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Tuesday, 13 February 2018

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.


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