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Primary 3 made Keynote presentations on the I Pads. We worked in our co-operative learning groups to research a well known invention and we shared what we found with our class.

It was marvelous to read it out to the class- Robyn

We each took shots to read it out-Katelyn

I learned how to write on a Keynote-Calum Houston

Now we know how to add pictures to a Keynote-Paul

We had to find the pictures on the internet, then we saved the picture. When we added it to the Keynote we cropped the picture so it looked good-Coral, Alfie and Ashton

It was good fun working in our co-operative learning groups-Calum Grant

It was great working as a team-Christie

It was quite hard deciding which background to pick as there were lots of good ones-Alfie

We all enjoyed a great day!

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Primary 3 have been working really hard at ABC music. We were able to show off our skills when we were at the Science centre.

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Primary 3 had a great day out at the science center. We got to see lots of inventions, which will help u as we are investigating inventions in class. We also got to see lots of magnets, which has been our science topic. It was a fantastic day.

When I went to the Science Centre I did not know that an ice bottle could show up on a screen-Alfie
I did not know that you could make noise on a violin that had no strings-Melanie Grace
I liked playing with the magnets that stuck together-Joey
I learned that you could use different types of magnets-Jenna
I learned about the inside of someone’s body-Kyle
I enjoyed the Christmas show which showed us how Santa finds Australia and Scotland. He looks for the North and South stars-Aaraa
I learned that stars twinkle and if they don’t twinkle then they are planets-Hannah
I learned that Mars is red-Aaron

All the primary 3s have been together again this week. This time we worked on Big Maths.

Calum Stewart said it’s not Big Maths, it’s Bigger Maths.

We had to do 2 Learn Its as we are both working on differnet ones.

Here is a picture of our Learn Its from the IWB.

We also had to do 2 differnt tasks for It’s Nothing New

Here is some examples of our work.

We were very lucky over the last 2 weeks week as all the primary 3s have been together for literacy. It was nice to have our old classmates back. For literacy we were working on a traditional tale ‘Peter and the Wolf’. We all enjoyed the story and after we heard it we made character studies of Peter.

It was fun-Melanie Grace
We learned that we can add more details to our character studies-Jenna
We enjoyed having them over to work with us-Robyn
Peter is a brave person who is not scared of anything-Alfie
Peter lives in the woods-Aaraa

Today we made a comic strip of the story. We added in the characters and what they said.

It was important to hear the story again before we created our comics-Jenna

Primary 3 have been learning about shapes. We were naming 2D and 3D shapes and we made a cuboid using a net. We learned that a cuboid has 6 faces, 12 edges and 8 corners. A cube has the same number of faces, edges and corners as the cuboid.

We learned about other 3D shapes too.
A cone has 2 faces, 1 edge and 1 corner.
A sphere has 1 face, no edges and no corners.
A cylinder has 3 faces, 2 edges and no corners.
A square based pyramid has 5 faces, 8 edges and 5 corners.
A triangular prism has 5 faces, 9 edges and 6 corners.

We had fun learning about shapes-Melanie Grace
It was great fun finding out about all the shapes-Kyle
I liked finding out about edges and corners-Robyn
It was marvelous learning about things we didn’t used to know-Coral

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