Curriculum News, Year 4
Term 2, 2024

Welcome to Term 2. We hope you all had a lovely Easter and great break.

This term the Year 4 students will participate in the House Cross Country with the opportunity to progress through to Districts and beyond. They will once again have the opportunity to shop at the Mother’s Day stall, run by our wonderful parent volunteers!

For our ‘Who we are’ unit of inquiry, Mad About Science will visit us at school and provide hands on experiences to support learning about the Human Body. At the end of the term, students will share their knowledge with the school community at their Year 4 Showcase.

Units Of Inquiry

How the world works

Understanding the way materials behave and interact determines how people use them

Lines of Inquiry

The different forms of matter
The way matter works
The way matter can change
The way we use matter

Who we are

The body is made up of different systems that need to be maintained in order to stay healthy.

Lines of Inquiry

The body systems and their components
The way they work together
The way we keep ourselves healthy

Literacy

Grammar

We are focusing on open and closed questions and incorporating speech marks, prepositional phrases and homophones into our weekly dictation sessions.

Directed Writing

Students will explore a variety of writing traits as they investigate their chosen body system. Students will also focus on informative writing.

Spelling

Students will continue to focus on individual spelling words each week as within the SMART spelling approach.

Reading

Shared and individual reading will continue in our class time this term, with a particular focus on reading stamina as part of the Daily 5 & CAFÉ Frameworks. There is a continued expectation that the students read regularly at home, a minimum of three nights. This needs to be recorded in student diaries and signed by parents. Thank you for your ongoing support.

Speaking and Listening

Within this term’s units of inquiry, students will have opportunities to develop their speaking and listening skills. They will create a presentation to share their research during the end of term showcase.

Handwriting

In preparation for earning Pen Licences in Terms 3 and 4, the students will continue to practise letter formation of the Victorian Modern Cursive script.

Numeracy

Number

Multiplication and division of numbers by single and multiple digits.

Algebra

Automatic response of numbers using all four operations.
Planning and using different methods to solve worded problems using all four processes.

Measurement

Students will focus on timetables, elapsed time and analogue clocks during our applied maths sessions.

Probability

Maths Games

Statistics

Students will be able to explore and choose appropriate graphical displays to represent data found through a wellbeing activity, reflecting on findings and ways to effectively share information.

Space

Symmetry

Inclusive Approaches

Year 4 we will continue to access lessons through the Resilience Project, the Cybersafety Project and Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships. In Term 2 our whole-school focus will be on the following PYP Learner.