This Week In 3V

Happy Easter

2011-04-25T09:43:00.003+10:00

WEll the new term has begun. We hope that everyone has enjoyed their Easter and that we are all looking forward to a great term ahead.

New Year, New Classroom

2007-01-27T09:15:00.000+11:00

The new year has seen us go on to other classes. Mrs V is now teaching grade 1/2V and we have been scattered into various classes with a common name of 3/4. Log onto Mrs V's new classroom and you will probably find us in her menu when she creates them. In the meantime have a good year.
Ex Grade 3V

Merry Christmas

2006-12-19T16:25:00.000+11:00

We wish you a merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry christmas. We wish you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

From all the class of 3V

Puppets

2006-12-13T08:28:00.000+11:00

We made puppets in art this term. In class we got into groups and we are writing our own puppet play.
This is our play called
"The End Of The City"
Written by Edmond, Jackson, Desmond and Leigh.
The characters are from the left:
Big Guy, Jack, Pete, Laser Don Vic and Count Loung Moustache.

Healthy Wednesday

2006-12-07T16:12:00.000+11:00

We had a healthy Wednesday yesterday. The first thing we did when we went to school was take a nice long walk around the Kerrimuir streets. It took us around 20 minutes. A very nice walk. Mrs V said we should do this everyday.
We all brought a healthy snack to share with everyone at morning recess. There was almonds, bananas, apples, oranges, celery, cucumber, pear, plums and lots of other stuff. We laid it out and had a picnic in our classroom. Everybody brought their snack cut up and in a recyclable container.
It was a great day.

Pirates

2006-11-30T10:52:00.000+11:00

Pirates, Pirates! We are scallywags of the sea.
Pirates, Pirates! Want some treasure? Follow me!

We have had a fortnight of "Pirates" We have made hats, designed ships, organized a treasure map and looked into the history of "Pirates' Both fact and fantasy.

"So ya land lubbers get ye wee spi glass out and take a gander at our pics"

Look at our Melbourne Cup Hats

2006-11-06T14:14:00.000+11:00

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Panning For Gold

2006-11-03T08:35:00.000+11:00

In the afternoon of the second day went went panning for gold. We took a 20 minute walk along the main road of Warburton. The Yarra River also runs along the other side of the road. We walked for about 20 minutes until we came to a quiet spot along the river. we worked in groups as there wasn't enough pans to go around. Some children found tiny specks of dust in their pan. It was lovely and cool near the water. We stayed for about 45minutes then we walked back. It was nice walking because we saw the different types of houses and the lovely gardens. Mr Kelly took lots of pictures. When we got back it was time for afternoon tea.

Camp Day Two

2006-11-01T11:40:00.000+11:00

Today most of the boys got up early in the morning it was cold it. Some of the boys woke Ms.V up she was cross she needs her beauty sleep. For breakfast the campers had cereal then they had toast and Yummy pancakes. After breakfast we did activities one of them was the scary flying fox. The flying fox is a cable strung between two trees then you get into a harness and glide from one tree to another. When you hit the tyre at the end it was scary because you think you're going to hit the tree. When I went on I did a trick called 'no hands' after that I did another trick 'tweety bird' its the opposite of no hands. After the activities we had afternoon tea it was great.

Posted by Leigh, Peter & Rhea

Camp, night 1

2006-11-01T10:14:00.000+11:00

After lunch, we started the initiative activities. What you do is you get into your duty groups and do a series of problem solving activities with your group. They were electric eel, tarzan rope, vertical log, horizontal log, Taranchela's web and the untouchable tyer. We had afternoon tea, It was Guang and Jocelyn`s birthday so we had a cake. After afternoon tea we did 2 rotations. Then we had free time. The wallabies (a duty group) got dinner ready, then Sue, the dinner lady rang the bell and we went into the meal room group by group. For dinner we had lasagna and chips. We had apple crumble and ice-cream for dessert. After that we wrote in our diaries. We went to a bush dance with Rex. We did the macarina, boot scooting baby, heel and toe, and the hokey pokey. We did this trail where you have to find all 26 letters of the alaphabet (nobodys group found the letter G) . The letter Z lead us to the camp fire, where we toasted. marshmallows but we were't allowed to toast a second one because the fire was big. We all had a very late night.

