Mrs Antico

We have been so lucky in Year 3 to have Mrs Antico come into our classroom every Monday and Tuesday mornings to help us with our writing skills. She has helped with our writing of imaginative and persuasive texts. We have improved so much and we were prepared for NAPLAN. Mrs Antico helped us to improve our writing by using descriptive words, great sentence starters and similes in our imaginative texts. We learnt how to persuade someone in a text and what kind of language we need to use such us definitely, strongly believe and must. 

Thank you so much Mrs Antico 

WE WILL MISS YOU!!! 

Written by Blue and Green groups 

Challenge:

Tell us what you have improved on in your writing. 

ANZAC DAY ART

ANZAC DAY

In 3 Gold we remembered all Australians who served and dies in war by completing a dawn service artwork. 

Children's Blog:

Blue Group 

For ANZAC Day we did an ANZAC Day craft. We used an old newspaper article and did a wash over the paper to make it look like it was dawn when the sun is rising. 

Orange Group 

The ANZAC Day art was really intereting because the sunrise made is look really effective like it was a dawn service. We cut out a silhouette of a solider it looked great!!

Green Group 

For ANZAC Day we did art activity to remember all the people who fought in war for us. 

Australian

New

Zealand

Army 

Corps

Purple Group  

ANZAC Day is when we remember all of the people who fought in war. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. In class we made an ANAC artwork. We added some rosemary to our picture. Rosemary is significant because it was found growing wild in Gallipoli.

Red Group 

ANZAC day is a time when we stop to think about all the brave men and women who fought in the war. ANZAC stand for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. These brave men and women fought to protect our country. 

CHALLENGE 

What book are reading at home for homework? Tell us about one of the characters. 

P.S. GOOD LUCK FOR NAPLAN THIS WEEK YEAR 3 :)

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

"Eat it or wear it"

During read aloud in term 1 we read "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume. 3 Gold enjoyed this book and looked forward to hearing about what Fudge would get up to next and how annoyed his brother Peter would be. We hope to read the other 3 books in this series throughout the year. 

Blog by Archie and Jack

We read a book called "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing". Miss Veling let us make our own book jackets for the book to try and persuade others to read the book. We did a draft copy first before we published it. We found information about Judy Blume to add to our book jacket as well. We had so much fun designing them. We even interviewed our friends in class so we could put reviews about the book on our book jacket. They look so great hanging in our room. We loved reading this book! 

|Challenge|

What was your favourite part in "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and why?

Mathematics

Structure of a Numeracy Block

Everyday the children in Year Three participate in at least an hour of Mathematics. Recent research suggests that children need 200 hits of a mathematical idea or concept before they will consolidate their understanding. To help the children with achieving the 200 hits we participate in warm up games every day. They help the children use and develop their mental strategies.

There are three parts to our numeracy lessons.
Warm Up
Rich task 
Reflection Time

Challenge:

Number Bust 36. Try to use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

Children's Blog:
We like doing Maths in Year 3. We always have our Maths lesson in the middle block after Meditation. We start with a warm up. We have different warm ups. Sometimes we do number busting, card games to help with our time tables, adding and subtracting, or time tables buzz which is tricky but it helps us to learn our multiplication facts. Next we receive our task. sometimes it is challenging at first but our reflection time helps us to understand what to do and how we can challenge ourselves. During reflection time Miss Veling choose some children to share their work. Sometimes we can do our work on an app called explain everything to show the class our Maths thinking. 

We have a Maths wall in Year 3 which helps us with our different strategies to work out Math problems. 

St Patrick's Day and Harmony Day

Over the last two weeks 3 Gold has celebrated St Patrick's Day and Harmony Day.

St Patrick's Day was held on the 17 March to remember Saint Patrick the patron saint of Ireland. We all got to dress up in green. We were also lucky enough to have our school Walk-A-Thon on this day. We walked around the school to raise money for more technology. It was such a fun day! 

