Term 4 is off and running!!

What a busy few weeks we have had for the start of term 4. We came back from our break to find our vegetable garden looking amazing. ( A big thank you to Gary and Phillip for all of their hard work watering over the holidays!)

Last week Year 3/4 were incredibly lucky to be able to begin our four week orienteering progr, run by international coaches Frederic and Saara from Orienteering ACT. The aim in orienteering is to navigate your way around a course with a series of checkpoints. The course is marked on a map with coloured symbols. We will be learning about compass points for direction, how to read maps and how to use specialist orienteering equipment such as SI Sticks to record our accuracy and time around a mapped course.

Hogwarts Garden

At the end of last week some of the Hogwarts students helped Mrs. Evans, Miss. Markos and Mr. Larsen to plant out the large garden bed just outside our classrooms. We now have carrots, cucumber, celery, tomatoes, strawberries, snow peas, spring onions, capsicums and lots of different herbs growing. We are hoping that we will be able to harvest and taste some of the fresh food from our garden during next term.

What are your best gardening tips for us?

Year 3/4 Assembly

It has been a very busy two weeks in Hogwarts, we had our Grandfriends Morning and Student Led Conferences last week and today we hosted the assembly. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our parents/carers/grandparents and other loved ones that have taken the time to come in and share lots of our amazing learning with us. We have had a fantastic time showing you all of the different activites, games and learning that we work so hard on every day to help us become smarter!

Earlier this term we were learning how to write to explain, today in our assembly we sang the Water Cycle Rap, which we used to help us learn how to explain the Water Cycle.Take a look at the rap we sang and danced along to!

During the assembly, we shared some of the amazing Lipograms that have been written during our Quickwrite time. A Lipogram is a piece of writing where we describe a picture with one letter omitted. So if the letter 'e' is omitted then you can not use any words in your writing with that letter in it. We work hard to use lots of descriptive language in our writing.

To finish off our assembly we shared some of the Soil Solutions that were made during our Science Inquiry - Beneath Our Feet. We also showed some of the annotated diagrams that we did of our solutions.

Thank you again to all of our family, friends and loved ones that have shared in our learning!

What is something interesting or new that you have learnt about or are currently learning about? 

(Most interesting answer gets a bonus 5 raffle tickets!!) 

- Mrs Van

Grandfriends' Morning 2018

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

What has been your favourite activity during Grandfriends' Morning?

Book Week 2018

Last week we celebrated Book Week with all of our teachers dressing up in a Hogwarts themed costume. Lots of our students also came as their favourite book character and we all joined in some Book Week themed activities including a Kahoot Quiz all about children's books.

Back L to R - Mrs. Evans is Harry Potter, Mr. Larson is Professor Snape, Miss. Markos is Professor McGonagall, Mrs. Van is Professor Dumbledore, Miss. Murphy is Hermione Granger and Merriel is Professor Trelawney

Front L to R - Miss. Vernon is Ron Weasley and Susan is Dobby

Who is your favorite book character and why?

Science - Beneath Our Feet

We have finished our Science Inquiry- Beneath Our Feet. We have completed lots of new learning about the layers of the Earth, rocks, soil and erosion. Our final two experiments were about how water and being in a water way can break rocks down over periods of time and our how different samples of soil erode with water. We learnt that soil that has lots of vegetation and leaf matter is much less likely to erode than dry and dusty areas of soil.

 What was something that you learnt about soil or rocks?

Emotion Poetry

In English, we have been exploring different types of poetry and how to use literary devices such as similes to 'bump' up our writing.

Happiness

Happiness is yellow like the sun shining

It tastes like bubblegum ice cream

It smells like the beach

It looks like everyone having fun playing with friends

It sounds like kids screaming with joy

It feels like being part of a family

By Levi

Calm

Calm is the colour blue like the ocean breeze

It tastes like cool minty ice cream

It smells like a spring flower

It looks like a peaceful beach

It sounds like birds tweeting

It feels like a warm blanket

By Yvonne

Joy

Joy is purple like a lily

It tastes like a plum

It smells like chocolate pudding

It looks like fireworks

It sounds like applause

It feels like being loved

By Anders

Happiness

Happiness is yellow like the  sun on a hot summer's day

It tastes like a warm ANZAC biscuit fresh from the oven

It smells like sweet fresh air

It looks like all of your family together with smiling faces

It sounds like friendly laughter

It feels like being safe

By Lily P

Anger

Anger is red like blood

It tastes like chillies

It smells like smoke and flames

It looks like buildings tumbling to the ground

It sounds like screams and yelling

It feels like no one understands

By Logan

Depression

Depression is grey like dark storm clouds

It tastes like a red hot chilli

It smells like burning tyres

It looks like a dark deserted alleyway

It sounds like the crying of a puppy

It feels like a cold bucket of water being tipped on my head

By Brodie