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Yr3 Curriculum Update - 15/11/19Working together to achieve success for every childWelcome to our 5th edition!In each update, the Year 3 Team will bring you snapshots of what your children in Year Three have been up to every 2 weeks. You will see a variety of learning experiences exemplifying learning which is fun, exciting, challenging, innovative and/or creative...and whatever they are, we know that your child has worked really hard to get there and should you have the chance, you may want to share this newsletter with your child to find out the juicy details and discuss the great learning he/she have been doing! Transdisciplinary Learning - It's all connected! Transdisciplinary theme: How We Organise Ourselves Central idea: The food we buy goes through a process of change before we eat it. Lines of inquiry:
As we delve deeper into our unit about food and the changes it goes through, Year 3 is exploring many different areas such as, what is the journey of a carrot, what information would we find on a food package, how much juice could we squeeze out of an orange and does store bought juice taste different? If it does, why is it different? The children are realising that all food originates on a farm. This realisation will become all the more exciting next week when we visit the Organic farm! Literacy We are lucky to have excellent resources to help expand our knowledge of the food around us. Books from the library as well as online resources such as Epic are invaluable. Children enjoy reading and sharing what they have learned with one another. They are beginning to notice how the information is presented and this will help them both as readers and as writers Some Year 3 buddy classes from Year 6 have been showing them interesting websites to help build their vocabulary. One such website is visuwords.com where a search for a word provides a brainstorm of similar words and other associations in a flash! Maths Understanding the concepts behind our place value system are so important to building a strong foundation in maths. For this reason we have continued to explore the Base 10 materials in fun and engaging ways. We are always looking for maths in our environment and its relevance in our lives. Exploring the Base 10 materials in different, open-ended ways to better understand our number system. An important mathematical skill is the ability to estimate large amounts using different strategies. Students were given a range of materials to estimate and then count to see how close their estimate was. They learned how to group materials and work systematically. We need your help For our food unit, we would like to gather empty and washed food containers for children to look at and gather information. If you have any spare cardboard, cereal boxes or small containers that we can use in our junk modelling area, we would love it if they could be brought to school. Please note to only bring in items that are clean and stain free, as the children will be using their creativity to make things with these objects. Reminders A few key reminders for students and parents:
Key dates for the Diary Monday, 18 November 3I Farm Visit Tuesday,19 November 3A Farm Visit Wednesday, 20 November 3K Farm Visit Friday, 22 November 3J Farm Visit Friday 22 November Y1-3 Assembly & Library Workshop for Parents and Helpers Monday, 25 November 3L Farm Visit Home learning Some suggestions to reinforce the learning taking place in school are:
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