Saying Goodbye!

Well, today is the last day of the school year and what a year it has been!  Looking back through our blog, we have done a lot of different things. We've been making musical instruments, climbing up rock walls, visiting animals in the zoo, getting very wet around Guandu Nature Park, being Egyptians and wrapping people up as mummies.  We have made some dioramas and written descriptions about them. We've recorded our own stories and made our own videos.  We have achieved so much in one year.


Sadly, though, we are saying goodbye to a few friends. Wen Ting is going back to Singapore, and Jeremy A and Patrick are off the another school in Taipei. All of them will be missed very much.
I am off too. My family and I are heading to Tianjin, China to start a new adventure there. I will be able to look back at all of the work and photos we've posted over the year and remember everyone.


We have been thinking about to what to post in our last post. Here are our reflections:

This year is one of my best school year my favorite is yr 1 second is yr 3 third is resection. I really enjoyed making my diorama . Jeremy L

I had a brilliant year and hope I have another one soon. I’ve copied lots of good examples this year. I have made loads of friends and hope I can make even more next year. Toby

I had a really good year with Mrs. Elrick and all of the teachers. I wish you all a happy holiday. Grace


This was the best year ever! by Orion

To: Mrs Elrick,

          I had so fun in this class I hope you have a good time.

                                                          From:Krish 

 

My year in Year 3 by Julia

I had a AWESOME year. I’m gonna miss you all!!!!! In year 3 was fun and hard but it’s still fun. The people that is leaving I have a message for you : Have fun in your school and country. Goodbye B3GE.

I enjoyed being in Year 3. My teacher is the best and I wish she couldn't go to China. I wish she could stay.  I will have a great time in Year 4.  Bye bye. By Connie

I wish all of you a HAPPY HOLIDAY and have a good time when you are in yr 4

Thank you for being in my class. By John


This was the best year ever! by Elliott


Goodbye Year 3. I'm looking forward to year 4. by Benjamin


Mrs. Elrick, you are the best teacher in TES. I hope you have a good trip. By Patrick


Mr. Furman, you are the best teacher that I have ever seen. by Thomas.

Have a good holiday everyone. by Takeru

I had a wonderful time in year 3 and having Mrs. Elrick as my teacher is also wonderful! Why are you leaving?

In my end of my year I had fun learning. I will never forget those. by Jihyun

DEAR MRS ELRICK

I WISH YOU HAVE A GREAT TIME IN CHINA I WILL MISS YOU . YOU ARE THE BEST TEACHER EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By Bryan

My favorite part of this year was when we went to the zoo. I enjoyed that because I found out lots of interesting things about the pandas.

I will really miss Mrs Elrick when she leaves because she is very kind and always helps me when I am stuck on something.

I wish you the best of luck when you go to China!

Hope you know your Chinese because they only speak. ChineseJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ

                                                                                By Alice

                                               My Year In Year 3 by Katelyne

In year 3 I had a Fun year with you guys I made new friends like Alice, Poppy, Julia, Kassandra (I wasn’t really playing with Poppy and Julia in year 2) anyway I also made with Anna, Alisha, Leonna and Leanna I had a Best friend called Elaine she acts just like Alice she moved to America this year. She still my Best friend even till now I had my first sleep over with her and had lots of memories with her J

I learned lots of stuff like about the body.

We learned about sound.   Then Ancient Egypt.

Thank you for being my teacher you are a realy good teacher.

Xoxo  Jeremy A

I  enjoyed in this class and met  lot of new friends in this year.

My  best part of this year is going to the zoo . I liked going to the zoo because I Learned  lots of great facts about the animal.

I hope you have a great time with lizzy at China.

I also wish you have learn your Chinese to speak in China.

By:Leonna 

Bye bye

You are the best! I J

I enjoyed being in your class bye bye!J

From Emma f.

My year in year 3

I had an amazing time in year 3!

But there’s one problem you’re leaving.

When you have gone I will miss you!

