Last day of school

Here's an animoto of our last week of school 2011.
Everybody is so sad to leave our teacher [Mrs Randall] we wish she could stay.

Our memories for 2011

Here are some photos from this year.



Nano nagle centre

Monster comics

Celery experiment
By Madeline and Bailey

Christmas concert 2011

On Friday the 25th of November SJV had their christmas concert. All the grades performed a song, play or both. The band and choir performed. Our classes play was wombat divine and our song was deck the sheds.

It took longer than it was meant to.

It was a big success. Here are some images of the concert.

By Madeline and Bailey.

Our New Hall

Last Friday on the 4th November our school hall was officially opened. We got our new hall in term 2 we also got a new tuckshop and undercroft. In the opening ceremony we sang some songs,

we listened to the bible, there where some speeches and we got blessed. There where some special people that came and some of them came from the government. Our Hall is called the Nano Nagle Centre named after Nano Nagle who started a group of nuns that where called the presentation sisters and they started our school.

By Ella & Jack M.

Our Celery Experiments

On Monday the 7th November our class got into groups of 3/4 and we did an experiment. First we had to choose someone who would be the manger, collector and the reporter.Once we did that the collector went and collected a plastic cup and a marker and took it back to there group and all the people in the group wrote there name on the cup. Next the collector filled the cup half way with water and then took it to Mrs R to put two drops of food colouring in it. Then the collector went back to there group and put the celery in the cup. Here is a picture of two experiments.We think doing experiments in class is fun. By Ella and Jack M

Soctober

Today it is Soctober. On Soctober you bring a gold coin donation for the children's mission in Australia we raise money for kids and grown ups that have heart disease. The other money is for the people in poor countries they will be getting water. If you choose to bring crazy socks you can.

GLOBAL PEACE PROJECT

In September, our class took part in a global peace project for WORLD PEACE DAY.  The project was organised by Mr Ferguson's class.  They invited classes from around the world to make a short movie/video about what peace means to them.  It had to be ready before World Peace Day on September 21st.  The children in Mr Ferguson's class then took bits of all the movies and combined them to create one 4 minute movie.  We loved taking part in this project because we think it is important to share the message of PEACE!
Enjoy the movie and visit the website.  Maybe you could create your own message of peace!
http://globalpeacemovie.weebly.com/

OUR GRAPHIC NOVEL

This term we are taking part in the MONSTER PROJECT.  We are very busy constructing our monster for the project.  We are also busy learning about graphic novels and the features of them.  As a class we are making a graphic novel based on the book THERE WAS AN OLD MONSTER by Rebecca, Adrian and Ed Emberley.

We read the story first and then we split up into groups of 2 or 3 and we were given a page from the story.  We had to come up with our own drawing to go with that part of the story.  We then had to plan how we were going to add the text in .  We had to think about whether we would add word balloons, thought balloons, captions or sound effects.  We are going to create our graphic novel using COMIC LIFE.  We are then going to publish it as an ebook and put it on our school ipads for everyone to read.
Here are some pictures of us planning and working together to illustrate our part of the story.

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THE MONSTER PROJECT

We have been busy planning and building our monster for the monster project.  Can you guess some of the parts we are making?

Prayer Time

Every morning have we prayer time. First we make the sign of the cross then we go round the circle and we each get to say an out loud prayer or a quiet prayer then we read from the bible. This is a picture of our prayer mat.

By Dan And Tom.F

swimming

Today we went on the bus to swimming at manly pool.We went into groups and we did back stroke,freestyle and brethstrock.

Swimming on PhotoPeach

Graphic Novels

This term we are learning about Graphic Novels. Graphic Novels are story's that have been changed with speech bubbles and pictures. they make Graphic Novels so little kids have a better time reading them by Gwen and Michael

The Story of Zacchaeus

In class this week we have looked at the story of Zacchaeus.  He was a tax collector who was not liked by all the other Jewish people because he collected taxes for the Romans and he stole money.  Jesus saw that Zacchaeus wanted to change his ways so he talked to Zacchaeus about how he could be a better person.  This is a youtube video of the story of Zacchaeus.

monster project

This year we are taking part of the monster project.

up above are the body parts and directions.

last day of school term

This is our last day of school for the term!! I have made a photo pech to show you our last day of school.ast day of school on PhotoPeach

reading block

I have made an anamoto to show you what we do in reading block.

