Year 3 Newsletter

Unit 5 March 12, 2012

Unit five Curriculum Outline Sharing the Planet

Dear Parents, This week we have began our new unit under the transdisciplinary theme of Sharing the Planet. The central idea for the unit is: Children worldwide share rights and responsibilities. Within this unit students will be exploring the central idea through the concepts of Form - What are my rights? What are the rights of others around me? Responsibility - Understand responsibilities as a member of a community and make choices that takes others welfare into account. Students will be exploring the ideas of fair and unfair as an introduction to the concepts of rights and responsibilities. In IT Mr. Brady will be exploring the area of digital citizenship with the year 3 students. In particular students will be reviewing their responsibilities when using internet based resources. Ms. Julia will be reviewing the experiences of other students around the world when receiving education and every childs right to education. She will review the rights and responsibilities of every NIST student to safe and fair play in the playground and in the classroom.

Important Dates for Year 3 Year 3 How we Express Ourselves Project Sharing Early Release Day
Additionally students will be reviewing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child. In classes we will be focusing on the rights that connect with being safe, having time to play, ability to access healthcare and education. (These rights can be linked to Articles, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 24, 27, 28 and 31 of the convention of the rights of the child.) A complete list of these rights can be found on:
www.unicef.org/southafrica/ SAF_resources_crcchildfriendly.p df

Wed. March 15th Tue March 20th Friday March 30th

Starry Nights

Leigh Hobbs Author Tuesday Visit April 3rd Songkran Break Fri April 6th to Tuesday April 17th From 20th April

20th Anniversary Writing

Reminders: Please remember to bring a recorder to school from the 26th of March for Music lessons. Students will be getting belts (a coloured ribbon attached to their recorder) as they master playing different songs. Please remember to bring a hat and water bottle to school. The temperature has begun to rise in the last week. To be well-balanced means to bring in water bottles so that you can give water back to your body! Remember to bring a hat to have fun play today!!

Other Curriculum News The following is a Mathematics and Language outline. Individual teachers may need to alter or change this outline according to the needs of his/her class.
MATHEMATICS NUMBER * multiplication and division * fractions DATA HANDLING * Graphing/collecting data * Probability SHAPE AND SPACE MATHLETICS: on-going LANGUAGE Reading Writers Workshop Word Study Handwriting Listening comprehension Oral communication Receptive and expressive language LANGUAGE FOCUS Writing: * Narrative writing * Anniversary writing Reading: * Determining important ideas * Using reading text codes