What a start to Q4!

Date: 9th Sep 2016 @ 3:08pm

Well what a week it’s been in Q4 this week. Learning has literally not stopped!

In English we have been introduced to our new text ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ by Drew Daywalt. We haven’t read it yet but we have been exploring the front cover to predict what it may be about – one thing’s for sure, those crayons are pretty grumpy about something!

In Maths we have been working with four-digit numbers. We can now recognise the place value of each digit and can even order and compare numbers beyond a 1000. Check out our photos to see us in action!

In Science we have started our topic ‘Living Things and their Habitats’. Using the mnemonic ‘MRS GREN’ we now know the seven life processes. We started our topic by grouping living things (this is called classifying) We can now group organisms in a Venn or a Carroll diagram. We have also been looking at vertebrates (organisms with a backbone), and we were able to classify different organisms using a classification key– aren’t we clever!

After all our hard work, sometimes it’s nice to chill and some of us got the chance to read in Mr Houltram’s new ‘chill-out zone. 

A huge well done to Kacey who was our Star Badge winner. Maddison topped our Dojo chart. It truly has been a super start to Q4 - well done everybody! 

The week has gone so quick but we can’t wait for next week to learn so much more!

predict what it may be about – one thing’s for sure, those crayons are pretty grumpy about something!

On Friday we read the blurb and learned a bit more about the crayons and why they’re so cranky! We enjoyed empathising with the crayons and Mr Houltram filmed some of our responses. It will certainly help us next week when we finally get to hear what the big fuss is all about.

In Maths we have been working with four-digit numbers. We can now recognise the place value of each digit and can even order and compare numbers beyond a 1000. On Friday we were able to solve some problems involving four-digit numbers. Check out our photos to see us in action!

In Science we have started our topic ‘Living Things and their Habitats’. Using the mnemonic ‘MRS GREN’ we now know the seven life processes. We started our topic by grouping living things (this is called classifying). We can now group organisms in a Venn or a Carroll diagram.

We have also been looking at vertebrates (organisms with a backbone), and we were able to classify different organisms using a classification key – aren’t we clever!

After all our hard work, sometimes it’s nice to chill and some of us got the chance to read in Mr Houltram’s new ‘Chill-out Zone’.

Congratulations to our Star Badge winner Kacey Zhelyaskova and a big Well Done also to Maddison Howard who earned the most Dojos this week. 

It truly has been a super start to our brand new year of learning!