Anzac Day

This week we have been learning about what Anzac Day is about.
We had special visitors from the Army at our assembly on Monday and have been reading stories about what it was like to be at places like Gallipoli during the war. We wrote postcards as if we were writing to those at home from the trenches on the front line. These are part of an Anzac display we will put up in our classroom.

Around Anzac Day Room 3 all pretended that we were at war and wrote postcards to friends & family at home from the trenches. Some of us had to change our name and change from female to male. Some of the postcards seemed to take forever to finish, but we did put a lot of work into them though.
By Emma

Here are some of our postcards:

Dear Dan,
I'm still alive but some of my friends are dead. The track is muddy and the trenches are gross and the food is yuck. I really wish the war was over. I really miss you.
from James

Dear Mum and Dad,
I'm missing you heaps and wish I was at home. The food is very scarce. It is pretty obvious I am still alive but maybe not for long. I am starving and also dehydrated. As you should know it is very miserable in the trenches and there isn't much shelter.
Lots of love,
Steve

On Wednesday Rooms 3 and 5 went to Cable Bay for the day. We found crabs in the rock pools and starfish in the sand.
We were not allowed to take things from there. At lunch we came back to eat lunch together. After lunch we went back to the rock pools. When we were there I fell over and hurt my leg. It hurt a lot! When we got back to school we got a Juicey. By Rochell

Rocky Shore creatures

• I saw a pillow starfish. It is like a pillow all over its body. Lauren

• The female yellow nipper crab had orange eggs on its stomach and had one big nipper and one small nipper. Rochell

• The cushion stars are amazing to watch when you put them in a bit of water. They can turn themselves over without you touching them. They come in lots of different colours. Emma

• At the Rocky Shore I looked at the crabs the most. The Rocky Shore was really fun! Tyler

• The spiny starfish was very hard and spiky and it sucked my finger. Rene
  

Cable Bay trip

On our trip to Cable Bay we found loads of cool things. When I first got in the car I felt a bit ill, but after a while I felt better.

Sophie and I found two slimy fish. Harry found a huge starfish, it was even bigger than the container!
Everybody found little green crabs when they lifted the rocks up. When it was just about time to have lunch I found a kina but we had to put him back where we found it.

By Ella

What we have been up to recently...

This week we have been busy taking photos around the school for putting in our slide shows about what we like to do. Eventually we hope to include writing about ourselves what we like to do at school and what is important to us at home.
We will also include acrostic poems and riddles we have written about ourselves.

Coming up in the week will be a trip to Cable Bay as a follow up to the Learnz virtual field trip we did earlier in the year.
We will also be going to visit another exhibition at the Suter gallery which we are all really looking forward to. Watch this space for reports on these!

Welcome!

Hi everyone,
Welcome to the second of Room 3's Blogs. This one will be used for sharing our learning with the community and the other will be largely for homework.
Eventually I would like the children to have their own blogs linked to this page so they can access any work that they have done at school at home and vice versa.
Please familiarise yourself with the site and its links so you can find your way around it.

Sue