Year 3 Inquiry Experiments
Please fill in the google form about which experiment you would like to investigate further.
Vinnies Christmas Appeal
This Advent season we are supporting the Vinnies Christmas Appeal. We are collecting food and gifts in Christmas Hampers for people in our community.
PLEASE SPREAD THE CHRISTMAS JOY- Put a smile on their faces! Be generous
A Message from The Sustainable Club…
The Sustainable Club has been created by some of the Year 3 students and everyone is welcome to join! We meet every Monday and Friday at 2nd Break to look after our environment and spread the message about being responsible with our waste.
What things do you do to help look after our environment?
Is there anything you would like us to focus on in The Sustainable Club?
Year Fours Dance for Carols event
Dear Year Four students,
Your two classes are learning a dance for the community carols event. Carols this year will be on Thursday evening the 13th December, see the newsletter for more information. Your dance will be the song ‘Need a Little Christmas’
Practise your dance at home by using the recording I have below. You can also practise with your home group teacher any chance you have, so you are very prepared.
Enjoy this dance! It is definitely fun and has a bit of a Broadway theme. Jess.
Jesus! Year Three Carols Song
Afternoon Year Three’s,
Here is Mariah Carey’s version of your carol ‘Jesus oh what a wonderful child’. What an amazing song and you sound fantastic singing it! Keep up the gospel singing as you have been. Whether you practise with your teachers or at home remember to use ‘air’ instruments to help remember your part. Lots of practise before our event on Thursday the 13th of December. See the newsletter for more information.
Jesus! Oh What a Wonderful Child – with lyrics
Camp Narmbool Reflection
We had such an experience over the last couple of days while at Camp Narmbool!
Have you checked out our SMCM Twitter feed?
- What did you enjoy? Why?
- What did you learn?
- What will you share with your family?
- Did you make new friends? Did you learn something new about them?
- Did you find out anything about yourself that you didn’t know before?
- What was your favourite part about camp?
Camp Narmbool Reminders
The Year Threes will be travelling to Camp Narmbool this Thursday!
Leaving from SMCM Thursday 8th November at 8:45am
Returning to SMCM Friday 9th November by 4:00pm
Please be at school by 8:30am to check in any medication with your teacher and to be ready to load our bags on the buses, ensuring we are ready to leave on time.
If you have any questions, please see your teacher
How Can We Reduce Waste At Our School?
We are working towards achieving our third Resourcesmart Star for reducing Waste at our school. We performed a Waste Audit in order to learn about how much waste we produce at our school.
We found that our main waste stream is food wrappers and banana peels.
Out of six bins we emptied, there 170 food wrappers and 58 banana peels!
What can you do to reduce waste at our school?
What happens to this waste that we put in our bins?
Share your ideas here and let’s work together to be Sustainable!
Scientific Exploring
This term we have begun our scientific exploring by following procedures to conduct experiments. We have been discussing the need to follow a procedure, why a scientist would do a particular experiment, the importance of reflecting on the outcome and possible factors that may change the results, like the weather, and enjoying having fun with our learning!
Reflecting over your investigations so far, we wonder…
- What methods and procedures need to be followed to conduct scientific investigations?
- What did you enjoy and why?
- Were your hypothesis accurate? Why/Why not?
- How and why do materials and matter change?
- What did you learn from conducting experiments?
- What would you like to test further?
- How do scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions affect people’s lives?
