Last term our class was studying Biological Science and how to determine what makes something living or non living. As we are AMAZING Scientists Mrs Szczepanik thought that we could also learn how to classify animals into their family groups! We used a branching key and examined each animal to see what group they belonged to. Because we all worked extremely hard during Science last term we got to go on an excursion to the Zoo.
When we arrived at the Zoo we had an activity sheet to complete. We went around to each different section of the Zoo and studied the animals and habitats. We had so much fun and all agreed that the Baboons were our favorite animals because of their red bottoms!
We also got to participate in a special classifying lesson in the Discovery Center with Taryn. We learnt how to further classify animals and Taryn was extremely impressed with our knowledge about animals. We learnt that reptiles have scales, fish have gills, mammals have fur and birds have feathers. Taryn gave us different animal coverings and we had to sort them into the correct animal family. We all got confused when Taryn showed us an elephants tail hair as it looked and felt like wire!
After our lesson we got to touch a Stimpson Python called Bart Stimpson. Everyone in Room 21 was so brave and touched Bart to feel his scaley skin. We also learnt that Mrs Szczepanik is extremely scared of snakes, it was funny!
We had such a FUN day and learnt so much about classifying animals. Our new favourite place is the Zoo! We must say a massive thank you to our wonderful parent helpers who came along to help us have a super day. Thank you to Sharline Williams, Shay Sydenham, Judy Franklin and Simone Nash for being the best parent helpers we could of asked for. Thank you so much!
This term, Room 21 is extremely lucky to have practicing teacher Miss Stephanie Wright working in our class full time until the end of the term! Please make her feel very welcome and come in to say hello. She has already proved to be a huge asset to our class and we all wish her the best of luck for this term!
It is very hard to believe that we are now half way through Year 3!
This term we will continue to focus on Literacy and Numeracy, but we will also be focusing heavily on looking at the history of Wattle Grove Primary School (to celebrate the centenary) to tie in with Geography and History.
This term there are many exciting things happening:
-Sports carnival
-Lap - a - thon (get your money in so we can raise money to buy new laptops!)
-Student fete and dress up day
Important reminders:
-Library books must come back to school every even week Wednesday starting from next week.
Homework reminders:
-Students must be completing at least 2 Lexile quizzes per week using the books they get out from the library. They can change their books before and after school Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as well as lunch times on these days. Homereading every night is absolutely crucial. Please write the number of pages read in the students home reader file so I can clearly see the students are reading each night.
-Timestables must be done a couple of times per week.
-Next week students will start bringing home a review sheet booklet which they will have 2 nights to complete one sheet.
-Spelling homework must be done every night using a variety of activities (which are glued into their spelling homework book)
Please remember to complete all homework tasks given and next week a letter will go home about a report project students will be working on in class as well as at home. Stay tuned!
If you have any questions or queries please don't hesitate to contact me.
Thank you for your ongoing support,
Mrs Caris Szczepanik
