Weekly Update -Term 3 week 1

Dear Parents

Welcome back to our final term in Year 3. The children have come back well rested and full of stories of their holiday adventures. They all seem to have grown a little taller over the break as well, getting ready for Year 4.

It was a busy week as the children finalized their international collaborative project, Windows to the World. All children have worked hard to create a google slide to share with their peers in Nepal, Egypt and Florida as well as the rest of the world on their project website. The site will be published within the next couple of weeks and we will share the link for it at that time. For now, most children have shared their work slide on Seesaw for you to have a look at together at home. The children have done a fantastic job and should be proud of their efforts.

*IMPORTANT NOTICE* 

Next week we will start our new topic on simple machines. To kick it off with some excitement we would like each child that has a bicycle and/or helmet to bring it to school on Tuesday morning. If your child does not have one or it is too difficult to transport one to school, they will be able to share with others. No child will be allowed to ride without a helmet.

This week we also celebrated Eco-Week. It was interesting to see the children's level of awareness develop through the week as we discussed, among other things, overuse of plastic bags and straws, using a reusable water bottle, trying out vegetarian options to cut down on meat consumption and learning about the 3 R's - reduce, reuse, recycle. It would be great if children wanted to share some of the ways that they care for the planet at home in an attempt to keep the idea of eco-week fresh in their minds throughout the term. In Art this week, children went outdoors into our beautiful natural environment to design self portraits made only of materials found outside. The results were fantastic!

In Maths this week we started learning about angles in shapes and how to use a protractor to measure the degree of a turn. In Literacy we 'investigated' detective stories and found the features of good mysteries. The children then started to plan a story that will take place at school involving a crime, a detective and a couple of clues to point the hero in the right direction.

Notices:

PE:   3PJ will be starting a new unit of swimming next week for PE.  This will continue until Monday 28th May.

Activites: 

You should have now signed up for primary activities for Term 3. They will begin on Monday 30th April. If you have not yet registered, please consult the e-mail sent out last term by David Berman for insturctions.