BIG QUESTION – FINDING OUT

Wow!  You certainly are working like Year 3-and-a-half students when you do your Inquiry FINDING OUT!  I love the way you are using your X-charts and making sensible dot points using only keywords.  🙂

Your DEEPER BRAINSTORM questions was a tricky task, but you’ve all done a fabulous job, asking questions which are googleable!  Well done, people!  

Now, we need to get our sentences done and our paragraphs written, so that we can all start our good copies of our Information Brochures!   Looks like we’re going to have a great classroom learning celebration soon!  Your parents will be thrilled!  🙂

Living or Non-Living and Mrs Gren

In Science we are learning how scientists check whether something is LIVING or NON-LIVING

In this video we learn how to remember the 7 characterists of living things:

Here’s a fun song about these characteristics of a living thing.

In your Science books you are now going to write the letters MRS GREN down the left-hand side and next to each letter in another colour, write the word it stands for.  Please put the heading above it: 7 Characteristics of Living Things.

ART – MAKING COLOURS

Watch this video about making the colour brown from primary colours.  You will be painting your tree and creature today, so you will need brown and a couple of different shades of brown, and you will need grey (from black added to white).

 

Maths – Introducing Division

Last week I introduced Division, talking about how it is the reverse or opposite of Multiplication, just like Subtraction is the reverse or opposite of Addition.

You need to remember your magic triangle and how to use Number Families to be able to write 4 number sentences using your 3 numbers.

Last week we looked at using number families to work with Division Facts of 2 and 3

and today we will be using number families to work with Division Facts of 5 and 10.

READING ANALOGUE CLOCKS

On Friday we looked at how to read an analogue clock face – counting in 5s.

From iMaths Year 3

You need to practise telling the time at home too!  Remember: count by 5s as you go around the clock, then by ones for every extra minute.  The BIG HAND is the HOUR – the little hand is the minutes. 

PAST the hour are all 30 minutes from the 12 to the 6 on the clock face.

What’s the time Mr. Wolf?

Sixteen minutes to six o’clock!

Mrs Veary 😎

SOLE QUESTION – Australian Mega Fauna

This afternoon we are going to do some SOLE work for Inquiry.  You will be working in

Self

Organised

Learning

Environments.

Your SOLE question is:

What were Australia’s megafauna and how do they compare with today’s Australian animals?

You will be working in groups (which you can choose to join or leave) where each person has to do equal work.  You will have 60 minutes to research the question, write notes, create a poster with your key information on it and then present what you have found out to the class.

Use the strengths within your group.  Give out jobs.  Eg. ….. is a good artist so he/she will design the poster and do the artwork.  ….. is a good reader so he/she will read out what is on the website so we can all understand the main ideas.   Then we will all decide what the main facts are and ………….. will write them down as notes because…..is a good writer.

Have fun learning something new and unusual about Australian animals in your SOLE session today!

This will introduce animals you will possibly meet when we go on our excursion on Wednesday to Erth’s Prehistoric World!  🙂

Mrs Veary 😎

AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS – BIG QUESTION

What types of characteristics/adaptations have Australian animals developed to survive in their natural environment?

This is our BIG QUESTION which we will be researching over the next week.  The blue words are our INQUIRY KEYS and the green words are our topic words.  The red words are our question words.

Today you will be using an ACTION PLANNER to organise HOW YOU WILL DO YOUR FINDING OUT and to give different team members specific JOBS.

FINDING OUT – your will write the facts you find out on your X-CHART using dot points.  Remember to say what your SOURCES are.

Enjoy this fun part of your inquiry.

Mrs Veary 🙂

BIG QUESTION RESEARCH

These are some places you can visit to do your FINDING OUT for your BIG QUESTION.

1.  ABC – OUR ANIMALS  This has lots of good information on Australian Animals which is quite easy to read. You will have to look through the videos to find one suitable about your animal. You can also search ABC Education for “feathers, fur and fins” for more animals.

2.  KIDSCYBER – ANIMALS  Look for your animal in the list.  It also has a good explanation of what ADAPTATION means for animal life.

3.  WILD KIDS – ANIMALS from Australian Museum (some good pictures here) and the main site where you choose your category of animal AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM – ANIMALS

4.  FACT SHEETS from Perth Zoo  (we have printouts for you to use)

5.  FACT SHEETS from Australia Zoo (we have printouts for you to use)

6. ANIMAL e-books -We have two sets and you can find them in our share drive.  Go to: 2022 student folders/AAA-e-books on Australian animals. Then copy the folder you want to use and paste it into your own folder to read!