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By Noah

On Friday we made our own museum with things from 100 years ago. Heres a video with some of the objects.

the globle monster project

This year we are taking part in the monster project 2011.We have described the jet ski so we made a bubble us to show some suggestions on the jet ski.

By Noah and Brianna

OUR BOOK TRAILERS

For BOOK WEEK we made Book Trailers for the Children's Book Council of Australia short listed picture books.
To make our book trailers we firstly had to find out what a book trailer was, Mr S showed us some examples of book trailers.  We talked about the features of book trailers and which ones we liked the best.  We all decided that we really liked the ones that had music that went with them and the ones that weren't too long.
In class we read some of the short listed picture books.  With Mrs R we came up with our own criteria for what we thought we would need to include in our book trailers to make them a good book trailer and then we came up with features that would make them EXCEPTIONAL.
We worked with a partner and decided which picture book we would do.  We then planned our story board.  After that we spent class time working on our book trailers using Keynote and Garage Band to create our music.  We thought creating your own music would make it an EXCEPTIONAL book trailer, most of us did this but some decided to use other music.
After we had finished them we had to mark our own book trailers using the criteria sheet, then Mrs R marked them.
We worked really well with our partners and enjoyed completing this task.
Most of us chose the books MY UNCLE'S DONKEY, WHY I LOVE AUSTRALIA and MIRROR.
We hope you enjoy our Book Trailers.

our 3D shapes

theas are some photos of our 3D shapes

The Cotton Hoppers

On Monday 25th July children from Mt Cotton School came to do a skipping demonstration for us.  The were called the Mt Cotton Hoppers.  Mrs T organised for them to come out to our school because we are getting ready for our Jump Rope For Heart jump off on September 6th.  They showed us lots of great moves and gave us some great ideas for our own routines.  Here is a video of their performance.

QUAD BLOGGING

Year 3, we are going to take part in a global project called QUAD BLOGGING.  We are part of a group of schools who are going to visit each others blogs, see what they do at their school and leave comments on their blog.  Each fortnight one blog will be the focus blog and the other members of the group visit this blog and leave comments.  We might even have tasks that we have to do. 
I have made a page on our blog called OUR QUAD BLOGGING BUDDIES.  On this page it has a list of our buddies and by clicking on the school's name it will take you to their blog.
We are in QUAD 20.

Do you know why it is called QUAD BLOGGING?  Leave a comment if you have worked it out!

BOOK WEEK PARADE

On Wednesday 24th August, our school had a Book Week Parade to celebrate BOOK WEEK.  Every year there is a special theme.  This year the theme was ONE WORLD MANY STORIES. 

The whole school dressed  up as a character from a book.  Even the teachers dressed up.  They acted out one of the short listed books - "The Tall Man and His Babies".  Each class then paraded in front of the whole school and the judges, Mrs R and Mrs M.  A winner was chosen from each year level.  We really enjoyed ourselves and it was a great way to celebrated Book Week.

THE BOOK WEEK PARADE WINNERS!

This is what 3J dressed up as.  Can you guess some of the book characters.

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Father's Day

On the 4 of September we celebrate fathers day. Our class is making a origami wallet and gift certificates. In the wallet will be a Why I love my dad card and the gift certificates.

FRACTION MATHS TRAIL

In class we have been learning about fractions.  To help us understand these tricky things, Mrs R set up a Fraction Maths Trail.  She made a booklet that had 6 different stations or activities in it that we had to complete.  We worked with a partner in a group of 6.  We moved around to different activities to practice using fractions.  The activities were the pizza fraction game, a fraction activity sheet, playing fraction games on the ipad and laptops, make a whole game, basketball shootout and probably the most favourite activity.....Smarties Fractions.
We really enjoyed doing the activities and it was a great way to help us understand fractions.

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RAW ART

Last Tuesday we were very lucky to have RAW ART come to our classroom to do some art with us.  We have been learning about different abstract artists in class and we have been trying to create work in the style of these artists.
With Leona from RAW ART we created our own animal abstract art pictures.
First we chose a colour and painted our piece of cardboard.  We then chose a pastel and started to draw the border and outline of our animal.  We then used different patterns and colours  to decorate our animals.  We smudged the lines and then added some interesting patterns for the background.
We all had a great time and created some amazing pieces of art, I think we surprised ourselves at how good they all look!

