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March 7, 2011

Unit 5

goods and services impacts

people’s lives from the point of 

view of employment. 

We have planned a field trip to

Emporium Shopping Complexto see what goods and services

are available and what theyprovide. The students will then

link these products and services

to people’s needs and wants. 

We need your expertise!

We would like to hear aboutyour experiences in the busi-ness world! We will be askingfor volunteer presenters who

would share their business

ideas with the kids, explaining

how to target consumers with

your product or service andhow to provide people with

what they want. The presenta-tion will not need to be longer

than 15minutes. We will out-

line the focus in a future email

and blog posting.

Unit Five Curriculum Outline

„How We Organize Ourselves‟

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.

Dear Parents,

We are starting our new unitunder the transdisciplinary theme

of ‘How We Organize Ourselves’.

The central idea for the unit is:

“The exchange of goods andservices affects people‟s

lives.” 

Within this unit the students will

learn about the provision and

exchange of goods and services.

We will explore the roles of consumers and providers and will

explore how availability of certain

goods and services impacts

people’s lives.

We will be accessing the unit

through the concepts of:

Function - Students will be find-

ing out how the exchange of 

goods and services functions, the

kinds of systems that are in placefor economic activities and willlearn about the roles of consum-

ers and providers.

Connection – We will look intopeople’s needs and wants and

how they are connected to theprovision of goods and services.

We will also connect availabilityand employment to people’s

needs and wants.

In addition, we will explore the

concept of communication andhow it is essential in the exchange

of goods and services. The con-

cept of systems will be consid-ered through money. We will also

look into how the exchange of 

LANGUAGE FOCUS

Writing: Exposing students to

persuasive writing

Reading: Determining Important

Ideas in non-fiction

Viewing and Presenting

Word Study

Transdisciplinary

MATHEMATICS

We will learn about monetary

systems and review money foraddition, subtraction and use

money fwith multiplication in

Mathematics activities.

MATHLETICS: on-going

STAND ALONE MATHS

Division and Fractions

Mental and written

strategies for division in

real life situations, includ-

ing TIME 

Understanding the lan-

guage of division

Reminders:

Please make sure your child

Important Dates for 

Year 3

Field trip to

Emporium 3JJ, 3CK 

and 3MR

Tue

March

15

Field trip to

Emporium 3IH and 

3MS

Thu

March

17 

Expert Talk by Mr 

Paul Cooper, Eco-nomics Teacher 

March

21 and 22

Elementary School 

Action Day 

March

22

Parents sharing ex-

periences in Business

World 

March

29

Songkran Break April 4-

15

School Resumes April 

18

Year 3 Newsletter

Reminders:

Please make sure

your child brings a

hat to school so theycan wear it for out-

door playtime.

No need for extra

snack, lunch, moneyor camera on the

field trip to Empo-

rium

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