Posted by Ruby, Edmond and Shaelyn

Camping

2006-10-26T17:05:00.000+10:00

We have just come back from three wonderful days at camping. We went to Arrabri Lodge which is about 1 and a half hours drive away. It is in Warburton, East of Melbourne a very beautiful spot. We were surrounded by mountains and there was bush all around us. They had lots of animals at the lodge, a donkey, pony and lots of sheep. They also had goats, chooks and gorgeous guinea pigs. Some of us got to hold them. We went there by bus. We went with all the grade threes and the grade fours.Everyone was so excited. When we arrived Don our camp supervisor was waiting for us. They helped us move into our cabins. We had our first camp meeting where Don told us all the camp rules. Then we had a tour of the facilities and we looked at all the things we could do.
On the first day we had to take our lunch. We had a picnic lunch on the lawn area.
The cabins were real cool. They had bunk beds in them except for the teacher's rooms. Everyone wanted a top bunk so we took it in turns to have a top bunk.

TRI Skills

2006-10-16T08:34:00.000+10:00

We commenced Tri Skills on Thursday. It was 36 degrees when we went into the multipurpose room. Which is very hot for October. Claudia and Fiona are our teachers. Claudia has been coming to Kerrimuir for many years. They arrive in a big truck, unload all the equipment and set it up for us to use. Each class has a turn at doing a circuit. This week we focussed on landings. We must remember to always finish our landings with the motorbike pose. We had fun at Tri Skills but we were very tired when we finished. Next week we will be going to Tri Skills on Wednesday.

2006-10-09T14:10:00.000+10:00

On Wednesday, Kazu, a Japanese student teacher(Sensai).
Taught us how to write a letter because he got a letter from his friend. Ruby wrote to Bethany, Bethany wrote to Osanna and Edmond wrote to Bill.
On Thursday morning we had sports and library. In sports we played rounders and street hocky. Bethany and Ruby were in green group and Ruby was captain, Edmond was in Red group and Alice was captain.
In library Mr. Furey read us a book called Queenie it was good. After that we borrowed some books. Ruby borrowed "The bad book" and "Just annoying" and they were both writtened by Andy Griffiths. Bethany borrowed "Egyptology" and it is written by T.H.G James. Edmond borrowed "Australian money" and " Australian coins and notes."
On Friday Afternoon we had peformances and Liam did a really funny! act , Mele`ana, Katie, Ruby and Bethany did an act called Shabooya.

Posted by Bethany, Edmond and Ruby!

Back To School

2006-10-02T13:37:00.000+10:00

Welcome Back
Today is the first day of term four. The weather was fantastic for assembly. As it is term four it is now compulsary to wear hats when we are out side. (Make mental note: bring Hat.) Mrs V has changed our classro0m around and we are allowed to sit anywhere we like for the moment. Lots of us were able to go away for the holidays. Angus went to Surfers, Mrs V went to Central Australia and Max went to an island off Queensland. The Melbourne show was on over the holidays and those that stayed home went to that and got lots of showbags next to that the movies was the next best thing with "Monster House" topping the list.

Last Day Of term

2006-09-15T15:18:00.000+10:00

Today is the last day of term 3 and it is a very busy one. Firstly we are performing at assembly. Mrs V has been busy doing the final preparations on our costumes. We had made our costumes a while ago but when we tried them on at dress rehersal the skeletons all came off. So Mrs V frantically hotglued them all back on yesterday. She burnt herself with the hotglue gun a couple of times. But she's ok. There were lots of people at assembly and we were very excited. Mrs V said we did a great job at singing and our dance moves were spot on.
It was also "Footy Day' That's when we all dress up in our favourite team colours and have a parade. It is always a very colourful day and everyone gets into the act. After the parade we have tabloid sports. Our footy teams are made up of children from Preps to grade 6. The weather was fantastic, but by lunchtime we were a bit exhausted. We always have a "Footy Day' lunch which usually consists of a pie or pastie with a milk drink and of cause lots of sauce.
So now it's time to say goodbye to our third term and welcome the Spring holidays.

