Statement of Learning Intent Year 3/4 2016 Term 1
Term One
Our Overarching Focus (History): WE ARE ONE BUT WE ARE MANY.
Scripture Focus: We are the clay, you are the potter; we are the work of your hand. Isaiah 64:8
Developmental Domain Objectives
Personal Learning
Interpersonal Development
Learning Outcomes
Numeracy
For the students to:
I am a responsible person.
I take initiative.
I choose my actions, attitudes, and
moods.
I do not blame others for my wrong
actions. I do the right thing without
being asked,
even when no one is looking.
Number
● Apply understanding of place value (up to tens of thousands) to assist calculations and
solve problems.
● Recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction.
● Develop efficient mental and written strategies to add, subtract, multiply and divide.
● Solve problems involving purchases and the calculation of change to the nearest five
cents with and without digital technologies
Measurement and Geometry
● Convert between units of time (e.g. How many seconds in one hour?)
● Tell the time to the minute.
● Use am and pm to solve time problems.
● Compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and convert between them
● Use scaled instruments (like scales, measuring tapes, measuring jugs) to measure and
compare length, mass, capacity and temperature.
● Shape:Recognise, classify and describe the properties of 2D and 3D shapes
● Calculate the perimeter and area of rectangles using familiar metric units
Habit Two: Begin with the
End in Mind
Statistics and Probability
● Use methods for data collection, including surveys, and use tables, column/bar graphs
and picture graphs to display data.
Thinking Processes
The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective Students
Habit One: Be Proactive
Immersion or other exposure,
concepts, excursions, school
events.
Investigation Immersion Day
9/2
Out and About- Continued
immersion and Connection to this
area.
(Deep Creek down from
Yellow Gum Place)
Stephanie Alexander Garden
experiences
Investigations Rubric
ICT User Agreement
Personal Blogs
I plan ahead and set goals
I do things that have meaning and
make a difference.
I am an important part of my
classroom and contribute to my
school’s mission and vision,
and look for ways to be a good
citizen.
Habit Three: Put First Things
First
I spend my time on things that are
most important.
This means I say no to things I know
I should not do.
I set priorities, make a schedule, and
follow my plan.
I am disciplined and organized.
Habit Four: Think Win - Win
I balance courage for getting what I
want with consideration for what
others want.
I make deposits in others’ Emotional
Bank Accounts.
When conflicts arise, I look for third
alternatives.
Habit Five: Seek First to
Understand, Then to Be
Understood
I listen to other people’s ideas and
feelings.
I try to see things from their
viewpoints.
I listen to others without interrupting.
I am confident in voicing my ideas.
I look people in the eyes when
talking.
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Describe possible everyday events and order their chances of occurring
Identify everyday events where one cannot happen if the other happens
Identify events where the chance of one will not be affected by the occurrence of the
other
List outcomes of chance experiments involving equally likely outcomes and represent
probabilities of those outcomes using fractions
Literacy
For the students to:
Writing
● Use paragraphs to organize ideas in narrative writing.
● Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from own and other
cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle.
● Use appropriate punctuation to show direct speech (quoted) and indirect speech
(reported).
● Use language (verbs, adjectives and adverbs) to describe people, places and events in
narratives.
● Plan, draft and publish imaginative and informative texts in written form and using
technology.
● Draft and publish Personal and 3/4 Community blog comments using correct spelling,
grammar and punctuation.
● Regularly Post our learning goals and samples of work in Literacy and Numeracy - with
personal reflections.
● Write using joined letters that are clearly formed in consistent size.
● Reread and edit texts for meaning, structure, grammar and punctuation using the editing
process outlined.
● Understand how to use strategies for spelling words using spelling rules, word families,
generalizations and letter combinations.
Habit Six: Synergize
Speaking and Listening
● Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas
and negotiate in collaborative situations.
● Use active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear manner.
● Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing point of view.
● Practise Oral Language skills - using clear voice, appropriate level and using expression
I value other people’s strengths, and
learn from them. I get along well with
others, even
Reading and Viewing
● Choose good fit books, appropriate to their reading ability and interests.
Plastic Pollution SolutionsIncursion 16/2
Reconciliation Presentation Mass
for year 3s- 6th March
Torquay Historical Society visit
Easter and Reconciliation
people who are different than me.
I work well in groups.
I seek out other people’s ideas to
solve problems because I know that
by teaming with
others we can create better solutions
than any one of us alone. I am
humble.
Habit Seven: Sharpen the
Saw
I take care of my body by eating
right, exercising, and getting sleep.
I spend time with my family and
friends.
I learn in lots of ways and lots of
places, not just at school.
I
take time to make meaningful ways
to help others.
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Respond to read/viewed texts using comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred
(deep thinking) meaning to better understand texts.
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and
hold readers’ interest by using various techniques like plot tension.
Religious Education
For the students to understand that:
● Human beings are created in the image of God and are unique.
● Each person has dignity, rights and responsibilities.
● Each person is free to make choices, and all choices have consequences.
● Christians are invited to develop relationships based on respect and valuing individual
differences.
Questions/understandings:
Seeking understanding:
What does following Jesus Christ mean during Lent?
How can Christians grow closer to Jesus Christ during the Lenten season?
What is the relationship between the story, the symbols and the rituals of Holy Week and
Easter?
Understandings:
Lent is a season when Christians think about the way Jesus Christ gave himself to others.
They can follow Jesus Christ by loving and giving of themselves.
During Lent groups and individuals share what they have to bring hope to others.
During Holy Week and Easter Christians remember and celebrate that Jesus Christ shared
the gift of himself in his Last Supper, and in his death and in resurrection.
The symbols, signs, actions and rituals of Holy Week and Easter remember the Passion,
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Investigations: We are One But We are Many
Key Understandings
As Australians we come from many different cultural backgrounds.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have lived in Australia for more than
60,000 years and their culture is strongly connected to the land.
There are many Australians from different backgrounds who make contributions to their
community.
Ordinary people can do extraordinary things and can inspire others to help their community.
We each have a responsibility to use our gifts and talents to make a difference and
work towards a better future.
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Investigate why and how people participate within communities and cultural and
social groups
Describe the different cultural, religious and/or social groups to which they and others
in the community may belong
A significant example of change and a significant example of continuity over time in the
local community, region or state/territory
Compare their own and others cultural practices, showing how these may influence the
ways people relate to each other.
Describe what they have learnt about themselves and others from intercultural
experiences including a critical perspective on and respect for their own and others
cultures.
The diversity and longevity of Australia the significant ways Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander peoples are connected to Country and Place (land, sea,
waterways and skies) and the effects on their daily lives.