Year 4 Update

We have had a fabulous term!

During the first term of the year, our Year 4 students have settled well into their daily routines, including adapting to their new timetable and lining‑up expectations. They have embraced new learning structures, adjusted to working with different classmates, and begun forming new friendships across the cohort.

The Year 4 teachers would like to thank our families for their ongoing support with their children’s learning. We hope everyone enjoys a happy, restful, and well‑deserved break and look forward to seeing you next term.

A warm welcome to Ms Fasham!

Next term Ms Caprani will be increasing her days in the classroom and Ms Fasham will be permanently in 4C on Wednesdays. 

A snapshot of our learning in Term 2: Weeks 1 & 2

English

*Next term we will continue our English Daily Review to revise key English skills so that we can remember and apply them automatically in our reading and writing.

*Practise our typing skills to develop our accuracy and speed.

*Explore narratives and poetry.

*Look at characters, themes, setting and mood when reading texts.

*Explore conjunctions 'while' and 'whereas' and latin root ven/vent.

Maths

*Continue to go through the Maths Daily Review, revising mathematical concepts learnt. In the first few weeks the concepts in our review will be place value, length, mass, capacity and temperature.

*Focus on addition and strategies such as the 'split strategy' mentally to 4-digits, as well as the 'jump strategy'.

SEL

*Learn to describe strategies to use to support friends and seek help. 

*Learn to describe who can help when there are questions or problems at school.

Inquiry - During Term 2, students will explore how individuals and groups contribute to their communities and how these contributions are remembered, celebrated, and commemorated. 

*Investigate and identify what makes a community and how people contribute. 

*Explain how individuals influence their community. 

*Explain why Country and Place are important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

*Describe why Country is significant, especially to Aboriginal peoples. 

Events and Reminders

Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th April -  Family Teacher Conversations- bookings are now open on Compass. ​

Wed 6th & Thurs 7th May – Mothers/Special Others Stall​. Students will attend the stall. during their allocated class time.

Friday 8th May – Mothers/Special Others Breakfast.

Homework

Reading: Please continue to encourage your child to read every night. Ask them to record the title of the book and the number of minutes read in their diary.

Students are required to bring their diaries to school so that teachers can check them on the day specified.

Spelling: We will begin to send spelling words home at the end of the term. Students need to practise their words and will be tested weekly on the day specified by their teacher.

Please encourage your child to read and practise their spelling words daily.

The Year 4 teachers thank you for your ongoing support.

Our Learning

Some fun during Year 4 Sports!

Fun with maths - exploring temperature!