Learning Styles

Welcomes to our Grade 3/4 A class blog for 2013!

CALC
For the first week and a half of the year we have been doing our Creating a Learning Community Program and have spent lots of time getting to know each other and deciding how we would like our class to run this year.  It has been lots of fun.  We are very lucky to have the HUGE classroom near the office with four air conditioners.  There is plenty of room for all sorts of activities and we have been taking advantatge of all the space and enjoying our nice refuge from the heat.

Learning Styles
One of the things we have been talking about during CALC is Learning Styles.  These are based on Gardiner's theory of Multiple Intelligence.  The idea is that there are eight styles of learning and each person has a preferred way to learn.  We did a questionnaire to find out what they are in our class.  This will help with designing lessons throughout the year that are suited to particular children.  The eight Learning Styles are: Nature, Maths and Logic, Music, People, Self, Visual and Word.  Please watch the video above to see Grade 3/4 students explain and demonstrate the concept.

We're looking forward to a fantastic year!

Miss Jeffery

Reflections of Prep

2012 was a wonderful year in Prep.  Here are some children from the class talking about their favourite memories from the year.  Thank you to all the parents and children who helped to make the year such a success!

Junior School Christmas Lunch

Yesterday the Prep and Grade 1 classes had a Christmas celebration lunch.  Some wonderful parents came to help cut up fruit, set up tables, serve the food, scoop ice-creams and pack up.  We couldn't have done it without them! It was a fabulous day.  Here are some photos of our lunch.

Elf Yourself

In Prep we have been having fun with Elf Yourself.  We made elves which are displayed in the corridor and we have made some online movies.  Have a look at the links on the side of our blog to see some of our silly movies.

Finished Dragons

We have finished making our Papier Mache dragons!  Don't they look fabulous?!

Bankers Trophy

On Friday 7th December our class won the Bankers Trophy!

CRE Concert

On Wednesday 4th December we had our CRE Concert.  Most of the Preps were dressed up as angels but some people had other parts.  We sang a song that told the Christmas story.