Beaumaris North PS

Year 4 Specialist News - Term 1

Music

 

Transdisciplinary theme:  How we express ourselves 

 

Central idea:  We express ourselves as individuals with collective knowledge

 

Lines of inquiry: 

  • The range of ways we are influenced by communication 
  • The way social interactions influence how people engage with ideas and respond to others 
  • The differences between the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting or recording. 
  • How musical ideas work  
  • How musicians express patterns. 
  • Patterns help tell stories 
  • Events where a society may rely on singing for survival
  • Ancient cultures use symbols to tell the stories of their people

 

Key Concepts: perspective, function, form 

 

Learner Profile Attributes:  communicator 

 

Students will: 

  • Continue to expand their own understanding of formal music notation 
  • Read, write, arrange, sing, play and listen to music with a focus on the theme of place, especially music by First Nations People 
  • Experiment with expressing ideas through movement, mime, sound, pitch, rhythm etc 
  • Make choices about sound that represents ideas 
  • Take risks when communicating their original ideas to peers 
  • Understand and accept that the ideas of others can be very different to their own 
  • Work collaboratively with a small group to create, rehearse and perform a short piece of original music 
  • Shape elements of music using imagination and creativity, to communicate ideas to an audience 
  • Identify features of music, and be able to discuss the purpose that it was created for, using music terminology 

 

 Physical Education

Transdisciplinary theme: How we express ourselves

 

Central idea: Collaboration through game play and teamwork activities help positive and strong relationships 

  

Lines of inquiry:   

  • Body awareness- exploring how FMS contribute to an understanding on students' own body and its capabilities 
  • Team collaboration- how different activities can foster cooperation, teamwork and communication among peers during activity 
  • Skill development- refining specific motor skills within the curriculum 

Key Concepts:  

 

Perspective - Does collaborating strengthen who you are and how you are within a team? 

 

Responsibility- Children need to be aware of their responsibilities within the class and acting responsibly during activities with one another, within a team and with equipment and understand why this is important for enhancement in learning.  

  

Learner Profile Attributes:   

principled, caring, balanced 

  

Students will:  

  • Team Building Activities- Parachute Games  
  • Throwing and Catching Strategy Games.    
  • Modified Lacrosse with external coaches and T-Ball Activities.   
  • Refine the Fundamental Motor Skills of Throwing, Catching and Striking previously learnt, and perform these motor skills in various Lacrosse and T-Ball games and activities.   

              Introduction of basic strategies in team              games. 

Science

Curriculum strand: Earth Science  

 

Central idea: The Earth has a constantly changing landscape.

 

Lines of inquiry:   

  • Explore how natural processes and human activity shape their surroundings. 
  • What are rocks and minerals?  
  • How do soils, rocks and landscapes change over time? 
  • Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena  

 Learner Profile Attributes: openminded  

  

Students will:  

  • Investigate how soils, rocks and landscapes change over time
  • Investigate factors that affect the erosion of soil 
  • Plan and conduct an investigation of factors that influence water erosion of soils 

 Art

Transdisciplinary theme: How the world works 

 

Central idea: Australian Aboriginal artists blend tradition with contemporary art, showing the resilience of their culture.

 

Lines of inquiry:  

  • Traditional and introduced materials and methods used in Aboriginal art today, experimenting with these to create our own works of art
  • Connection to land and nature and how this connection is expressed in Aboriginal Art 
  • Cultural diversity, recognising the diversity of Aboriginal cultures, languages, and artistic traditions across different regions of Australia 

 

Key Concepts: connection and change 

 

Learner Profile Attributes: caring and reflective 

 

Students will create: 

  • Reconciliation and what it means. Creating a poster to represent what reconciliation means to them 
  • Exploring the origins of dot painting in relation to Papunya Tulla by creating a Camp Dog collage- using Dot painting techniques with layering detail. Inspired by the aboriginal artist Dion Beasley
  • Creating a Spirit Sculpture using assorted string binding, fabrics, and paint, inspired by the work from both Central Australia Tjanpi Desert Weavers and Arnhem Land rock paintings  
  • Printmaking an Indigenous fabric design inspired by artist from the Tiwi Islands