Years 3/4 team updates

Learning Area

Big ideas and Inquiry Questions

Big ideas taught through the Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards

HASS

Civics and Citizenship

How are decisions made democratically?

How has my identity been shaped by the groups to which I belong?

Year 3

• Describe   the importance of rules and people’s contributions to communities
• Develops   questions, locates, collects and records information and data from different   sources
• Interprets   information and data in different formats
• Analyses   information and data to identify perspectives and draws conclusions

Year 4

• Describes   the importance and role of local government, community members and laws, and   the cultural and social factors that shape identity
• Develops   questions, locates, collects and records information and data from a range of   sources and formats
• Interprets   and analyses information and data to identify perspectives and draws   conclusions

English

Reading and Writing

Speaking, Listening and Viewing

Spelling and Word Consciousness

What is a narrative text?

What structures and language features are found in narrative texts?

Year 3

• Interacts   with others, and listens to and texts including stories
• Reads,   views and comprehends texts, recognising their purpose and audience
• Reads   fluently, using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge to read   multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns
• Creates   written texts including stories to inform, narrate, explain or argue for   audiences, relating ideas including relevant details from learnt topics,   topics of interest or texts
• Spells   multisyllabic words using phonic and morphemic knowledge, and high-frequency   words

Year 4

• Interacts   with others, and listens to and creates texts including stories
• Reads,   views and comprehends texts created to inform, influence and engage audiences
• Reads   fluently and accurately, integrating phonic, morphemic, grammatical and   punctuation knowledge
• Creates texts   including stories for purposes and audiences, where they develop ideas using details   from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts
• Spells   words including multisyllabic and multimorphemic words with irregular   spelling patterns, using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge

Mathematics

What does it mean to be numerate?

How can I explain processes and thinking when I am solving problems?

Where do mathematical concepts apply in the real world?

What are the four operations and what strategies can I use to understand them?

Year 3

• Orders and   represents natural numbers beyond 10 000
• Extends and   uses single-digit addition and related subtraction facts and applies additive   strategies to model and solve problems involving two- and three-digit numbers
• Uses mathematical modelling to solve   practical problems involving single-digit multiplication and division,   recalling multiplication facts for twos, threes, fours, fives and tens, using   a range of strategies

Year 4

• Uses their   understanding of place value to represent tenths and hundredths in decimal   form and to multiply natural numbers by multiples of 10
• Uses their proficiency   with addition and multiplication facts to add and subtract, multiply and   divide numbers efficiently
• Uses the   properties of odd and even numbers

Health

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Physical Education

How can I move and look after my body?

How can I manage my emotions in a healthy way?

How can I participate fairly in games?

Years 3 and 4

• Identifies   influences that strengthen identities and describes strategies to manage   emotions, changes and transitions
• Applies   skills and strategies to interact respectfully with others
• Applies   fundamental movement skills and demonstrates movement concepts across a range   of situations
• Adapts   movement strategies to enhance movement outcomes
• Demonstrates   fair play and inclusion through a range of roles in movement contexts

The Arts

Inquiring into the ways Art is created across culture, time and place.

How can I experiment with a range of visual arts conventions, processes and materials?

Years 3 and 4

• Describes use of elements, concepts and   conventions in arts works they create and experience
• Describes where, why and how arts works are created and   presented across cultures, times places, and other contexts

Indonesian

Language and Culture

How can I use Indonesian to share information related to my classroom and personal world?

Years 3 and 4

• States   preferences and uses adjectives, including adjectives of size and colour   following the noun
• Makes   comparisons between Indonesian and English, particularly identifying   similarities and differences in cultural practices related to daily routines   and special occasions