Today we all looked fabulous as we dressed up as our favorite characters from books.
What did you dress up as?
Tell us about your favourite costume.
Monthly Archives: August 2015
What makes a good information report?
When exploring information reports we decided that the following elements were really important:Planning (using a graphic organiser)
Title
Introduction (general statement/classification/description of what report is about)
Paragraphs to organize information (3 or more sentences per paragraph)
Topic sentences at the beginning of each paragraph
Sentence Fluency (long and short sentences)
Conjunctions (to make some sentences longer)
Facts
Technical words
Summary ( to tie all of the information together)
Revision using ARMS – Add, Remove, Move, Substitute
Editing using CUPS – Capitals, Understanding, Punctuation, Spelling
An annotated information report about Day and Night
You will notice that the students of 3A did a great job of using the important elements listed above in their Information Reports.
What do you think is the most important element of an information report?
Information Reports
House Athletics Day at Landy Field
Today we had our annual house athletics day at Landy Field.
It was the first time that the Grade 3s had participated.
Everyone tried their hardest and participated in all of the events – it was fun!
Hope you were as proud of your effort as I was!
Great work 3A!!
Which event did you enjoy the most?
Shadow Sculptures
On Tuesday some members of 3A and 3B made sculptures out of time foil. We glued them on to paper and drew the shadow. They looked very effective!
How would you describe these sculptures?
Voracious Reading
This week our Reading Focus is “Voracious Reading” which means to read, read and read some more.
These poems are by two of our favourite authors. The first one describes how it feels to lose yourself in a book and the second one states the benefits of reading.
Enjoy reading!
Spider’s Web
I could not resist posting this photo of a Spider’s web that I took this morning.
It was quite early – the sun is low in the sky. Can you see the shadows?
Have you noticed your shadows change during the day?
Art Walk
Today at Barwon Heads Primary School we had our annual “Art Walk”.
This is a special day when each class makes an Art work which reflects a particular genre of Art.
This year the theme was the Art of different cultures.
3A made art works based on “molas” which are a type of design that the Kuna people of Panama use to decorate their clothes and jewelery. We learnt that the Kuna people try to live a traditional life and that their country is located between North and South America.
Thank you to Mrs Peterson who went to a great deal of effort organising the day!
Which grades art works did you like the most?
Time
In Maths we have been learning how to tell the time (to the minute) on analogue and digital clocks.
We made 12 hour “clocks” – we divided our day up according to things that we might do in a 12 hour period.
What is your favorite time of the day?
Summarising
For the past two weeks we have been working on “Summarising” fiction and non-fiction texts.
Our skills have developed considerably. It is important to be able to summarise as it assists with working out the main idea and comprehending texts. Knowing how to summarise also helps with writing Information Reports.
This is a poster that we have in our classroom to assist us with summarising fiction and non fiction texts.
Do you prefer summarising fiction or non fiction texts?