creating number patterns resulting from performing addition or subtraction

Recognising and representing halves, quarters, eighths , thirds and fifths and their multiples to a complete whole

Counting and ordering small collections of Australian coins and notes according to their value

Representing money values in multiple ways and counting the change required for simple transactions to the nearest five cents

Geography

This term our cross curricular theme is Geography. We will be working on the following understandings taken from the Australian Curriculum: The location of the major geographical divisions of the world in relation to Australia. The definition of places as parts of the Earth’s surface that have been given meaning by people, and how places can be defined at a variety of scales. The connections of people in Australia to other places in Australia, the countries of the Asia region, and across the world. The representation of Australia as states and territories, and Australia’s major natural and human features .The location of Australia’s neighbouring countries and their diverse characteristics. Represent the location of places and their features by constructing large-scale maps that conform to cartographic conventions including scale, legend, title and north point, and describe their location using simple grid references, compass direction and distance. The main climate types of the world and the similarities and differences between the climates of different places. During this topic the students will have many opportunities to work with their peers on ‘hands on’ activities and develop research skills..

Term 1 Overview.

English

Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts

Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others' ideas in discussions

Use interaction skills including initiating topics, making 
positive statements and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately

Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics

Read less prediatable texts with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies, for example monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures

Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure


Health and PE

Child Protection Curriculum            
• Review Early Warning Signs
• Personal emergencies
• Use + Abuse of Power
• Power of Language
• Gender + Bullying
• Secrets
• Mixed emotions
• Identifying situations
• Review Problem Solving Skills
• Persistence
• Daily Physical Activity

Weekly PE session with Lester Halliday.

Maths
In Term 1 we will be doing a general overview of all Math concepts. This will help to consolidate student knowledge and give us the opportunity to focus on areas that need further work. This means we will be working on a range of activities across all three content strands which are: Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability
      

Design and Technology
Develop skills using Microsoft programs eg Word, Powerpoint, Publisher
Experiment with a range of joining techniques and materials
Use construction materials to create a range of different models/designs with the same materials 
Justify decisions for design ideas.
Use a variety of tools, observe how they work, and know their correct names 


History 
Sequence familiar objects and events and use historical terms 
Pose a range of questions about the past
The role that people of diverse backgrounds have played in the development and character of the local community
Days and weeks celebrated or commemorated in Australia
Celebrations and commemorations in other places around the world
Develop texts, particularly narratives

The Arts
Music and Drama with Marli Sumner
Develops drawing skills
Looks at artworks and talks about features 

Science
Science lessons with Liz Gehling