Year 3 Update Wk 11
- Friday 10th November 9:00am-10:30am – Year 3 Sharing. Please be seated for 9:00 am.
- Thursday 16th – Friday 17th November – Year 3 Camp
- Wednesday 22nd November 6:30pm – Professor Peter Sullivan
SUNSHINE ACTION FUND RAISING
To help our students with the food parcels we need parent volunteers, approximately 30. These parents will be working with groups of students to help them make the food parcels. If you are interested please click here.
ESF Christmas Card Competition
Christmas is fast approaching! ESF wish to prepare an e-card for Christmas and are inviting ESF students to come up with a design. The Christmas artwork could be a painting or drawing on A4 or A3 paper with any media such as water color, pastel, photography or digital. Please send the original artwork to Ms Yu by 13th, November if you would like to enter this exciting competition. Please refer to this link if you wish to see the cards in previous years: https://drive.google.co
Professor Peter Sullivan Parents Workshop
Wednesday 22nd November – 6:30p.m. in the school hall
Peter Sullivan is Professor of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, at Monash University in Australia. He is the immediate past President of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers and was the lead writer of the Australian Mathematics curriculum.
Professor Sullivan is one of the world’s leading authorities in Mathematics, and will be making his a visit to Beacon Hill School this November. During his visit, Professor Sullivan will work alongside the teachers to challenge all our students to reach their full potential in Mathematics through the use of open-ended, rich learning tasks and problems.
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Sullivan will run a workshop for parents in order to enhance your understanding of how you may help your children in the development of Mathematical thinking. This is for parents only, there is no need for children to attend.
An e-notice will be sent to all parents, please let us know if you are attending.
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.
In Maths we continued to focus on different mental subtraction strategies and how we can use them with word problems, particularly looking for strategies to use with odd and even numbers.
The children have continued to focus on the reading comprehension strategy, inference. Inferring is to be able to ‘read between the lines’, when the author implies something but doesn’t exactly state it in the text. We children completed and edited their stories, particularly reflecting on how they added interesting detail, described feelings and used good adjectives and verbs. They also brainstormed and planned a narrative with their flour baby as the main character.
People worldwide have access to rights and opportunities that can look different.
- Difference between needs and wants (Perspective)
- Children’s rights and responsibilities (Responsibility)
- How children rights are protected (Reflection)
Next week we will continue to prepare for Friday when the children will share our current with you through the arts. The finishing touches will be made during our stage rehearsals and the children will be reflecting on what they learned in the different areas. We will also be preparing for the next unit and the children will complete their pre-assessment. This pre-assessment will help highlight the particular areas that the children especially need to learn through the unit.
Pattern and Function
Next week the children will be busy investigating, describing and representing patterns using numbers and other symbols. They will also be learning how to identify missing elements in patterns.
Mathletics passwords are in your child’s diary. Please make sure that an adult supports your child when working through the activities.
13 days to camp!
Year Three Camp Presentation Slides (Please click below)
