The Grand Reveal!
The Grade Three`s were over the moon when they discovered it was time to build
their 3D nets. Some began with the nets that are familiar to them and
challenged themselves through the stages of difficulty, while others stood, as
brave as a lion, tackling the Icosahedron head-on first.
Now they are better able to
identify the number of faces, edges and vertices for each 3D shape.
During the week the fiery foxes had to say farewell to one of their fellow
cub friend's.
We wish him all the best on his new adventure and know that we will always have a caring and considerate friend in him wherever he goes.
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With our first unit coming to an end, we homed in on form, paying careful attention to how societies work and come together and the impact citizens have in their societies.
The Grade Three's got into
groups of three to discuss what essential buildings and structures they need in
order to build their mini city's out of Lego.
Once their cities were complete, each group brought forward their Lego structure
and joined them together to form one large city.
We spoke through Children's and Human Rights to see whether this large city catered for all their basic rights...very impressively, it did.
- Apartment Buildings
- Schools
- Hospitals
- Roads with traffic lights and signs
- Railway Lines
- Recreational Parks (Zoo, Aquarium and normal parks)
- Shops
- ATM
- A harbour with ships
- Dog Kennels
- Police Station
- Office Buildings
- Recycling bins
- Vending machines
- Wind power
- Even, housing for the homeless
Very proud of their large city,
the foxes were then split into two groups.
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The Debate on Behavioural Correction
The first group consisted of three bad citizens and the second group had
six good citizens.
Each bad citizen had to pose an act of bad principle, in return, one of the
good citizens would come forward to reason with the bad citizen.
Interestingly, the bad citizen would, at times, be ruthless and not accept the
reasoning that was posed to them to change their bad act, and so (just as a
supportive community does) the good citizen would call for backup from a fellow
good citizen to help them continue reasoning with the bad citizen and their act
(stealing, as an example), once correctional measures were addressed with the
bad citizen, they accepted the reasoning for why they needed to be responsible
for themselves and their actions.
Our good citizens did us proud and our bad citizens made us even prouder by accepting
to change their behaviour.
Let's just say the score was as follows:
Bad Citizens - 0 ; Good Citizens- 9
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During P.E it was pertinent for the Grade Three's to collaborate and work as a
team to achieve a common goal.
We tackled a pool noodle and ball circuit, and practised recycling plastic-
with a twist.
In English we worked on our comprehension, reading, and writing
skills.
We are very excited for next week, as we go on our first field trip as a Grade
Three class.
Stay tuned for next time!