Year 3Mc OLC

Can you believe it is already the end of Term 1? I know I can't, but we are still learning about rhetorical questions and how they help to grab our attention in persuasive texts!!  I hope you all had a relaxing weekend and were able to enjoy some sunshine.  Parent Teacher Interviews Firstly, thank you to all those parents that have attended (and will be attending) parent interviews. It has been great to sit down and firstly meet many of you, but also discuss how your children are going so far. Please remember, if at any time you have concerns, questions or just want a chat, please drop in and see me or send me an email.  Homework Our usual homework is due this week, but on Thursday 1st April as Friday is a public holiday. Easter Story Liturgy On Wednesday at 10am the Easter Story will be presented to the school by the Year 5s. If you would like to join the liturgy you are more than welcome.  Free Dress Naturaliste   were the stand out winners in this terms token count.  As such the

Good afternoon parents Hopefully you enjoyed a restful and refreshing weekend.   This week we are writing our hot task narratives to show all the work we have been putting in to learning this text type.  We will then be moving on to persuasive writing.   Homework Homework books came home with the usual spelling, maths and reading.  This weeks mental strategy is the double, double strategy.  If your child is struggling with this strategy, the attached video may assist ( double, double strategy ) Reminders Swimming This week we travelling to the pool in Busselton for swimming lessons.  We will leave school at about 9:30 and return around 1 as we will be having double lessons with a break in between.  As such please ensure that you child has a packed recess and crunch-n-sip as we will need to take these with us to the pool. Please take the time to check that your child has what they need and that it is all clearly labelled; bathers towel goggles change of underwear thongs to were on the b

Good afternoon parents Hopefully you enjoyed a restful and refreshing weekend.   In class we have been working on descriptive writing and are moving on to writing a narrative that shows everything we have been focused on.  We are also learning about why we have our seasons, how they to the northern hemisphere and why the Wadandi calendar is different to ours. Homework Homework books came home with the usual spelling, maths and reading.  I have also included a multiplication chart and 2 times tables scaffold to assist when using the flash cards sent home a few weeks ago.  In the coming weeks I will be sending home 4 times tables flash cards. Reminders Swimming Next week we will be travelling to the pool in Busselton for swimming lessons.  We will leave school at about 9:30 and return around 1 as we will be having double lessons with a break in between.  As such please ensure that you child has a packed recess and crunch-n-sip next week as we will need to take these with us to the pool.

Good afternoon Year 3 parents,  In Design and Technologies the students have been given a task to create a sundial watch that can be used effectively to tell the time.  For this project the students are working  individually  and must bring in items from home to help create their sundial watch. Students created a list of the materials they will require, these may have included:    Elastic Bands  Rubber Wooden sticks/toothpicks   String  Cardboard  Ribbon   Aluminium foil   Wire  Pipe cleaners Pop sticks Plastic lids Ice-cream cup Paint, glue and coloured card will be provided.   The students will need their materials for our next Design and Technology class on Wednesday 10th March 2021.   Thank you,  Miss Lombardi and Mr McSevich

Good afternoon and welcome to (the much shortened) week 4. Hopefully you all had a restful and enjoyable long weekend. This week we have reduced our homework load due to time constraints so we will not have any written mental maths.  However, we will still include spelling and reading.  Homework We have also included a special homework activity designed around coming to class with with an understanding of the task that is to be completed in class.  For our Thursday writing task , I ask that children to come to school tomorrow having been through and chosen an image from the Literacy Shed website which they believe they will be able to write a description about. I ask that you support your child to do this and to start thinking about what they can see, smell, hear and touch in the image.  Students do not need to write anything at home, just to choose a picture and start thinking about it, although you might like to discuss with them what they will write about in the image.  Our task on