Hello Grade 3 parents,
Please see below the general overview of Sept-Dec General studies skills map as mentioned in my email. Personalisation and enrichment will happen on an individual basis.
Thanks,
Miss M
September/October
| Literacy |
Numeracy |
Social Studies and Science
(Project based learning) |
- Recap of basic literary skills (Nouns/adjectives/adverbs/verbs)
- Recap of basic punctuation skills (Capital letter, period, exclamation marks, question mark, comma)
- Recap of presentation of work and handwriting
- Introduce Accelerated Reader
- Star reading assessment (comprehension and decoding)
- Media Literacy – introduction to blogging.
- Guided Reading blocks with Higher order inquiry skills
- Structured Word Inquiry (SWI)
- Inquiry based questioning – identifying audience, purpose and topic
- Creative writing
- Novel study – The Twits.
- Presentation skills (Speaking/performance)
- Listening skills
- Organizing and classifying
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- Recap of basic skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, early division)
- Word problems
- Time
- Measurement
- Shapes
- Patterns
- Charting
- Representing and ordering to 1000
- Money
|
- Plants and soil
- Land use and the environment
- Early Settlers and First Nations
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November/December 2019
| Literacy |
Numeracy |
Social Skills and Science |
- Continuation and development of all recap skills named above.
- Development into sentence structure and paragraphing.
- Use of connectives and developed adverbs to develop written fluidity
- Continued use of Accelerated Reader and Star reading assessment
- Continued SWI
- Continued Media Literacy – independant Blogfolio launch, commenting, POV audience
- Non-Fiction reading with higher order inquiry
- Non fiction writing – writing to inform and critique
- Presentation skills – titles/subtitles
- Summary skills
- Compare and contrast
- Inquiry based questioning
- Creative writing – drafting
- Developed use of similes and alliteration
- Novel study – The Twits.
- Presentation skills (Speaking/performance)
- Listening skills
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- Continuation and development of all recap skills named above.
- Project based learning activities
- Time – looking into addition and subtraction in time
- Perimeter
- 3D shapes
- Developing patterning
- Using and interpreting Graphs
- Early area
- Temperature (plus and minus)
- Money skills
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- Plants, soil
- Land use and the environment
- Early Settlers and First Nations
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