By Poppy

Strategy games

Here are the strategy games that we played at the start of Maths this week. The Coolmath website is a great site with loads of games and activities.

http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-bloxorz/index.html

http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-isoball-1/index.html

Quest Myths

We have been busy over the last few weeks finding out about quest myths. We have read and watched different quest myth stories before planing and writing our own. We planned who our main hero was going to be and decided what the quest was that they were about to go on. We then planned the creature- who or what was it that the hero had to defeat? 
We drew a map of the route our hero would have to take to be able to complete their quest.
Below are our stories. We decided to publish them as recordings and tried to put expression into our voices as we read.
Sit back and listen to what we came up with.

listen to ‘Toby's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Elliott's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Wen Ting' Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Thomas's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Takeru's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Rion's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Poppy's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Patrick's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Leonna's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Krish's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Orion's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Katelyne's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Julia's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Alice's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Benjamin's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Bryan's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Connie's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Emma's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Grace's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Jeremy A's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Jeremy L's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Jihyun's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘John's Quest Myth’ on Audioboo

Egypt Day

Yesterday, we had Egypt Day. We dressed up as different Egyptians and spent the morning doing different activities.
First of all, we designed our own Egyptian God or Goddess head dress and thought about what they were the God of. We had some interesting ideas for that!
Then we went to the sports hall to play games with the other 2 classes. We had to work in teams of 6 to wrap one of our team members up as a mummy. It was lots of fun and some people did a great job!


Here are some of the photos of us:

Egypt by John

Ancient Egypt by Jeremy L

Egypt by Julia

Try our slideshow creator at Animoto.

Egypt by Jeremy A

Make your own slideshow with music at Animoto.

Ancient Egypt by Krish

Pyramids by Toby

Ancient Egypt by Katelyne

Egypt Gods and Hieroglyphics by Bryan

Cool Pyramids by Thomas

Pyramids by Emma

Egypt by Wen Ting

Pyramids by Jihyun

Pyramids by Alice

Hieroglyphics by Leonna

Pyramids by Connie

Pyramids by Grace

More Music Maker Projects

The last few people finished off their Music movie-maker projects and are ready to share them with you now. So, sit back, relax and enjoy their work!

Jihyun

Elliott

Patrick

A day in the life of an Ancient Egyptian farmer

We were thinking about what life as an Ancient Egyptian farmer might have been like. We used the picture from a previous blog post and discussed the types of jobs they did.  We chose a job each and wrote about a day in the life of that farmer.  


Here are some of our interviews and conversations:

listen to ‘A day in the life of an Ancient Egyptian farmer by Alice and Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘An interview with an Ancient Egyptian farmer by Grace and Leonna’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘An interview with an Ancient Egyptian farmer by Bryan and Toby’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘My day as an Ancient Egyptian farmer by Takeru’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘My day as an Ancient Egyptian farmer by Patrick’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘An interview with an Ancient Egyptian farmer by Julia and Katelyne’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘An interview between 2 Ancient Egyptian farmers; Thomas and Elliott’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘The job I would have. by Emma’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘An interview with an Ancient Egyptian farmer by Connie and Jihyun’ on Audioboo

Advice from Dr. Seuss

I was sent a link to some Dr. Seuss quotes and I quite liked this one: 

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.

 You are in control of what you do - we can't do it for you!

Ancient Egyptian Farming Picture

This is the farming picture that I sent home for homework the other day. I think it is a much clearer picture for you to look.  What do you think the jobs are that they are doing?

Questions to think about:

What might it have been like to have done one of these jobs? 

Which job would want to have done and why?

How do you think these jobs have changed?

Our Music Movie Maker Projects

Last term, we did lots of work on music. We made musical instruments and wrote instructions to go with them. We also evaluated what we did, thinking about how we would do it differently if we were to make them again.

