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

Fun times to be had in...France!

Bonjour!

We are writing from France. Today we boarded our plane and got to try some croissant on the way. We all loved it and even had seconds.

What we know about France already...

• The flag in blue, white and red.
• The capital city of France is Paris.
• France is in Europe.
• Their currency is Euro.
• It has the highest mountain in Europe, called Mount Blanc.
• In most parts of France they have cool winters and mild summers.
• More than 300 different types of cheeses are made in France.
• France is famous for the Eifel Tower, the Louvre and the Tour de France.

We have also looked at some songs in French, Alouette and Frere Jacques. We tried singing a number song too, but we think the Japanese version might have been easier.  

In maths today we played some fun games to help us with our money, time and fraction concepts. We have been busy learning about all of these things over the past few weeks so it was great to use what we have learnt in a game.

We have library this afternoon so we will have to update you some other time on what exciting things we do.

From Amazing Year 3A and Miss A

Look at us, we can tell the time!

Shopping Bingo!

Caitlin trying to make a whole pizza using different fractions.

Matilda playing Near Doubles Bingo!

Nicolas is keen to win.

Monique, Maddie and Sommer practising their time telling!

A busy week 3 in Mexico!

We had a very busy and awesome week in Mexico.


We spent the week learning lots about Mexico and on Friday we got to cook delicious tacos.


We worked in small groups with Miss A to cook and prepare the ingredients.
The ingredients we used was mince, onion, carrot, lettuce, cheese, taco seasoning, water and corn taco shells.


We had to cook the meat and onion in a pan. When the meat was brown we added the taco seasoning and water. Meanwhile, we grated cheese and carrot and shredded some lettuce. We placed the corn taco shells in the oven until they were warm. Once they were ready we got to fill our shells with meat, carrot, cheese and lettuce. They were very yummy. We are all very clever little chefs!

During the week we revised how to use commas and question marks.  To help us remember we had to put sentences together as a group and place the commas and question marks where they should go.



Working together to put the sentence together.



Yay, we did it!



Having a go at a sentence with many commas.



Success!


In Maths last week we looked at time. We have been getting an understanding of seconds and minutes. As a class last week we had to do several exercises and time our heart rate after. We found it hard to count it after some exercises because it was going so fast!



Jumping up and down for a minute before
calculating our heart rate.



  



Laying down for 3 minutes and then calculating our heart rate. It was a lot slower this time.





Did you know there are 60 seconds in a minute? Did you know there are 60 minutes in an hour? We are so smart that we have worked out that there are 3600 seconds in an hour!!



On Friday it was our turn to have our Prayer Assembly. We sent a message to other students in our school to help others less fortunate than ourselves. We sang two songs - Rainbow and True Colours. When we sang true colours we also did some sign language. Some of us found it easy to learn and some of us found it challenging. Miss A thinks we did a marvellous job!

We are finishing up in Mexico today and looking forward to our next destination.

We will blog again soon, so make sure you keep up to date with what is happening in Year 3A.


From Amazing Year 3A and Miss A



Magical Music & Melbourne Cup Madness!

This morning we went to watch and listen to Jonas from Africa with his instruments. He played lots and lots of different beats on so many different types of African instruments. He also sang along and told us some stories from Africa. Jordan and Arron from our class were especially lucky because they got to go up and play some instruments with Jonas. Our favourite instrument was the  Djimbe (it's an African Drum). He loves playing music because it makes him feel happy and want to dance.


Today is Melbourne Cup Day. It is when there is a big horse racing event held in Melbourne. At school we got to make a hat to wear to our 'Mission Madness' hat parade. We all donated a gold coin to raise money for the missions. It feels good to help other people, especially the Indigenous community in Northern Territory. The whole school looked amazing with all their different hat creations. It was fun parading around for everyone to see and even more exciting watching the horses race. 


We hope you enjoy looking at our photos and like our hats. Feel free to leave us a comment.


From Amazing Year 3A and Miss A 

Jordan and Arron playing African instruments.

We love Melbourne Cup madness!

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

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