Year 3 Update Wk 5

 Giving Back to our Community: Colours Day – Friday 29th September

As part of our 50th celebrations we are aiming to give back to our community by holding an Action Day on the 8th December in partnership with Bethune House, Sunshine Action, Sai Kung Stray Dogs and Soap Cycling. On the 8th December each year group will have the opportunity to help make food parcels to help those who are in need in Hong Kong. More details will follow about that day as we get closer to it.  We are aiming high and the amount of money we need to raise equates to $250 per child.

To kick-start our fundraising, we are going to have 4 days of lunchtime activities where children can make a minimum donation of HK$20 to join in fun events such as karaoke. This will build up to a very special day on Friday 29th September we are calling ‘Colours Day’ where all children will take part in one of two sponsored events – either a sponsored walk/run or a sponsored readathon depending on their interest.  Each year group will have half an hour for the events. Sponsor forms can be downloaded and printed off from today’s Newsletter. We encourage all our students and their families to support this day of action to help in our drive to support those in our community who are in need. And of course, on Friday 29th all students should come dressed in their house colours.

Effective communication can be enhanced through different methods.  

Lines of Inquiry

1. Hows signs and symbols facilitate effective communication
2. How The Arts can be used to communicate
3. The reasons and impact for communicating in different ways

Next week the children have two exciting events happening linked to our inquiry. On Thursday we will be spending the whole school day at the Cross Road Foundation. We will also have a visitor from the Dialogue in the Dark team who will do activities and games with the children to help them empathise with others and learn about how blind people use braille and other methods to communicate effectively. This is the last week of this unit and the children will complete their learning with a summative assessment.

This week will be the last week that the children will be learning about how to write a recount and use questioning and self-monitoring when reading.

 

Next week we will continue to work on our own recounts. Making sure that we include features of a recount in our writing.  Can your child tell you some of the features they must include in their recounts? Each of the children have their own focus. Can they you tell you how they are trying to improve their recounts?

Today we will be sending home the spelling home learning book. The children will need to learn to spell the words this weekend and will have buddy spelling tests three times during the week. The list that the children take home is their own personal list from the high frequency list that we expect the children to be able to spell at the end of Year Three.

During our reading lessons this week we will be focussing on how to ask and look for answers in a text. The children will look at the types of questions it is important to ask themselves before, during and after reading and also different questions.