Class 3C Newsletter Term 4 2018 Welcome to Term 4! We have nearly reached the end of the year and before we know it your children will be in Year 4. We have so many exciting events and learning experiences to finish off a fantastic year. The highlight for students this term is the sleepover which happens at school towards the end of the term. More information about this will be available in the next few week so keep an eye out. Here are some of the units we will be looking at this term:

Teacher: Regan Cunningham Email: rcunn44@eq.edu.au

Specialist Lessons School begins at 8.45am. Please ensure students arrive prior to the 8.45am bell so they can have an organised start to the day. Homework is handed out on Monday and due back on Friday each week. Parade: Mondays at 2.30pm in Girrawheen Place. Everyone is welcome Library is Tuesday 1:15 – 1:30pm. A library bag is required to borrow books. Music is Tuesday 2:00 – 2:30pm. Choir is Tuesday 2:30 – 3:00pm. PE is Friday at 12:00pm. For those students participating in Religious Instruction, it is held on Monday 2.00-2.30pm.

Important Dates Term 4 begins: Week 1, 8/10/18

Runcorn State School Arts Show: Week 2, 19/10/18

Pupil Free Day: Week 3, 22/10/18

Day for Daniel: Week 3, 26/10/18

Bandana Day: Week 3, 26/10/18

Choir, Strings, Band parade: Week 8 27/11/18

Year 3 Sleepover: Week 7, 22/11/18

Senior Swimming Carnival: Week 8, 30/11/18

End of Year Concert: Week 9, 5/12/18

Awards Parade: Week 10, 11/12/18

Last day of Term 4: Week 10, Fri 13/12/18

Curriculum focus – what we will be working on in class this term

Content Assessment

English Students will listen to, read, view and adapt a variety of Australian poems. They will analyse poetry by texts by exploring the context, purpose and audience and how language features and devices can be adapted to create new meaning. Students will write and present a poem.

Students write and present a poem, using appropriate speaking skills and explore ways in which the language features and devices can be highlighted in a performance through the use of pace, pitch, tone, volume and gesture.

Maths Students will study number and place value up to 10 000, including word problems. They will investigate money and financial mathematics. Students will study fractions of shapes, objects and collections, recognising equivalent fractions and solving fraction problems. They will explore location and transformation, symmetry, angles, 3 dimensional shapes, chance and data and multiplication and division.

Students will recall multiplication facts, solve multiplication problems and model and represent unit fractions. They will match positions on maps, identify symmetry in the environment, make a model of a three-dimensional object and recognise angles in real situations.

Science Students will investigate how heat is produced and the behaviour of heat when it transfers from an object or area to another. They will identify that heat can be observed by touch and that formal measurements of heat (temperature) can be taken, using a thermometer. Students will identify that heat transfers from warmer areas to cooler areas.

Students will plan and conduct investigations about heat and heat transfer and will collect data safely, using appropriate equipment to record formal measurements.

HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences)

In HASS students will describe the importance of making decisions democratically and propose individual action in response to a democratic issue. They will explain the role of rules in their community and share their views on an issue related to rule-making.

Students will explain the importance of making decisions democratically, the role of rules in the community and action in response to an issue.

The Arts Students will explore media arts through the use of animation, sound and characters.

Students will create a media arts project using Puppet Pals to deliver a poem

Health Decision making skills used to select and demonstrate strategies to help students stay healthy and physically active.

Students will describe healthy and active strategies and activity plans.

Technology Technology will link in with the Science unit on heat. Students will investigate different properties of materials and design an insulated container that will keep food warm.

Students will create an insulated container using sustainable items.