Measurement

During our unit on measurement, we have been learning about the unit litre. To investigate how much a litre is and how many litres a variety of tubs and containers can be, we estimated how many litres these tubs and containers would hold. First, we would select a tub or container and estimate how many litres it would take to fill. Once we had estimated, we then began to fill the tub with sand. As we filled the container with sand, we counted each litre of sand it took to fill it. Some of us underestimated and some of us over estimated. It was interesting to see how many litres some containers could hold.

Multiplication

This term in mathematics students are exploring their times tables. We have spent the past few weeks learning all of our times tables and strategies to help us solve them quickly and efficiently. Some of these strategies include doubling, adding a zero and skip counting. We have achieved this through warm ups and hands on math games. One of our favourites is multiplication noughts and crosses, this is where we race our opponent to answer a multiplication question the fastest to win a spot on the board.

Poetry

Students have been looking at different types of poetry and learning about common poetic devices. We learnt about rhyming words and their use in poetry. We used our rhyming words and noun groups to create an entertaining poetry flip book.

Spelling

Each week in our spelling lessons we begin our week with students finding words with a particular sound or letter combination. Students will use words that they already know of but do not know how to spell, words from their book work, dictionaries, word walls, alphaboxes and words from reading books in our classroom libraries. They have a ‘word of the week’ that they investigate possible prefixes and suffixes, meanings, syllables, synonyms and antonyms, vowels and consonants, root word and then use the word in a creative sentence. With their list of words, other spelling activities through the week are focussing on helping them to remember the spelling and meanings while adding these to their vocabulary.

Zoo Excursion

To accompany our learning of ‘Living Things’ in Science, year 3 went to the National Zoo and Aquarium in Week 4. We all had the opportunity to have a tour with a zookeeper where we found out loads of interesting information about the animals that live at our zoo. Some students were even brave enough to pet and hold a Corn Snake! Students had a wonderful day and many have selected animals that we saw to research further during our Science learning.