Questacon Science Circus

We recently were lucky enough to have a visit from Questacon Science Circus at school. Our presenters taught us all about the viscosity of fluids and how some fluids change viscosity when heated like with honey. We also got to help out with some experiments that helped explain about air pressure, suction  and kenetic energy. One of the presenters even used a cup to protect a small balloon when she hit it with a giant pan, to demonstrate how helmets help to protect us when we are using them in sports. We all had lots of fun helping with each of the different experiments while we learnt the interesting science behind them.

What was something you learnt or enjoyed from the Questacon Science Circus show?

Monday Rotations

Every Monday afternoon we seperate into smaller groups and have the opportunity to rotate through a different activity each week for four weeks. Our rotations include dance, bike workshop, art and coding. Lots of our Year 3/4 teachers have passions in different areas and this has allowed us the opportunity to share our passions with all of the students and to let them experience a wide range of activities. 

In coding the Year 3 students are learning about algorithms and joining in with some unplugged activities and the Year 4 students are learning about the importance of binary numbers and how to create messages in binary code. In art students are creating Garbage Grot artworks to tie in to our Geography Inquiry - Beyond the Bin.

Take a look at some of the amazing work happinging in the bike worshop.

What has been something new that you have learnt or had an opportunity to try during our Monday rotations?

Fine Motor Activities

Anything children do with their hands relies on their fine motor muscles and skills. At school children spend up to 60% of their day performing tasks that involve the use of fine motor skills. 

In Hogwarts we practice our fine motor skills every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Fine motor skills help to improve our writing, drawing, and manipulation skills. 

Have a look at some of the fun activities that are helping us to improve our fine motor skills.

What fun activities have you tried at home, that use your fine motor skills?

Tennis and STEM

During the year, all of our Year 3/4 students are lucky enough to have the opportunity, to participate in both a series of Tennis lessons and STEM lessons using Little Bits. 

The first class to begin their tennis lessons are the Potters, who have been working with our tennis coach Gabby each week on improving their strokes and tennis skills. 

The Grangers are the first class to begin their STEM - Little Bits lessons. They have been learning about circuits and the importance of a power source, input and output, to create an electric circuit. They have been designing light circuits that turn on under different conditions and have begun designing, testing and making backpack alarms.

What is something that you would like to try and create using Little Bits?

Hogwarts Parent Information Sheet

We would like to say a big thank you, to all of the parents and carers that were able to join us for our information session this morning. If you were unable to attend, the information sheet handed out on the morning is posted below. If anyone has any questions please do not hesitate to speak to your child's classroom teacher.

Parent Information Session Tomorrow!!!

Welcome To Hogwarts in 2018

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts. We are so excited to have you all returning and would like to give a huge welcome to all of our brand new students to Fraser this year. To get us started take a look at the fun welcome back rap we are watching to start off the school year.

Welcome Back Rap

This year we will have five year 3/4 classes and Mrs Van will become our resourcing teacher to support all five classes. Our classes are:

Dumbledores - Mr. Arranz

                                   

Potters - Mrs Evans

                                  

McGonagalls - Miss Markos

                                 

Weasleys - Miss Vernon

                                 

Grangers - Miss Murphy

                                  

Diagon Alley (Resourcing) - Mrs Van

We have lots of exciting and fun activities and games planned for our first week of school and we look forward to getting to know lots of you even better. Our focus to start the year off right is to "Be Awesome", check out the clip we watched about being awesome.

  

Kid President - Be Awesome Message To Teachers And Students

We know that sometimes it is not easy for our loved ones to find out what we have been learning about and how our day was at school. So we have included a list of questions that you could use to spark some discussion at home, we hope you find these useful. The full list of 50 things can be found at this link: 50 Questions To Ask Your Kids After School

The first class novel that we will be listening to is The Gizmo by Paul Jennings.

We are excited to continue sharing lots of our amazing learning and reflecting with you all this year. Each blog post has a question for you to share your thinking, so we look forward to seeing your contributions. Parents and carers, make sure that you subscribe to our blog by entering your email on the top right where you see, Follow by Email to be notified each time a new post is added to our blog.

We are going to finish our post with a fun clip about what some children want to be when they grow up. Don't forget to answer our question at the end.

100 Kids Tell Us What They Want To Be When They Grow Up

What do you want to be when you grow up and why?