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WE HAVE BEEN SO BUSY!!!

We have been very busy in year 3 over the past couple of weeks.  So busy infact that we haven't had time to blog about all the things we have done.

Our school choir took part in  the QCMF (Queensland Catholic Schools Music Festival).  There were many catholic schools taking part in this festival and it wasn't just choirs singing, school bands performed as well.

Our choir did very well and was awarded a GOLD Award for their song, while our Year 7 choir was awarded a SILVER Award.

Our choir has been very busy because a week later they had to get to school by 7am so that they could sing on the radio.  ABC radio came out to our school so that the choir could sing.  The ABC are holding a competition for all school choirs.  You can listen to our choir by clicking on this link:
http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2011/08/st-john-vianneys-choir-performing-live.html?site=brisbane&program=612_breakfast

PAPER CHAIN INVESTIGATION

Last week we investigated the question "WHAT IS THE LONGEST PAPER CHAIN THAT CAN BE MADE USING AN A4 PIECE OF PAPER?"

First we made chains using plastic chain counters, then we had to record the maths that we would need to help us answer this question.  We said that some of the maths would be measurement, length, width, cm, m, horizontal, vertical.

Then we wrote down our plan - how we were going to make our paper chains.

We then made our chains and we were able to check their length against the 1m ruler.

After we made our chains we compared them to each others.

We then had to estimate how long our chain was and record this on the class chart.  We then measured our chains and recorded this on the chart.

Jack M and Rhys made the longest paper chains in the class.  Jack's chain was 4m and Rhys' was 4.05m.  We found out that to make a long paper chain you needed to cut thin strips and cut the paper both vertically and horizontally to get a mix of small and large links.

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Mary Mackillop

We have just celebrated saint john vianeys feast day.Now we are learning about Mary mackillop's feast day.Mary Mackillop is born in Melbourne in 1842.Mary cared deeply about others and always tryed to help others when ever she could.mary went to work as a teacher in a town called Penola.There she met father woods.Together they began the first St Joesph's school in a stable.The school was for children who could not afford to pay for school.Two of Marys sisters helped in the school.In 1866 Mary dedicated her life to god and began the congregation of the sisters of St joseph.The sisters started more schools around Australia.All children were welcome even if they couldn't pay.In 1909 Mary died in sydney.She had spent her life helping those who needed it.The sisters continued on with her good work.On October 17 ,Mary Mackillop will become australia's first saint.The pope in rome will hold a special ceremony and Mary will be recognised for wonderful work she did.In her life helping people especially children.By max and lachlan.

SJV FEAST DAY AND WALKATHON

On the 4th August we celebrated St John Vianney's Feast Day and our School Walkathon.
We started the day with a school mass to celebrate Saint John Vianney's Feast Day.  After mass we lined up in our class groups and started our very long walkathon.  We walked 4.9km.  We walked down to the waterfront, then we stopped in a park and got into a big circle and did the Hokey Pokey.  After that we walked along the water front to the new Lota Park.  When we got to the park we had some fruit for morning tea.  After we had some fruit we walked up a very steep hill back to school.  When we got back to school we had a special lunch.  Some people had popcorn chicken, cheese burgers, sushi or nachos.  After lunch we got into our groups and played some fun activities.  The activities were "Babies to teacher", "Ping Pong Ball Bounce", "cupcake decorating", "gravity game", "obstacle course" and "skipping statues".
After all the activities we sang "Happy Feast Day To Us", Mrs S cut the massive Feast Day Cake and we all got a piece of cake and an iceblock.
We had a fantastic day!!!

ABSTRACT ARTISTS

This term in art we are learning about Abstract Artists.  Do you know what abstract art is??  the first artist we have learnt about is Piet Mondrian.  He was a Dutch artist and was born on March 7 1872 and died on February 1st 1944.  He used mainly primary colours in his art work.  He also used a mix of straight vertical and horizontal lines. 
We are creating our own pieces of art work in the style of Piet Mondrian.
Here is an animoto showing what he looked like and some of his art work.

