Connect: Year 4

Important Dates - Year 4

Cheese Toastie Lunch - Monday 22nd June
Last Day of Term 2 - Friday 26th June

What's happening in our classroom?

Literacy

This term students are reading the text 'The Wild Robot' by Peter Brown. This text will guide much of our literacy learning in Term 2 including, grammar, vocabulary, comprehension and persuasive writing. The book is about an intelligent robot is that is stranded on an uninhabited island after a shipwreck. To survive the harsh surroundings, she bonds with the native animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.

We will be learning about persuasive writing inspired by 'The Wild Robot'. Students will craft letters that include clear arguments, supporting details and persuasive language to express a point of view.

Numeracy

In the coming weeks we will be beginning a unit focusing on addition and subtraction. This unit of learning will build upon prior knowledge and skills covered earlier in the year. Students will be learning how to use fact families to complete addition and equations and find unknown numbers. This involves rewriting subtraction equations as addition and using strategies to find the difference between two numbers. Finally as part of this unit of learning students will be exploring how to create equivalent addition number sequences.

This term we will also be spending time exploring angles as part of our maths learning. This will involve students learning how to name angles and classify them as acute, obtuse, right, straight and reflex.

Inquiry

This term in Inquiry, students will explore the exciting world of Distant Forces.

They will investigate the difference between contact and non-contact forces, including gravity, magnetism and electrostatic forces. Students will also learn about different types of forces such as pushes, pulls and twists, and how these forces affect everyday objects. They will conduct hands-on experiments with magnets, explore how some objects float in liquids, and discover how forces can act on objects without touching them.

Well-being

This term in Year 4 students will be learning;