Yesterday the students of 3/4M did an incredible job presenting their Inquiry Research Projects to their 1/2 buddies! It was wonderful and I felt like the proudest teacher of all the learning and teaching by my fabulous 3/4 students! Below are some photos!

We celebrated Shrove Tuesday with our 1/2 buddies. We listened to the funny story ‘If  You Give a Pig a Pancake’. We read the recipe for Pancakes and learnt the author’s purpose is to inform and we also learnt some new vocabulary like sifting, whisk and spatula. Next, we got to make the pancakes using the recipe. After that we got to taste the yummy pancakes with our choice of yummy toppings. What a great day shared with our buddy class!!

Today 3/4M and 3/4NB walked to our local library to get a tour and borrow some books. We were greeted by the lovely Librarian Cathy who told us about ALL the programs they have on, ALL the great things you can do and borrow at the library and she gave us tour. She also taught us a cool song by the old, famous group the Beatles and she read us a funny story. It was about a little princess who always wanted to win and she tried really hard and won a trophy for her fabulous effort! Cathy was really nice to us and extremely helpful!  We got to borrow lots of books! We are excited to go back! Stay tuned for more photos!

These past two weeks we have gone on two excursions to a Nursing Home. There we got to play board games with the elderly, showed some magic tricks and sang some songs and carols  and played our recorder. We made our new friends puzzles and Christmas cards. We had such a fantastic time meeting our new friends and have made some special memories! Above are some photos of our first visit. More photos to come!

This week we got to combine many of the topics we have been learning about into one giant cooking lesson. We are learning about Procedures in Writing, Measuring Capacity and Mass in Maths, and changing solid matter to liquid matter by adding heat. We got to work with teams to read a recipe of chocolately treat, measure the ingredients accurately to create the best dessert for our judges. It took two days to complete our chocolate bars and chocolate covered balls. It was A LOT of messy and tasty FUN! The judges were thoroughly impressed with the scrumptious, sweet treats. Stay tuned for photos to be posted! AND… Watch out MASTERCHEF…Here we come!

In Maths we are learning about subtraction. We joined up with our Maths buddies 3/4F, and completed a fun Maths’ task. Our task was to plan a dinner party with 6 people. We needed to provide drinks, appetizers, a main course meal and desserts for all 6 people. We only had $60 to spend on all of the food and drinks. We went shopping in a Safeway magazine to help us plan. We chose our menu and then we needed to add up all of the costs and find out what our change would be from $60. Then we presented our menu and costs to the class. What did you think about this activity? What was easy or difficult about this activity?

What did you enjoy about our lovely visit last Monday? What did you find interesting about your interview? What was the same as your buddy and what was different? 

Jamie Oliver Food Revolution Day on PhotoPeach

On Friday, May the 16th,  our 3/4M class and our buddies 5/6WM and 5/6MA got to participate in Jamie Oliver’s cooking challenge. We watched him on our interactive whiteboard as he made his recipe. He taught us to make this recipe of a rainbow salad wrap from scratch.

We first washed our hands and paired up with our buddies and friends. Then the teacher sent some 3/4 kids to the staff room to grate some beetroot to avoid beetroot mess. Next, we got to grate the carrot,  pear and cabbage. Then we added some dressing that we made ourselves from mixing oil, vinegar, plain yogurt and English mustard. After that we got out our wraps and placed some of the salad mixture and we wrapped it all up. Finally, we all ate our delicious rainbow salad wraps. We had a lot of fun and hope to do this kind of activity again next year! 🙂

Stay tuned for more photos of all of our cooking fun!!

Recount written by,

Jenny Jen Jen, Sophie Soaps and Aimes 3/4M  🙂