Camp Wyuna- Queenscliff

What a wonderful camp we returned from on Wednesday!!!  A fabulous way to finish a busy term.  We hope you are enjoying hearing all about our different activities and memorable moments.  

All of us in the 3/4 teaching team wish you a safe and happy holidays.  

See you in Term 3!!!!

It's always busy in the 3/4 team!!!  

What a wonderfully productive term we have been enjoying!

We have recently been celebrating Book Week, Literacy and Numeracy Week and our students beginning their week long learning as Local Leaders at Serendip.  Please ask your children about these events as they always have so much to talk about!!  We've also enjoyed sport at Lara Secondary College, our visiting Bluearth coach Mitch teaching us about volleyball and watching the Lara's Got Talent grand final!!!  Throw in the Olympics and class speeches and it's been a fabulous term!

Coming up soon we have our Queenscliff Camp (remember final payment and notes re due tomorrow), Student Learning Conferences (please book online) and some students are off to Regional Athletics.  Phew! Plenty to talk about around the dinner table.  

Welcome Back to Term 3!!!

We hope everyone enjoyed their holidays and are avoiding the winter ills!!

The 3/4 students have all begun another wonderfully busy term.  Among many things, we are currently focusing on arrays and multiplication, the Olympics and procedural writing.  

All students are in the process of clarifying their personal goals and are hopefully also re-establishing their daily reading and homework habits.

Please return all Student Learning Portfolios back to school so that they can continue to grow!!

Here are some of our recent activities:

Lara Secondary College Connections Students

Each week in 3/4T and across the school we welcome Year 9 students into our classrooms.  In 3/4T we welcome Maddi, Flynn and Daniel.  They are proving to be very helpful assistants across our mornings.

Congratulations 3/4T and Prep B

These students presented an awesome assembly item last Friday.  Everyone should be so proud of their efforts!  The video is available on our website if you would like an encore viewing!

3/4V Attendance award winners

3/4V won the Attendance Award again last week.  Congratulations to that class for having the fewest absences over that week.

Winding up our Inquiry "Feathers, fur or leaves?!"

All of our classes are finishing up our most recent Inquiry.  With some doing class speeches, play doh creatures, posters, information texts or diorama's it has indeed been a great Inquiry!

A fabulous day at Serendip 

3/4T and 3/4C enjoyed a wonderful day at Serendip on Friday!!  Thanks to the beautiful weather, fantastic parent attendance, Ranger Vanessa and all of the animals and children, we continued our Inquiry 'Feathers, Fur or leaves?' with vigor!

We encourage all families to make use of this fantastic location, I'm sure there are some eager children keen to take their parents ponding!!!!

Lara's Got Talent 

Congratulations to the various students who are auditioning for Lara's Got Talent.  Please ask your child for further details if they are auditioning.

3/4V assembly presentation 

Congratulations to all of the students for presenting a wondering assembly item.  They looked fabulous in their cowboy and cowgirl outfits.  The children all performed brilliantly, supporting their grade 2 buddies so very well.  Congratulations to them all.

 3/4 are having a brilliant week

Congratulations to 3/4V who won the Attendance Award this week.  They had the fewest absences across our team for the week.  Congratulations!!!

Welcome Mitch our visiting Bluearth Coach

On Wednesday we welcomed renowned Bluearth coach Mick to our school.  Mick took each of our classes for a 1 hour Bluearth Masterclass.  All of the children participated fully, with pleasing enthusiasm and respect.  The teachers also enjoyed this fabulous opportunity to up-skill ourselves and learn some new activities.  We look forward to Mitch returning again throughout the year.

Thank you George, Gloria, Ivan and Barb

Last Friday we said goodbye to our cleaners who have been an outstanding part of our school community for many years.  Over their last couple of weeks the children were eager to spot George, Gloria, Ivan or Barb in the yard before or after school to say goodbye.  Some students even wrote persuasive pieces of writing about why we believe that they are the BEST cleaners ever!!!  These pieces were put into Thank You cards and presented to George and Gloria.

We wish them all the best!!

Active maths!

Frequently our students get active with concrete materials during our maths lessons.  Here are some happy mathematicians busy exploring.  You will see some of our students looking for symmetrical letters or symmetrical objects.  Some students are exploring area and perimeter with counters and paper animals.  We have looked at 2 and 3d shapes as well as regularly using MAB and counters to explore place value and counting accurately.