Welcome to Week 3 of Home Learning

The Grade 4 team have had a successful week of google meets and have enjoyed the face-to-face time with their students during the whole class and small group google meets. Thank you to all parents for their continued support during this time!

Please read the following overview of the learning tasks for Week 3 of Term 3. The daily schedule, with additional instructions and resources, will continue to be posted on Google Classroom the night before each day of learning.

If your child has completed the day's tasks, they may be interested in completing one of these optional tasks. These tasks are open-ended, inquiry based and hands-on.

English

An overview of tasks for reading and writing this week are as follows:

READING

Students should be completing at least 20 minutes of independent reading a day as well as completing the tasks set by the teacher. Tasks this week focus on building understanding of persuasive texts and include:

Identifying and interpreting topic sentences
To explain supporting reasons in persuasive texts
To recognize the opinion in a text
Guided reading with teacher in small group Google Meets
Reading for enjoyment - own choice

WRITING

Writing this week will continue to focus on persuasive writing. Tasks this week include:

Adding more detail to paragraphs
Varying topic sentence starters
Sequencing Paragraphs
Weighting the parts of your piece

While writing, we encourage students to use the writing cycle to ensure they are continuously developing and improving their writing.

The writing cycle consists of five stages:

1. Plan

2. Draft

3. Revise

4. Edit

5. Publish

Note: Not all pieces need to be published. We encourage the students to write many different writing pieces which they revise and edit. At the end of a unit of work we ask students to choose their best piece to publish.

Word Study

Students will continue to practice 30 "codes" of the English language through watching videos uploaded by their class teacher. Grades 4A, 4B, 4C and 4D will be learning Rule 7 from the Write-to-Read program. This rule explains the 5 jobs of the silent final 'e'. 4E will begin to explore Rule 30, a spelling rule which explains when to choose the code "ar", as in "car", or the code "a", as in "fast". The "bootcamp" process allows students to practice the new skill until it becomes "automatic" in their brains.

Mathematics

In Mathematics, students will continue to represent and compare fractions using models. They are also encouraged to play number games or use Mathletics to continue practicing basic number skills. Tasks for the week include:

Using models to represent and compare fractions
Represent and compare fractions using a number line
Represent the fraction of each letter in their name
Complete set tasks on Mathletics
Choice of mathematics tasks including measuring, building or drawing.

Unit of Inquiry

This week, we will continue our inquiry into how people use initiatives to have an impact on environments. Students will engage in the following tasks:

Understanding the purpose of debating
Identify how to interact with their environment
Explain how humans interact with their environment
Identify problems in the environment and use initiative to solve them
Choosing tasks from an inquiry choice board

Wellbeing

Student wellbeing continues to be a strong focus during remote learning. This week the students are being asked to find a song that makes them feel happy. They will identify how some music can help people to feel calm or to be able to focus better.

Here are some additional ideas and resources to support wellbeing during home learning:

Reminders

Make sure to check the Specialists Snapshot for learning tasks from the Specialist team.

Grade 4 Team

4A Melanie Davis

4B Andrew Yeaman

4C Phoebe James

4D Nicole Klaassen

4E Heather Jenkins & Zoe Picton

Hearing unit - Amy Chadwick

Grade Four Snapshot 2021 - Term 2

Welcome to Week 3 Term 3 of Home Learning

Issue 13 · 24 Jul 2020

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