Safe holidays everyone.
Posted by 3V

District Athlectics

2006-09-12T08:55:00.000+10:00

On Monday morning Angus, Liam, Max, Leigh and I went to the district athlectics to represent Kerrimuir with the grades 4,5 and 6. The district athletics is when you do sports with other schools. I was in the tunnel ball race and we came 2nd. There was a lot of people there. When I went to the toilet somebody was ill all over the floor. It was a bit smelly. Our school came fifth out of five schools. I was glad to get back to school because it was tiring cheering for your team. It was good to come back to school and talk to my friends I had a good day.

Posted by Gavin

Boy's Challenge Week

2006-09-11T10:31:00.001+10:00

In the morning Peter my best friend was sick so he didn't come to school . Last week was boy's challenge week. We did the boy's challenge week because the boys don't do show-and-tell and performances . Throughout the week the boys brought in various things to show the class. I didn't get time to find anything. On Friday Micheal, Gavin, Angus and Liam did a performance and they did a comedy show. Liam did a very funny comedy act and Micheal, Gavin and Angus did a funny comedy act too. Mrs V was also away but the CRT let us do free time in the afternoon.
posted by Jackson

Dem Bones

2006-09-06T12:16:00.000+10:00

Today we did jogging. We are doing jogging for fitness. We all have one goal in jogging. To get to Geelong. We have stuck up a chart in our class room on how much progress we have made since we started. We also continued our joke books. Every week we pull a joke out of a jar. Then we write it down and give it to Mrs V. Every one must submit a joke into the jar. In maths today we were studying fractions. Some were easy, but some of them were pretty hard. Such as: 5/8+3/4. I got it right though. Next week we are peforming a song called 'Dem Bones' at assembly. But I will be on holidays then. I will be up at the Gold Coast. Anyway, today we made our costumes for it, a black garbage bag with paper bones stuck on. At lunch time today, we played cricket. My opponents were all out for 22. I was first up for my team and I scored 12 runs. Then the bell went. We agreed that it was a draw.
Posted by Max

Yimin's Day

2006-09-05T10:08:00.000+10:00

Today in the morning at school we did an english worksheet, most people didn 't finish it but I finished the worksheet just in time. Then after play we went to Japanese. At Japanese we watched a video called''Spirit Away''. We only watched half of it because we didn 't have enough time to watch the whole thing. After Japanese we went to Computers. In Computers we did our Digital Portfolios. Most people had done about 6 to 9 slides. Our Computer teacher is called Mr. Chaffer. When we finished Computers we had lunch. For lunch I had a cheese sandwich. After lunch we had play. I played with my friends called Katie, Bethany, Alice and Ruby. We played Spiderwick. Spiderwick is a game where somebody is a goblin and the rest are children. The goblin has to try and capture the children. Then the bell went so we went back into the classroom. Me, Katie and Max couldn 't go back to our classroom because we had to go to Mr. Fury for mathamatics. Mathamatics is easy in the classroom but it's challanging with with Mr. Fury. After maths with Mr. Fury we went back to the classroom. Our teacher Mrs. V made us three do a bit more of maths. The maths was really easy. Then when we finished we packed up and went home. It was a good day!!!
Posted by Yimin

Squashy Tomato

2006-09-01T12:04:00.000+10:00

On Thursday the first thing we did was read 'Spiderwick' after we had show and tell. Nicola had show and and tell, I don't know who else had show and tell. Then we did P.E. In P.E we did a basket ball course. And we played Get the tail and we played in and out, when P.E finished we went back to our classroom. In the classroom we did our vegetable story which is our prep story.
My vegtable story is about a tomato called Squashy, then we went to libary we all sat in a circle. What we did in the circle is we had to say our favourite food and our favourite book. The people who had their books in the libary had to return and to borrow. Then the bell went and I played outside. Then the music went so we went back into the classrooms. When we went inside we did Trivia Challenge with 3K. Then we went home.

