Category: Year 3 Blue
Measurement Mania
In Year Three, we have been busy learning about different units of measurement. We have discussed where we see common units of measurement in our daily lives, and how we can use certain measurements to work out and compare the length or perimeter of objects in our world. We worked together to measure the length of some of our body parts and items around the class. We have also created mini house plans, based on our own homes, using grid paper. We will then use our new found measuring skills to work out the perimeter and area of each room in the home. Next, we will be exploring volume and capacity!
Love the Year Three Students
Science Term 4 Newsletter
Learning About St. Emilie’s History
This week we started to talk about what St. Emilie’s Primary School might have been like in the past. We made some predictions and shared some things that we already knew.
- We thought our school was somewhere between 17 & 30 years old.
- We know there were different teachers
- We know there were different house colours
- We know that the school has changed a lot
Next, we invited some special guests from Year Four to share the research that they have been doing and to share the interviews they conducted with significant members of the St. Emilie’s community.
Wow! We discovered SO many things that we didn’t know and even found it hard to imagine about the St. Emilie’s of the past.
We are looking forward to sharing our findings with you on Open Night!
Year Three Purposeful Practice – Weeks 7 & 8
Japanese…Progress this term
We Love Reading!
This term we have been talking a lot about how much we love reading!
We know that reading is very good for us and we can definitely see why. We could sit and talk about books for hours on end, but we don’t always have time for that. What we have made time for, is special reading experiences like…
Enjoying our books outside on fine days.
Discussing our favourite authors. Some of these include…
Ahn Do, Dav Pilkey, J.K. Rowling, Roald Dahl, David Walliams, Judy Blume, Morris Gleitzman, Tim Cahill, Andy Griffiths, Jeff Kinney and so many more.
Looking at how authors get us to think, feel, react and more…
We love how authors can create amazing pictures in our heads with their clever use of words, so we have been exploring some figures of speech like similes and metaphors, and experimenting with them in our own writing.
We have also discovered that we all connect with different characters and have our favourites from different books. Lots of us could actually name an all time favourite. How amazing it is that we can connect and feel as though we really know a fictional character in a story!
Something truly magical happens when you get lost in a good book.