What a week!!

Well, week 7 was an incredibly busy week for all of us in Suessville! We started with Japanese fun day where we made Kites, played games, read a Japanese story, attended a Japanese performance and tasted some Udon and Soba noodles. We finished off the week with our excursion to Birrigai. We had an amazing two days where we got to learn how to build tents with just a few sick poles, some rope and a tarp. We built fires and cooked damper on sticks and experienced going to school in the 1950's. There were team challenges where we worked together to solve puzzles and high ropes activities to test our nerves. We finished off with an Early Settlers Simulation where we were put into families and had to earn money to buy a fence for our plot of land, to build a shelter, to build a dam and purchase animals. After all of our hard work, the Governor and his soldiers came to visit each family to inspect their land. 

We are now back at school getting ready for our End of Year Concert this Wednesday, we look forward to seeing you all there!

What was your favourite activity at camp?

Science Inguiry - Night and Day

Today we began our new Science inquiry, Night and Day. Students  will be exploreing the sizes, shapes, positions and movements of the Sun, Earth and Moon. They will investigate how shadows change throughout the day and link these changes to the Sun’s apparent movement across the sky. We have already learnt that the sun doesnt actually move but that we move around the sun while turning on an axis.Take a look at one of the interesting clips we watched to help our learning.

What is something you would like to learn more about during our Night and Day inquiry?

Design and Technology

As part of our Design and Technology learning we have been looking at different obstacle courses and their designs. Our task was to investigate what resources we have available in the Play Shed and then use them in a creative way to make a challenging, fun and safe obstacle course for us to use at school. We have taken an inventory list of available equipment and we are beginning to design our courses. Once we are finished we will even get to make some of them up and test them out. Keep an eye out for some of our finished designs in the near future!

What materials that you have at home do you think would make a great obstacle?

Welcome back to Term 4

Welcome back to our final term this year to all of our Seussville families, we hope you all had a safe and enjoyable holidays. We have another busy term ahead of us here at school and have hit the ground running. In Mathematics Year 3 are learning all about multiplication and Year 4 are currently investigating different types of angles, they have been hunting for different types of angles in the school environment.

We have also begun our new Geography inquiry called Australia's Neighbors. We will be looking at Vanuatu, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand in detail and we started off our learning with a quiz game to to learn some interesting information about each of the countries. We are super excited to learn about other countries and their culture, government, currency, flora and fauna, food, industries and natural features.

In English we have started the term learning about poetry. We have been reading some fun rhymes and have had a go at creating some animal alliteration.

What interesting sentence can you create using alliteration? 

For example: Lazy leaping lizards lick lemon lollipops.

What A Term!

What a busy end to Term 3 we have been having here in Suessville! We went on our Canberra excursion to learn more about some of Canberra's landmarks and how they have changed over time. We visited many places including Mount Ainslie, Blundell's Cottage, Lake Burley Griffin and the Foundation Stone. We even had the opportunity to design a new building for Canberra using Lego.

Mount Ainslie

Captain Cook Memorial Fountain

 Canberra Lego building designs

 Blundell's Cottage

  Blundell's Cottage

  Blundell's Cottage

To finish off the term Fraser had their bi-annual Awesome Art Show last weekend. Take a look at some of the incredible art we had on display. We hope you all have a safe and happy holidays and we look forward to seeing everyone back ready for a fun packed and busy Term 4 in a few weeks.

 Year 3 Lorax Art

Year 3/4 Apple Tree

What has been your favorite activity/learning during Term 3?

Grandfriend's Morning

To celebrate National Literacy and Numeracy Week we were excited to invite all of our wonderful Grandfriends into school to share our learning. We taught them some maths games and made symmetrical patterns using pattern blocks. We shared quality picture books and taught them how to write a Lipogram using a crazy Dr. Seuss picture. Lastly, we shared our portfolios with our Grandfriends so that they were able to see some samples, of all the amazing work we have completed so far this year. It was a very busy morning and after all of their hard work we treated our Grandfriends to a morning tea in the hall. 

What was your favorite activity on Grandfriend's Morning?

Bike Safety

During the last few weeks we have been investigating how to be safe while riding our bikes. We finished with a simulation around a bike track in the playground. We had to follow the road rules and signs.

What advice do you have for someone going on a bike ride?

The Foundation Stone

This week we have continued our learning about the history of Canberra. We learnt all about the seach for the location of the capital city of Australia, which had to be in NSW and at least 100km from Sydney and the laying of the Foundation Stone to mark the naming of Canberra. 

The Foundation Stone marks the announcement of the official name of ’Canberra’ by Lady Denman and commemorates the official founding of Australia's capital city. 

The then Governor General Lord Denman, Australia’s Prime Minister at the time Andrew Fisher and the Minister for Home Affairs, King O’ Malley originally laid three stones on the 12th of March 1913 as a marking for a Commencement Column. 

The Foundation Stone had been originally placed on Capital Hill, located where new Parliament House now sits. However, seventy five years later, on the 12th of March, 1988, another ceremony was held to mark the moving of the stones to their present location, attended by the Governor General, the Prime Minister and the Minister for the Arts and Territories.

Take a look at the Foundation Stones that we were able to make during our learning.

We have also completed our explanations, 'How Do Popcorn Kernels Pop?' Take a look at our annotated diagrams and detailed explanations that are in sequenced order and use lots of technical language, such as pericarp, germ and tip cap.

Slow Motion Video Of Pop Corn Kernel

What have you learnt about the history of Canberra so far?

Measurement - Year 4 Maths

Recently students have been investigating formal units of measure for capacity, length and mass. 

 

   

                                       

We even found out the Mr Deeker is 194cm tall!!! How much taller is he than you?

First Aid

This week we have been lucky enough to have St John Ambulance Australia, come in and provide all of our Year 3/4 students with some basic First Aid training. We have learnt what to do if we find someone that is not responsive and how to assess a situation and provide emergency assistance using DRSABCD. We learnt how to treat a blood nose and bandage a deep cut. We even got to practice putting slings on each other. Did you know that there is even a free App that our parents and carers can download to use in an emergency.

What did you learn during our First Aid training?