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. 

                                      

Our Class Chain and Peg Chart

In 3 GOLD we have a whole class reward system and a Peg Chart. The children will explain how we use these in the class.

Children's Blog:

Blue

Every time we get a compliment for the whole class we get a link in a chain. We work hard to get our chain the reach the floor. When in reaches the floor we get reward time as a whole class. In week 5 our chain reached the floor and we got free time in the classroom. Our chain is being used as decoration now. 

Green

We get to add to our chain when we receive a complement or we respond straight away to Miss Veling. In week 5 we got free time together as a class because our chain reacher the floor. It was fun! Now we are working hard to make the chain reach the floor again. 

Orange

We love when we get compliments we can earn a chain. We all work together as a team to earn a chain. When our chain reaches the floor Miss Veling chooses how we can spend time together as a class. In week 5 we got to have some free time playing together in the classroom. It was fun! We can't wait till our chain reaches the floor.

Red

In 3 Gold we have a peg chart. Everyday we start on ready to learn. We each have our own peg. When we have been good or do good things in class we can move our peg up. When you move it up twice you get a dot on the chart. When you get 5 dots you get a SAPPHIRE!!! When everyone on your table has one sapphire your table has some free time together. You can also move your peg down which isn't a good thing so we are always trying to do the right thing in 3 Gold so we get to move out peg up. 

This Weeks Challenge

Two numbers multiply to make 360. One of them has a zero on the end. What might the two numbers be?