We put all of our work together into a movie maker project. Here is what we did:

Katelyne

Alice

Bryan

Thomas

Connie

Emma

Grace

Jeremy A

Julia

Krish

Leonna

John

Poppy

Rion

Takeru

Toby

Wen Ting

Jeremy L

Not every one has finished their project yet, but when they do, they will be posted on here too.

Earth, Sun and Moon

Today, we were finding out about the Earth, Sun and Moon. Here is the website we used and the game we played. Have another look to see how they move.

Putting the Earth, Sun and Moon back on track.

Going on a Quest!

Today, we had a special delivery that sent us on a quest around school.  We had to work out clues and complete tasks to gain our reward. Here are some photos of us on our quest. 

Egyptian Adventure Game

Miss Soo found this game today and we played a little bit of it in class this morning. If you want to have a go by yourself at home, here is the link. Have fun!

Egyptian Adventure Game

How to make musical instruments: part 2

It seemed that only half of the instructions made it into the book yesterday, so here is part 2!
If you didn't find a musical instrument you fancied making in the first part, maybe one of these will interest you. Give one a go - you know you want to!
Happy reading!

How to make musical instruments

Last term, we did lots of work around the topic of music. We made our own musical instruments and then wrote instructions for how to make them. Take a look at our instructions and try one out for yourself! Let us know what you think!

Fractions games

Mrs. Elrick's maths group have become board games designers! They have spent a couple of days planning, designing and making their own board game. The theme of each game is 'Fractions'. We have been finding fractions of numbers, finding equivalent fractions and ordering fractions.  The games that we designed used one of these elements.

Take a look at what we did:

What are your views on these different pieces of music?

You have now all finished your projects where you focused on a particular musician or style of music. You will be sharing those with the class next week.


Here are some pieces of music from the musicians you have chosen to focus on. Listen to the pieces that are included and leave a comment saying what you think of this style of music. How does the music make you feel? Do you like it? Would you choose to listen to more of it?

Music Makers!

We have finally finished making our musical instruments (apart from a few ones that need to be fixed!) and they are looking very good.

One group of early finishers got together to compose, practice and perform their own music. They worked together to create the sounds that they wanted and did a great job of performing in front of the class this afternoon.

Sit back and enjoy their work!

Next week, everyone will have the chance to compose a piece of music and perform with a band - so get your creative minds working over the weekend ready for some song/music writing on Monday!

Odd One Out

Which of these is the odd one out?  Put a sticky on the wall wisher to say which one you think is the odd one out, but remember to give reasons as to why you think that.

Thinking about music

We have been doing lots of work on sound and music. We have music all around us in our lives. But what would happen if music were suddenly to be banned? How would you feel?  Use this Voice-Thread to record your responses.

What if music were to be banned?

How to make Mosquito Macaroni

How to make Mosquito Macaroni

By Elliott and Benjamin

This is a delicious cheesy macaroni.  Taste it!

What you will need:

·        A pint of lava

·        500g of dead mosquitoes

·        1 pack of rotten cheese

·        700g of snots

·        Pasta

Equipment:

·        Pan

How to make Mosquito Macaroni:

1.     Take the pasta out of the pack.

2.     Sprinkle some snots onto the pasta

3.     Take out the rotten cheese and spread it on the snots

4.     Cook it for 25 minutes

5.     Take it out of the pan

6.     Drop the pint of lava on top to make it even hotter

7.     Wait for 3 minutes to cool

8.     And you’re ready to eat!

Revolting Recipes

Are you bored of eating the same things each day?

Do you want something different to try?

Then how about choosing one of our recipes. They are truly delicious! 

(Did we say delicious? We meant to say revolting!)  

Today, we worked in pairs to come up with a revolting recipe of our own. Here are some of the ingredients that 5 of the groups would use: 

Slug Slime Waffles 

by Jeremy L and Toby

Crunch Crab Cake 

by Poppy and Leonna

Mosquito Macaroni

by Elliott and Benjamin

Stink Sausages

by Alice and Jihyun

Worm Spaghetti

by Grace and Katelyne

Later on, we will be turning these ingredients into recipes that you can follow and make at home. So, if you're stuck for ideas for an afternoon snack or want something different to make for dinner, give one of these a try!

