Inquiry - Civics and Citizenship

Welcome back to Term 3. We have jumped straight into learning with our first Inquiry for this term, Civics and Citizenship. We have been looking at different social, cultural and religious groups within our community that we may belong to. Today we used Google Maps to create maps of Canberra and pinned different religious buildings to them, that we had researched, we included a photo and some information about the building. Take a look at some photos of our hard work. 

Also remember to keep bringing in your soil and rock samples!!

What other religious buildings could we include on our maps?

Holiday Learning At Home

With holidays fast approaching we thought it would be a good idea to share some activities that families could do at home if they wished to during the holidays.

English- We are encouraging all of our Hogwarts students to continue reading daily during the holidays. During class time students work on making their thinking visible (writing it down on paper/post it notes) and sharing their thinking with others. We encourage everyone to continue this during the holidays. All students also have a reading goal that they are working on such as chunking words to sound them out, summarising what they are reading, asking questions, making connections to what they are reading or creating images. We would love if everyone continued working on these goals while reading during the holidays.

Maths- All of our Year 3/4 students will be able to access Mathletics over the holidays and will be able to continue to practise lots of the maths strategies that they have been learning in class.Youcan get to the Mathletics login page by clicking this link: \http://au.mathletics.com/
Year 4 students may also like to practise their times tables using the online game Hit The Button. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

Science- When we come back to school next term, we will be starting a science inquiry called Beneath Our Feet. We will be investigating soils, rocks and landscapes and how they change over time.All Year 3/4 students are required to collect  a soil sample (about 1 cup) in a clear screw-top jar, as well as a small snap lock bag of different rocks that they have collected. Make sure each sample is labeled with your name and where you collected it from. 

We hope that all of our Hogwarts families have a happy and safe holiday break and we look forward to seeing you all next term!

Peter Pan Jr.

Today we were lucky enough to attend the matinee performance of Peter Pan Jr. We got to see lots of our Year 3/4 classmates perform and show us all of the hard work they have put in during rehearsals. The show was amazing and we are so proud of everyone who was apart of it. We hope you were all lucky enough to attend one of the performances and see what amazing talent we have at Fraser Primary.

What was your favorite part of the show and why?

Peter Pan Jr. Stage Makeup Video

Lots of our Year 3/4 students have been working hard during rehearsals so that they are ready for opening night, of our school musical Peter Pan Jr. Some of the cast and Miss. Markos have filmed a short video, to help our musical families learn how to do stage makeup, so that the cast are all stage ready and fabulous for our opening night on Tuesday.

Musical Working Bee

It's nearly performance time!!! Everyone has been working really hard to prepare for our school musical. All of the teachers joined a working bee after school on Tuesday to help prepare costumes and props...We can't wait. Here's a sneak peak...Can you work out who's costumes they are?

Creative Responses

At the completion of our History Inquiry, students were asked to respond creatively to demonstrate their understanding. Check out some of our amazing pieces....

History Boxes

As part of our inquiry into the role that people of diverse backgrounds have played in the development and character of our community, students have researched a number of Australians. Students presented their findings in the form of a History Box. Australians included George Gregan, Fred Hollows, Fiona Wood, Theo Notaris and Anh Do.

                                        

         

What is an interesting fact that you discovered about your Australian?