Thursday 7 November 2019

Super Scientist

The students have selected their topics for the Super Scientist report. They will be expected to give a short, oral presentation, sharing some of the facts they ahve researched at home.

More details and revised timetable in the post below.

Thanks,
Miss B


Name
Topic
Parker
Minerals
Mehrry
Plastic
Mia
Glow worms
Legacy
 
Jessmary
Jupiter
Amelia
Volcanos
Katie
History of lipstick
Terry
The Brain
Kent
Earthquakes
Liam
Dinosaurs
Alya
Tsunamis
Makaylah
Elephants
Ashton
Wolves
Oscar
Satellites
Maya
?
Joshua
Cheetahs
Lola
Glow Worms
Abigail
The Sun
Noel
Neptune
Kate
Vaccinations
Griffin
The Moon
Elija
 

Super Scientist Oral Report


This semester children are asked to present a short (2 min) report on a topic for the Super Scientist Competition. A report is not an experiment. Reports should be an explanation of a topic from a scientific perspective such as an animal, life-cycle, planet, states of matter or any topic that your child chooses. Children are asked to have their reports prepared and ready to present by Week 5.

Year 3 Teachers

Monday
11 Nov
Tuesday
12 Nov
Wednesday
13 Nov
Thursday
14 Nov
 
Amelia
Abi
Terry
Eli
Joshua
Noel
Griffin
Katie
Legacy
Kent
Alya
Mia
Jess
Liam
Parker
Mehrry
 
Kate
Makaylah
Ashton
Maya
 
Lola
 
 
 
 
Oscar
 
 



Saturday 2 November 2019

Halloween Big Buddy Activity


In History last semester, we were learning about special celebrations around the world. Miss Balogh kindly invited us into her classroom for a special history lesson about the origin of Halloween and some of the things her family do back home in America. The students worked with their Year 6 buddies to scoop out the pumpkins and separate and soak the seeds. Miss Balogh then carved the pumpkins into Jack-o-Lanterns. They looked so cool with the pretend flickering candles inside! The students also made some spooky decorations.









Student Fete



I was most impressed at the way the students independently prepared for the student fete. They were organised and co-operated well to design our stall. The marketing team kicked the week off by preparing and performing a rhyming skit at the special spruiking assembly. A number of the teams worked together to make, laminate and put posters around the school, while the design team busily prepared our stall display. It was all hands on deck making the biscuits- lots of messy fun! Thanks to all the parents for your generation donations. The rain didn’t dampen our spirits on fete fay, although, we did have to relocate. The students did a great job selling the biscuits and counting the change and displayed excellent customer service. The finance committee helped count the money at the end. We managed to raise a total of $73.45. The profit team and ideas team will now have to collaborate to work out what to spend this on. After a vote, chess and new books for our class library were popular suggestions.










Welcome Back




Well, Term 4 is well under way and what a busy and exciting time it has been!

In Literacy, we have been refining our reading comprehension skills, inferring meaning from a range of written and visual texts. The strategy we have been working on is scanning. When scanning we read quickly through a text, searching for key details and information. The kids have been doing a great job of this and were excited to showcase their skills to some visitors from a public school in Bunbury.

We have also been learning to read some more challenging phonics sounds and have been learning about the meaning that prefixes and suffixes hold in words. We have been revising the spelling of learnt digraphs and trigraphs and application of spelling rules. In grammar, we have been deconstructing sentences, breaking them into their various parts of speech. In writing, we have revised recounts, persuasive texts and narratives, with a focus on ‘Sizzling Starts.’ We have also been attempting to use descriptive language and punctuation to create emotion.  

In Mathematics we have been working on our measurement skills. We have had an opportunity to apply some of our mental maths and number skills to convert units of measurement. I have also taught the students to play the game Numero. This is a great game for students to apply their number skills and they are now getting very clever and strategic when playing in pairs.

In Science, we have been working on our investigating skills. The students are also busily thinking of a topic for their Super Scientist report, which they will need to prepare for the class challenge in Week 5. Please check your child’s homework folder for more information. The students will need to have decided on their topic by the end of Week 4, there will be a sheet going up on the classroom door for them to record this.

In HASS, we have started our unit on Civics & Citizenship. We have been looking at how democratic decisions are made at a local, state and federal level and how these bring about change in our community.

As well as revising important key learning concepts, the students have been developing and exercising the entrepreneurial skills, promoting and designing their stall for the student fete. They have also been participating enthusiastically in ballroom dancing lessons and learning a hip-hop routine to showcase later in the year. Stay tuned. Room 14 will also be attending swimming lessons in Weeks 7 & 8 and forms will be distributed in the near future. A big congratulations to Josh, Liam and Griffin who received awards for being in the Top 5 Most Improved category for the Year 3 Principal’s Challenge. Terry was in also acknowledged for being in the Top 5, with an amazing score of 69/70. We are very proud of you boys!


Katie and Makaylah talking through their best Numero moves

Congratulations to Terry, Liam, Josh and Griffin

Student Fete- "Come one, Come all, to Room 14's Biscuit Stall!"