Skye Primary School Newsletter

Connect: Year 4

Important Dates

  • Monday 10th of March, Labour Day Public Holiday

  • Tuesday 11th of March, Skye Footy League starts!

  • Friday 14th of March, House Athletics Day

  • Wednesday 19th of March, School Photos 

  • Friday 21st of March - Harmony Day (wear a touch of orange)

What's happening in our classroom?

Literacy

Over the next two weeks students will be working on the following:

  • commenting on their personal feelings and thoughts on a text 
  • identifying determiners (the, a, an, that and those) within in a sentence
  • writing imaginative paragraphs based a given illustration

Numeracy

In the next two weeks students will begin exploring fractions as part of their maths learning. This will include representing halves, quarters and thirds of shapes, counting in halves, quarters and thirds and converting mixed numerals to improper fractions. 

 

In the next two weeks students will begin exploring time as part of their maths learning. This will include calculating duration of time and converting between units of time, for example 60 seconds is 1 minute and 60 minutes is 1 ho   

 

Inquiry 

As part of our Inquiry learning students will be exploring what a healthy meal looks like and how to prepare a healthy meal. Students will investigate the Australian guide for healthy eating and the importance of eating a variety of food sources everyday. 

 

                                                                            Well-being 

Over the next two weeks we will be working on: 

  • exploring what makes us stressed
  • responding to stress 
  • recognising positive and negative emotions
  • developing our individual strategies for 'Ready-to-Learn' plans

Reminders

Celebration of Learning

Ready to Learn Scales

This week 4B and 4A have been working to create their personalised 'Ready-to-Learn' scales. . By using our 'Ready-to-Learn' scales students can communicate that they might need to use a strategy that will ensure they are in the right mindset for learning. 

 

Each student created an individual scale which shows their interests and creativity. 

Kitchen Garden

This week in Kitchen Garden we made fresh pasta with a pesto sauce!