Inferring, draft reports and Aboriginal Art...

Today we started with learning what 'inferring' means and how to 'infer' what is happening in an image. We looked at some images together with 4S and then we 'inferred' what was happening in them. The first image we looked at was the one with someone with sunburnt feet. We inferred that the person had forgotten to wear sunscreen while wearing thongs and was at the beach during the day. We took some discussion to work out why the feet were red and there was a few suggestions given such as, too tight footwear. We then did some ourselves. We had to look at the 'clues' or 'evidence' we could see in the picture that would help us work out what was going on.

After we had reading groups we began the draft of our information reports on an Australian animal. We could see what information we still needed to research and then during computer time most of us were able to complete our research and find some images to print for our published work. A lot of work goes into writing an information report!

After our whole school 'off site' evacuation drill we came back to do some art. We had started drawing some Aboriginal inspired drawings of an animal ready to copy onto 'scratch' board. This is board that can be pressed into with a pen and it leaves a mark. We will then roll paint onto our boards and create prints out of these pictures. They should look fabulous when they're finished!

Volume

We looked at volume the week before we went away to camp. We learnt that volume is measured in cubic units and also how to draw the 3D shapes we created. It seemed really hard when we started, but soon we were all doing a great job! Some of us even learnt how to use the formula to work out the volume of a shape. Volume = length X breadth X width

The Gruffalo

I was so pleased to be going on a special excursion to 'Glen Street Theatre' with my beautiful year threes after being away from them for three days because of the Earthkeeper's Camp. We got to see 'The Gruffalo' on Thursday and join the rest of the audience in being 'the deep dark woods' and shouting out 'over there' or 'Gruffalo' as we joined in with the characters on stage to trick the sneaky fox, owl and snake. Lots of smiles and laughs and then before we knew it we were on the bus back to school. What a great afternoon!

Earthkeeper's Camp 2014

What an absolutely wonderful camp! We all had a great time while we were away and learnt so much about the environment, the connections in nature and what we can do to lessen our impact on our world. In between learning and eating (Oh - did we do a lot of eating!!) we had lots of fun and participated in many new activities many of us hadn't done before.

Below is the camp in photos...

A Term 3 Catch up

This term has raced ahead with my first ever Boronia PS Concert! I must say I was really impressed with it and everyone did such an amazing job performing. Of course I think that our class was the best, but I'm probably a little biased!!