24 Aug 2018

Year 3 Update Week 1

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Wednesday August 29th 5.30pm – Wine and cheese party for new parents (7th floor staff room).
Wednesday August 29th 6.30pm – Meet the Teacher evening (hall)
Friday September 14th 9am – 3W class assembly (hall)
Friday September 14th – PTA Bowling night (see leaflet that was sent home in school diaries)

Year 3 Teacher Contact Information

Mr Matt Glencross – glencm1@beaocnhill.edu.hk

Ms Marie-Claire Mulligan – marie@bhs.edu.hk

Ms Samantha Saxena – saxens7@beaconhill.edu.hk

Ms Jane Wu – wuj2@beaconhill.edu.hk

Year 3 phase leader

Mr Andy Thompson – thompa5@beaconhill.edu.hk

We here in Year 3 have had a wonderful and busy start to our new school year. The children have been brimming with excitement and have been especially excited about catching up with their friends, working in their new classes and with their new teachers.

Stories of adventures from holidays have been exchanged, new routines navigated and expectations outlined in anticipation for the upcoming school year.

Spending time with our BHS friends has been a highlight whether we have been eating, playing games or just simply reading.

Once again we have been amazed by their grit, humour, maturity and determination at what is, as us teachers keep reminding ourselves, just the start of year 3.

Welcome back!

Effective communication can be enhanced through different methods.

We will be inquiring into:

How signs and symbols facilitate effective communication (form)
How the arts can be used to communicate (function)
The reasons and impact for communicating in different ways (causation)

This week in Unit of Inquiry, we visited the airport to inquire into how signs and symbols facilitate effective communication. Our outing to the airport proved to be a huge success and it was wonderful to meet many of our parent volunteers, without whom such excursions would be impossible. So once again a huge thank you from the year 3 team to those that helped.

The children learnt and absorbed so much about signs and symbols and it proved to be a very informative way to help them tune into the different ways in which we communicate. The students have shown in many different ways and on many different levels their abilities to adapt, adjust and evolve in the face of so many new experiences, opportunities and challenges.

Next week, we will be inquiring into the many different ways we can communicate.

We have began our place value unit. The children have been demonstrating different ways to show their understanding of number through written form, standard form, expanded form and through pictures. Ask your child to tell you about the story “A Place for Zero” and how Zero found its place. Next week we will begin to round numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

Mathletics passwords are in your child’s diary.

The children have started borrowing home readers this week. On a Monday and Friday, the children will read from Big Universe and borrow home readers on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. More information will be shared at Meet the Teacher.

This week the children have been looking at features of a recount and concentrating on past tense, time connectives and WOW words. Next week the children will use their knowledge to construct their on recount on their trip to the airport. Talk to your child about what they did at the airport!