Posted by Michael

Activities Day

2006-08-30T11:57:00.000+10:00

Today was activity day. It is part of numeracy & literacy week. We were given numbers. My number was number 7. I had to go to Mr kelly's class we talked about booking shows, play etc and we had to draw ourselves at our our favourite show, then I went to Mrs Tillotson's class. We had to make a book cover. my book cover was called "I Will Not Never, Ever Eat a Tomatoe" after mrs T's we went to Mrs Fraser's class where we did painting. We painted Indigenous painting of Australian animals. I painted a turtle. After lunch Miss McDonald took us out side to play some games. In Maths we studied symmetry and we drew the other half of our face. They turn out quite good.

Start of Numeracy & Literacy Week

2006-08-29T08:37:00.000+10:00

To day at school when the bell went,I went to Assembly. The school band played the Australian anthem Every one sang as well. After that Mr.Furey, our librey teacher introduced Numeracy and literacy week and was just telling us about this book 'The Two Bullies', about a Japanese Sumo wrestler and a Chinese wrestler who were going to fight but they eventually got scared of each other. Just as Mr Furey was saying that, My principal and my sport's teacher came out dressed as the two characters in the book. It was funny that my principal chose to dress up as a sumo wrestler. They began to bunp into each other. Mr Treloar kept grunting and tried to look tuff. I had a great day.

Posted by Gavin

Last Day of Swimming

2006-08-28T12:59:00.000+10:00

In art we did a figure of a person moving. I did a picture of a basketball player. I haven't finished it yet. Today was our last day of swimming. We got to play games. We get to take our Aqua pass books home. When we went swimming the teacher called Matt splashed me and I splashed him back. My face got all wet.

After lunch we had free time. The non swimmers wrote a play and they performed for us. It was good.

Posted by Rhea

Baking Bread

2006-08-25T09:44:00.000+10:00

Today we made bread and we used a bread making machine instead of mixing the ingredients by hand. We put all the raw ingredients into the machine. The ingredients were 415ml of water and some flour and yeast.We needed the yeast to make the bread rise. Then we turned on the bread making machine by pressing select once, then pressing crust twice, then pressing timer. We had to set the timer because we didn't want the bread to finish cooking before we came back from swimming. So we set the timer for four hours. Then we pressed start. After we came back from swimming we ate lunch and went out to play. After lunch we could smell the lovely smell of bread and it smelled delicious. We started to read "Spiderwick" when the bread making machine went "Beepbeep" "Beepbeep" it was ready to eat. Then Mrs V tried to get it out, it was so hot Mrs V burnt her finger and she couldn't work out how to get it out. Eventually Mrs V shook it and got it out. Mrs V cut the bread up into pieces and I got to have the first piece with butter on it. It tasted really good. Everybody got a piece of bread. Including Mrs V and Miss McDonald. It was the best bread I've ever tasted actually.

Posted by Jackson

Peter's Wednesday

2006-08-24T14:40:00.000+10:00

Today we went on the computer and we wrote profiles about ourselves. We are going to send these profiles to a school in Michigan so we can get some penpals. After computers we went to sports. We played Volley ball and on the first game yellow won, but plain won in the second game. Some of the people were bragging because they won. At swimming I did freestyle. I am good at freestyle but I can only swim a half of a lane. In the afternoon I finished my poster about brushing my teeth. I had to go to aftercare when school finished where I do marshal arts. Mum picked me up around 5.30

Posted by Peter

Healthy Teeth

2006-08-23T15:44:00.000+10:00

Today we watched a video called 'Tooth Kingdom' We watched this video because we are learning about teeth hygiene. The video was about teeth being attached by plague. After Miss McDonald asked us some questions about the movie and then we went off and made posters about teeth. My poster said "Have a regular dental checkup" I drew a picture of a girl having a checkup, but I haven't finished.
When it was play time it started to rain hard so my grade went to the library to stay dry. The non swimmers were in the classroom and I was still eating my food. Mele'ana was doing the blog. Then everyone went to the swimming pool. When the bell was going we just arrived at Mrs Hick's room, but Mrs Tompson was teaching 1H.
After lunch we did this 'Milk It' competition. If you win the competition you will win a milk shuffle ipod and your school will win 1,000 dollars worth of sports equipment. My slogan was "Milk makes my hair tingle!" I drew a girl drinking a glass of milk.

