Year 3

Assalaam Alaikum to All  

Dear Parents,

Term 3 was a rather jam packed albeit fun term filled with learning, laughter, and lots of achievements. Thank you to all parents for assisting the students in their daily reading treks, as there has certainly been an improvement in reading skills.

For English this term we focused on reading, writing, spelling, and grammar. Within these sections we made a start towards the 7 seven steps of writing, we have been practicing spelling daily and incorporating storytelling and writing within our days.

In Design and Tech, we have embarked on a STEM project titled ‘just chilling’ where students have researched, every week, ways in which to create a water cooler made entirely from recyclable and repurposed materials. Although challenging at first, once they got the hang of it, they have done excellent work within their groups and have shown great skill and determination in completing little tasks in preparation for the final product.

Climate, weather, and Australia’s neighboring countries have been our exploration points for HASS this term, the students have enjoyed our weekly quizzes post topic matter.

PE was rather exciting as we focused on dodgeball and soccer this term, with the technical skills for passing, scoring, and overhead throwing, which was loved by all. Healthy eating was our focus for Health in term 3 and students were keen to follow their eating habits with the food log journal that they completed. We were able to discuss what is healthy, how to read and understand food labels, and what the effect of healthy foods has on our bodies and minds.

In Math, we revised addition and subtraction strategies from term 2 which once refined, we then moved to multiplication and learning and understanding how money works in this instance. We also went through division and how this ties up with all other strategies learnt thus far. Students were confident and enjoyed their multiplication the most. It was wonderful to see students encourage each other and peer work by themselves during activity time.

In Science, we learnt all about heat, its conductors, insulators, and our main sources of heat as well. Lastly, in art this term we learnt many new things, one being cubism by Picasso. It was amazing to see students create their own pieces of artwork! We also incorporated drama whereby students explored the ideas and narrative structures through role play and by using a variety of mediums such as voice, props, and even by relating to the audience.

Assalamu Alaikum Parents/Guardians,

Term 3 has been very productive for the Year 3B students. They have been working diligently in all areas of the curriculum taking feedback on board to improve their individual academic and social goals.

In English this term students focused on persuasive writing and creating well-structured paragraphs. Students enjoyed forming their for and against arguments for various topics and participated collaboratively in group work. Students showed a lot of interest when learning about prefixes and suffixes, finding it very interesting how words change the meaning depending on the prefix or suffix added.

In our Maths lessons students learnt to represent and solve problems involving multiplication using efficient mental and written strategies and are steadily improving and excelling in recalling multiplication and related division facts. Students found the topic of fractions stimulating and enjoyed completing hands on activities based on this topic.

In our Science lessons, we have been learning about heat. Students explored how heat can be produced via friction, electricity and burning. We explored how heat moves through discussing three types of transfer- conduction, convection and radiation. Students enjoyed researching different types of materials that make excellent heat insulators. Students applied their knowledge about what heat is, how it transfers, properties of heat conduction and insulation to create a STEM project design and conduct an experiment. The STEM project asked students to design and make something to put on the water bottle to keep it cool, using recycled or repurposed materials. Once their designs were completed, students led the experiment by measuring the temperature of the water at various times during the day. As a final task, students were asked to create a persuasive advertising poster to convince the class to buy their product, explaining the various materials used in their design and why their bottle holder is the best. Although an individual project, it was great to see the collaboration between students and hear the positive conversations about their inventions. This STEM project was a fantastic way to finish our lessons on physical sciences.

This term we also went to Adelaide Zoo for an excursion. Students took part in an educator led interactive lesson learning about animal life cycles and their habitats.

In our art lessons students focused on Drama. We learnt about the elements of drama such as body movement, tone of voice, symbols, facial expressions and many more, to explore, shape and perform dramatic actions and scripted drama in the form of reader’s theatre. Students enjoyed exploring and inferencing mime drama that had close links to our English lessons. In our PE and Health lessons we focused on various skills practicing for our Sports Day and enjoyed learning about healthier eating by examining food labels and ingredients list. Students explored healthier snack and lunch versions.

This term the Quran competition winners’ ceremony took place. Congratulations to Zunairah Zartaj (1^st place in Level 2) and Talha Tamoor (2^nd place in Level 2) for their outstanding efforts, persistence and hard work.

I wish all the students, parents and care givers relaxing and safe term holidays. Inshallah the students come back reenergized and enthusiastic for our last term of the school year.