Advent

We are now in the second week of Advent.

Today we made our class wreath to remind us that Jesus is coming. The class wreath will hold five candles; three purple, one pink and one white.

The candles represent light and Jesus, who is the light of the world.
The purple candles are for royalty and penance.
The pink candle is for joy.
The white candle is for Jesus.


Bailey and Amy with our wreath.



To make our wreath first we traced around our hands on all different types of green cardboard and paper.



We then cut them out and stapled them together to make a circle.

Lastly we added some glitter glue.

The colour green is the colour of life and hope.

The circle has no beginning or end. It reminds us of God, who had no beginning or end.

Maddie with her hand she made.

Delicious Day in Italy!

Ciao!

Today we have been very busy master chefs! We have made pizza and spaghetti bolognese.

We thought they both tasted delicious! We had a vote on which one we liked the most.
There are 28 people here today.

Here are the votes....
Pizza - 21
Spaghetti Bolognese - 7


To make the spaghetti bolognese we first had to boil some water. Once the water was boiling we added dry spaghetti. While the spaghetti was cooking we used an electric frying pan to fry some garlic and onion. We also added mushrooms, capsicum and grated carrot. Once these were soft we added beef mince. We waited for the mince to go brown and then we added tomatos, tomato paste and herbs. We left this to simmer for around 20 minutes then added the spaghetti. We made a mess of our faces eating it, but it was just so yummy!

To make the pizzas we used english muffins, tomato paste, pepperoni, shredded ham, diced capsicum, chopped mushrooms, diced onion, tinned pineapple and shredded mozzarella cheese.

We had to cut the english muffin in half and spread it with tomato paste. We placed and sprinkled the toppings we wanted on top of the english muffin. We cooked them for 15-20 minutes. The cheese on top melted. Some of us had all the toppings and most had just a few. Our classroom smelt like a restaurant. Maybe one day we will open our very own restaurant! What cuisine do you think we should open?

Zoe enjoying her pizza.

Caitlin

Jack and Nicolas

Kendal

Jordan loves spaghetti!

John

Emerson and Bailey

Monique and Dakota



Hailey



Sommer

Yesterday we had a very special visitor come to visit us to talk to us all about Italy. He didn't have to travel far because he is our Principal, Mr G. Mr G's parents are from Italy.
We learnt lots of Italian words. Did you know Mr G is Jack's Papa?
Mr G showed us some of the places he had visited in Italy.
We found it very interesting!!

It's time to go. It is almost lunchtime. We are still full from our delicious Italian feast, but we are sure we will find room in our tummy's for our treats in our lunchboxes from our parents.

From Amazing Year 3A and Miss A

French Toast

Today we made French Toast.

It was very simple to make. We used eggs, milk, pepper and bread. It tasted scrumptious! Some of us have made it before, but for some of us it was the first time. We think we could make it at home for our parents and brothers and sisters. We think they would enjoy it just as much as us.

We are busy now writing the procedure for how we made it.

Stay tuned on our Writing Space so you can use our recipe to make yourself a scrumptious meal or snack!

Mexico Madness

Olah (that means hello in Spanish).


Week 3 is here already and today we set flight to... MEXICO!
We were surprised and excited when we arrived at school and Miss A gave us our boarding pass. On our boarding pass we discovered the Capital City of Mexico is Mexico City.
The Mexican flag has green on the left, white in the middle and red on  the right. In the middle it has the National Coat of Arms. It is an eagle holding a snake in it's beak and perching on a cactus that has risen from a rock above a lake. Here is a picture of the Mexican flag.

We met and read all about Carlos who is from Mexico.
Did you know there are lots of villages that do not have running water or electricity? These villages also have poor education for children. Carlos has moved to a different village where he now has TV and running water.


Mexico has high mountains, deserts and rain forests. The weather can be tropical or dry depending on where abouts you are in Mexico.


Lots of the food in Mexico is made from corn. Today we got to try all different types of corn chips. They were delicious, although some were very spicy!


We also practised speaking in Spanish. That is the language they speak in Mexico. We are very lucky because Nicolas can speak Spanish. He was born in Colombia. He has taught us how to count to 10. We are very clever.


This morning we made monster pinatas. We had to follow a set of instructions that told us step by step what to do. It is very important that you read instructions carefully if you want to do it right.


OTHER INTERESTING FACTS WE HAVE LEARNT ABOUT MEXICO.....


