Making Crystal Snowflakes

Today in science, we grew our own crystal snowflakes. The children were able to watch them grow throughout the day. It was heaps of fun and the children really enjoyed it! They were also good scientists and wrote explanations about what occurred. Here are some of the results:

What's on this week...? (Term 1, Week 6)

This week in English, we continue our look at exposition (persuasive) writing as well our focus on adjectives. In maths we continue to work on fractions. We are well and truly into our unit on celebrations. This week we look at Research the Australian Coat of Arms, floral and fauna emblem and local, state and national flags and discuss why flags are often flown at half mast. We will also be surveying the class on our favourite celebrations and making bar graphs. In ICT, the children continue to work in the Cyber Academy as they try to achieve their cadet rookie wings (some already have) and move to the next level in the Cyber Academy. Another fun week!!

Student of the Week (Week 4)

Congratulations to Jordy, who was awarded this week's student of the week. Jordy has been a very enthusiastic, organised and helpful member of the class. She has shown all the signs of what it is to be a good class mate. Well done Jordy!

What's on This Week (Term 1, Week 5)

It's hard to believe we are already half way through the term. We have done so much already! This week, we begin literacy rotations. In literacy, we continue to focus on exposition (persuasive) writing and the use of adjectives to make our writing more interesting. In Maths, we tackle fractions. We are also going to meet our buddies (from 1/2L) and have a picnic lunch with them to get to know them. We begin our second topic for the term which is called 'Celebrations' and we will to look at what a celebration is and what is mean to celebrate. In LAB we begin our work with the Cyber Academy. Students will be aiming to get their Rookie wings this week. We will also complete a science activity at the end of the week (something that we will aim to do every fortnight). Remember homework is due in on Monday morning. Another really busy week, but filled with lots of fun activities.  Have a great week!

34F Autobiographies

Over the last few weeks, students in our class have been learning how to write an autobiography. Each student wrote about themselves (when and where they were born), their family, the exciting things that have happened in their lives and what they want to do in the future. Here are some of the results.

Chocolate Box Arrays

This week, 34F has been learning about multiplication. One of the activities we completed was making chocolate box arrays. Arrays help us work out our multiplication facts. What flavour is your multiplication fact?

Meet Our Class Pets

Meet our class pets Ninja, Gilbert, Princess and Banana. We love our class pets and they have fun in our class.

Student of the Week (week 3)

Congratulations to Kyan for a wonderful effort this week and earning himself student of the week. Kyan never gave up this week and worked incredibly hard. Keep it up.

Samuel's Table!

We all got a surprise this morning when Samuel brought in his own desk. Samuel spent 2 weeks in the holidays making this master piece. He even used it to do his work on today! Thanks for sharing Samuel! Well done.

Student of the Week (Week 2)

This week's student of the week was Jok. He has worked hard in maths to learn his number facts and has improved his reading. Keep it up. Who will be next...?

What's On This Week...? (Term 1, week 4)

This week, the students will be focussing on multiplication and division in Maths. Our autobiographies have been drafted and they will be finished early this week. So in English, we will begin to focus on exposition (or persuasive) writing as we start to practise for NAPLAN. Our grammar focus is on adjectives and we will be making a RIP chart for 'boring' words, replacing them with alternative and interesting words to use in their place. In LAB, we will complete an online test which will define the student's preferred learning styles. We also continue with George in our second LAB session where we will develop our Eduplex walls. On Monday, we begin planting the garden outside our classroom with winter crops, which will be ready to harvest later in term 2 or early term 3. Finally, the student's will begin homework on Wednesday. Another busy week! Enjoy it!

3/4F Timetable

Hi All,

The 3/4F timetable is available on the Blog Spot (on the left hand side of the page). Here is a summary of the timetable.

Monday

Music

 

Tuesday

PE

 

Wednesday

LAB

Art

 

Thursday

LAB - George

Indonesian

Library

 

Friday

Grade 3/4 Sport

What's on this week...? (Term 1, week 3)

Hi All,

Each week, I will be providing you with a sneak peek at what is happening next week so you know what the children will be learning and doing. Next week, we will continue to focus on place value and counting in maths. We also will begin to look at addition and subtraction and some strategies to work out these sums. In English, we will complete our autobiographies, focussing on sentence types. We will finish our introductory inquiry unit (Learning to Learn) and complete our first of many science activities. Have a great week!

3/4F Junior School Councillors Announced

Congratulations to Jordy and Daniel who today were elected as the Junior School Councillors to represent 3/4F in 2014. We know you will do a wonderful job.

Welcome to 3/4F in 2014

Welcome to grade 3 and 4! It's hard to believe that the holidays are over and we have already begun another year! I am looking forward to working with you this year and helping you learn and develop both academically and as a person.

This year will be lots of fun, and there is so much to do and learn. I hope you enjoy the year.

 

Mr.Fraser