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?
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?
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?
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.
Well, what a start to Term 3 we have had here in Seussville! We have hit the ground running over the last two weeks, so we truely appologise that we have not had a chance to share our hard work with you all. We started the term off getting organised for our student led conferences, where we got to share lots of our amazing learning from the first half of this year, including our incredible Biome Booths. We also had our Eco Ernie Earth Fair, where the whole school was able to come and look at our biome dioramas, poetry, slide shows and information reports and ask us lots of questions about our learning.
We have also been learning about how to write an explanation. We investigated the features of the 'Water Cycle', the 'Life Cycle of a Tadpole/Frog' and finally, 'What Makes Popcorn Pop?' Make sure you stay tuned to the Seussville Blog to see some of our explanation learning later this week!
Finally, we finished off week two, with Year 3 creating some History of Canberra (our current Inquiry) themed artworks and Year 4 participating in a Coding Unplugged session.
