BATTLESHIPS ON A GRID

We are learning about grid references [A1, B3, E5]. We will be looking at grids and working out their co-ordinates.  First we will look at Maths Dictionary for Kids – C for co-ordinates to see which letter or number comes first.  [Challenge question: which is the X and which is the Y axis?]

Then we will be learning how to play battleships with our partners.  When you have played a game with a partner, you can have a go at playing the on-line game below.

BATTLESHIPS – a game to check your grid references.    You need to call out the grid reference before you bomb it.  🙂

WHOEVER YOU ARE – by Mem Fox and WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?

People are connected to the places in which they live.  Their lives reflect those places.  Some of those places are different from our place, but some of those places are the same.  Sometimes we forget that people might look different from us on the outside but on the inside we are often just the same.  Look at the children in this story by Mem Fox.

This week is HARMONY DAY WEEK and we are going to be celebrating with a ‘flash mob”  singing event on Thursday across the whole school.  This story reminds us that people might look different on the outside, but we are all quite similar on the inside, no matter where we come from.

You will taking home a homework research sheet to share with your parents and to ask them for information about your families (parents, grandparents, great-grandparents).  Please write down the interesting stories and bring it back by next week TUESDAY 26 MARCH so that we can all share our stories on the Wednesday!  I hope you find out lots of interesting information about where your family originally came from…. 😎

 

Mind Mapping

Today we are going to be learning how to use a mind map to organise our information and show what we have learned.   You can use the information you have in your inquiry spirals, booklets and resource sheets.

Watch this video to learn how they look and how to organise your information and show the connections.

You will be creating a mind map showing what you have learned about the symbols and colours used on our three Australian flags.

Zones of Regulation – Managing your Emotions

We have been talking about managing our behaviour and the first step is recognising how you are feeling.  The next step is to learn how to self-regulate to manage our emotions and our acceptable behaviours in different situations.  We will be using the Zones of Regulation to do this.  Using the same language at school and at home could be very helpful for some students and some parents, so please feel welcome to read on and borrow the terms.

Remember the colours of the zones…?  We all go through most of the different zones at different times and that’s okay.  What is important though is that:

  • we can recognise what zone we are in at the time
  • we don’t just stay in that zone (unless it is the green zone)
  • we can use our tools to move through that zone to reach the GREEN ZONE.

This coming week we will be learning about the tools we can use to move out of the Blue, Yellow or Red zones and into the Green Zone.  You can see from this poster that the Green Zone has all the good feelings in it.  That’s where we all would really like to be for most of the time!

So, check in each morning and see which zone you are in and then work out what you need to do to get into the Green Zone.   And – remember to use our school values every day at home and at school!  CHEERF!  8:)

Mrs Veary 🙂

 

UNDERSTANDING OUR EMOTIONS

2.  FEELINGS – by Dr. Zeuss

This is a video of the book by Dr. Zeuss about feelings.  It shows how we can all have different feelings on different days and that’s okay!  🙂  The trick is learning to recognise how we are feeling at different times.

Now we will be watching a slideshow of feelings and emotions.  Then you will be drawing different emotions onto faces to show how you can recognise how you and other people are feeling.

Inquiry Skills – Silent Card Shuffle!

Working on our Celebrate Australia inquiry, you used great collaboration skills to work together to do your silent card shuffle on “Aussie Foods”.You were all able to sort the cards into groups and then follow the lead of Saffi’s group to work out categories to be able to sort the cards into an ordered system.  Well done!

Remember, learning can be fun and you actually did a lot of higher order thinking in this activity – while you were having fun!  😎

 

Book Club!

This week will be Book Club #4!  Thank you to all our parents who are giving up their time to come in each week to lead students through book discussions.  Here are some photos of our sharing session at the end of Book Club.

Great work everybody!  You are learning to read with FLUENCY and expression and how to INFER MEANING!  These skills are really important when reading for meaning in Year 3!

Our Talented Musician!

Wow!  Emillie really impressed us with her guitar skills during her news session last week.  She has been playing the guitar since she was four years old and we enjoyed listening to her play and sing “Riptide” smoothly and confidently.  Great job, Emillie!  Enjoy listening to her on this video clip and post a positive comment for her. Mrs Veary 🙂