Music Count us in 2015

We joined thousands of students today to sing the song Gold, as part of the 2015 Music Count us in program. 

Welcome back to Term 3!

The week has been pretty good. We have done shotput and discus. We have done some writing of what we did in the holidays too. We did some sizzling starts and one person from each table had to read their work out loud to the class. Everybody on my table was too embarrassed to read their stories out loud so we did '21 is in' and luckily I didn't have to read out to the class.  

Millie

As you can see from Millie we had a very busy first week back for Term 3. We began the term by changing the seating arrangement as we do at the beginning of every term. We also changed the layout of our tables as well. Our class jobs were given a cull so that there are less jobs and more responsibilities per job. We had the chance to verbally share what we did during our holidays in small groups and also listen to our friends share what they did. We then wrote a personal recount about our holidays and some of us shared these with the class. 

We began our HSIE unit, 'People and Their Beliefs' and found out what everybody knew about beliefs and cultures. We all had a chance to share and have our comment typed up onto the Smart Board with our names. The next thing we are going to do is think about what we want to find out about beliefs and cultures around the world. As part of our homework this term we will be doing a project on a country and its major religion. All the information for this will come home on Monday. We also had maths groups and worked hard on our strategies with the four operations. 

Our assembly has been changed to Thursdays after lunch. This will take a little getting used to! I know I needed reminding on Thursday morning that we had an assembly that afternoon! 3/4T were very good about remembering that we had an assembly and were all lined up on Thursday straight after lunch. Well done 3/4T!

During computer lessons we all learned how to use our collaborative OneNote file for our class where we all get to use the same document at the same time. It means that we can research during library time in small groups and add information to our groups page within OneNote and all be typing at our own computer BUT all get to see each other's work at the same time. Wow! Technology really helps us collaborate with our classmates so easily!

We wrote stories this week remembering all of the strategies that we had learnt last term. We had to ban the boring bits by making sure that we started from an exciting part to help draw the reader in. That is why we begin our stories with 'sizzling starters'. We also had to have some complications in our stories and we think of these as pebbles, bricks and boulders. The smallest problem in our story is a pebble problem. We then have a slightly larger complication which is our brick problem and then we go onto the huge complication in our story which is the boulder problem. It helps to make sure that we have an interesting story. We also have to include a conversation in our stories between two characters  and then make sure that we have used some descriptive vocabulary and figurative language in our work. Wow! So much is expected of us. We have come a long way with our writing this year. We can't wait to share some of our fabulous stories with you all.

We made minions with Mrs Stephens and all got to joke about Bob and his 'b-a-n-a-n-a'. The minions are displayed on the bulletin board in the office. It says, 'A minion reasons to love 3/4T'. Go and check it out!

It was such a short week! We did manage to do our discus just before it began to rain thanks to Sam. We all had some practice before we did our proper throws with the discus. We have some talented sportspeople in our class. We will have to wait until next Monday to do our shotput! A pity that PSSA got rained out again. Hopefully this coming week will be better weather wise. 

ANZAC Assembly

It was difficult to explain to some of the eager sport fanatics that even though the sun was out sport was cancelled today. We had our ANZAC assembly which was wonderfully run by the year six leaders. Our two SRC representatives took the wreath that our class parent had decorated (thank you!) and laid it at the front of the assembly remembering to bow their head showing their respect to fallen soldiers. It was a solemn occassion and we al were on our best behaviour. We got to see Mr Rod Mason in his army uniform. He is a captain and army musician and he told us about his experiences of being a peace keeper in different countries. 

We got to listen to the band play, conducted by Mr Mason and also the senior choir sing, led by Mrs Nylund. They were both brilliant and you could really tell that they had put a lot of time and effort into their peformances!

After the assembly we had a writing lesson, recess, assembly and then a grammar lesson on 'adverbial phrases'. It sounds so tricky but isn't really! We practiced adding adverbial phrases to sentences in our grammar book.

After lunch we got to do some art! We painted amazing landscapes of poppy fields which is very fitting with ANZAC day being on Saturday and our ANZAC assembly being today. 

So although we missed out on sport because of wet, soggy fields we did get to do some painting which we always love!

Friday by Lucy

Today it's Friday, at half time in lunch I do swimming, some other people in our class are doing 

PSSA. The teams are junior cricket, senior cricket, t-ball and soft ball. Today was also assembly. We did reading groups in the morning with 4S. We read an ANZAC book with a partner. We had a picture of a hand. On the fingers you had to write who the people in the book were, what they were doing, where the story was set, when it was and why the event happened. In the palm of the hand you had to write the main idea. After recess it was the 3 to 6 assembly. This week Abby and Daniel got the award. Our class also won the assembly spy. After assembly we did catchup work and free writing. 

Jade's Recount of Friday

Today we started with a test to find out how well we can understand what we read. Then we did creative writing which was fun for some people. After recess we went to assembly and instead of a sport report we had a library report. Then some people went to sport and everyone else stayed at school and did catch up work eg. Grammar, maths, pen pal letters and drawing. Then we finally had lunch. Then we played sport or did swimming Milo cricket or PSSA. Then everyone went home.

TODAY WAS FUN!!!

Friday Flies By

A few Friday firsts this week! We had our first buddy time with 1L and 2S, our first 3-6 assembly and our first PSSA games of the season and year! 

What a great end to a wonderful week!