Year Four

Dear Year Four Families,

The term is fast approaching to an end, with only a few more weeks to go. Students are continuing their learning with our third Unit of Inquiry. 

Unit of Inquiry

Students have been investigating our line of inquiry into health messages. They have been studying different advertisements to identify the messages within and their purpose. Students are exploring the messages surrounding physical, mental and emotional health. 

Reading

Within Reading students have been practising the skill of noting the main idea and supporting details of a text. They have used different forms of texts and recorded these details. Students have continued to consolidate their understanding of non-fiction texts and their features. They have specifically examined diagrams, labels, captions, photographs, headings and sub-headings.

Writing

In Writing, students have been studying different forms of information texts. They have made comparisons between the different author's purpose, it's as easy as PIE (persuade, inform, entertain). Students have begun to research into mental health and wellbeing. They have developed their research skills by identifying the keywords within a text and recording the important details. Using this research students will sort and categorise the information to form their information report. 

Mathematics 

Year Four is investigating time in Mathematics. Students are learning some of the concepts such as, telling time to the quarter-hour, using the language of 'past' and 'to'. They are also learning to tell time to the minute and investigating the relationship between units of time. Some students are also learning to convert between the units of time using 'am' and 'pm' notation to solve simple time problems.

Reminders

• Absences - If your child is away, please be sure to log this on XUNO or call the school office to let us know.
• Devices - As part of the ICT agreement, students are to bring in their devices everyday fully charged.
• Uniform - It is school policy that students are to wear their academic uniform everyday other than that of when they have physical education. On days of PE, students are able to wear their sport uniform or house colour polo.
• Waste Free Wednesday- As an initiative to reduce waste students are encourage to bring a lunch box with nude food. This is to eliminate all unnecessary packaging and plastics in their lunch box. 
• King's Birthday- Public Holiday Monday 12th June
• Last Day- Term 2 will end on Friday 23rd June 

Kind regards,

Year Four Team