Author: Mrs McPherson

A magnet sticks to some types of metals-Alfie
The metals that sticks to magnets are iron, steel and nickel – Calum S
They have magnetic fields around them; we can’t see this field-Cole and Aaron
There are 2 poles called the south and north poles-Alfie, Eva and Hannah
Magnets can stick to each other only if the poles are opposite-Paul
If both north and north are together they will repel each other-Aaraa
We have been testing things to see if they are magnetic or not-Hannah
Paper clips are magnetic-Elliot
My T-shirt is not magnetic-Joey

We have been learning how to write explanations. We need to include an opening statement; subheadings and we can use bullet points. Our explanations end with a closing statement.

It was fun doing explanations-Melanie Grace
We enjoyed writing lots-Robyn
It was hard work-Aaron
It was so hard, we felt better at it-Jaeden

In maths we have been measuring the length of our feet, hands and thumbs. Harris and Ashton have the longest feet in the class and Jaeden has the smallest. Christie has the smallest thumb. Lots of us have thumbs, which are around 6 cm long. We also measured our heights. Alfie and Ashton are the tallest in the class.

10mm is 1cm-Alfie
100cm are in a m-Eva
There are 1000m in a km-Hannah

We have all enjoyed learning about length.

Here is primary 3s height chart

Robyn’s are is smaller than mine-Jenna
Corals waits is longer then mine-Alfie
I am taller than Christie-Hannah
Abigail is taller than me-Eva
My arm is bigger than Kyles-Paul
My arm is longer then Elliot’s arm-Ashton
My head is bigger than Aarons-Aaraa
My head span is 51cm- Robyn
My arm is 55 cm long-Abigail
My mouth is longer than Aaraas-Aaron
My head span is bigger then Katelyns
Alfie’s arm is longer than mine-Coral
Me and Paul’s legs are the same length-Kyle
My finger is 5 cm long-Calum S
My head span is 50 cm-Christie
My foot is 19 cm- Calum H

This week we have been performing our favourite songs from ABC music. We worked in groups to perform the songs and Miss McGregor videoed them. It was fun performing to our friends and we learned how to work in a group and present what we had been learning. We also learned how to be a good audience and sit and watch our friends.

When we watched our videos back we were able to see how good we were and look for things we want to get better at next time.

It was marvelous. You don’t talk in the audience-Jenna
I thought that everybody would be amazed-Christie
We had a really good time singing-Alfie
We all had really good fun-Hannah
We learned how to dance to the songs-Paul
I learned that you don’t have to do normal dancing you can do different dancing-Aaron
I learned how to work in a good group-Robyn
We learned about songs-Jaeden
When I went up I felt so confident, like I was someone new-Cole
We learned hot to be a good audience, sit calmly and watch the people when they are doing it-Aaraa

Here are our great groups

We made autumn trees. We used purple, red, blue, orange and brown to make the night sky. We used soft pastels and we smudged the colours together using our fingers. We left out a circle for the moon.
On top of the moon we drew trees using the soft pastels. We thought about the shapes that we were drawing and used the sticks we found last week to help us. We drew our trees wiggly with branches growing on them.
Here are some examples of our autumn trees.

Primary 3-class blog

Numeracy
We have been learning how to count up in 100s all the way to 1000. Our learn it this week is 5 + 2 = 7 and we can write the fact family for this. In Big maths we have been doubling and halving our 10 numbers, Jenna knows that double 30 is 60.

The whole class have learned how to measure length, we have used rulers to measure length. We know that there are 100 cm in a m. We have been estimating the length of objects and checking our estimations with a ruler. An estimation is a sensible guess. We also learned how to draw a table to display our results.

Literacy
This week the Cat in the Hat group have moved to purple books, they have been learning how to write questions.
We have all been working on writing our books in our own words. We know we need to include information from the beginning, middle and end.
This weeks phoneme was ea and we worked really hard to improve the scores on our spelling challenge.

Art
This week we made 3D pumpkins. We used white paper. We painted it orange then we let it dry. Once it was dry we cut out strips. We stuck the strips together at the bottom and top to make a round shape. We added eyes and a mouth. At the top we stuck some green paper and a piece of string to hang the pumpkin. They looked great.

Music
We know how to paly to a beat with our class. We all had our own instruments and played low and high sounds. In music we have been learning the names of instruments and we met some new instruments. Some of us got to be the conductor in music which was great fun.

ICT
In ICT the Cat in the Hats used Pages to publish their literacy work. We have also been using the popplet app again so that we don’t forget how to use it.

We have been learning lots in class this week. We are very busy bees in Primary 3.

Numeracy
We have been learning how to do chimney sums for adding and take away. This means that we can add bigger numbers, the sums are really easy once you know how. Mrs Woodward had a look at our chimney sums and she was very proud of us all.

Literacy
In literacy we are all enjoying our books and we are learning lots of new phonemes.
We have all been learning about nouns and verbs. We know that a noun is a thing, person, place or an idea and a verb is an action word. We even know that a proper noun has a capital letter.

HWB
In PE we have been learning how to be healthy and doing exercises that increase our heart beat.
In primary 3 we are all bucket fillers. That means that we are all nice to each other and we do nice things for other people in the school.

Music
We got to try some musical instruments this week. We looked at how they were made and what sounds they make hen you paly them. We all got a chance to play different ones and we played them in unison. Miss McGregor thought that we were really good at stopping at the signal.

ICT
We have been learning how to word process on the lap tops. We can all save a file in Microsoft word. On the I pads we have created a pic collage on recycling. We really enjoyed this and we were able to crop all the photos.