It has been another wonderful week in the Year 3/4 classroom.

On Monday, we celebrated ❤️ Valentine's Day ❤️ by learning about a very special relationship: the relationship between Addition ➕ and Subtraction ➖. We learnt that addition and subtraction are inverse operations which simply means they are opposite. We wrote number sentences to demonstrate this. All the students thought that talking about 'relationships' was pretty cheese however they all really embraced the love theme when celebrating 'A+S' or 'Addition+Subtraction' within their workbooks. 🥰

On Tuesday, we investigated odd and even numbers. We wanted to find out if we could tell if an answer would be odd or even, simply based on if odd or even numbers were used in the equation. We did multiple trials to make sure our evidence was correct ✅.

Here is what we found out:

Odd + odd = even
Even + even = even
Odd + even = odd
Odd - odd = even
Even - even = even
Odd - even = odd
Even - odd = odd
Odd x odd = odd
Odd x even = even
Even x even = even

On Wednesday, Miss Thompson wasn't at school because she had a training day 💻📖. The Year 3/4 students were beyond excited when they found out Mrs Murray would be their teacher for the day 🥳.

Every Thursday, we have been doing a 5 Minute Quick Write. We get a picture prompt which Miss Thompson puts on the TV and we have to think of something to write about that goes with the picture. These help us to be more creative and quickly come up with ideas to write. Our favourite part is once we finish writing and we all come to the floor and share. We also find it so interesting how we all have the same picture but we all have extremely different ideas. Here is this week's picture and some of the things we chose to write about.

One day in 2022, a dolphin swam around the whole world. It took three years to get to Australia. A hereford cow teleported and swam with the dolphin for a bit and then teleported back. By Cooper Leese

One day I saw a pirate ship. Then they blasted a cow out of the ship. Then I saw the cow had a friend dolphin so I called the cow a 'moodolph'. That was the last time I ever saw the Moodolph. By Ava Huf

One sunny day a cow was swimming and saw a big yacht. The yacht didn't know that they were towing a cow and a dolphin. The cow jumped onto the yacht and head butted everyone and then it was controlling the yacht. By Jaxson Cross

Once upon a time I was feeding the cows and the sea covered the world. A hereford swam away with a dolphin and was never seen again. By Thomas Hurley

Once upon a time there were dolphins and they got trapped in a fishing net. The boat had a cow on it because it wasn't any old cow, it could see the fish in the water. It saw the dolphin trapped in the net and pressed a button that let everything out. Then the cow jumped in the water and swam away with the dolphin. By Mietta Price

Once there was a cow. He loved to swim. One day he had a dream. He did a cannon ball off a boat. He saw a dolphin. He swam like a dolphin and swam back to the farm. By Sam Packman

One day I saw a cow swimming but it was a dolphin disguised as a cow. It was swimming with its best friend. The dolphin that was disguised had a disease that made him look like a cow. He got made fun of. By Gwyn Nettleton

'Hi. I'm a dolphin, even though I look like a cow. It's fun up here. I don't want to get back on the boat again and go to WA again.' By Emma Thomas

One day a cow was dreaming that it was a dolphin. Then the cow sleep walked all the way to the beach and swam away. By Pippa Quinn

And just like that, we are back to Friday and have come to the end of yet another week. The weeks are flying by, but you know what they say: time flies when you are having fun! 👍😊