Mrs G’s grade 3

The Junior School teachers love any excuse to     

act like small children, dress up and generally

‘clown’ around.  The kids love to join in the fun.

The teachers were characters from Possum Magic.

 Children hard at work. Producing their frames from our shared story - Shhh! Little Mouse by Pamela Allen.  Follow the very hungry mouse and watch what happens when he wakes the cat!

Alistair Harkness visits our school to present Whitney (grade 4) with her Young Leaders Award.  Well done, Whitney, on being such a worthy recipient.

Grandparents day was a roaring success.  Grade 3 had over 20 ‘over 21’s’ visit during the morning.  They helped us travel through our Olympic Games bus stops.  Then, our visitors helped us design Olympic torches for the 2012 games in London.  After morning tea, our visitors took turns in doing fractions on the interactive whiteboard (they needed our help!).  We had a great time, the kids love having their grandparents and ’stand-in’ grandparents visit our classroom.

What a great idea!  Emily baked a cake for our class to share.  We were working on fractions, so, it came in handy and was soon eaten by everyone!  Thanks Emily.

Grade 3 have begun their Olympic campaign.  We are using maths and literacy while we follow the Beijing Olympics.  We are all following an athlete of our own choice as well.  We will keep track of their progress and keep a tally of medals.  It will be lots of FUN!  Oh Dear! we are not supposed to have fun in Grade 3.

We were busy today, sending emails to some of our Olympic athletes.  We hope they have a great time and enjoy representing their country. We are learning lots about our athletes.

Mrs G has been asked to attend a special celebration of the Mahogany Neighbourhood Centre in Frankston North.  She was part of the ‘action group’ 25 years ago that turned a vision into a reality.  Mrs G was also the first co-ordinator to work at the Neighbourhood House.  It has now changed its name to Mahogany Neighbourhood Centre.  Well done on meeting the needs of a challenging community.

Grade 3 hard at work, getting our heads around division! We have spent 3 weeks trying to understand ’sharing’ and ‘how many groups of’.  Mrs G and Mrs F have worked hard to help us understand.  Some of us have to improve on our times tables, as that will help us with division. 

Friday night we enjoyed our Sayonara party to farewell our exchange students.  We were entertained with calligraphy, traditional dance, Japanese songs, juggling, origami, children’s games and a kyudo demonstration. We all shared supper before taking our students home for a well earned rest.  They left for Japan on Sunday afternoon.

Mrs G in hospital with her dislocated knee.  The bracing was very uncomfortable!

Mrs G says: “Thanks Mrs N and Mrs F for doing such a great job with grade 3 while I am away.  I am looking forward to seeing all the work you are doing on the Olympic Games.  Make sure you save your powerpoint presentations onto your USB’s.  We will add them to your portfolios.  Keep up the great work!  I miss you, and thank you for my lovely card.

While our very favourite teacher has been resting her leg, we have been

keeping very busy. With Mrs N, we’ve started studying the olympics, learnt

how to sort words into alphabetical order, learnt about pronouns, and played

some cool games. We missed the guinea pigs this week, but will see them again

soon.

Mrs F

• we got hot milk
• we got ribena
• we got popcorn
• we got to play in our p j’s
• we got to eat in our p j’s
• we got to play games
• we got to read fairy tales
• we got to read foke tales
• we got to watch movies
• we had a great day
• for the first time we didn’t want to go home at all
• from mia j 3/mj

to mrs g i forgot to bring my ext home .So I put it in my note book but i didn’t  do my trass sheet EC p.s i will bring my note book to school

hi its emilyc and mia where having a good sleep over. our blog is looking very nice and we hope you people are loving our blog and i hope its very useful.we just want to say hello to the class and to you people.hope you had a good sleep. from emily c mia

One day a little girl was making a pot of stone soup.  It has carrots, a stone,w ater, onion, barley, potatoes.   The little girl tasted the stone soup and said “this tastes good do you want some” she said.   A little boy said “yes”. And they became friends.  The end!!!  by SAMUEL L 

Once apone a time they lived a girl. She would look out her window every night and see kids playing.She had no friends to piay with. “Oh i wish had some one to play with.”That night she run away.Then she went up to a man  and said”Do you have any money” No you” said the man She had no where to sleep but she didn’t what to sleep because of the noies. In the morning she went to a girls home 

To mrs G i didn’t bring my USB home and i writ a story i made up but i went to press a letter and i look up and it wasn’t ther EC

On a hot day Mitch and I went to a washing machine shop. I said ‘hollo can we have that washing machine.  ‘yes you may that will be $50 ok. In 5 minutes we were pushing it and the next minute it went in front of a car BANG.  The machine was broken and falling to pieces, so we took it home, we tried to fix it and we did.  But it turned in to a robot, it did whatever it told you to do.  “Can you please make me a sandwich?”  “Yes you may”.  It has been five years they had had him and we made rocket boosters and wings.  On a day he was flying and got hit by a car and he got turned back into a machine again

                                                                                  THE END

Hi it’s shey kettle, have you seen my note, if you have do you like it?

Poor Mrs G.             

She has hurt her knee and may need an operation. She is sad because she can not go for her planned holiday to Queensland.

Send her some messages to help her feel better.

Mrs F

 Grade 3 had fun making ’scrap’ pages of some favourite photos.  They had to choose photos that shared a similar theme, choose background papers and accessories, journal and then put it all together.  We had some great results, here are just a few. Students loved this activity and I’m sure parents enjoyed getting these priceless gifts.  Well done Grade 3!

After all our hard work reading, writing and studying about fairy tales, Mrs G let us wear our pj’s to school, bring our blankets or doonas, eat popcorn and drink milos!  We watched DVD’s ALL day.  It was great.  We saw Enchanted, Stone Soup, The Little Red Hen and Sercret Garden.  Now if you ask us, we can tell you some of the differences between the stories we read and the movies we watched.  We are getting very clever in our class!   Even our teachers wore their pj’s too!

                                          Making Stone Soup in grade 3.  Many hands made light work.  Elise bought the stone, the rest of us added the lamb shanks, vegetables, stock and then enjoyed cups of hot soup for lunch.  Mrs G. nearly burnt the classroom down though!  We had a great time.

Adam showing some of his Highland dancing to the class.  Adam competes regularly and has won numerous medals.  Keep dancing! Adam.

    On Wednesday the entire Junior School travelled by bus to St Kilda.  We watched a performance of Possum Magic at the National Theatre.  This story was written by Mem Fox and has become a celebrated and favourite folk tale in Australia.  The performance was fabulous, included audience participation, songs, a blue wombat and pink kookaburras.  The children and teachers enjoyed the whole show, especially the solo dance by SNAKE! The theatre was packed with children from other schools and Bayside had fantastic seats.  Thanks to Mrs R for organising this trip for us to enjoy.            We had great fun at the park on the way home from our performance of Possum Magic.

A scene from our fairy tale corner.  The children worked hard on their characters and scenery.  It gets a new ‘look’ every few days.  If you are close by, pop in and view for yourselves.

Khyle’s mum bought baby Drew to school for a visit.  Kyhle

is very proud of his new brother.

my name is shey kettle i have looked at your blog and i love it.it is so amazing it blew my breath away as well as my pen.one day when i was walking i saw an ice cream truck and it had a banana flavoured pen and it said to me go on mrs g’s grade 3’s blog so i did. i hope you have a lovely day and i just want to say happy birthday to all my friends in africa!!! from shey kettle