Connect: Year 4
Important Dates
Hot Dog Day, Friday 20th June
House Gymnastics Challenge, Thursday 3rd July
Parent Teacher Interviews, Week 11
What's happening in our classroom?
Literacy
Over the next two weeks students will continue to work on their narrative stories based on our mentor text, Leo and Ralph. Students will be planning the action and tension section of their story, learning how to engage the reader and build suspense.
In reading we have been practising our inferring skills by reflecting on different parts of the text to consider character emotions, make predictions and explain choices made by the author. All students have been engaged in the text and are excited to continue to read together and discover what happens next in our story.
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
In the upcoming weeks we will also be exploring data in mathematics.
This will include:
identifying and comparing different graphs
how to assess and analyse the factors of a data set
how to select an appropriate data display
Inquiry
This term students will be starting a new Inquiry unit titled 'Our Island Home'.
This unit will cover many areas including;
Australia's neighbouring countries and what life is like in these places
What it is like to live in different places around the world
How maps and information technology are used to learn about different places
Why heat is important for life on Earth
Climate zones and natural vegetation in different countries
Well-being
This term students will be working on:
Positive coping strategies
Positive coping problem solving
Ongoing revision of our 'Ready to learn' plans and how to use our strategies effectively
Dojo Awards
Congratulations to the following students for receiving their 'Silver' certificate for reaching 150 Dojo points!
4B: Liam Bullock, Jacob Amiri & Mia Kruger
4A: Charlotte Potter, Riley Grigg & Kai Matthews
Celebration of Learning
Kitchen Garden
This week 4B made delicious pumpkin soup, honey muffins and herb scones while 4A made pumpkin risotto, focaccia bread and pumpkin/chocolate cake. Yum!
Inquiry - Learning about Climate Zones
Last week, students worked in groups to research different climate zones around the world. Students learnt about the difference between weather and climate and reflected on which climate zone they would prefer to live in and why.