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Our Images of God

Today we made a onetruemedia to show our images of God.

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STEPPING BACK IN TIME QUIZ

Year 3, I have made an ANIMOTO with some pictures of objects that would have been used 100 years ago.  Can you name each object?  Leave a comment with your answers.  I wonder who will get them all right???

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Living In The Past

This term we are learning about living in the past.  Our Inquiry Unit is called "STEP BACK IN TIME.  How did people live 100 years ago?"  We made a wordle about what we know about living in the past.

Back at school

Today is our first day back at school and it was an easy day we played games in numeracy and word study.today Bailey was star of the day and gets a mac in silent reading  










by ciaran and sarah

3J's Festival of Festivals

In Term 2 we investigated HOW AND WHY PEOPLE CELEBRATE?  We tried to answer these questions during our inquiry unit - "What do Communities Celebrate?" "What International celebrations do Australians share with others?" "What national holidays are celebrated in Australia?" and "What international celebrations do Australians share with others?"
We found out about Chinese New Year, NAIDOC Week, Queensland Day, Boys' and Girls' Day in Japan, The Diwali Festival in India and the Trung Thu Festival in Vietnam.  At the end of our unit we decided to do our own festival and we called it the FESTIVAL OF FESTIVALS.  We got into groups and chose one of the festivals we had learnt about in class and we then made decorations, posters and chose music for our own parade.  Mrs R recorded it!

Boys Day girls Day

Boy and Girls day on Prezi

This is our prezi on boys day and Girls day in Japan

By Luke and Isabella

ORANGE DAY

On the 22nd June our school had ORANGE DAY.  Year 4 organised ORANGE DAY to raise money  to save the orangutans  because this term they were investigating endangered animals.  We had to dress up in orange and bring in a gold coin donation ($1 or $2) and we raised  $436.05.  There was a competition for the best dressed orange person in each class and in our class Luke won.
                                        

DIWALI FESTIVAL

Diwali Festival it is a festival that the Indians celebrate. The festival goes for 5 days and on the 4th day it is there new year.

By Luke & Isabella

PENTECOST SUNDAY AND THE ASCENSION

Today on the 9/6/11 we learnt about Pentecost Sunday.On Pentecost Sunday,Jesus' disciples received the Holy Spirit so they could tell everyone about Jesus.The seven gifts of the holy spirit areKnowledge,Understanding,Right Judgement,Reverence,wisdom and wonder. On the ascension Jesus went to heaven.He told the disciples to go and baptize everyone in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy spirit.He was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of the father.

THE PREMIER'S READING CHALLENGE

This year our class is taking part in the Premier's Reading Challenge.  The Premier of Queensland has challenged student to read a certain number of books between May and August.  Because we are in year 3 we have to read 20 books.  They could be information books, picture books or chapter books.  At the end of if we will receive a certificate and some people could win prizes.  But the best thing is that we get to read lots of different books and become better readers.
 Year 3, I have added the record sheet in our document box.  You could download it if you have lost yours!
How many books have you read???  Leave a comment to tell me!

OUR CINQUAIN POEMS

We have learnt about a different kind of poem.  This one is also from Japan.  It is called a Cinquain Poem.  It is similar to a Haiku in that each line has a certain number of syllables but it is a bit trickier as you have to include certain types of words in each line.

Line 1 - 1 noun (2 syllables)

Line 2 - 2 adjectives (4 syllables)

Line 3 - 3 'ing' words (6 syllables)

Line 4 - phrase or a sentence (8 syllables)

Line 5 - 1 noun to rename 1st noun (2syllables)

Here are the two poems we came up with.  They are both about Myst.

Chamber

Scary, creepy

Searching, pressing, finding

Message from the turbulent pool.

Dungeon

                                                 Myst Book

              Dusty, mouldy

              Ageing, falling, dropping

              Tumbling from the dark, dark sky.

              Journal

Runestone By Anna Ciddor

We have been reading Runestone By Anna Ciddor.
These are some runes. We read Runestone in reading block time. Runestone is about a girl and boy named Thora and Oddo,they were switch when they were young. Thora can't do magic but Oddo can,Oddo can't do farm work but Thora can. There Are  other Books in the series.