Harmony Day was held on 21 March. Harmony Day celebrates Australia’s cultural diversity. It’s about inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for everyone. It is a day for all Australians to embrace cultural diversity and to share what we have in common. The central message for Harmony Day is that ‘everyone belongs’, reinforcing the importance of inclusiveness to all Australians. In 3 Gold we could wear the colour orange, colours from our background countries or traditional dress. We looked up how to say hello in different countries and made a peace sign from our hands. 

What was your favourite thing from St Patrick's Day or Harmony Day? Leave a comment below.

A PHOTO FROM THE EASTER LITURGY

Character Strengths

We all have many different types of strengths.

Character strengths are the personality characteristics that make us authentic, unique and feel engaged.

The Classification of Character Strengths is comprised of 24 character strengths that fall under six broad virtue categories: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance and transcendence .  Knowing your and understanding character strengths is the first step towards living a happier, more authentic life. 

Challenge:

Think about each of the people in your family or class.Give them a super hero name. 

What are their special character strength powers? What kind of superhero are they? How do they use their hero-skills to help your family or sort out its everyday challenges and reach its goals?

Children's Blog:

Blue

Character strengths are the things that make you, you. Character strengths are special things that can you show in you rife. In class we designed our own character strength posters showing our character strengths. 

Green

There are many different character strengths. One of the character strengths are zest this is when you show vitality, enthusiasm, vigour, energy, feeling alive. We had to think about which character strengths we show. 

Orange

I have enjoyed the character strengths because it is a why to look at ourselves. We got to reflect and think about our own character strengths and design a poster. We could design a shield, an outline of a person or on the computer.

Purple

We have bee figuring out which character strengths we have. In library with Miss Matthews we have been learning and reading books that show different character strengths. We also talked about different strengths we might need to work on more. 

Red

In 3 Gold we have been talking a lot about character strengths. We know there are some we still need to work on. Our class made posters to represent our strengths. Some people made a poster or comic on the computer. There are a lot of different character strength. We have a poster hanging in our class which shows and explains them all. Many of us show the character strengths of love, kindness and fairness. 

                                          

Sound Waves

Welcome to SOUND WAVES 

The Sound Waves approach uses a sound-to-letter strategy, which acknowledges that sounds can be represented in more than one way. The Sound Waves approach focuses first on the basic units of sound in our language – phonemes. It then explores the letters that represent these sounds and how they can be put together to form the words in our language. 

In Year 3 we understand what a phoneme and grapheme is. 

Phoneme: A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word.

Grapheme: A grapheme is the letter or letter combination used to represent a phoneme in written form. 

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Challenge:

This week I have created a QUIZLET for you. 

Click on the link and see if you can guess the d dd words. 

Record them in the comments below. Can you think of any others?

QUIZLET d dd

Children's Blog:

Blue:

We have been doing sound waves in class. We have looked at different sounds like /b/ /a/ /k/ /e/ /d// Sound waves is about sounding out the letter in words. We segment our words to find out the sounds. There is a cool activity online we can use to check our segmenting. 

Green:

Sounds waves is helping us with our spelling and the different sounds. Each time we learn a new sound we say a new chant. This week we were looking at the sound /d/ and our chant was ducks dive down d d d.  

Orange:

Sound waves sometimes can be hard but also fun! We enjoy it because it makes spelling cool and we learn different sounds to help us spell tricky words. It is getting easier each week. 

Purple:

For sound waves we each have our own activity book and it teaches us all about the different sounds. In sound waves we do spelling activities and we do some challenges at the end. Sound waves held us to learn the different sounds in words and helps us spell a word we are unsure of. 

Red:

At school we are doing sound waves. We complete the first page of our activity book with Miss Veling then we take in home to complete the second page for homework. It helps us with our sounds, spelling and how to pronounce words. Every week we go through all of the sounds we will be learning with an echo song. It is like learning our ABC but it is ALL of the sounds. We love finding out what our new chant will be for the week as well. DUCK DIVE DOWN  d dd.