Beaumaris North PS

Curriculum News, Year 4

Term1, 2023

This term we have embarked on our year-long ‘Sharing the planet’ unit where we explore our Rights/Responsibilities, as well as our ‘How the world works’ unit, where the students will be understanding the way materials behave and interact.

 

We have commenced our SMART Spelling program and wellbeing continues to be a priority in Year 4 with the Resilience Project. We are encouraging students to reflect on what they are grateful for each day. 

 

We encourage students to continue reading at home and work on their times tables.

Literacy

Reading

We are using the CAFÉ strategy (Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency and Expanding Vocabulary) to continue to become better readers.  These strategies are taught and modelled by teachers during whole class reading sessions. 

 

This term students will begin conferencing one on one with teachers setting goals under these headings. Students are encouraged to read in a variety of ways, through the Daily 5 – Read to Self, Read to Someone and Listen to Reading. We encourage students to read at home on a regular basis. 

 

To support this habit, students are required to write what they are reading at least three times a week in their Year 4 student diaries and have this signed by both parent and teacher at the end of each week.

 Writing

Students have commenced exploring a variety of the six writing traits through the Daily 5, “Work on Writing”. The focus for Term 1 has been exploring the traits of conventions and organisation through recount and persuasive structures in writing. Focus will be determined after assessing their initial writing pieces. The likely focus will be idea generation and sentence fluency.

 

Spelling

Students will continue to practise their individual spelling words in line with the SMART spelling approach.

Numeracy

Place Value: The value of a digit depending on its place in a number using knowledge of ones, tens, hundreds and thousands.

 

Problems Solving: Worded Problems through 'Matharoo'

 

Applied Maths: Measurement

 

Multiplication: Daily Times tables through afternoon 'Silent Maths'

Units of Inquiry

SHARING THE PLANET

All children have rights regardless of who they are

 

Lines of inquiry:

  • The rights that all children should have
  • The similarities and differences between a right and a responsibility
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  • Whether these rights differ throughout the world.

 HOW THE WORLD WOKS

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

Speaking & Listening

Students will experience a variety of listening and speaking opportunities sharing in whole class and group work.

Whole-school Focus on PYP Learner Profile

February: Caring

March: Risk-takers

 

Resilience Project Focus

We continue to work through the Resilience Project lessons to build gratitude, empathy and mindfulness.