Thursday in 3/4 T

Today we had a very busy day in 3/4T. Have a look at some of the fabulous things we did. We had to start off the day of course by colouring in our names for our tubs. It's very important for us to know where our pencil cases are and identify out tote trays quickly, especially if Mrs Taylor's asked us to get something. The name tags were done with a very special font. You can see Mrs Taylor's name in the photo above.

After some time for our name tags we then learnt about the 100 word challenge that Mrs Taylor's signed our class up for. It's a great way to respond to some stimulus, which is not only great practice for the NAPLAN, but also a good way to entice the children into writing. Already we have talked about the sort of vocabulary we could use to make our writing more interesting and shared some of the words we used in the photo below.

Next we did some maths so that we could show Mrs Taylor what sort of strategies we know to help us subtract a two digit number from a two digit number. Lots of thinking went on with that. Some of us drew number lines, some used arrays or pictures and some broke up the numbers into tens and units. 

Before lunch we started an art activity to brighten up the walls on our classroom. Although it has been inspired by the artist Piet Mondrian, instead of flat colours we are choosing to use patterns to fill in the blocks.