Parent Information Slides

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

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.

http://www.nap.edu.au/naplan/parent-carer-support
/parent-carer-support.html

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.

Holidays

Holidays

It’s been an amazing year and I am so proud of what your children have achieved across all learning areas. Everyone has worked very hard to accomplish their personal best. I have had a wonderful time as their teacher and I have enjoyed getting to know the children and your families as the year has progressed.

I appreciate the support I have received from you as parents. It has been most beneficial for the children that we work together to achieve goals for them.

Summer holidays can be long when children are bored, so I encourage you to make sure they have plenty of books to read. Maybe a trip to the local library would be fun.

I know that many of you take special outings or even a holiday over the summer. It would be great practice for the children to write about their experiences. Maybe they could purchase a cheap exercise book that they can cover and decorate. I encourage them to use adjectives and adverbs in their writing and provide all the details of the experience. The children always re-read and edit their own writing. They may even wish to write a narrative or persuasive text.

They might like to allocate the back of the exercise book to maths practice. Some ideas include 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables practise, addition and subtraction with regrouping, drawing maps and flipping, sliding and turning objects.

The children will still have access to Studyladder if they would like to do some activities online.

Holidays are always filled with great memories so I wish you all a very special and safe holiday period. I will miss you all very much and look forward to seeing you when school resumes in 2018.

All my love and best wishes

Mrs Harders

Stem activity with Buddies

What a fantastic time we had with our Kindy Buddies today. Mrs Harders and Ms Harvey set a Stem task for the children to complete together.

 They all worked together to design and create their Christmas trees. Enjoy these pictures that show just how valuable this learning experience was.

Week 7 Homework

In reading this week we are practicing the reading strategy of creating images. When reading with your child, please encourage them to create a picture of the story in their mind. Refer to touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing.

Children are currently being tested on 3 times tables.