Posted by Shaelyn

2006-08-22T13:07:00.000+10:00

Today my grade went swimming and the non swimmers went to Mrs Hicks's Grade. The children in her grade normally start with 'Show & tell' while we colour in posters. After show & tell the chidren were writing in their english books and writing about what they do at swimming. We got to test them with their spelling words. After a while when 1H leaves for swimming we go into Mr Kelly's room until our class comes back from swimming. Sometimes 3K goes out for a mini play because they miss out on play because they are at swimming. So we get an extra play as well. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!
In the afternoon we did some maths. We talked about polyhedrons and polygons. We looked at the differences between a prism and a pyramid. I drew a picture of a rectangular prism and a square pyramid. My drawing was pretty good. But I had to stay back to finish my work.

Posted by Mele'ana.

Shopping at Kerrimuir

2006-08-18T10:06:00.000+10:00

We started the day off by writing a letter to Aaron because he won the Pride of Australia medal of courage.We saw it inthe Hearald Sun newspaper. Aaron is a teacher with a disability who came to our school earlier this year to talk to the 3s & 4s about disability awareness.
We also went to art. I was the art moniter with Leigh.We were making people doing sports or dancing. At the middle of the session Miss Litchfield (our art teacher) asked us to
stop and stick our work on a coloured piece of paper so it would stand out.When I finished glueing it I realised that my work smudged.It was pretty funny.
By the time we finished art, it was time to go swimming. I sat with Ruby when we were going.Matthew is my teacher. Edmond, Shaelyn, Anokhi and some another grade two's are in my group. On the way back to school I sat at the back of the bus with Ruby, Rhea, Alice, and Yimin. When we came back it was lunch time. After lunch all of the grade threes went walking to the Kerrimuir shops because we wanted to see how food was packaged for people to buy. The teachers gave us a work sheet to work on.By the time we came back to school it was home time.It was a fun day but I was very tired afterwards.
Posted by Bethany

Grandpa`s Teeth

2006-08-17T10:03:00.000+10:00

Today 3V went jogging I did 4 laps of the school.We went inside and Mrs V read Grandpa`s Teeth. Grandpa`s Teeth is about a robbery of false teeth and everyone went smile crazy.So the class drew characters smiling. We started reading SpiderWick book two The Seeing Stone the book sounds exciting so far. We went swimming with 2J & 2P we are doing swimming for two weeks from the 14th to the 25th.

Posted by Edmond

Miss McDonald

2006-08-16T09:27:00.000+10:00

Today we finished the book called 'Spiderwick'. The ending of the book was a bit weird.Tomorrow we will begin book 2. It was Miss McDonald's (our student teacher)first day to read a book to a class. When Miss Mc Donald told everyone to quietly read a book, everyone listened to her.You could hear a pin drop, but when Jackson was looking for information for his project on potatoes he found a website that made so much noise that everyone came running to the computer. After reading we did some maths,in maths we did transformation. Transformation is when you Slide,Turn and Flip a shape. When you Slide upwards,diagonally to the right you can make a 3D shape.Mrs V thought my shape was fantastic.

Posted by Anokhi

1st Day Of Swimming

2006-08-15T08:34:00.001+10:00

Today was a very exiting day because today was the start of swimming.
At play we had to eat very quickly because the bus would come very quickly. When the bus ride was over the swimming teachers told us to go in one line across the side of the pool. What we had to do was do our best freestyle to the end of the pool. When we got to the end of the pool the swimming teachers told us to either go to:the small pool(for beginning swimmers,lane 1(for okay swimmers),lane 2(for good swimmers),lane 3 (for very good swimmers) and lane 4(for great swimmers).
When the swimming lesson was over we had to get changed, very fast because the bus arrived in ten minutes.
When the bus ride was over we went inside to get our lunch.
After lunch we had maths, in maths we were working on our subtraction skills.Then we had quiet reading, our class novel is called 'Spiderwick'.
By the end of the day everyone was exhausted and coulden't wait till home time.I can't wait till tomorrow!
Posted by Ruby.

