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Michaela showing her style at shotput!

We had a great day. Next Wednesday, some of us get to go to Knox and compete with kids from other schools.  We will do our best.

Mr and Mrs G have just arrived home from the Victorian State Committee of Highland Dancing’s annual variety concert, at Aquinas College.  Not only did our very own Adam perform, but we got to see some other excellent dancers.  A very enjoyable afternoon.  Adam, you were great.  I hope you keep dancing for many years to come. 

                                                              What fun we had on the Giant Swing and Leap of Faith.

These public toilets are painted with scenes from the Southport Railway Station  in the early 1900’s.  They are in a park close to the local baths.  Mrs G and Miss Jane enjoyed the sunshine and watched the boats, and took lots of photos.

Mrs G and friends enjoying High Tea at the Hyatt Regency, Sanctuary Cove, Gold Coast.

My pilot making sure all is well with the aircraft before we take off!

Grade 3 signing to their teacher.  Grade 3 learn to sign, it helps with instructions, those kinesthetic learners, and the hearing impaired.  A big thanks to Ruth, she helps us with lots of signs that Mrs G has forgotten!  (old age? lack of use?).  While we don’t have specific Auslan lessons (unless learning new signs), we do integrate it into our everyday communications.  Teachers – it helps us a lot!

landed heavily on the field.  Although Josh left skin behind, he was

up and running with his team within seconds!  Great team playing,

JOSH!  Grade 3 are very proud to have you as a classmate. 

Josh plays for an under 9’s Peninsula hockey team. 

Here is a great action shot.  All players get out of his way very quickly! 

It was great to see Josh first hand at his last

game for the season.

• got my hair crimped
• had a sleepover with my cousin
• went to a surprise party
• got new pj’s
• watched Nancy Drew movie
• went to a church program
• had bacon and eggs for brekky.

From Elise

PS Hope you had fun too.

Emily – I’m going to Queensland and your not.

Shelley- you have a cool blog!

Grade 3 learning about conjunctions. Mrs G made lots of sentences, in 2 parts.

She asked us to put them together, then some of us had conjunction words - and, while, if, when, because. We had to choose where we fitted best into the sentences. It was fun, but don’t tell Mrs G or Mrs F.

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!

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.

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.

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