3/4S Learning 2016

Welcome back to Term 3! This term we have Mr Palmer’s Gym each Tuesday for 5 weeks. Please ensure you have signed up for interviews for week 2 of this term.

We have been learning about recycling and we would like to share what we have been learning. Created with Padlet

Wow! a year has whipped by very quickly and we are back at Mr Palmer’s Gym for lots of fun tumbling and flying through the air. Every Tuesday all the classes head to Mr Palmer’s Gym to learn and improve the following skills; forward rolls, backward rolls, cart wheels, tuck jumps, balancing, forward/ backward flips,…

This year the children and teachers at Epsom PS have been placed in 3 different houses (teams). We compete in these houses with school work and sports days. We get points in our class when Mr Saddlier notices we are doing something well or for even trying something new and he is proud of us. So far…

Last Friday we conducted our Junior School Council elections for the grades 3-6 students. Junior School councilors have meetings with some teachers and decide ways in which we can raise money for the school, to improve our school’s facilities or to raise money for charities. If students wanted to be on the JSC this year,…

Last Friday the whole school participated in a scavenger hunt to help launch our new “houses” at Epsom PS. This year at school we have 3 houses (teams) – Potter, Howard and Allen house. Every student and teacher at school have been allocated a house and we have to dress up in the colours to support…

Welcome back to School! We are very excited to be back at school and in Grade 3/4 S. We have made many new friends already and have started to set goals for reading and our timestables. We enjoy doing our Daily 5 Literacy – Reading to Self, Reading to Someone, Listening to Reading, Working on…

Last Thursday grade 3 to 6 went on their major exursion to the Discovery Centre. First we put our bags in the front room. Second of all we split our class. After that we went to our activities. Some people went down the vertical slide. If you are going down you have to wear overalls.…

On every Thursday morning 1/2 comes over to read with  us for grade2 transitions into grade 3. Sometimes we get different partners. We listen to each others ‘Good Fit’ books. We all read our Good Fit books. We also give the grade 1/2s a tour of our class to show them the similarities between their classroom…

Last week the children in grades 3-6 went on their major excursion for the year. We went to the Central Debroah Goldmine and the Dicsovery Centre which is all about science. At the goldmine, we had to first put our hard hats on with torch lights and then we had to get into an elevator to…