3/4 News 

As part of our first unit of inquiry ‘How we organise ourselves’, the students worked with a partner to create a board game. The purpose of this task was to understand the importance of clear rules when playing games.

On Valentine’s Day we celebrated by writing words of kindness to all our friends on gigantic love hearts. Everyone loved reading all the kind and thoughtful messages people wrote for them. Celebrating love and kindness is really important to us! 

In grade 3, our focus in Maths has been all around length, perimeter and measurement. We explored the concept of perimeter by estimating and measuring different objects in the classroom using string. We worked together to figure out different ways to create a shape with a perimeter of 36 units. This was a really challenging unit and we worked hard to be deep thinkers. 

On the 8th of March, the year 3 and 4 students went to CERES in Brunswick. 

The purpose of this excursion was to develop the students’ understanding of living and non-living things. We learnt of the positive and not-so-positive impacts of human interactions on an ecosystem through lots of hands-on activities.

The children participated in three activities on the day. They discovered a wetland ecosystem and how it supports local biodiversity. The next activity was identifying habitat needs of different native fauna. The final activity was exploring the urban water cycle and learning how water management affects the health of ecosystems. 

Over the next few weeks the year 3 and 4 students have an exciting home learning task. They wored on a Curiosity Project. This was a mini research project in which you will research whatever topic they are interested in.