Year 3 Superstars

WOW what a amazing year we have had!…a big thank to you all for making my time with you fun and fantastic.  We have learnt so from water wheels, wind machines and different  cultural celebrations  from around the world. 

The cup cake stall that we held last Wednesday was a huge success, with us raising $293.50 for The Salvation Army Christmas Appeal!!  Totally Amazing!! There will be some very happy children with a christmas present under their christmas tree.   

 The highlight for me this year has been receiving that Merit Certificate at school assembly from you all. It takes pride of place on my fridge!

 I would like to wish you all, all the very best for next year in Year 4. Whether it is here at Bletchley Park or another school, be proud of who you are and continue with awesome work effort you all put into your school work.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Cheers

Mrs O’Neill.x

Chinese New Year is celebrated around January and February.   People say goodbye to the old year and hope for good luck in the new year.  When Chinese New Year is celebrated, it can last up to 15 days.  It is also a time to visit family.  They wear new clothes for every Chinese New Year that comes.  People watch lion dances and give gifts.  They give red envolopes with money inside.  They watch fireworks.  People clean their houses because they believe that it is good luck.  Red is a lucky colour in China.  People hang red banners because the words bring good luck.  The last day of the festival is the Lantern Festival.  Colourful lanterns light up in the sky.  There are 12 different animals.  Next year 2012 will be the year of the dragon.  On the day of Chinese New Year, they also feast yum, yum, YUMMY.

Do you celebrate Chinese new year  

If you do celebrate it what is your favourite part  

Do  you feast  

We’ve been reading The Red Tree by Shaun Tan.  It is a book full of symbols and we spent a lot of time looking at the illustrations.  Then we discussed the sort of things we thought would symbolise happiness and joy or sadness and loneliness.  Then we chose a line from the book to illustrate.  Here are our illustrations.  Click on the thumbprints to see the illustrations in full size.

What message did you get from the book?

What symbols did you use in your picture?

If you had the chance to do another one, what symbols would you use?

Tags: English

We had a look at some Chinese couplets today, as part of the research we have been doing into Chinese New Year.  Of course, since they were in Chinese, Angel was the only one who could read them.  So we decided we’d write some of our own.  We had some guidelines to follow:

-  There could only be two lines (although these may be split if we ran out of room).

-  Each line had to have ten syllables.

-  The two lines had to rhyme.

Click on the thumbnails below to see the full size version of our poems.

Did you find your couplet difficult to write?  Why?

What did you enjoy most about writing your couplet?

Tags: English, Poems, Writing

By Malika and Jade

Last week Malika’s mum came in to our classroom and taught us a lot about Eid and Ramadan.  We learnt about some of the foods that they eat and lots lots more!  She brought in some fetoush for us to try, quite a few people liked the fetoush.  She told us a couple of other things that they eat.  Some of them are soup, noodles, chicken kidneys, rice, chicken soup and lots more.

In Ramadan they eat and drink different foods like (adults) strong coffee, morrocon tea, soup, chocolate croissants, tim tams, (children) hot chocolate, biscuits and tim tams.

Do you know anything about Eid or Ramadan?

Did you like the fatoush?

Have you ever tried fatoush?

Tags: Celebrations, S&E

Have you ever wondered what happens in the Superstars day at school?  Here’s a quick video of our morning.  Photos were taken every 15 seconds and then put together into this video.  A program called Gawker did this automatically for us.  The Superstars were unaware of the filming, but delighted when they saw the end result.

Today we made pumpkin muffins out of the pumpkins we used for pumpkin math. It was a lot of fun making them. This is how we made them:

First we mixed half a cup of sugar and quarter cup of oil in a big mixing bowl.

Then we cracked 2 eggs and mixed the pumpkin puree together.

Next we put 2 half cups of self-raising flour in.

Then we mixed until it was ready to bake.

After we placed the mixture into the pan

Next we sprinkled cinnamon sugar on the muffins and baked them for 20 minutes.

Here is the recipe we used to make the pumpkin muffins:

Ingredients:

¼ cup oil

½ cup sugar

2 eggs

1 cup pumpkin puree

2 ½ cups self-raising flour

 Method

1.  Heat oven to 200^o C.

2.  Mix oil and sugar.

3.  Beat in the eggs and pumpkin puree.

4.  Fold the flour in.

5. Place into muffin pans.

6. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and bake for 20 – 25 mins.

Click  here to print the recipe

What did you find the hardest?

What did you find easiest?

What did you most enjoy in making the muffins?

 These are the photos we took:

Pumpkin Muffins on PhotoPeach

Tags: Cooking

On the 26th of October we had Priya’s mum come in to talk about Deepavali.  Deepavali is a Hindu celebration that is celebrated on the October/November new moon.  The word Deepavali means row of lights and the reason they celebrate is because of the defeat of evil.

Have you celebrated Deepavali ?

How do you like to say Deepavil, Dawali or Davali?

Do you celebrate any Hindu celebrations?

Tags: Celebrations, S&E

Miss McKay worked with the Superstars to complete emotion and sense poems.  The Superstars shone again, with some wonderful poems.  Read and enjoy.

Happy by Holly

Happy makes me feel like it’s my birthday,

It looks like someone laughing,

Happy tastes like roast chicken with pork,

It smells like flowers,

Happy sounds like people playing.

Angry!  by Joshua

Angry is a dark red,

It tastes like black liquorice,

It smells like wood burning,

It looks like black clouds in a storm,

It sounds like a kettle whistling,

It feels like you’re about to blow!

Annoyed by Tayla

Annoyed is bright red like fire,

Annoyed sounds like little boys banging on my door,

It tastes like dreadful sour cream,

Annoyed looks like big, big rats everywhere,

It sounds like a giant stomping around,

Annoyed feels like a gooey sea cucumber.

Happiness by Angel

Happiness is bright pink,

It tastes like a pot of sugar,

It smells like a bunch of flowers,

It looks like a colourful rainbow,

It sounds like cheers and joy,

It feels soft like wool.

Embarrassed by Zephora

Embarrassed is bright red,

Embarrassed tastes like sour grapes off the dirty ground,

Embarrassed smells like smoke from fuel, burning,

It looks like firey red tomatoes burning on the pan,

Embarrassed feels like you want to sink into the ground and disappear.