Mathematics/Matemáticas

Maths Builders has been all about statistics and probability, 3D shape and symmetry over the past few weeks. In Spanish, students created 3D nets with paper and used playdough and toothpicks to create and describe their 3D objects. In English, students have been playing Dice Footy, King's Tax and conducting various surveys with one another to represent data on different types of graphs. Dice Footy has been a crowd favourite- have a go playing at home! All you need is 2 dice and paper.

Inquiry

"Reuse it or Lose it!" was our Inquiry topic this term. Students explored the 'war on waste' and learned all about food wastage in Australia and across the world along with some incredible ways to reduce our wastage in everyday life. We tallied the different sources of energy that are used in our class at school and home and created graphs to represent the data. Students designed an object using recyclable material and we had a gallery walk to present our learning.

Literacy

Students were very excited to publish their persuasive and narratives texts this week. We have been exploring different books with: bold beginnings, mighty middles and excellent endings. Students have been applying the authors' strategies in these books to their own writing. Students have been crafting these writing pieces for a number of weeks now, so it was a great sense of achievement to finally publish and celebrate our writing with an author's chair session! We are so proud of their final products. In Reading, we have been learning to look beyond the text to make inferences. Students read classic fables such as The Hare and the Tortoise, The Ugly Duckling, The 3 Little Pigs and The Boy Who Cried Wolf to infer the messages, based on text clues and prior knowledge.

Literatura

In Spanish this term, students have stretched their writing abilities by working on los cuentos narrativos (narrative stories). Students worked on learning vocabulary to describe characters, writing a problem and a solution. At the end of the term, students have been publishing their stories using the website My Storybook where they were able to illustrate and write their stories. The students are very proud of their writing. Take a look at our narratives below. ¡Felicidades!

To end the year, students are working on performing a role play of their narrative stories in small groups. Keep an eye out for their published videos in SeeSaw! In Week 11, students will continue their learning about Mexico during Semana Cultural.

Reminders

📢 Please bring back to school the take home reading folders along with any NPS home readers (they will have a 'classroom library' yellow sticker on the spine of the book or a coloured dot sticker on the front). These will stay at school until next year.

📢Cultural week is next week (Week 11) ¡Viva México! The whole school assembly/presentation for cultural week will be held on Friday 16th December at 2:30pm.

📢 Whole school transition for 2023: Tuesday 13th and Thursday 15th December 9:00-11:00am. Students will find out their 2023 teachers at the end of the day on Monday 12th December. On Tuesday and Thursday morning, students will line up in front of their 2023 classrooms. For next year's 2/3 students, this will be in the sensory playground (above current F/1 classrooms). For next year's 4/5 students, this will be in front of the portable classrooms. On Tuesday, students will have their last specialists day for the year following the morning's transition activities.

📢 Student leadership presentation is 9:30-10:30am Friday 16th December. Grade 2/3s will also have a 'Stomp' dance workshop incursion in the performing arts room 1:00-1:30pm on this day.

📢School finishes at 1:30pm on Tuesday 20th December. The end of year assembly will be held Tuesday 20th December, 12:30 – 1:20pm.

Grade 2/3: The highlights of our year...

Isla: "I liked making the flat hats in Art for Peru and making the shields during Cultural Week"

Wren: "I liked during Cultural Weeks that we got to make stuff like alfajores!"

Florence T.: "Every Cultural Week was a highlight for me because it was something new. And I liked making the alfajores. Camp was exciting because we missed it last year, I loved the cabins and the meals."

Taylor: "I loved the production because we got to dance and I love dancing. I also like Inquiry when we built the games and the items that we've been building out of recyclable materials because I love building! I also loved writing narrative stories in Spanish and acting out of our stories."

Reuben: "I liked doing the Code. I also liked doing Cold Writes in English & Spanish and our publishing weeks. Doing our plays in Spanish class is so fun!"

Sonny: "My highlight was production because it was really fun, my favourite part was 'What about me…' and the Stomp dance!"

Sebastian P. "My highlight was camp because it was fun to go in the cabins with your friends and hang out with your friends. And I loved going on the flying fox.

Arthur: "I liked camp because there were lots of fun activities and you weren't with your parents, so you had to do things on your own!"

Angus: "My highlight was building in Inquiry - I built a horse toy and a pig pen. I loved camp because I had so much fun on the bus!"

Max H: "Cultural weeks were my highlight because it's a different thing to do during the term and you learn different things about countries. For instance, with Peru we made the biscuits with dulce de leche and it was fun and great for students to learn about Spanish-speaking countries."

Xavier N: "My favourite highlight was probably reading. I love to read my book and I'm always waiting for reading."

Emlyn: "My highlight was Inquiry because we usually do lots of fun stuff like for instance we got to make our recycled material artwork, I made a storage container with Xavier!"

Mei: "I enjoyed the NAIDOC week. Uncle Trevor came and we got to do the smoking ceremony and it was so interesting to see how they made fires."

Billie: "My favourite learning activity this year was the Spanish stories that we got to perform in front of the class. My story was about a character called Lyn's first day at school and making friends."

Eloise: "My favourite thing this year was our first school camp. I was nervous at the start, but it turned out SO fun. The breakfasts were so good."

Paxton: "One of the reasons I liked camp was having lots of fun in my cabin with my friends. Flying fox was my favourite activity and the pasta was my favourite meal."

Max D: "Archery at camp was the highlight of my year. My arrow hit the blue target!"

Elijah: "A highlight of Grade 3 for me was publishing my story The Amazing Man. I'm proud of it!"

Some memorable moments from our year in 2/3...

The Newlands Times

Issue 39 · 09 Dec 2022

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