On Monday the 28th of October the grade 3 and 4 students and teachers went to the Arts Centre as we are learning about creativity and the arts.

Last Friday Alex brought his budgie to school.  Everyone got to have a pat and some people got to hold it.  The budgie was very well behaved and didn’t fly away.

On Tuesday, 13th August, the grade 3 children went to the National Gallery of Victoria to see some spanish art.

First we walked along Southbank.  We saw the murky Yarra River and we took a group photo standing in front of a spanish mosaic.

After that, we entered the National Gallery of Victoria and met our guide David.  He led us around the gallery showing us some lovely spanish art.  We did some drawing activities along the way.  He told us some very interesting stories about the artists and the art work.

We saw the Weeping Woman, which is a well known painting by Pablo Picasso.   We also saw the biggest  paining in the whole gallery,  It was called The Banquet of Cleopatra.

Before returning to school we ate lunch and played in a nearby park.

It was an amazing day!!

Term 3 is well on the way.  We have come back refreshed and ready for more learning.

The children are enjoying reading and writing poetry.

Read our fabulous couplet poems at Class Couplets

We can combine 2D shapes to make other 2D shapes

We can make 3D shapes which have faces, edges and corners.

The children in 3A have been learning how to write persuasive texts to convince readers to change their actions or beliefs.

As we are also learning about Sustainability, the students wrote persuasive texts titled ‘ Classrooms should not have bins’

Here are two from Zara and Zayne

Classrooms should not have bins

I strongly believe classrooms should have bins.  Everybody knows bins are very useful.  Our classroom will look clean and we will have a place to put our rubbish.  Also, we can bring any food in the world we want.

Firstly, if we do have bins our classroom will be tidy and spotless.  We won’t have rubbish EVERYWHERE!

Secondly, if we don’t have bins where will we put our rubbish?  We will have to take it home and we will have to fill our pockets up.

The last reason is, we can bring any food we want and we don’t have to go and buy containers.  Don’t you think students should be allowed to bring any food they want?

As you can see, we need bins to stay clean and tidy.  We need the freedom to bring any food we want.  I am telling you now, keep your bin!

By Zara 3A

Classroooms should not have bins.

Most people think that we SHOULD have bins. I am one of those people.  Bins are one of the greatest inventions, even though, all they do is hold rubbish.  If we don’t have bins, where will we put our rubbish?  If we don’t have bins we can’t bring any food to school.  If we don’t have bins our classroom would be a disgusting mess.

Firstly, if we had no bins, we would have nowhere to put our rubbish.  That means that people will throw their rubbish on the floor!

Secondly, we can bring ANY and I mean ANY FOOD because we have a bin to put the waste in from our LOVED foods like chips and lollies.

Lastly, classrooms will be clean because we have a place to put rubbish.

To conclude, you should see we need bins for we need a place to put our rubbish.  We can bring any food to school and our classroom will be clean and tidy.  Keep classroom bins!

By Zayne

On Thursday, 7th of March, the grade 3 and 4 children attended an amazing incursion called History Box.  Barry and Cynda were so information and we learnt about indigenous australians as well as european settlement in Australia.  We also had fun doing hands on activities.  These activities were making clay love tokens, writing with ink and a quill pen, grinding spices with a mortar and pestle and playing a game called Ngaka Ngaka.