Connect: Year 4
Important Dates
Tuesday 1st April, Clean up Australia Day!
Thursday 3rd April, Easter Hat Parade (9:15 am)
Friday 4th April, last day of Term 1 (2:30 pm finish)
What's happening in our classroom?
Literacy
Over the next two weeks students will be working on the following:
- comparing and contrasting two examples written and digital media f
- identifying determiners (the, a, an, that and those) within in a sentence
- learning to use conjunctions but, because and so to link ideas within sentences
- writing imaginative paragraphs based a given illustration
Numeracy
In the next two weeks students will begin exploring fractions as part of their maths learning. This will include representing halves, quarters and thirds of shapes, counting in halves, quarters and thirds and converting mixed numerals to improper fractions.
In the next two weeks students will begin exploring time as part of their maths learning. This will include calculating duration of time and converting between units of time, for example 60 seconds is 1 minute and 60 minutes is 1 hour.
Inquiry
As part of our Inquiry learning this term we have been exploring health and safety messages shown in media. Students watched a number of advertisements and as a class we discussed if the message was created by someone we could 'trust'. This conversation raised a number of interesting topics before students finally had to categorise the media messages into 'trust' and 'don't trust' while also justifying their decision.
Well-being
Over the next two weeks we will be working on:
exploring what makes us stressed
responding to stress
recognising positive and negative emotions
developing our individual strategies for 'Ready-to-Learn' plans
Dojo Awards
Congratulations to the following students for receiving their 'Bronze' certificate for reaching 75 Dojo points!
Celebration of Learning
House Athletics
Last Friday the 14th of March, Year 3/4 students participated in our House Athletics day. Students competed in events such as; 100m sprint, high jump, shuttle relay, 800m, discus and shot put. Students all showed their house spirit but wearing our colours on the day and demonstrated terrific sportsmanship by giving it our best and cheering each other on.
STEAM
Recently Year 4 students have been learning about conductors and insulators in STEAM. In groups students created animals using Play-doh and then connected batteries, put the globe on top to make it light up ensuring that the positive and negative sides were correctly aligned.
Kitchen Garden
