My final message...

I have had a wonderful year teaching all the different personalities in Room 23.  Thank you, parents, for trusting me with your precious children this year.  It has been a pleasure to teach them and watch them all grow academically and personally.  I will miss them all and but I know they will continue to be amazing in their new classes with their new Teachers.  I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a fantastic holiday.
All my best
Miss Calvert

Party Time

What if Paper, Scissors and Rock were human???

In class, we watched a short video clip that depicted Paper, Scissors and Rock as characters with human attributes.  Students then drew Wanted posters for Scissors - who it turns out is the bad guy! Here are just a few of the great posters.

Fitness - Egg and Spoon Race

Class Party

Our class party will be happening at 12pm on Wednesday this week. Students took home a note requesting them to bring a savoury, sweet or drink - please stick to this so we have an even spread. 

We don't have facilities for heating food in Room 23 so if you are bringing anything hot it will need to be dropped to the class at 12pm. If students do not being a plate to share they will need to bring their own lunch. I will be providing plates and cups.

We have no food allergy concerns is Room 23 but please avoid bringing anything with nuts in it.

Thank you 
Miss Calvert

Room 23 Head to the Kitchen

Science - Day and Night

A Final Bit of Shakespeare

To complete our learning about Shakespeare we watched Gnomeo and Juliet - an animated version of Romeo and Juliet.  We discussed how they were the same and different and why movies are often different from books.  We are also writing a sequence of events in the movies.

We have also completed our Romeo and Juliet storyboards.  We practiced retelling the story then took them down to our buddies in PrePrimary and presented Romeo and Juliet to them.

2014 Presentation Night and EduDance

Some great Art work done with the Fabulous Miss Randall

Another Secret Homework Task

Here is another SECRET homework task: ask you parent's how they decided on your name. Be ready share it during Morning Circle.

Getting into the Christmas Spirit

Last week I had the students think about what they most enjoyed learning about this year.  We brainstormed and wrote a list on the board.  Students were then given a cut out of a hand and wrote one thing they most enjoyed learning, then coloured the hand.  I have them all displayed in the shape of a tree - they look great!!  It seems Kung Fu Punctuation and VCOP were very popular, so were some Maths concepts.  Glad to see that Shakespeare made it on there too!!

NO SWIMMING TOMORROW

Please remember that we will not be having swimming tomorrow.  This applies only to the classes who swim at the same time as us.

Important Notes

Remember that tomorrow is a School Development Day - so do not come to school... unless you are a Teacher!

Also, there will be no swimming for Room 23 next Tuesday.  We will be swimming on all other days next week.

A Couple of IMPORTANT Notes...

Canteen Orders and Swimming
Please do not order lunches during swimming - Weeks 7 & 8.  As we have to be lining up for the bus at 12.20 it does not leave enough time to get lunch orders and eat them.  Please save orders until Week 9.  Thank you.
 
Presentation Night
If you are not attending Presentation Night please let me know as soon as possible as this will affect the students EduDance routine.  I hope that every family will be there to see what wonderful work the students have done with their dancing.

Overdue Library Books
There are a couple of students with overdue library books - VERY overdue!!  All library books MUST be returned in Week 8 (next week). Please assist your child in locating these books and returning them to school.

Learning About Shakespeare in Year 3!!!

We have been learning about William Shakespeare in Room 23! We started by doing a KWL - Listing what we know about him, what we want to know and leaving a column for what we have learned. Then we read a biography about Shakespeare - we discussed the difference between a biography and an autobiography. This was a fun biography as it rhymed! We took notes and made a mind map of the information, then used this to write our own reports about Shakespeare. We also looked at insults that Shakespeare made up, sayings he invented such as 'all that glitters isn't gold' and 'fair play' and looked at some of the 3000 words he invented. We also had a timeline to unscramble and comprehension questions to answer. The lovely Bella from Year 7 came and gave a powerpoint presentation about Shakespeare sharing some interesting facts with us - did you know Shakespeare wrote his own epitath and that his grave is cursed?? We read Romeo and Juliet and storyboarded the story - students are still working on these. We also looked at clothes worn during Shakespearian times and then, in groups drew our own designs and collaged them. 




Students were told that their Shakespeare creations had to look exactly like their design... here they are!  Which one do you think is closest to the design??  Vote in the comments.

Scitech and Kings Park

On Wednesday, 19 November, all Year 3 classes went on an excursion to Scitech. We first went to Horizon Planetarium to watch a film about seasons called Tilt, then looked around the Scitech floor at all the exhibitions. We then jumped back on the bus and headed to Synergy Playground at Kings Park for lunch and a little play before heading back to school.

A HUGE Surprise from Dr Paul Swan

I have uploaded posts before about the Paul Swan Maths games and how much Room 23 students enjoy playing them.  So we decided to write to Dr Swan and tell him which games were our favourite, why and what we are learning.  And we have received a HUGE surprise back from him!!  Dr Swan sent a letter to Miss Calvert, 8 new games and a Maths Fun Fact book for each student with a personal inscription inside!!  WOW!!  We were so excited!!!

EduDance Costumes

Presentation Night is fast approaching (9 December!!)  and it's time to discuss costumes for the EduDance item.

Room 23 will be dancing with Room 11.  

Students will need to wear:
- their own summery outfits
- shorts, bright t-shirt/rashie
- own sunglasses and cap
- sneakers or joggers.

Please make sure you have these items ready.

Inside Fitness

Friday was a little wet in the morning so we decided to do fitness in class.  Straight to YouTube and the clip for "I'm Elmo and I know it"... Dance party ensued!!