Year 3 Update Week 18
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Thursday 24th January – Popcorn Day for Y3 (bring own containers – $20)
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Monday 28th January – Sarah Brennan author visit
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Tuesday 29th January – Y3 Pizza lunch (bring own plate and any cutlery needed)
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Friday 1st February 3pm – Chinese New Year (half-term) break
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Monday 11th February – First Day Back
In order to support the Year 1’s preparations for Sharing Day, Year 3’s Mandarin lesson on Thursdays will be switched to Fridays from the week of 29th January for six weeks.
Book Drive
Brody, Ryan and Muchan in Year 6 are organising a Book Drive to help spread our love of reading. The Sony Corporation will collect books to create mobile libraries in South Africa for schools that do not have enough books for children to read. If you have books that are:
Please send them to school. There will be a collection box in the school foyer from Monday 21st January. Any books you can donate will help spread the enjoyment of reading.
Old Electronics Collection
Mr Lowe and Ms Mak are hoping to collect old electronic or battery operated items and toys that have moving parts that are no longer needed as part of our Makers stock. If you have anything you can donate please send it to school and put it in the collection box in the foyer labelled Old Electronics.
Lunch forms can now be collected from Ms Anna at reception for new registrants.
Year 3 Playdate Database
Arranging playdates to help your children develop their social skills were a major discussion points this week at parent consultations. Please find linked below documents to parent/ guardian contacts for children in Year 3, feel free to utilise them to help organise playdates for your child. The documents are free for you to edit so please make sure you read the important information on the top of the page before you add your contacts in. Please be mindful of others and only edit your contacts.
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BHS Lunchtime Experiences: A message from our Student Council
At BHS we have lots of great clubs which our students really enjoy so Ms Chung challenged us to create even more! As the student councillors we interviewed our friends and classmates to find out their favourite clubs. We were wondering if any parents would like to help run these clubs? Do not panic! You do not need to be an expert or world champion, just enthusiastic and willing to help. This could be as an one off session or more, it is up to you. Please click on this google form to volunteer. The Student Council will then get in contact with you to organise the club. We will help with all the logistics such as venue, students and resources.
Thank you for any help you can give us.
In Unit of Inquiry this week, the children continued their inquiry into Hong Kong homes with a trip to Mei Ho House, one of the first resettlement buildings built by the government after the Shek Kip Mei fire in 1953. We also investigated the strength in materials used to build these homes.
In Maths the children worked on some division and also on telling time (half past, five-minute intervals past/ to the hour and quarter past/ to) and made their own clocks to aid with their understanding.
In English the children planned for and wrote an information report on something they were interested in using what they have learned about the features of the text-type.
Check out some photos from the week!
Homes have been influenced by a variety of factors over time.
The children will be inquiring into:
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- What a home is (form)
- Why homes have changed over time (causation)
- How homes in (the local environment) Hong Kong have changed over time (change)
Next week the children will wrap up the unit by learning about more Hong Kong homes and consolidate their understanding of the unit with a summative task.
Estimation allows us to measure with different levels of accuracy
The children will be learning to:
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- Connect times to events in the day.
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- Read and write the time to the quarter-hour and 5 minute intervals (past, to)
- Estimate and compare lengths of time: second, minute, hour, day, week, months and years
Next week the children will inquire into am/ pm, the 24-hour clock and elapsed time.
Big idea for language: Writers can use descriptive language and careful word choice to give detailed information.
Reading
Comprehension Strategies: Summarising and Synthesising
Readers summarise the text and develop new ideas.
Next week, the children will synthesise the information they have learnt from their Unit of Inquiry to plan for and write a report on Hong Kong homes.
Congratulations to these students for being awarded a Golden Book Certificate this week!
3W – Shogo Nishida & Melvin Leong
*No Golden Book was awarded for 3M because they were on their trip to Mei Ho House
Time
Create a weekly/ daily schedule
Using digital and analog clocks, sequence and describe important events that happen in your day or week.
You may present your work (digitally or on paper) using a timeline. Feel free to choose another form of presentation!
Spelling Journals
Children should bring their spelling journals home every day to practise their spelling words.
Mathletics passwords are in your child’s diary. The children should check their accounts regularly and complete any assigned tasks.
