Level 4: Connect
Anthony Klvac and Jana Hain 4A, Tilly Van & Jana Hain 4B, Claire Parsons 4C
L4 Homework Week 3-4
Please remind students they need to bring a fully charged laptop to school each day.
Hats are now needed for recess and lunch times.
Literacy:
In reading we are exploring 'Greek Myths' and the language structures and content of Greek Mythology. The students have been highly engaged when unpacking stories of Greek Mythology, thinking about character traits and common themes or language structures that we can identify.
In Writing we have focused our attention across the past few weeks to refine our text structures and language features in preparation for our upcoming narrative and persuasive assessments. The Level 4 students worked attentively during Weeks 3 and 4 to create and produce their own cookie, and convince us why theirs was the best! This hard work helped us practice our persuasive writing skills and how we can use persuasive devices and language to engage and convince our readers. We will now move our focus towards revising narrative structures and how our story plots can be detailed with exciting events and characters!
In Core Literacy we have learnt about the root words "chron" meaning time and "photo" meaning light.
Numeracy: In Math we will be looking at extending students understandings in relation to multiplicative thinking. This will include introducing students to the area model to help solve multiplication problems. In addition a focus over the next 2 weeks will be number sequences and looking at extending our understandings of place value focusing on 10ths and 100ths. We encourage all students to continue working on their times tables.
Problem solving contiues to be a focus and an example of this is below.
Inquiry : Civics and Citizenship
The Mayor's Visit
Earlier today the Level 4 students were introduced to Mayor of Bayside- Debbie Taylor-Haines. She shared with us all about events, services, and what it is like to be the Mayor. We spoke about the different wards and how many councillors there are.
She shared her reason for wanting to come into local government and be the Mayor was to give back to the community. We learnt that there are over 100 services offered by the Bayside Council. Whilst the main ones are to collect our
rubbish, it is also to refurbish parks and reserves as well as act on new bi-laws.
Students have been identifying the difference between Laws and Rules.