Term 3 Writing: Persuasive Writing
During this unit, students are developing their understanding of persuasive texts and devices. The focus skills taught are:
- Forming an opinion and articulating their point of view
- Finding reasons to support an opinion
- Using different persuasive devices to support their opinions (e.g. Facts, Opinions, Emotive Language, Images and Statistics)
- Using the structure of a persuasive piece to organise their reasons
Term 3 Reading: Persuasive Reading
During this unit, the students will develop their understanding of texts written for a persuasive purpose. The focus skills taught are:
- Identifying an opinion
- Finding reasons that support an opinion
- Identifying emotive language
- Identifying the following supportive devices (facts, opinion, images, emotive language and statistics)
- identifying the structures and formats in which persuasive texts can be presented.
Term 3 Mathematics: Multiplication
During this unit, the students are investigating multiplication using repeated addition, groups and arrays. The focus skills taught are:
- Relating multiplication to repeated addition; e.g. 2+2+2+2 = 4 x 2= 8
- Organising objects into equal sized groups
- Creating arrays to solve problems
- Using the symbol (x) to represent multiplication
- Extending multiplication language to include ‘multiplied by’ and ‘times’
- Repeated addition (2 sixes = 6+6 =12)
Term 3 Mathematics: Division
During this unit the students are investigating division by grouping into equal sets and solving simple problems using these representations. The focus skills taught are:
- Developing the concept of sharing through everyday problems; e.g.15 lollies shared equally between 3 children is 5 lollies each
- Making arrays to solve division problems
- Understanding the language of division such as groups of, shared between, divide, equal groups
- Using the symbol ÷ to represent division
- Linking division to the nearest multiplication fact; e.g. 15 shared between 3 is 5 which is the same as 3×5 is 15
- Relating division to repeated subtraction; e.g. 15 flowers, 5 flowers in each vase. How many vases are needed?
Term 3 Mathematics: Shape
During this unit, the students are investigating 2D shapes and 3D objects. The focus skills are:
- Identifying and describing 2D shapes using language such as; vertices, edges, straight and curved
- Identifying, describing 3D objects using language such as; vertices, edges and faces
- Transforming 2D shapes by sliding, turning and flipping 2D shapes.
- Drawing 2D shapes by hand and using digital technologies
Term 3: Inquiry Unit- Toys and Forces
During this unit students are investigating how the physical forces of push, pull, gravity, and buoyancy act on objects. The focus skills taught are:
- Generating ideas that are new to them and making choices after considering personal preferences.
- Knowing the steps of a design brief
- Following their plan to begin producing their end product
- Evaluating their design brief
- Recognising what forces are being used
- Understanding how toys have developed over time