In Literacy, Year 3/4 E have been working on poetry. Students learnt how poets and authors use a range of literary techniques to create vivid, emotionally resonant and thought-provoking writing. We have read poems and looked at the importance of using great adjectives and verbs, imagery that focuses on the senses, and techniques such as alliteration and similes. Students have had the opportunity to explore these techniques through shape poems, autumn poems, simile poems and cinquains.

In Maths we have been concentrating on multiplication techniques, times table patterns, addition and subtraction, and most recently, data collection and graphs. The students have had fun moving around the classroom collecting data about their classmates’ lunch food preferences, favourite sports, arm lengths and the distribution of student birthdays over the seasons. Column graphs, dot plots and picture graphs have been analysed and created.

In Hass, students have been learning about the history of Penguin. They came up with a number of questions they were interested in and then had a trip to the local history room to look at some historic photos and artefacts. To follow up, each student researched one aspect of Penguin’s history. The projects are gradually being finished and  will be presented in our classroom as a historic timeline of Penguin.

In Science students have recently finished a unit on biological science in which they looked at animal habitats and the food chains to which they belong. Food chains are made up of producers (plants), primary consumers (usually herbivores that eat the plants), secondary consumers (which are omnivores and carnivores and eat the primary consumers, tertiary consumers (which are the top or apex predators), and decomposers (which consume any dead matter). The students did a great job of creating some of their own food chains.