Years 3/4 Classroom

3/4 Curriculum Overview

Term 4 2009

Dear Parents / Guardians,

                     The following includes some information about the learning experiences your child will be involved in for Literacy, Numeracy and Integrated Studies.

Literacy

The types of texts we will be focusing on are: Persuasive (Exposition/Argumentative) texts and Recounts. Children will read and analyse a variety of these texts with an emphasis on questioning and re-telling, based on the scaffold of an exposition text. Children will be encouraged to plan, write and edit their own personal texts.

For grammar and punctuation, we will look at Conjunctions, Connectives, Adverbs, Apostrophes and Possession of Apostrophes.

Children will be encouraged to present the Exposition text through class debates.

A continued focus for term 4 will be to identify the range of strategies children could use to learn to spell words; Sound {hearing}, Visual {looking for patterns} and Meaning {using their knowledge of words to help spell other words}. We will be looking at "Eous/ous", "silent letters", "sion/tion", "ough", "ure', doubling letters and "ck"

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Numeracy

During Numeracy sessions we will be concentrating on the following areas:-

• Fractions
• Fractions of a group
• Decimals/Money
• Time/Calendars
• Problem- Solving
• Revision as needed of the various concepts covered throughout the year.

Integrated Studies

This term our topic is introducing the fifth key of the You Can Do It program- "Resilience". We will concentrate on doing an in-depth study of what Resilience is, having an understanding of our emotions and our emotional thermometer and students will learn strategies to help them be more tolerant of others.

Homework

- Home reading each night.

-Spelling/Personal Words

- Practise of times tables.

Kind Regards

3 / 4 Teachers