Connect: Year 4

Important Dates - Year 4

District Cross Country & Math's Open Afternoon - Tuesday 19th May
3/4 Hooptime: Thursday 21st May
Sausage Sizzle PTF - Tuesday 26th May
Free Dress Day - Thursday 28th May
Curriculum Day - Friday 29th M
Year 4 Camp @ Mill Valley Ranch: 10th - 12th 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

Over the next two weeks students will be beginning a unit that focuses on decimals.

As part of this unit we will be exploring:

how to write and represent decimal numbers
placing decimals on a number line
reading and ordering decimals to hundredths

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;