Back to school!

After a two week break we were back energised and ready for another exciting and busy time in school. We began our new UOI - How we express ourselves. Through this unit, we will learn about our selves and our identity. We will explore how we can build our image and personality through our behaviour and the  way we express ourselves. We will also see what are the different ways we can express ourselves.

In the first week back, our music teacher Ms. Amanda showed us a few videos of singer Hera and Adele performing. We learnt that Hera painted a tattoo on her face before every show. Her tattoo was an inspiration from the native New Zealand Maori tribe and the design of the tattoo has glimpses of the Icelandic art, the place where she was born. We discussed and saw how Hera had used the tattoo to build her image in public and thereby creating an identity for herself.  We then compared Hera with Adele who didn't have any such thing. Adele had created her identity using her voice modulation techniques. We reflected on our learning and designed a tattoo for ourselves. The one that we would like to show our identity with.

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
― Ansel Adams

We explored the art work of Van Gogh with Shawn sir.

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.  --- Quentin Blake 

In music class we learnt how to listen to a track and add our own chords to it.

We deciphered the central idea. We used the dictionary to look up the meanings of the words.

We expressed our understanding of the Math concepts we have learnt so far in Grade 3 through our words and illustrations. We have also began the concept of multiplication. 

Happy Diwali!

What a busy week the last week before the Diwali break has been. It whizzed by with a blink of the eye.  

This week we wrapped up our projects. Painstakingly working at adding in the last final details. 

Finally completed! Phew! We are extremely proud of the work we have done.

                        We invited our friends and teachers in Edubridge to share our learning with them.

While working on these projects so diligently we realised we have been........

Siya - I have been a 'Reflective learner' as I thought back on what I had researched, planned my project and made a model on Ancient Greek civilization.

Raanan - I have been a 'Balanced learner' as I used my work time wisely and completed my project in the time Ms. gave us.

Jason - I have been a 'Risk taker' as I tried to make the shaduf on my own even though it was very difficult for me. I used different materials to complete my project.

Nishka - I have been a 'Communicator' as I shared my ideas and all that I have learned about Indus Valley with all my classmates and  friends from other grades.

Nirja - I have been an 'Inquirer' as I have been asking a lot of questions to understand the things that we have been researching about.

In Math, we explored the concept of capacity. We learnt that 1000 ml = 1 litre.

Does anyone want to know how many litres make a gallon? Ask our young curious learners.

We had  a surprise visit by Mick sir to teach us about sequences. It was so much fun and now we know that a sequence is a list of numbers that follow a pattern. Thank you Mick sir for taking time out and visiting our class. We completely enjoyed it. You make us want more and more of Math.

We began our Diwali break with sweet memories of spending time making diyas and rangolis with our loving Grandparents. Thank you to all the granny's and grandpas for making our Diwali celebration so special.

                                                                     We love you so much!!!!!

                  Thank you Ms. Nirmala and Ms. Siya for telling us why Diwali is celebrated.

Making lanterns with our Dadiji's and Dadaji's

       Rangoli time!

                          

 We continued to work on our projects and have nearly reached the point of completion. Stay tuned!

            We  become archaeologists and tried to dig out artefacts from the sand. We learnt about the different tools archaeologists use and how the artefacts found by them help us to learn about the past.

               We tried to study and analyse what the artefacts that we dug out would be able to tell us.

This week we learnt about area and perimeter.

The highlight of this week was our Music assembly. We composed our own song and put rhythm to it.  We cant thank Ms. Amanda enough for blooming us into such musical composers. We completely enjoyed the process and are so proud of our first song ever! Enjoy the song written, composed and sung by Grade - 3 on the link below -

Watch the video of the performance here

Buddy day !

We invited our buddies to spend the day with us at Edubridge. What an exciting day it was! We wished it never ended. Here is a glimpse of the action - packed day.

A short performance we put up for our friends......

“Time flies when you're having fun, and we've been having fun for the last two months.” Its almost the end of the third month in school.This week we have continued exploring the concept of measurement and researching about the different aspects of the Ancient civilisations.

We have also been busy making our models to show our understanding of the Ancient civilisations.

We are learning how to plan, solve problems and use our creativity to recreate the past era.

Stay tuned to see our complete projects soon.

Welcome October!!!!!

Fun with measurement!!

During the first week  after our PTM we commenced our unit of work on measurement. Since it was a nice day, we decided to use the basketball court and our school bus to explore the concept of length. This lesson was about estimating and measuring using a metre stick.

We found out that the bus is 7 mts and 75 cms long.

Our ground is 52.5 metres long

                                  We enjoyed measuring the corridor outside our classroom

Roald Dahl Assembly

10 facts about Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl at work

1.     He was born on 13 September 1916, in Llandaff, Cardiff. His parents were Norwegian.

2.    He did not start writing for children until he had children of his own

3.    He wrote all of his children's stories in a small hut at the bottom of his garden

4.    He was a Hurricane fighter pilot during World War II

5.    He had two steel hips and six operations on his spine

6.    He wrote the screenplays for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Bond movie You Only Live Twice

7.    He originally wrote short stories for adults which were later published as Tales of the Unexpected

8.    He loved chocolate, but not chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream

9.    He always wrote in pencil on yellow paper

10.  He died on 23 November 1990 and is buried in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul's Church, Great Missenden

We at Edubridge also enjoyed reading Roald Dahl's books and learnt some interesting things about this great author. 3rd Graders composed a song insired by one of his books - The Enormous Crocodile-  

Here is the song they composed, ..

THERE WAS A CROCODILE IN THE LAKE

HE WANTED TO EAT SOME CHILDREN

HE PASSED THE HIPPO AND THE ELEPHANT

THE MONKEY AND THE BIRD

HE'S GOT SECRET PLANS AND CLEVER TRICKS

HE USES HIS LEGS, BODY, TAIL AND A BIG MOUTH

AND DON'T FORGET THE BIIIIGGGG MOUTH

WITH HUNDREDS OF SHINY TEETH

HE ACTED LIKE A TREE, A COCONUT TREE

HE ACTED LIKE A SEESAW, A NEW SEESAW

HE WENT ON A ROUND-ABOUT, YES AROUND-ABOUT

AND THEN HE WAS A BENCH, A PICNIC BENCH

EVERY TIME THE CHILDREN WENT AWAY

THANKS TO THE ANIMALS THEY ARE SAVED

THE ELEPHANT THREW HIM UP TO THE SUN

GOODBYE MISTER YOU ARE DONE.

Our Compère's

Our very own Roald Dahl

Our composer's singing their composition