People from Mexico enjoy watching bull-fighting. - William
People from Mexico like watching soccer and rodeo - Jordan
People in Mexico speak Spanish. - Oscar
People in Mexico wear wide-brimmed hats called Sombreros. - George
Mexicans play baseball - Jack
Their bread is flat, round and made of corn. They call it tortilla. - Dakota
Mexicans eat spicy food. - Bailey
Salsa is a dance they do in Mexico as well as a dip! - Sommer
At parties and celebrations they have pinatas, which are filled with goodies. - Maddie


We look forward to sharing with you much more that we learn this week.

Colouring in our Mexican flags.

Anika with the piniata instructions.

Jordan busy working on his piniata.

William showing off his cutting skills.

Zoe colouring the Mexican flag.

George colouring in his Mexican flag.

Kendal and Jack busy making there piniatas.



Amy enjoying eating corn chips.

Jackson with his Mexican flag and boarding pass ready to go to Mexico.

Nicolas hard at work.

Chau (that means goodbye in Spanish).  

We are back in action!

That's right! We are back after a fun and exciting holiday break.

This term we are going to be very busy 'travelling around the world' and learning about different cultures.
Where we are going is a surprise at the moment, but we can't wait.

Amy - I look forward to learning about new places and knowing things I didn't know before.
Kendal - I am looking forward to learning about different names for things and other languages.
Zoe - I am looking forward to going to all different places.
Sommer - I am looking forward to meeting new people and visiting new places.
Jack - I am looking forward to learning about pasta and food if we visit Italy.
Jordan - I would like to go to Jordan!
Bridget - I think this will be the BEST term ever.
Yannick - I am looking forward to maybe visiting where I was born.
Emerson - I am looking forward to site seeing in different places.
Jackson - I am looking forward to perhaps visiting Mexico because I love their corn chips.
Bailey - I would like to go to New York or America.
Maddie - I really want to know why the Statue of Liberty was made and why she is famous.
Monique - I would like to visit Brazil!!
Evan - I would like to visit Italy and learn about the leaning tower of Piza.
William - I would like to learn about all the different cultures in the world.
Caitlin - I would like to learn more about Bali and go back to Fiji.
Hailey - I would like to go to North America to meet more people.
Ethan - I would like to go to Hollywood to become FAMOUS!

Kiah - Oh my goodness - we are travelling around the world! Yay!

Arron - I would love to visit England.

Tedd - I would love to visit Cooking Islands.

So far we have created our passports, packed our suitcases and created a world map. We are all set to begin travelling next week. Did you know there are 7 continents in the world? Australia, Antarctica, North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

This term in English we are writing procedures. This week we wrote instructions on how to make a paper aeroplane. Another person in the class had to have a go at making the plane using our instructions. Some were successful and some didn't work. We have learnt that it is important to be very clear when writing instructions and that we need to include verbs and pictures. We had fun testing the planes to see how far they could travel.

We look forward to learning so much this term and being able to share it all with you along the way! Stay tuned and feel free to leave us a comment.

From Amazing Year 3A and Miss A

Marvelous Maths!

This exciting term we have been learning about number, measurement, money, mental computation strategies, problem solving and investigations.

We have had fun doing a maths investigation on measuring. One task was to draw a map of the school and measure the quickest way to travel past every classroom in the school. We had to think of any shorter ways and draw them on our map.

A problem solving task we did this term was the question 'There are 10 animals in a room. How many legs could there be? What is the greatest number possible? What is the least number possible?' What do you think? We had lots of different answers and we made a class book with all our ideas.

We have also been going on Mathletics. Sometimes Miss A sets us tasks.

One thing that we have loved doing is extended notation. Here is an example...

6532 = 6000 + 500 + 30 + 2



Next term we hope to get better at multiplication and division!!

Terrific Thursday

This term we have been looking at plants. We have been learning about the life cycle of a plant. Yesterday we began growing our own beans and we look forward to watching them germinate.

Some students with their seeds.

Today we have been learning all about money. We have played games and pretended to be shop owners and customers. We learnt all about notes, coins and giving change.




Having fun with money!



At recess and lunch today our school held a mission market. The mission market is to raise money for people less fortunate than ourselves. Some classes baked goodies for us to eat and prepared games for us to play at a small cost. We also were allowed to come in free dress clothing. All money raised goes to the poor. We hope we raise a lot of money.


From Amazing Year 3A and Miss A