Students in Year 3 have been using atlases to read maps. Look at some of the things they have learnt so far about some of Australia’s neighbouring countries.
Category Archives: Year 3
Australia’s Neighbours – Year 3
What do we already know? | What do we want to find out? | What have we learnt from our research? |
Australia’s neighbours are the countries next to Australia | How far away are they from Australia? | |
Some of them are in Asia | How many neighbours does Australia have? | |
One of them is Madagascar | Which is the closest? | |
Australia’s neighbours are in the Universe | What type of climate do they have? | |
One of them doesn’t have humans living on it – Antarctica. It does have part time people (scientists) |
What type of land is there? | |
They all exist | ||
All of them have living beings on them |
Australia’s Neighbours – Our questions Rooms 7 and 8
Why is Asia so big?
How many states are in Asia?
How far is it to the nearest country from Australia?
How far from Australia to England?
I wonder if a long time ago New Zealand was a part of Australia? – Evie
How can we help the endangered Indonesian elephants? – Mira
How come New Zealand is the closest country to Australia? – Trishna
How can we help the Indonesian elephants and animals? – Odele
How could we help the endangered species? – Leuca
How many years ago was Asia found? – Chanelle
China Research – Sharing our findings Year 3
Greenscreen Technology – Year 3
http://www.doink.com/tutorials/
Things to do next week:
1. Find suitable images to appear in the background. Save them on to the iPad. Remember to make sure you have the wi-fi button turned on in Settings.
2. Organise your script – What will you say?
China – Our Research – Room 8
Researching About China – Year 3s
Chinese New Year – Guest Speakers – Martin and Jessica (Rooms 5 and 7)
On Thursday 25th February, Erin’s Mum Jessica, and Dad Martin, came to talk about Chinese New Year. Erin’s Mum talked about Hong Kong and how it is a small place, but a big city. Erin’s Dad talked about Chinese New Year; the food, the traditional story and how to make a dragon.
The Story
A long time ago in China there was a monster. The monster ate all the food, and people. The monster was afraid of loud noises, the colour red and painted faces. That’s why during Chinese New Year people play drums and also use fire crackers. You need to stay away from the fire crackers because they could hurt your ears. Chinese people set off fire crackers from a boat in the harbour on Chinese New Year so they keep them away from buildings and people so they don’t get burnt.
During Chinese New Year celebrations the dragon came in the restaurant and danced around. Erin fed the dragon a red envelope.
Red Envelopes
The red envelope has money in it and Chinese people give them to younger people for good luck.
I learnt that fire crackers go really loud. Belce
Chinese teachers are very strict. If they call out your name then you have to stand up straight and the class is very quiet. Freya
Chinese New Year is a happy time where the Chinese people have fun with friends and family and lots of food! Katelyn
It takes 10 years to be a master of making a lion. Danh
They have small schools in China. They don’t have many trees in their schools. Alex
There are more tests in Chinese schools than there are in Australia. Paolo
Chinese New Year – Our Questions
Room 8 – Year 3
Does everyone celebrate?
Why is 2016 the Year of the Monkey?
Do the animals change every 4 years or 12 years?
Why is it the Year of an animal?
Why do Chinese people use chopsticks?
What do you do on Chinese New Year?
What does the dragon symbolise?
Climate Zones Year 3 Presentations – Room 7
Climate Zones Year 3 from DanLaw on Vimeo.