One of the areas of Maths we work on in year 3/4 is being able to give change using both notes and coins. We have been using a fun website to help us practice these skills and we thought we would share it here to make it easier for the students to find if they want to share their learning with you at home.
Follow this link to access the website
http://www.mathsisfun.com/money/index.html
Today we shared with the children the song we will be performing at the End of Year Concert. With Mrs Morris’ class, we will be performing is a song called My Favourite Time of The Year by an English band called Florin Street.
We thought that this song was most appropriate given that both classes have been learning about the era in history in which the film clip is set. It also has beautiful lyrics about the positive feelings we all have around this time of the year
We have embedded the YouTube clip here for the children to view and start learning the words. They will also be given lyric sheets to help with this too.
We hope you all enjoy it as we are really looking forward to performing it!
While the travel buddies from PLC in Sydney were visiting with us we made a book of all the places and people they met. Here is the end result of all the fun they had on their visit
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We were very sorry to say goodbye on Friday to one of our classmates, who is moving to another school next term. The students wrote some very moving messages on the signature bear we all signed for her. To make the day even more special, we all enjoyed the class party with all the lovely food the students brought along.
This student’s family have been very active in our school community for a long time now and will be very missed by all of us. We wish them all the very best in their move and know they will have a great time in their new community.
Over the last couple of weeks we have been looking at the role of the First Fleet in Australia’s history.
We are now starting an inquiry topic looking at the stories of the convicts and ships from this era of history.
Mrs Knipe has collected here some websites which should be useful in our research
http://www.fellowshipfirstfleeters.org.au/ships.html
http://kidcyber.com.au/topics/australia/first-fleet-timeline/
http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/search.aspx
http://www.australianhistorymysteries.info/resource-zone/primary-first-fleet/
Today one of our classmates was a fantastic representative for our school at the Athletics Championships at SANTOS stadium. He not only competed fiercely in his own event of high jump, but also acted as a fill-in for two races above his age division. Congratulations on not only being selected for this prestigious event, but also for being such a great ambassador for our school.
Friday, 18 September was Sports Day this year and we had some fantastic weather to help us enjoy the all the different events. We had spent a lot of time with Mr Heatherington practising our skills and then got to share all this fun with our family and friends who were able to watch on the big day.
As you can see by the photos we had a fantastic time and Mrs Knipe is sure everyone was thoroughly exhausted by the end of the day – she knows that she was!
This week we have Koko the koala and Kev the kiwi visiting with us. These travel buddies are visiting schools all around the world and sharing their adventures in each place on their blog: plctravelbuddies.blogspot.com.au The travel buddies started off in the school of a teacher friend of Mrs Knipe’s in Sydney and so far have travelled around Australia and then have visited schools New Zealand, Malaysia and England. We enjoyed reading about all their adventures, though we were a little jealous of the school in Malaysia that had a huge swimming pool as part of their grounds! This is a great chance for us to practice all of our cybersafety and digital citizenship skills for a real audience and we are having a great time writing up information about what our school days are like at Modbury West and sharing some of the highlights of our school via photos.
Here is a photo of all of us with Kev and Koko and we will share some more information about what we have been up to with you soon.
On the 4th of September the students of M10 and M11 were fortunate enough to spend some time at the Tea Tree Gully Council chambers as the culmination to our learning on “Governments”. We were welcomed by Mayor Kevin Knight, who spoke to us in the reception room about the history of the Tea Tree Gully Council and the role and responsibilities of the council and councillors.
We were then lucky enough to be invited into the council chambers and Mayor Knight made one of us an honorary mayor as well as 12 new councillors. He even allowed the new mayors to try on the mayoral chain. The new council then participated in a mock debate as to whether the council should provide a new playground or new footpaths, following the council’s meeting process and procedures.
It was a very eye opening visit for all of us on the roles and responsibilities of the council. We would like to thank Mayor Knight and Tom’s mum Holly for making this visit and all our new learning possible. Here are some shots of our time as part of the Tea Tree Gully Council.
Today was a day of celebration in our classroom. Mrs Knipe set the challenge that if everyone in the class finished the Premier’s Reading Challenge before the deadline we would have a celebration afternoon. Not only did we finish the challenge well ahead of time – we were also the first primary class to be completely finished!!
So today we celebrated. Everyone brought along comfy clothes, snuggly blankets and soft toys and we took over the library for the afternoon. The library was already fantastically decked out for book week and Mrs Koenig and Mrs White said we could use the torches to read our books in a really special way. The highlights of the afternoon were reading some old favourite stories (there is a great video of some of us reading Where is the Green Sheep), getting recommendations from friends about new books we might like to try and of course Mrs Knipe’s treat of hot chocolate and marshmallows.
Here are some photos of us having fun reading at our well-earned celebrations
