Reminders

- Tomorrow (Friday) is the last day to order school photos

- All easter raffle tickets are to be back tomorrow and easter hamper items are to be brought to school tomorrow if you haven't already done so.

- Soccer notices are due in on Tuesday next week

- Don't forget about your sausage orders for the sausage sizzle on Easter Mufti Day on the last day of term (2 April). The sausage orders need to be in by 31 March

Cow Portraits

We have used tempera paints to create cow portraits. We are very proud of our artworks and think they look amazing! You can purchase our cow art for $5 each at the Gore Main School Art Sale next week on Thursday 26 March. These will be displayed in the hall. 

Our amazing award winners!

This week Cooper recieved an award for showing our value integrity. Bella and Aimin were our shooting star award winners! 

Wow vs Blah Sentences

Yesterday we were practising turning boring sentences into sentences that make us go "WOW!"

We had a go at adding exciting adjectives (describing words) and verbs (doing words) into some sentences that were not very exciting to begin with.

Here is what we came up with in our pairs. 

The sentence we had to transform from blah to WOW was: 

The caterpillar eats.

The cheeky, rude caterpillar picked up a purple grape.

The fat, scrunchy caterpillar munches and nibbles, it chomps on the beautiful swan plant.

The green, stripey caterpillar nibbles the juicy, crunchy swan plant leaves.

The wet, squiggly caterpillar crunched on the wet, juicy swan plant leaf.

A cheeky caterpillar crunched on the wet, chompy leaves.

A stripey, wiggly caterpillar munched its juicy swan plant leaf.

A caterpillar munched and munched the green swan plant in one go. 

A greedy caterpillar munched on its crunchy tall swan plant. 

A bumpy caterpillar nibbled on the green juicy leaf. 

A green, greedy, squirmy, squiggly caterpillar crunches green swan plants. 

Room 3 Explains the Life Cycle of a Monarch Butterfly

We have been busy writing Explanations as this is the writing genre for the term at Gore Main. 

An explanation explains how or why something happens or what something is. 

We really enjoy writing explanations because it means we can share with you all the interesting facts we have learned so far this year. 

Click on the picture below - it will take you to a new site where you can flick through the children's writing like a book! The site is called youblisher.

Brave Mouse Mimes

We have been reading a big book all week called Brave Mouse about a mouse who was hiding in the King's house. He heard squeaking and had all his people looking for the mouse. At night the mouse would come out and dance on the kings toes, he danced on Fat Cat's tail and danced on the cook's hat too. One night he ate the King's blueberry pie! Brave mouse was far too clever to be caught by the King or his people. 

Today we have been learning to mime we mimed sections of the Brave Mouse book.

Mime: Dancing on the King's toes while he is sleeping 

Mime: Dancing on Fat Cats's tail while she is sleeping 

Mime: The cook finding the mouse

Mime: Brave Mouse eating the whole entire blueberry pie that belongs to the King

Mime: The King's people searching in the cupboards and corners for Brave Mouse

I'm Bursting To Tell You...

Our writing about the summer holidays. The children were only given a limited amount of time to write one thing they were absolutely bursting to share from their summer holidays on the first day of school this year. Miss McKenzie has finally figured out how to get this slideshow into Room 3's blog with some help from Miss Copland in Room 6! Better late than never. Keep your eyes peeled for more of Room 3's writing appearing on the blog (coming soon) to see how much the children have progressed in their writing. Looking Back On Our Summer Holiday on PhotoPeach

The Water Cycle

The Magic School Bus - Wet All Over taught us a huge amount about the water cycle

Here we have drawn a quick diagram together as a class to illustrate our learning from the You Tube clip.

Maisie's Adventures - reported by Room 3 students

On Tuesday Maisie come out of her chrysalis. She had two wings and two antennas. She had to flap her wings until lunch time. After her wings were dry she had a good fly for a long time. She glided across the classroom. She had a lot of spots. We let her go and she didn't want to go anywhere. She just wanted to stay here! The cycle starts all over again!

Reported by Hunter

In the morning I was going to look at the chrysalis but it wasn't a chrysalis anymore. It was a beautiful butterfly. It was fluttering all around the classroom then back onto the swan plant. It happened right in our classroom. The next day we had to let it go. Miss McKenzie was there too. It happened in a life cycle.

Reported by Jacob

On Monday the 2nd of March 2015 Maisie hatched from her chrysalis. At reading time the class got to hold Maisie the butterfly. Maisie pushed out of her chrysalis and dried her wings then fluttered around the classroom. I felt worried that the butterfly would crash! When I touched her it really tickled. I wish she could have stayed. 

Reported by Riley

On the 2nd of March a monarch butterfly hatched in Room 3. At reading time we got to see and we got to touch the butterfly. It went on Maia's head and Anouk's head! The butterfly pooed on Bella. She flew onto Addison's bottom! Maisie fluttered around the classroom. Bella got to let her go into the wild. I love Maisie. 

Reported by Abigail

Off Maisie goes looking for a spot to land....

Maisie thought that Maia's forehead looked like a nice place to land....

Maia wasn't so sure about that!

Can you spot Maisie?

Bye Maisie! 

What do you think of our Room 3 reporters? Would you like it be to your turn next?

Awesome Authors

Check out Millie's amazing writing from today! We have been writing explanations  this week. The childrens task was to explain how a monarch caterpillar turned into a butterfly. Millie wrote 3 pages today including a title almost fully independently! Keep your eyes on our blog for the completed masterpieces!

Cooper has begun writing his explanation to explain how a monarch caterpillar turns into a butterfly. He used 2 wow words in his writing today - scuttle and stumpy. His wow words are displayed on our class window along with one of our favourite childrens authors Jill Eggleton. 

Clever boy Cooper!