The first few weeks…

Written by Arjun & Lola 

Photography by Elijah & Mehul

It’s been a great start to the year. All of the 2s became 3s and all the 3s became 4s. We have also seen the happy smiles on the faces of the 3s when they got their laptops. The grade 4s also seem to be happy that they are now a year older and mentally stronger in the 3/4 area.

Welcome to the 3/4s

In the 3/4 learning area we have some very exciting things going on. But first of all we have some brand new grade 3s that we have spoken to. We spoke to Jaimie who is a new grade three about her and her new laptop. Jaimie feels excited to be a new grade 3 and she likes it because she is with her other friends that were with her two years ago. But she doesn’t like grade 3 because she is still with lots of annoying boys.

She feels excited and happy to have her new laptop. Jaimie has an older sister that has a laptop and she can help her instead of her having to find it out herself or having to ask the teacher. Jaimie’s favourite things to do on her laptop are work and playing cool math games.

New Grade 3s working on their laptops

We have also spoken to Marcus who was a teacher in the 1/2s last year and has just re-joined the 3/4s this year. He said he thinks the area has changed since 2012, the last time he was here. Marcus said he was happy to come up to the 3/4 with the new batch of grade 3s but he will miss the younger kids. He said he was happy to be in a classroom where all the children have their own laptops.

Marcus helping out in the Blue Room

We have also got the bearded dragons, Naga and Steampunk, who are eighteen months old. Simon let all of the 3/4s stroke the lizards in the recording room. He also lets us put some crickets in their tank but we keep on having to find them because they jump away before we get them in!

Hanging out with Naga 

So far this year we’ve been doing history, narratives, place value, spelling, grammar and reading. We have all had rocket writing once a week and the three headings were “I looked up and”, “I looked in the box” and “I found one million dollars.” It was interesting to hear everyone’s stories.

We both think this year is going to be the best year in the 3/4s ever!

Working hard