The term in review by Tehmi H.

What's been happening in 3B this term. . .

In 3B this term first we had CALC week.  In CALC we made hands that on the fingers we wrote words like "friendship" and "environment".  Then CALC week was finished.

Later on in the term a hockey clinic came to the school.  3B had a wonderful time doing that.  Not long after we had a tennis clinic.  We enjoyed that but not as much as the hockey clinics.

Towards the end of the term we did another CALC activity. We split into groups labelled 1 through to 12.  Each group dressed 2 kids up in newspaper costumes made by the other kids in the group.  For example, some groups made princess costumes of Wookie costumes and things like that.  Much later in the term we started doing the Queens Writing Competition.  We have all had a go at writing for all of the four tasks so we have a great selection of works for our teachers to choose from. 

It has been a great term!

Tehmi

Bridge Building in Science

Hello everyone in 3B!

Last week in science we completed an interesting engineering task where we investigated "what makes a strong bridge".

We had several goes at this task after watching a presentation about various kinds of bridges and structures around the world.  We then made our structures out of paper and tested their weight bearing properties using plastic building cubes.  Some of structures held more than 100 cubes!

Tehmi said "I liked how everybody work together in our group in the end. . . we had a few arguments about what the best structure would be but we managed it in the end."

Georgia said, "I liked how we all tried out different strategies, even if one didn't work then you could always have a go at another one."

"The interesting part was finding out about how forces could help hold up the bridge." Josh commented as we discussed our findings during the week.

Perhaps we have some budding engineers in 3B!

Cheerio for now -

Ms Jolly

Science!

On Friday we had Science (3A and 3B) in 3B's Room. We discovered that if you put food dye in milk water it will turn a colour. The colour depends of what colour you put in. The ingredients are: Milk, food dye, detergent, water, cup and spoon. Put any colour into the milk! Then swirl them both around. Put dish washing liquid (detergent) into the milk, and what do you think happened??? We ended up with a big ripple!!!!! Ms Jolly tried doing green and red into milk then added loads of dish washing liquid... It over lapped and went to the side! it was amazing a wonderfull to know this! You may try this at home! Have a parent to help.

The fat in the milk holds the food dye in place, adding the detergent causes the fat in the milk to thin and the molecules to split apart. This is the effect that causes the mixing colours.

By 3A and 3B -Ava and Sienna

Welcome back for the home stretch!

Hello parents and students of 3B -

Well - here we are, the final stages of 2015 are upon us. What an exciting term we have coming up! We are all looking forward to going on camp to Candlebark Farm,  learning some exciting new skills during our Tri-skills program, as well as Bike Ed in the latter part of the year.

Last term we had an some amazing experiences both on and off site: our Skype session with the Joides Resolution science expedition was certainly a highlight, as well as our excursion to Polly Woodside.  We have also enjoyed the new Science room and our experiments - especially the ice melting!

This term we have some changes to our timetable.  Our week now looks like this:

Mondays: Literacy block, ICT and Maths
Tuesday: Literacy, Writing workshop, Maths and Integrated
Wednesdays: Maths, Art, Science, Collaborative Games and Tri Skills
Thursdays: Literacy, Integrated, ICT and PE
Fridays, Assembly, Performing Arts. Japanese, Literacy and Spelling reviews

Combined with reporting, this term is going to be full with lots of fun and engaging activities for our grade!

Cheerio for now - Ms Jolly

Pirate Ships - ahoy me hearties. . .

This week in 3B we have been working on our construction task for this term, pirate ships make from milk cartons.

We have been investigating all sorts of ships, as well as applying technical jargon to our constructions - so the students have all become very familiar with the terms hull, rigging and quarter deck.

We are looking forward to finishing our creations, as well as comparing them to the real thing when we climb aboard the Polly Woodside next Thursday!

Cheerio for now - Ms Jolly and 3B

Welcome back - CRASH, BASH, BANG!

Hello everyone in 3B -

Welcome back for another exciting term at KPS!

We have had some minor timetable changes for this term.  On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the students have PE, Performing Arts and Art respectively.  On Friday morning directly after assembly they now have Japanese.  Our literacy blocks remain the first sessions of the day with maths and spelling to follow as soon as practicable afterwards.

This week we have been working on onomatopoeia: words that mimic sounds.  As we are gearing up for poetry writing, we spent this week looking at words that would evoke goods imagines in readers heads.

Have a look at our pop art onomatopoeia words below!

Maths with Grade 5s - how many jumps

During swimming our grade was lucky to have a visit from Mr McGrath and the grade 5s.  We loved our problem solving session titled "How Many Hops". We had to calculate the amount of jumps it would take three oppossing sides of frogs to jump over each other and get to the other side of a game board.  It was so much fun solving these problems and working with the Grade 5s!