Birthday party

2006-08-14T09:43:00.000+10:00

On Fiday it was Mele'ana's birthday. We had a party we had some cake and she had some really cool candles.There was a BAD! Smell when she blew the candles out. Phew!!!! We also had some cookies.At 3.30 she handed out some lollie pops. In ART we are doing collage. We had to do a bird's eye view of our backyard. W e used natural materials, like bark and grass and we also used paint.Most people are finished except me.

Posted BY LIAM

Athletics

2006-08-11T14:10:00.000+10:00

Today was athletics day. Mr Chaffer, our school sports teacher was the organiser. I got 3 3rds in 2 tunnel ball races, shotput and 1 4th in shuttle relay. It was great. I had lots of fun. We played a lot of games so everyone had fun. The sports day is about team houses battling for the Championship, the glory and the win. The places were Bradman1st, Riley 2nd Perkins 3rd (yaaaaay) and Freeman last.
Posted by Leigh

2006-08-10T07:58:00.000+10:00

We started the day off by going to the computers. You got to do two things. They were 'Dear Dumb Dairy' website and your port folio. Some people had to do their port folios because they were way behind. On the 'Dear Dumb Dairy' website there was this thing that was called 'mix up'. It was so funny because every time you wrote a word in a space it came up on the diary it was sooo funny! After that we did maths and Mrs.V made a biiiiggg mistake. We had done the maths already once before in our homework every one laughed!!!
Nicky

Jogging

2006-08-09T09:27:00.000+10:00

On Tuesday we did jogging. we jogged around the school building. I did four laps. Leigh did eight laps. He did the most.We entered how many kilometres we do on a table . Then we did measuring mass. I measured a ball it kept on rolling off. I tried it twice then I got it. It's weight was two hundred grams finally! On the play ground we played volley ball. I got hit in the head. ouch!!!
Angus

Diary Writing

2006-08-08T08:58:00.000+10:00

Today we all made little diaries. We made our diaries similar to "Dear Dumb Diary". Most of us only did one day. Dear Dumb Diary is about a girl called Jamee. When we did maths, we learnt Division. It was hard for some people but some other people did very well. We learned fractions too. Two boys were late for L.O.T.E because they were mucking around with the ball. They had to clean up the L.O.T.E room. When we went jogging in the morning I ran with my friend Nicola. We both saw a flower on the ground and I picked it up. Then I gave it to Nicola. After a while I realized that my hand was stinky. We had to wash our hands when we went past the taps. What a wonderful day!!

2006-08-07T10:57:00.000+10:00

Assembly
On Friday, we went to assembly. Assembly is when we sing songs and the principal says important things. In the afternoon we read a book called "Dear Dumb Diary," it pretty funny. And on Fridays in my class we do performances. My friend's Ruby, Mele'ana and I sang a song called "This Time I Know Its For Real". Getting up in front of the class you need to be confident and organised.
Alice

2006-08-03T08:58:00.000+10:00

Tunnel Ball

We are gearing up for the house athlectics. We have been doing a lot of training. We have been learning how to throw a shot put, how to jump over a high jump, how to throw the ball correctly in cross ball. And of course lots of running. But our favourite is when we go out to practice tunnel ball.

2006-08-02T15:04:00.000+10:00

We had a great day today. In Maths we decided to do some interesting designs using some cut out shapes. We rotated our shapes around a pivet then coloured the patterns in. We found the idea on "Maths cats"

2006-08-02T14:26:00.000+10:00

AIM Day

Today we completed our Aim test. Last week we some maths and writing and yesterday we had another maths test. Today we had our English test, which consisted of reading, dictation, editing and finally writing a story. Because we had the Aims Assessement in the morning our RE class was cancelled until the afternoon. Here is a picture of our classroom. Our RE teacher is reading a story to us. Don't you think our class looks great with all the art room hanging about. It's better that our earl;ier picture of our room.

2006-08-01T22:11:00.000+10:00

We have been doing some stories about ourselves and here is a sample.

2006-07-28T21:40:00.000+10:00

Here is a picture of our classroom. We are lucky because it is on the cool side of the school. This picture was taken when we first moved in and there wasn't much around the walls.

2006-07-28T20:38:00.000+10:00

Welcome to our Blog site. You will be able to get daily (hopfully) updates on what we ar doing in 3V