Year Three
Term One
This term in Grade 3 we have been working on lots of fun and exciting things.
In Inquiry we have been learning about our community and school gardens. We have been watching lots of clips about school gardens and making worm farms. We have been doing activities on how we can improve our community and how we as individuals can improve our world.
In Literacy we have been introduced to a new website called “Studyladder.” On Study ladder we get to create an avatar and earn spending money by completing our activities the teacher has set for us. You can also earn points to get certificates. We have learned how to write various types of writing, for example, persuasive and narratives.
This term in Maths we have learnt different ways to solve addition (+) and subtraction (-) problems. We have learnt the jump strategy and the split strategy.
This term in Paths our lovely paths kids have been beautiful role models by; showing the values of Learning, Teamwork, Leadership and Respect. We have also been looking at the SWPBS matrix and the most appropriate behaviours for outdoors and indoors.
From Jesse H, Olivia K and Natasha
Term Two
In term 2 we did awesome stuff in Inquiry.
We learned about John Batman, Victoria,
the Gold Rush, ANZAC day and last but not least Ned Kelly.
In year 3 term 2 we learned that John Batman wanted to call Melbourne Batmania and he signed a treaty.
Did you know that Ned Kelly was a famous bushranger, killed three police men, stole horses and insulted a man. Ned Kelly was born in 1855 and died in 1880?
Did you know that the year three’s also learned about the Gold Rush?
We learned that Victoria had the second most gold and Ballarat was where people came to search for gold. We also learned what ANZAC stands for. People from the War had to eat ANZAC cookies because ANZAC cookies last longer and poppies are used for remembrance.
Our most favourite activity in inquiry was completing our Ned Kelly WANTED posters.
At the end of Term 2 Literacy we completed some spelling tests, and the Year 3’s had a little joke that one of the girls got expelled because she got 99/100 on her spelling test.
In literacy we also wrote narratives, recounts and created comics about our Polly Woodside excursion.
We also have our reading night Minion Wall which teacher Alex says looks AWESOME (better than the year 4’s)
Year 3 Maths in term two was awesome! We learned telling time, division, time tables and how to count by 3’s, 4’s and more.
We also went on an amazing excursion to Polly Woodside, where we learned about the past.
That’s all on our Year 3 term 2 life!
We can’t wait until term 3!
By Sheena
Term Three
This term in Inquiry we have learnt about solids, liquids and gases. We learnt how gas particles are more spaced apart, liquids have a little more space than solids and solid particles are closer together, that’s why you can’t walk through solids.
We also did experiments about solids and liquids. We did an experiment about oobleck. We had different colors like blue, green, pink/red we also had partners. We went outside and it got stuck on the rocks and we learnt that if it sits in the sun it gets dry.
In Literacy we learnt about the Olympics. We did Olympic reports, a lot of the people did gymnastics. The reports people mostly did were gymnastics, fencing, basketball and water polo. We also added pictures into our information reports to present our work.
In maths we have been learning about shapes, fractions and timetables.
We learnt about how 1 part out of 2 is half in fractions.
We learnt about 3D and 2D shapes this term. Some 3D shapes we learnt about were the sphere, cone, cube, cylinder, triangle prism, rectangle prism and pyramid.
We have also learnt about timetables, we focused on the 1s, 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.
Camp
On the 31st of August we went to camp. We went to Gundiwindi lodge for three days it took 1 hour. When we got there we got split into cabins. There were 14 cabins. After that we got split into our activity/duty groups, there were 6 groups. Cabin 11 was the biggest cabin. There were 6 activities at camp. They were the flying fox, giant swing, archery, survival skills, nature hunt/trampolines and damper.
At night we had a night walk and camp fire. After that we went to sleep Zzzzzzz. Once everyone woke up we had breakfast. Group 2 had duty group for breakfast. In the afternoon the activities people didn’t do the first day did it the second day.
That night we had a disco and movie and nearly everyone fell asleep in the movie. Then everyone went to their cabins and went to sleep. On the last day we had to get up early then get all our suitcases in the bus and leave. We went to a place with water. After that we went to a playground and played for a bit then we left to go to Lilydale Lake to have lunch. We had a sandwich and a drink, there were so many sandwiches and for the drink there was lemon and raspberry cordial. We also had some fruit, like apples and oranges. Then we headed off to go on a walk.
We walked a long way then we went to a fitness playground. After that we went to the toilets and we went back and ate our muffins (they were choc chip muffins). Next we went on the bus to go home. We got back on the bell and all of our parents were waiting for us (our parents missed us).
THAT’S WHAT YEAR 3 DID IN TERM 3 THIS YEAR. THANKS FOR READING!
BYE!
Written by Mia F and Matilda N
Term Four