Investigating sound

We have been doing lots of investigations over the last couple of weeks about how a sound is made and how it can be changed. 
Here are a few of the things we found out.


Emma explained 2 ways in which sound can be made:

Leonna found out that sounds are made when something vibrates:

Jihyun applied what she had found in the rubber band investigation to plan her own musical instrument. She knows that to change the pitch you need to change the thickness or the length of the string. How tight or loose the string is also affects how high or low the note is.

In the next part of our topic, we will be making our own musical instruments and writing instructions for how to make them. Maybe you can make our instruments following the instructions we write!

Changing sounds investigation

We have been learning about how a sound is made. We have played different instruments and found out how each one makes it's sound.

We were then looking at how the sound can be changed.  We did an investigation into how to change sound in some way. Here are some of our findings:

(the sound quality is not too clear as other groups were using the instruments as we were filming!)

by Toby and Rion

by Orion and John

By Jeremy A, Krish and Benjamin

By Alice, Wen Ting and Poppy

Carnivale time!

This week saw us getting dressed up for Carnivale. This is a European celebration to mark the beginning of Lent. The theme this year was 'Your favourite book character'. We had lots of fun and colourful costumes. We paraded around the infant and junior playground before watching some clowns entertain us.  
To end the morning, we went back to the class to eat crepes - yummy!

29th February - Blogging the Leap Year!

This year is a leap year and to mark the occasion, there is a going to be a special blog set up for the day.  We have to opportunity to leave our thoughts and comments for others around the world to see, comment on and add to.  We will be using part of our morning composing our posts and will view what others have posted later on in the day.
This is the blog site, if you want to read the information that is there:

http://feb29th.net/ 

So, the only thing to do now is to think about what you're going to say! What do you want the world to know? 

New topic: The Sound of Music

Welcome back after the Chinese New Year holiday - I hope you all had a good time!


We are ready to start our new topic on The Sound of Music! In this topic, we will become sound experts as well as musical instrument makers! We will be listening to music from around the world and from different periods of time.


I have made a Wall for you to post questions, answer questions and make comments about what you are learning.  For our Quadblogging friends - if you would like to leave questions, answers, comments etc, please feel free.

Lion Dance photos

This afternoon, we had a lion dance and acrobatic performance from a local troop. We hope you enjoy seeing some of the photos. Have a good holiday week!

Chinese New Year

Chinese new year is a celebration. when its Chinese new year you can see Dragon dances. by Rion

from Julia

on new years day my family gives me money and i keep it in the bank! Chinese new year is great fun!   Emma

WISH YOU GUYS A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D 
from John

Dragon stories from Jeremy L

Jeremy L found this story that he wanted to share with everyone. He liked it and hopes you like it too!

Dragon stories

Chinese New Year

Tomorrow is our last day before our Chinese New Year holiday. We will be celebrating by either wearing something red or traditional Chinese clothing. In the afternoon, we will be watching a lion dance performed by a  visiting group. Hopefully, we will get some good photos of their performance to show you all.

This new year will be the year of the Dragon. 

Connie, Jihyun and Grace made a poster for our door wishing everyone a Happy New Year.

Our Class Assembly!

Here, as promised, is our class assembly. It has taken a while to download and process (and I didn't get chance to edit the very beginning noise out) but here it is. I hope you enjoy watching it and are able to share it with others who were not able to be present on the day. I think you did a fantastic job - well done!

3GE Class Assembly 2012 from Taipei European School on Vimeo.

(Thank you to Mr. MacRaild for being cameraman!)

Symmetry

We were looking at symmetry in shapes today in Maths and I came across this which I thought you might like to 'play' with. Just type in your first name then press go, then do the same with your surname.

Enjoy!

symmetry with names