Year 4 Update

What's been happening in Year 4 -Weeks 5 & 6

We have had artists from Deadly Kultja at Hillsmeade creating some amazing new murals at our school. Our students have all contributed to the artwork by placing a thumbprint in their house colour onto our allocated mural. They look fantastic and add a collaborative creative piece of artwork to our school. We were treated to a special cultural session, where our students learnt more about Welcome to Country and what it means, learnt words from a First Nations language, discovered traditional cultural artefacts, and enjoyed listening to didgeridoo playing.

English

• We have continued our exploration of the movie Wonder. Students have been looking at themes that we find through the movie, such as empathy, peer pressure, redemption, resilience, belonging and growth. 
• We have been looking at significant moments and events from the movie, and trying to understand the characters motivation for acting the way that they did in that moment. This has been interesting for the students to unpack and begin to understand why people make some of the choices they do. 
• We continue our daily partner fluency reading. This is a great opportunity for students to practice their expression and speed control while reading to a partner who provides meaningful feedback. We are seeing the benefits of these sessions and the students enjoy engaging with the activity.
• Reading and writing assessments have begun, providing students an opportunity to shine and show off their skills.
• Through our Literacy Skills block, we have been continuing our joined handwriting and typing practice, working towards achieving our pen licences.
• Our focus has been on exploring the root word pend/pens and the suffix -tude.

Maths

• Fluency in 5 sessions continue to support and develop students recall of common and necessary number facts. It is great to see students succeed with this activity and move through the different skills. 
• We have continued our learning of fractions, equivalent fractions and connections between fractions, decimals and percentages. We have also introduced mixed, improper and proper fractions, placing fractions on  number-lines and counting by fractions.
• In Daily Review we have been revisiting graphing and division. These sessions help our long-term memory retain the information that we have  previously learnt.

Inquiry

• We continue to explore Government, Laws and Communities - Civics and Citizenship.
• We have been learning about how democratic decisions can use discussion, voting and consensus-building.
• We have discussed the roles of local government and how communities use and contribute to local services.
• We chose a local civic issue and began to ask questions about it, such as who is responsible, what is being done about it. We looked at how we find the information that we need and if the information is credible or not.

SEL

• We continue on our journey with the Kindness Campaign. It is great to see the students interacting with the activities and each other as we highlight the importance of kindness across the school. 
• We have had a focus on problem solving in peer situations, use role plays and scenarios to help our understanding of different situations. 
• We also revisited diversity, wellbeing and inclusion and what that looks like within our classroom. 

REMINDERS

Hats are compulsory for outside. Students will need to sit under the stepped shade-sail area if they do not have a hat.

Reading! 

Home work reading should be at 3 times a week for 20 minutes each time, and recorded in your school diary.

Multiplication!

Practice your ninja belts times table and become a master in you classroom.