Grade 3/4 Students

3/4A - Ms Yvette and Mrs Hunter

3/4A worked very hard on their ‘Monty on the Mic’ speeches, persuading the audience on topics such as the benefits of language learning, why homework should not be compulsory, and why we need technology in our lives. Students enjoyed researching, writing about and presenting their arguments, and it made for some very convincing (and entertaining!) learning. Our class champion was Mia D., who eloquently convinced us to learn a second language!

Book Week!

Students relished the opportunity to dress up as their favourite book character, and we had characters in our class ranging from Bad Guys, to Anne of Green Gables, Spiderman and of course Harry and Hermione! To celebrate students’ remarkable imaginations and costumes, we took the opportunity to ‘change things up’ a little! During Writing sessions, students reimagined their book characters’ strengths and weaknesses, describing what they would be like if their personalities and lives were slightly altered! Students took great pride and pleasure in these sessions, writing with wit, enthusiasm and creativity. Here are some examples of students’ Book Week writing:

Stevie Louise and the waterpark disaster

Hi my name is Stevie Louise, Stevie for short. I have long brown hair always in a ponytail, a red velvety shirt with white felt around my neck,I have black jeans and black boots. I really love the colour blue and green. I have 4 siblings and 2 mothers. Today I am going to the waterpark. Let's start today’s story.

“Mum?” I shout out from the backseat of the car. “Yes?” Mum says weakly. “How long are we away from the water park?” I ask politely. ”7 minutes away, darling” Mum answers “Oh thank you.” I say and then stop bothering mum. I turn over to see my other mum reading the newspaper holding a cup of coffee in her hand. Everyone is so quiet, I think quietly. I look out the window to see a large tree that had just fallen down. I turn back around and grab my book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I read for what feels like forever. But when I look up I see it, the wonderful, large majestic water park. I gasp and drop my book. 

By Sadie W-Y

Mia’s Great Adventure

Mia woke to the sound of a soft tapping. She slowly opened her eyes and a truly beautiful sight met her eyes. A snowy white owl was perched on her window sill, it was still dawn so she quietly slipped out of bed not wanting to wake her parents. She walked to the window and pulled it open and the snowy white owl flew in. Mia thought this was quite strange because she had never seen  an owl even at night. Her sharp green eyes spotted a letter attached to its leg so she detached the letter from the owl’s leg and unrolled it as she read the writer's thin loopy handwriting.

By Mia B.

3/4B - Miss Brook

In 3/4B, we have been creating persuasive speeches. Our topic choices were “Homework should be compulsory” and “Technology helps us learn”. The students could choose to either agree or disagree. Here are some snippets!

3/4C - Mr Lewis

During Science Week, the students participated in a range of science activities in the hall with Elisa. In this activity students are examining how the reflection of light changes when light is shined behind different glass shapes.

In this Maths activity, students created an art design using a range of different shapes. They then priced each shape and totalled the full cost of their art piece.

3/4D - Mr Mitch 

This week, the students were challenged to create a persuasive speech based on a topic of their choosing. They implemented various persuasive devices including rhetorical questions, emotive language and exaggeration with great effect.

Fynn W’s primarily used humour to captivate his audience. He was selected as Grade 34D’s most influential speaker and was fortunate enough to present this speech in front of the 34 cohort. Well done, Fynn! 

3/4E - Miss Margarita

We wrapped up our multiplication unit with a mini unit on calculating area. In this open ended task, students were given the following problem:

You bought a new rug for your hallway and each side measured one metre. When you got home, you realised it did not fit in your hallway, so you cut the rug up and joined the pieces together to make it fit (using all the rug). What might your rug look like now? Work out the area and perimeter of both rugs.

Students made the original rug out of butcher's paper, calculated the area and perimeter and then cut their new rug. When they measured the area and perimeter of the new rug, they found that the area stayed the same but the perimeter changed. Making sure our rugs were measured accurately was lots of fun (and quite challenging)! I was super impressed with the thinking and discussions students had during this task.