Hello from Grade 4, Ms Kennedy and Mrs Kirkpatrick

We would like to welcome everyone back for term 3 and hope you all had a great break. Everyone has settled back into the routines and we are off to a great start.

LITERACY

In Literacy we have moved on from the Imaginative writing and fiction work we were doing in term 2 and are now focusing on Non- Fiction.

This week we have been looking at the purpose, structure and features of non-fiction texts and and the different ways information is presented.

To start things off, we have writing instructional texts.

The students are pretty good at giving the instructions on how to make or do something like make a milkshake or bake a cake, so to make things a little more interesting we read the book, 'How to wash a Woolly Mammoth'.

The students had to choose an unusual animal and give clear instructions and the materials needed to wash their animal. We had anything from an ant to giraffe.

Students combined their knowledge of the structure and features of an instructional text with a little of their imagination and produce some great writing. Here are just a few for you to have a read off. Enjoy

MATHS

One of the areas we are focusing on in Maths this term is Multiplication. We are learning to count by single digits and are using lots of games to help us learn our multiplication facts.

If we can learn our multiplication facts it really helps with multiplying larger numbers.

Perhaps you could help at home. Dice and cards are handy for practicing facts as well as games like this one, Multiplication Squares.

SCIENCE

Last term we focused our inquiry around forces and motions, where we carried out simple experiments on gravity, friction, speed, push and pull. To celebrate all the work we did and to finished the term, we organised the 'Great Egg Drop'.

Students had to design and then make a vessel to protect an egg when dropped.

To test out our designs we walked to Victoria Hill and dropped the eggs from the Poppet Head.

Here are some photos of the day and a bit of what the students had to say.

Elton:

The Egg Drop was fun. We walked over to the Poppet Head to drop our eggs. Lachy and my egg cover was made from a cardboard box, bubble wrap and a pillow. Unfortunately it broke but we had a good time anyway.

Mila:

My design worked, I was so proud of myself. I even bragged about it to my family.

Toby:

Me and Kaeden worked together and made our egg packet out of a cardboard box and a lot of fluff. On the day I didn't think it wouold work because some others broke. I was right.

Annie:

The egg drop was really fun. I enjoyed working with Sidney. We had fun making ours and it did survive the drop except Sid accidently broke it afterwards.

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