Connect: Year 4
Dear 4A and 4B families,
Welcome to Term 3! The students have transitioned into this term beautifully, we are so proud of them!
We have some exciting things happening this term:
Friday 21st July- Beanie/PJ Day for MND
Tuesday 25th July- Hot Chip Day
Thursday 27th July- Respectful Relationships Open Afternoon
Monday 7th - Friday 11th August- Science Week
Monday 19th - Friday 23rd August Book Week
The Next Fortnight of Learning
Reading
- Unpacking persuasive texts
- Identifying persuasive devices and explaining their impact on the reader
- Scanning for key information
- Starting a new text for Book Club
- Continued to build our skills with the Book Club roles
Writing
- Constructing different types of topic sentences from a given topic e.g. exclamation, subordinating conjunctions or appositives.
- Writing introduction paragraphs to go with our signal outline paragraphs from last term.
- Continue to build our Writer's Notebook seeds to support our future writing pieces.
- Touch typing begins!
Maths
- Building our tool kit of strategies for solving division problems e.g. using arrays, missing number strategy or short division
- Investigating different types of angles
Inquiry
This term, our Inquiry focus is 'Types of Forces'. By understanding different types of forces and how they are exerted, our students can notice them in their daily lives and use them when creating solutions to problems.
Wellbeing
Students will be continuing to work on the Zones of Regulation focusing on gaining awareness on how they look and feel in each of the 4 Zones. Students will be working on identifying and verbalising which zone they are in.
Reminders
- Students are to read for 20 minutes a day.
- Daily practice of multiplication and division facts to build automatic recall.
- Drink bottles are to be filled with water.
- As winter has arrived we advise, if you can, to pop a spare change of school clothes in your child's school bag in case during break they have a slip or are muddy from their game of AFL/soccer.
A Celebration of Learning
What a fantastic way to kick of our Science term and our Inquiry topic with a visit from Professor Bunsen.
