Category: Year 3

Grade 3 Learning Inside and Out

Using both the classroom and outside spaces, Grade 3 students have been honing their instant recall of addition facts and problem solving skills in small groups.

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Hello from Mrs Kelly in Grade 3

Hello everyone! My name is Chantelle Kelly and I’m thrilled to have returned to Toorak Primary School and to be part of the grade 3 teaching team. I will also be teaching Grade 2 Art and supporting EAL (English as an Additional Language) students. I took family leave in 2011 and really enjoyed spending time…

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Yoga

Miss Gibson has brought her love of Yoga and meditation into the classroom and is running sessions with the Grade 3 students at 11:30 on Fridays. Students began today, learning the basic and more common asanas such as down facing dog, warriors, chaturanga and many more. Throughout each pose, ancient stories were told and the…

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3B’s Day in the Grubby Garden!

It was a majestic, immaculate hot day, that we had been waiting for, where the leaves were green and shining in the sun. “Today we are going to pick some vegetables, such as; kale, carrot, lettuce, mint and 1 big beetroot.” Everybody set to work, pulling fresh, colourful, spring veggies out of the deep, brown…

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Grade 3 Camp Day 2

Another day of hands-on activities, with students completing their final four activities – with yabbying become a particularly exciting, and competitive, event! With another hot day, students made sure that they drank plenty of water and applied sunscreen regularly. A delicious chicken schnitzel dinner was followed by a Just Dance off and a close fought…

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Grade 3 Camp – Night 1

With a short, but energetic bus ride, Grade 3 arrived at camp with excitement in the air. After a briefing by the camp staff and some slip, slop, slap everyone was straight into activities – including archery, low ropes, giant swing and flying fox. While bush cooking was originally on agenda it was replaced with yabbying due to…

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