How much change ($1)

How much change

Complete and Incomplete sentences

Making different amounts of money

Money is useful for lots of things like buying chips. I like money because it is very useful.

Ordering numbers to 1,000

About three digit numbers

Division

Prefixes

I was learning about prefixes. A prefix is a part of a word at the front.It adds meaning to the root word. Now I would like to know why there are some words that have a prefix starting but not a prefix ending.

Freeze frame (polar bears)

A polar bear weighs the same amount as 129 cats.

Telling the time to every five minutes

I was learning to tell the time. I know that if the long hand is on the six it is half past. wherever the long hand goes we need to count or multiply in fives. It is tricky to do the answer without the fives on the outer side of the clock.

Telling the time to quarter past

I was learning to tell the time. I know that if the long hand is on the six it is half past. wherever the long hand goes we need to count or multiply in fives. It is easy to see if the long hand is on a number.

Limerick

I was learning to write a limerick. In a limerick I need to have 5 lines. Lines 1,2 and 5 need to rhyme, as well as lines 3 and 4. It  was easy to make the words in the limerick rhyme. It was tricky to make sure that the sentences made sense.

Poetry Recitation

I was learning to recite a poem. 

I have learnt that if I practise more often then I will do better. I needed to keep my voice up and look at the audience and have a good pace.

Similes

Following directions

Following Simple Directions

Orientation for a Narrative

I was learning to use similes, direct speech and metaphors in my narrative. I know that a smile /direct speech/metaphor is a sentence  that describes the person or animal in the story. Now I need to work on using metaphors.

Native New Zealand Birds

Native New Zealand Animals And Insects

Creating a Google doc

Synonyms and antonyms

I was learning to use synonyms and antonyms. I know that  synonyms are words that are the same or have a similar meaning. I know that antonyms are words that nearly have the opposite meaning or they do have the opposite meaning.

different types of Volcanoes

Symmetry

I was learning about symmetry. I know that in symmetry you need a shape and you need to split the shape.

Places in New Zealand

3D shape properties

Summarise information in non-fiction texts by skimming and scanning

Comparing and contrasting life in early New Zealand and now.

Fractions of a set

I was learning to solve fraction problems using multiplication and division.  I know the first thing  I need to do is to divide the number with denominator and then multiply the numerator.

Butter Making

I was learning to do instructional writing.  I know instructions need equipment.  I can use bossy verbs or imperatives.

Matific

Yummy sandwiches

I can,t imagine life without...

ANZAC Day

Cinquain poem

Easter cinquain poem

Identifying fractions

Identifying fractions

All about me

Make and read graphs

Welcome

Welcome to my Year 3 learning blog. This year I am in room 28 and my teacher is Miss Kim.