Year 3 News
Brickworks Incursion
Year 3 Students Enjoy a LEGO-Based Incursion!
This week, our Year 3 students had an exciting and engaging LEGO-based incursion run by Supreme Incursions, featuring the amazing Cass as our presenter. The students showcased their excellent communication skills as they worked together, remaining thoroughly engaged throughout the entire experience. They rotated through four dynamic building stations, each designed to challenge their creativity and cooperation:
Instructional Building: In this station, students partnered up to construct various structures and animals by following instructions displayed on iPads. This activity helped reinforce their ability to listen and work together effectively.
Creative Kids: Here, the students were tasked with building a community or an important community facility, such as a hospital. This was a continued build, allowing each group to add to and modify their creations over the course of the incursion, fostering teamwork and collaboration.
Portrait Creators: At this station, students created 3D portraits of an important member of the community or a friend. The creativity on display was impressive, and this activity brought a lot of laughter as they shared their unique designs with one another!
Finish the Build: In this final station, students were challenged to make or complete an emergency vehicle commonly seen in most communities, such as a fire engine, ambulance, police car, or tow truck. This task encouraged them to think critically and work together to bring their ideas to life.
Overall, the incursion run by Supreme Incursions with Cass was a fantastic opportunity for our Year 3 students to develop their teamwork and communication skills while having fun with LEGO! We look forward to more engaging activities like this in the future.
Urban, Suburban and Rural Communities
Our current Unit of inquiry is ‘How we organise ourselves’
Central Idea: People form communities based on needs and resources.
This unit is an inquiry into the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities; the structure and function of organizations; societal decision-making; economic activities and their impact on humankind and the environment.
Throughout this unit, students have explored how communities operate and the connections that bind them together. One of the key activities involved creating representations of urban, suburban, and rural communities using various craft materials.
In this creative endeavour, students were tasked with considering the unique needs of each community type and ensuring that their designs reflected the appropriate scale.
In the final phase of this project, students connected their urban, suburban, and rural models by designing and installing roadways, thoughtfully contemplating the layout to enhance connectivity between the different community types.
To further solidify their understanding, students illustrated a bird's-eye view of their communities on grid paper in their Maths books. This exercise not only aids in organizing their thoughts but also serves as a foundational planning tool for their next exciting challenge: creating communities within the Minecraft platform!