Similes

We have been learning to write similes to describe things. Here are some similes we wrote all by ourselves last Friday.

The girl was as cold as Antarctica - Abigail 

The dog is as fluffy as 2000 pieces of wool off a sheep - Taysha

The dog is as big as a cat - Thomas

The man was as round as a ferris wheel - Fletcher

His nose was as shiny as the sun - Jaimee

The man was as round as a merry-go-round - Addison 

The girl is as cold as a fridge - Riley

The man was as round as the sun - Aimin

She is as cold as Jack Frost - Anouk 

The girl is as cold as slushy snow - Maia

The dog is as big as a komodo dragon - Lachlan

The girl is feeling like Pluto - Hunter

The man is as round as a fat pig - Johnny

The dog's nose is as shiny as a piece of jewellery - Kaylee

The girl was as cold as a frozen coke - Jacob

The girl was as cold as ice cream - Brooke

The dog's nose is as special as gold and his tail is as long as a snake - Bella

The girl was as cold as an icy freezer - Millie

The man was as round as a circle - Ben

Amazing Award Winners

Congratulations to our award winners! Lachlan and Jacob received shooting star awards and Addison received the values award for this week as she shows responsibility! 

Welcome to Fletcher who has joined Room 3 this term. 

A visit from Stevie

Anouk and her family have a new puppy called Stevie! Anouk brought Stevie into Room 3 to visit us on Friday. 

ANZAC Day

Welcome back to Term 2! In Room 3 we have been focusing on ANZAC Day.The children have been learning lots about the meaning of ANZAC Day and the poppy.

They have created a landscape of Flanders Fields filled with poppies after the war.Some children chose to paint their landscape of the fields at night and others chose a sunny day, some children even painted the sky at dawn as the sun was rising.

They had to think about perspective as they painted and realised the poppies that we way in the distance would look much smaller than the poppies growing right in front of you.

Didn't they do a fantastic job?

Poppies in Flanders Field on PhotoPeach

On Tuesday Room 3 learned about life as a soldier with Mrs McIntyre through a picture book of letters between a soldier and his family. The children then wrote their own messages home pretending they were soldiers. Come into Room 3 to check these out.

Reminder to all Room 3 parents and children: 

School will be closed due to Teachers Only Day this Tuesday (28th April) 

Spelling and Reading Tricks

Hi kids, if you are looking for something to do over the holidays check out the 'Spelling and Reading Tricks' tab at the top of our blog. On this page you will find some you tube clips to help you learn more about the 'magic e' that makes vowel letters say their own name.
Enjoy the rest of your holidays!
Miss McKenzie

Happy Easter

If you are passing by the school these holidays check out our easter display in the Room 3 windows. The children made some awesome easter chicks today with Mrs Williams 

The Day the Easter Bunny Nearly Ran Out of Chocolate Eggs Writing

Check out our creative stories we have been working on over the last few days. We wrote these completely independently without any help from Miss McKenzie! Every creative idea is our own. We took lots of time to share our writing with each other to help get the creative juices flowing. 

Miss McKenzie thinks we have fabulous imaginations!
Click on the picture below to read the stories....

An Easter Treat

Today the children made Easter treats. They molded chocolate by pouring melted chocolate into a variety of molds. They were able to link this to our inquiry about water as water changes state often going from a solid to a liquid and a gas. They learned that chocolate can also change state by heating it up to change the solid chocolate to liquid chocolate. After they put the chocolate in the molds Mrs Petterson put the melted chocolate in the freezer to cool it down turning it back into a solid.

We made baskets to hold our chocolate shapes so that we could take them home. We loved out Easter treats! Thank you to Mrs Petterson for helping us out!! Thanks also to those who sent along the chocolate molds for us to borrow. We had so many arrive at school this morning that we weren't even able to use them all!