Year 3 Home Learning Statements
Term Two
Reading
This term, students are revising their knowledge of the reading strategies such as; determining importance, finding the main idea for both fiction and nonfiction texts, creating summaries, visualising and inferring.
Students will be exposed to a variety of mentor texts, and will be given the opportunity to practise these strategies using their independent text. Students will continue to work with a small focus group throughout each week completing set tasks on the different elements of reading. For example, word work, decoding, comprehension, understanding parts of speech, and text reviews.
To support this learning at home:
- Listen to your child read aloud each night.
- Model reading aloud to your child.
- Introduce your child to different text types (newspapers, biographies, picture story books, etc).
- Allow your child to see you read with pleasure to encourage a love of reading.
- After reading a text, ask your child to retell the events.
- Please ensure that your child fills out their home reading log.
Writing
This term, students have been extending their knowledge of the narrative genre and exploring and making connections with graphic novels. We have learnt about genres and the elements of graphic novels, and we will progress into brainstorming and planning the characters, settings and events for their individual stories. Our focus has been on engaging and entertaining the reader through dialogue and figurative language. For the remainder of the term, Year 3 students will be provided with opportunities to develop their autonomy in creative writing. They will look and respond to visual prompts and be guided to brainstorm, plan, draft and publish a SEED write.
To support this learning at home:
- Read a variety of texts with your child to experience different written languages.
- When reading with your child, ask them to point out who the characters are, the problem in the story and how it was resolved.
- Allow your child to see you read and write.
- Provide your child with writing materials at home. Example pencils, pens, paper, notebooks, etc.
- Encourage your child to set up a designated place to write at home.
- Encourage the correct use of full stops, capital letters, nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Mathematics
This term, we are developing the students’ understanding of the Mathematical Proficiencies; Understanding, Reasoning, Fluency and Problem Solving.
Students are consolidating their understanding of addition and subtraction. They have been revising their place value knowledge by using the jump and hop, split and compensation strategies. Here is an example of the split strategy: 345 + 32 can be broken down to:
300
40 + 30 = 70
5 + 2 = 7
300 + 70 + 7 = 377
Students have also been revising written and mental addition and subtraction strategies to solve worded problems.
Alongside this, students will be exploring the interpretation and representation of data and investigating different units of measurement.
To support this learning at home:
- Students can roll two dice to create a 2 digit or 3 digit addition equation and choose a written or mental strategy to solve it. eg: 48 + 76= or 239 + 655=
- Students can roll two dice to create a 2 digit or 3 digit subtraction equation and choose a written or mental strategy to solve it. eg: 48 – 37= or 239 – 132=
- Students can view sports results/weather reports/the newspaper etc. and interpret data and discuss conclusions that can be drawn from the information.
- Discuss the units of measurement when doing daily activities. e.g. cooking, measuring heights of family members and distances travelled.
Term One
Reading
Students have spent time setting up their home reading folders, choosing IPICK (good fit) non-fiction and fiction books, and filling in their reading logs. In class, students will be learning how to activate their prior knowledge, make connections and ask thought provoking questions about what they are reading.
To support this learning at home:
- Allow your child to see you read at home: encourage a love of reading.
- Read to your child.
- Encourage your child to read aloud to you.
- Share a reading experience together: you read to them, they read to you.
- Encourage incidental reading; shopping lists, streets, signs, maps.
- Encourage your child to fill in their reading logs at home.
- Ask your child to talk about their book.
Writing
Students have been building on their understanding of persuasive writing. They have analysed and annotated rich examples of real-life persuasive pieces and learnt that people express themselves in different ways when there is passion behind a cause. Students will be encouraged to use persuasive devices in their writing to help convince their reader of a topic they have a strong opinion about.
Throughout the term, students will continuously work on their seed writing to focus on the enjoyment of writing, using multiple stimuli to generate brainstorms and ideas.
Students will work through the stages of the writing process to complete a piece of writing from a seed prompt and a persuasive text.
To support this learning at home:
- Read a variety of texts with your child to experience different written languages.
- Allow your child to see you read and write.
- Provide your child with writing materials at home (pencils, pens, paper, notebooks, etc.)
- Encourage your child to set up a designated place to write at home.
- Encourage the correct use of full stops and capital letters.
- If your child asks for something, encourage them to write down three reasons to support their request.
Mathematics
Students have been revising and building on their place value knowledge by representing digits as words and using various materials, such as MAB. Students are ordering and renaming numbers to the tens of thousands as well as comparing numbers using greater than and less than symbols.
Students will also explore number patterns. They will look at the properties of odd and even numbers, and patterns resulting from addition and subtraction.
Students have been consolidating and extending their ability to read analogue clocks to the nearest 5 minutes, or minute. Later in the term they will explore 3D objects and identify their properties.
To support this learning at home:
- Encourage your child to make numbers. Roll a 2, 3, 4, or 5 digit number and work out the largest and smallest possible number.
- Encourage your child to recognise the properties of numbers. Roll a 2, 3, 4, or 5 digit number and work out the amount of ones, tens, hundreds, thousands and ten thousands that make up that number.
- Encourage your child to read numbers. Enter a 4 or 5 digit number on the calculator, or make flash cards, and ask your child to read the number and write it in words.
- Practise counting backwards from 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s from a three-digit number.
- Practise reading time on an analogue clock.