Welcome to Week 2, Term 4 of Home Learning

Welcome to Term 4, Week 2. We are looking forward to having the students back on site on Monday! Thank you for all your hard work and support over the duration of Home Learning.

Please read the following overview of the learning for Week 2 and Week 3 of Term 4.

English

READING

Students should be completing at least 20 minutes of independent reading a day as well as the work they complete at school.

Students will be finishing their unit on analysing descriptive language over the next two weeks. Students will focus on exploring poetic language techniques such as onomatopoeia, alliteration and personification and how they impact the reader. Students will compare and contrast effects of poems and express their opinions about poems using text evidence.

WRITING

Students will continue writing poetry as they finish their unit focusing on descriptive language. We have already been impressed with the students use of word choice to create strong moods and images in their poems during Week 1.

In the next two weeks they will explore using different poetic elements such as personification, similes and metaphors as they create poems. Students will also focus on the playful element of creating poems and playing with language through investigating spoonerisms, neologisms and limericks.

While writing, we encourage students to use the writing cycle to ensure they are continuously developing and improving their writing.

The writing cycle consists of five stages:

1. Plan

2. Draft

3. Revise

4. Edit

5. Publish

Word Study

Students will continue to practice 30 "codes" of the English language through watching videos uploaded by their class teacher. Grades 4A, 4B, 4C and 4D will continue exploring Rule 17, a spelling rule known as "The FSZL Gang", which explains when to double f, s, z and l. 4E will continue exploring Rule 25, a spelling rule which explains when to use "ck" when spelling words. The "bootcamp" process allows students to practice the new skill until it becomes "automatic" in their brains.

Mathematics

In Mathematics, students will complete their unit of study on chance and probability. They will continue to look at describing everyday events using probability terminology:

Impossible
Unlikely
Even Chance
Likely
Certain

Students will also explore how probability is changed when events impact the chance of other events. This occurs through everyday events - if it is raining the ground is not dry and when calculating the probability. For instance - rolling a dice and getting a 6 does not change the probability of getting a 6 on my next role. However pulling a card out of a deck of cards and keeping it out changes what card might be pulled out next.

Students will apply their knowledge of probability to create and explain a chance game.

Unit of Inquiry

Students are continuing to explore the unit of inquiry, How We Express Ourselves. Students will continue to inquire into the line of inquiry, 'Connecting with the arts influences people.'

Students will explore how they personally connected to art, as well as look at ways that artists try to influence and connect to people with art, such as through political art.

Wellbeing

Over the next two weeks we will be focusing on identifying positive and negative strategies to cope with challenges and changes. In particular students will also look at how persistence and adaptability will help them in multiple situations.

Reminders

Make sure you read school communications regarding any changes of drop off and pick up.

Grade 4 students will be finishing at 3:20pm.

Grade 4 Team

4A Melanie Davis

4B Andrew Yeaman

4C Phoebe James

4D Nicole Klaassen

4E Heather Jenkins & Zoe Picton

Hearing unit - Amy Chadwick

Grade Four Snapshot 2021 - Term 2

Welcome to Week 1 Term 4 of Home Learning

Issue 22 · 09 Oct 2020

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