What amazing creative poets we have in our Year 3 class. Click on to read a selection of their poems.
The Year 3s have been fascinated by studying rocks. They have described rocks and compared their properties, doing some exciting activities and experiments along the way.
As part of their studies, they have each focused on learning about a particular type of rock. They created these sensory poems to describe them. Well done Year 3, you have used lot of imagery and descriptive language – very impressive!
The Provo Primary School Council would like to pass on a huge thank you to everyone who donated children’s books for the local Library, downtown!
The Year 3s were really inspired by their recent visit to a beautiful garden. Having made close observational drawings of fruits and vegetables, they came back to school with sketches and patterns. They used these in a number of activities which, when put together, decorated the special ‘book bags’ that Mrs. Betty had made for them.
In Science we have been looking at Teeth and in Numeracy we have been looking at Fractions. To combine our shark learning we decided to make some pop-up sharks with different coloured teeth. Look out for these beautiful sharks when you are out snorkeling next time!
Year 3 Dolphins have been busy looking at different ‘materials’ in science. First, we identified what ‘materials’ objects around the school were made of. For example our chairs are made of plastic, metal and rubber and our books are made from paper, card and metal. We then looked at the ‘properties’ (characteristics) of particular materials, using our wonderful adjectives to describe them – rubber is flexible, soft, strong and waterproof while metal is strong, rigid, smooth, waterproof and it can be shiny. 
What a fabulous week we all had learning so much about the amazing life of an Osprey bird. We discovered lots of fascinating facts! For instance did you know that the wing span of an osprey can be as long as 1.82meters (around 6 feet)? The females are bigger than the males. They lay between 2 to 4 eggs each year and they migrate to the same place. We wonder if the new osprey nesting platform, that was put up this week at The Bight Park, will become a new nesting place for a new pair of ospreys, we hope so!
The Year 3 Dolphins have had lots of fun discovering how to find the fraction of shapes. They began by splitting the circular shape of their air balloon designs into equal parts. They then shaded the equal parts into different colours. Their objective was then to calculate the fraction of each colour used within their air balloon. This idea then escalated into designing kites and hats that could also be split into equal parts and fractionalized!
