What a wonderful term we have had in Year 3. The Year 3 teachers have been so impressed with the hard work of all of the students. Thank you to all of the parents who made the time to come in for a parent teacher interview over the past couple of weeks.  It has been such a strange year that it was really great to connect and have conversations with so many parents. 

This term the students have completed a detailed novel study of “Kumiko and the Dragon”. The students learnt about the cultural elements of the story as well as comprehending visual features. To demonstrate their understanding they created their own narrative in which their character overcame a fear. They also had to create illustrations featuring different camera angles and turn it all into a multimodal presentation. It was a challenging task, but they all did a wonderful job. Some fantastic examples of this writing is below.

Lucy T

If you ever drive into Happy Road number nineteen you will find a smart woman with her brown hair tied up in a bun, an engineer who can’t resist racing cars and a teenager with brown hair that looks like a bird’s nest who can’t get off her phone. That’s the whole family if you don’t count the charming loving Charlotte. Charlotte has gorgeous peach skin that goes well with her shimmering shining gold hair just below her chest. Her hazel eyes don’t go well with anything but they make her brilliantly unique. Her nails are always coloured with pink, purple or aqua. But one day Charlotte’s parents came home with a surprise that Charlotte wasn’t expecting.

Jarvis S

That night John heard the same rumbling noise and made him think about the story his friends told him and made him wonder if the story is real. He saw something furry outside his window and heard the rumbling noise. Now John was shivering with fear. How was he supposed to survive? Should he hide? Should he call for help? John saw sharp teeth and a tail! John was so frightened he thought his head might pop off!

Chelsea O

One night as Emma’s parents were sleeping Emma heard the noises again but this time they were coming from the kitchen and she heard banging. Emma jumped up out of bed urgently wanting to run straight to her parents room but couldn’t. The only reason Emma couldn’t go running to her parent’s room was because they were all the way at the end of the hallway opposite to the dark secret room. Emma was so desperate to open the door to the secret room but she was too scared.

In Art we explored creating different artworks using found objects. Now that we’re nearing the end of the term, our students are drawing a dragon on watercolour paper and learning new painting techniques with oil pastels and watercolours. Some of these artworks are displayed below!

Lastly this term, the students have also looked at the way that heat transfers from one object to another during our Science unit “Hot Stuff”. Through a variety of different experiments, both Year 3 classes have been able to observe the 3 main forms of heat transfer and have conducted several scientific reports with the data they collected.