Grade 4 News
Important Reminders/Dates
Looking forward to Term 4
Friday, November 22nd: Up Session 1 - 2pm
Friday, November 29th: Up Session 2 - 2pm
Tuesday, December 3rd: Christmas Carols: click below to practise the dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no2EXY41rgQ
Tuesday, December 10th: Statewide transition day
Friday, December 13th: Meet the teacher 2pm
Thursday, December 19th: Last Day Term 4 - 1.30pm Dismissal
Learning in Action
Literacy:
The grade 4's have loved spending the past fortnight as authors, illustrators and publishers. Each student has spent time drafting, revising, publishing and are now up to illustrating each page of their buddy books. We are so impressed by the morals and messages they have included in their stories, and love the way they have used repetition and varied sentence structure to keep their readers engaged. Now as illustrators, the students are thinking about the different colours to use, how to position the images and words on the page to ensure it is lots of fun for their future buddies to read.
Preview for Learning: Students will finalise their buddy books and move on to revising persuasive texts.
Word Work:
ti & ci making the "sh" sound as a suffix and when do we know which one to use.
Maths:
Over the past fortnight our students have completed their unit on fractions, and moved on to decimals. The students have been exploring the connection between the two, knowing that both are parts of a whole number, and that decimals will all have an equivalent fraction. The Grade 4’s spent time turning fractions into decimals, plotting both on a number line and finding matching pairs. Have a look at this video to learn more about the connection - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6qFgzv3ICU
We have continued to work on our measurement investigation, with students slowly adding pieces to their gallery. The students had to create a base that would hold their sculptures, making sure one face of their shape would have enough surface area to fit it. After building these we used MAB and sand to measure both the volume and capacity of their shape.
If possible, it would be great if the students could bring in a shoe box (or a box of similar size) each for our applied unit, as they will be building on their creations and the shoe box will be a great space for them to store and then display in at the end.
Preview for Learning: Students will continue exploring decimals, starting their individual learning goals. We will also be wrapping up our measurement investigation by looking at temperature.
Inquiry:
This fortnight in Inquiry, students have continued their sustainability topic on World Lakes. They have explored the Lakes of Eurasia and Lake Eyre of Australia. We looked at the features of Eurasian lakes and how human activities are impacting these lakes. When focussing on Lake Eyre the students learnt about why Lake Eyre is often empty and what happens when it fills up.
Preview for Learning: In the coming fortnight we will be looking at the Gippsland Lake catchment, and reviewing all that we have learnt this term about the Lakes of the World.
Wellbeing:
Students have discussed the actions they can take to build respectful, gender-friendly relationships in different parts of their lives. They discriminated between problems that they could solve and those they might need help with. The students identified actions they are doing or could take to show respect to themselves, others in their home, their class, their school, and the wider community.
Preview for learning: Students will continue to discriminate between problems they can solve by themselves, and those they need to ask for help. They will identify strategies they can use to withdraw from a situation involving conflict or violence to protect their own or others’ safety. We will also look at help-seeking strategies they can use when a problem involving gender-based violence is too big to solve by themselves.
From The Grade 4 Teachers
Colour Run Fun
