For those parents/caregivers that couldn't make it to our parent information night, or if you'd like a refresher, please find the information slides by clicking on the link below.
Parent Information Slides
Aussie Day Class Photo
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Writing - Talk Homework
As part of WGPS commitment to improve our Literacy results we follow a
program called VCOP
V – Vocabulary C – Connectives O – Openers
P - Punctuation.
You will find a writing stimulus in the top section of the Practice Sheet each week. We write a text every Wednesday, so please discuss the stimulus with your child and get their ideas flowing on Tuesday night. On the
stimulus will be some sample questions. The following day, they will share
their discussions with the class before they begin writing.
The point of this exercise is to talk and
build ideas and vocabulary. Students may write key,
words or phrases but SHOULD NOT bring a whole text back to school.
Welcome back
Welcome back everyone!
It’s been wonderful to see the children
again after the holiday break and reconnect with many of you again at the
parent information night. We’ve had a
great start to 2018, getting straight into covering our content for this term. As you know, Year 3 is a NAPLAN year so we
are working hard to prepare the children.
You will find more information about this below. I’m looking forward to working together to
achieve great educational outcomes for your child.
Term
1
English
· Reading Strategies
such as predicting, self-questioning, creating images, connecting, summarising
and main idea
· Grammar - revision
of pronouns, conjunctions, simple and compound sentences, adjectives, verbs and
adverbs
· Punctuation - full
stops, question marks, exclamation marks, quotation marks, proper nouns,
contractions and commas
· Writing -
narrative and persuasive text
· Spelling - blends,
diagraphs, vowel diagraphs, trigraphs, suffixes and prefixes
Maths
· Number
Number sequences -
counting by 2s, 3s, 5s, and 10s
Addition and
Subtraction - problem solving
Multiplication and
Division - Arrays, repeated addition, multiplication on a number line, sharing
and word problems
· Measurement
Money - finding
change, counting collections of dollars and cents, word problems
Time - reading a
calendar, telling time, duration of time
2D and 3D objects
Mapping -
Interpreting simple maps, using directional and positional language
Location and
Transformation - flip, slide, turn and half / quarter turns
· Statistics and
Probability
Reading and
interpreting data, pictographs, tallies, bar graphs
Stem
We will be doing an investigation that
will integrate all learning areas.
You’ll hear about that real soon!
NAPLAN
Testing will be held in May.
Students are assessed using common national tests in Reading, Writing,
Language Conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and Numeracy.
NAPLAN is not a pass or fail type test. Individual student performance
is shown on a national achievement scale for each test.
The performance of individual students can be compared to the average
performance of all students in Australia.
NAPLAN
Planner has been used in Term 4 2017, and Terms 1 2018
Students
have many opportunities to get used to test language, content and format.
Sample questions and a sample writing tasks can be
accessed on the NAP website:
www.nap.edu.au.
Sunday, 11 February 2018
Australia Day
Australia Day
Thank you to everyone who dressed up for our Australia Day celebrations and contributed to our fundraiser for kids less fortunate than us.
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