By Bailey and Keely 

Word Study

 In word study we do spelling and look at our spelling words to see if any of our words have words in them .On Monday we do choose write build on Tuesday we do look say cover write check on Wednesday we do buddy check on Thursday we do making connections and word observations and on Friday we do buddy test. Word study helps us with your spelling .

Reading Block

In Reading block we do independent Reading. Here Is a reading response that Gwen rote to the Power puff girls.

I liked it when phone went beep because doesn't sound like normal phone.

It was Funny when a little monster was destroying the city.

It was weird when buttercup  kicked the monster but it just giggled.

I like bubbles and buttercup because they wear my favorite colours blue and green but I Don't like Blossom because she likes Pink.


By  Keely,Bailey and Gwen

MYST HAIKU POEM

In class we learnt how to write haiku poems.  A haiku poem is from Japan and is usually written about something in nature.  It is 3 lines long.  The first line has to have 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables and the last line has 5 syllables.  They are very tricky to write because you have to think carefully about the words you will choose to make sure they have just the right number of syllables.
Here is the poem we wrote together in class

Myst Ocean
Water all around
Gently lapping on the rocks
Clapping and splashing.

Songs For Our Mass

Companions on the Journey
We are companions on the journey
Breaking bread and shring life
And in the love we bear is the hope we share
For we believe in the love of our God
We believe in the love of our God.

No longer stranger to each other
No longer strangers in God's house
We are fed and we are nourished
By the sstrength of those who care
By the strength of those who care.

We have gifted with each other
And we are called by the word of the lord
To act with justice to love tenderly
And to walk humbly with our God
To walk humbly with our God.

Glory and Praise To Our God
Chorus
Glory and praise to our God, who alone gives light to our days
Many are the blessings he bears to those who trust in his ways.

We, the daughters and sons of him who built the valleys and plains, praise the wonders our God has done in every heart that sings.

Chorus

In his wisdom he strengthens us, like gold that's tested in fire.  Though the power of sin prevails, our God is there to save.

Chorus

Every moment of every day, our God is waiting to save, always ready to seek the lost, to answer those who pray.

Chorus

Celebrate
Chorus
Celebrate what we have been given, celebrate what we have received.
Celebrate the spirit of Jesus, alive in our hearts.

No longer shall you be people who walk in darkness, it is the spirit who draws you in to the light.

Chorus

Even the earth cries out.  It longs to receive new life.  It is the spirit who fills the world with new life.

Chorus

You who are gather'd here share life and love together.  It is the spirit who calls you our to give.

Chorus

MYST ACROSTIC POEM

In writing block we have started using the video game MYST.  It is a great game to help us improve our descriptive writing.  We have also been learning how to write different kinds of poems.  The first poem we wrote was an ACROSTIC POEM.  Most of us have written these kinds of poems before.  This is the poem we made up together.

M ysterious, magical island
Y et to be discovered.
S ecret clues
T o be solved. 

3j Silent Reading

  

In our class we do silent reading. In silent reading we have a book in our desk when Mrs R says it is silent reading time we get the book out or if we don't have a book in our desk we go to the book shelf and get a book off the shelf and go back to our desk and we read silently for 10 minutes. That is what we do in silent reading.
By Ella and Alex

When Two Vowels Go Walking

Remember some words follow the rule - When Two Vowels Go Walking The First One Does The Talking!

Here are some examples - again, read, sea, bean, mean
Here is a song to help us remember the rule.

WHAT ARE WE DOING IN WRITING??

Year 3 can you guess what we will be doing in writing this term???  Here is a clue!

OUR NAPLAN TESTS

This week our class did the NAPLAN tests.  The tests were on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  The NAPLAN  tests are for people to know about our numeracy, reading, writing and language conventions (punctuation, grammar and spelling).  The year 3, 5, 7 and 9 children all over Australia completed the tests over three days.  For the writing test we had to write a persuasion about "TOO MUCH MONEY IS SPENT ON TOYS AND GAMES".  We all tried our best and we all had fun!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

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CHURCH CELEBRATIONS

This term we are learning about different kinds of celebrations.  We made a wordle to show all the different kinds of celebrations in the church.