Year Four
The Year Four Team would like to extend a warm welcome to all of our parents, caregivers and students. With your support and partnership, we look forward to a positive and productive year ahead!
The 2024 Year 4 team:
4A- Charlotte Turner
4B- Elycia Ang
4C- Kristin Vanden Houte-Smit
4D- Denae Vines
4E- Christina Assaf
4F- Kylie McCluskey
4G- Katelyn Waldron
4H- Salmina Imran
4I- Adriana Taliana
4J- Navneet Kaur
Leading Teacher/4G- Deanna Kotevski
Assistant Principal- Matthew Hart
Reading
The Year Four’s have settled into their classrooms with much enthusiasm for our new spaces. Students have been immersed in the First 20 Days of School whereby they learn the routines and expectations set in the classroom. Within Reading, students develop the practice of ‘Reading is Thinking’. During this time students acquire the language of discussing their thinking and practise various reading strategies. Metacognition is being able to think about one’s own thinking and enables students to monitor their understanding. Students are expected to know which strategies to use for effective comprehension. The challenge is for students to realise how using these strategies has helped them in their reading. It’s encouraged that students continue to use these while reading at home.
Writing
The Writer’s Notebook is unique to each student as they get to choose what gets put into it. It’s a powerful tool to spark imagination and generate writing ideas. Students have been developing their own Writer’s Notebook and working through the writing process to develop published texts of writing. Students are encouraged to bring in ‘seeds’ that will engage them in writing. A ‘seed’ can be, but not limited to images, overheard conversations, observations about the world, memories, reflections, articles, photographs, facts, questions, objects, sketches of places and timelines of important events. Students can bring in items from home to place in their Writer’s Notebook.
Mathematics
In Mathematics, students have been building a productive mathematics community. Students have established protocols and set routines for learning. This enables students to become reflective problem solvers. Students have to explore a variety of experiences within a mathematics class such as collaborative groups or independent tasks. The Year Four’s will begin their first concept on Place Value in the coming weeks.
To extend the student’s knowledge of the International Baccalaureate, the Year Four’s continue to unpack the Learner Profile attributes. In doing so, classes are creating and developing their classroom essential agreements which outlines the expected behaviours in the learning environment.
We're looking forward to sharing our progress throughout the year in Year Four.
Regards,
The Year Four Team
Reminders
- Hats are required in Term One. Please ensure students are bringing their hats each day.
- Once devices have been configured with the IT department and ICT agreements have been signed, students are required to bring their MacBooks to school fully charged.
- Parent information night is on the 19th February at 6pm. The session will be hosted in your child's classroom and we look forward to meeting you then.