Curriculum Term 4

Curriculum Foci

Writing:

Text Types: 

• Information text - use of adjectives and pronouns, collating information, structural elements, purpose. 
• Recount - use of adjectives, adverbs and pronouns, time connectives, ordering events.
• Persuasive (Level 2) - exposure to the text type, identifying persuasive language, creating a short persuasive text.

Handwriting: 

• Letter formation
• Starting points
• Direction
• Pencil grip
• Correct placement on dotted third lines

Spelling Rules or Sounds: 

• Students will learn one spelling sound per week and/or a spelling rule.
• Eleven spelling sounds will be taught explicitly
• The spelling rules
• Prefixes and Suffixes
• Plural rule
• Homophones - they’re, their, there

Grammar and Punctuation Foci: 

• Full stops
• Commas in compound/complex sentences and lists
• Capital letters
• Identifying verbs, adverbs, adjectives and noun groups (proper nouns)
• Editing skills

Reading:

• Independent Reading Stamina
• Decoding strategies - being able to segment and blend sounds together
• Reading skills - rereading, fluency and expression
• Letter-Sound relationships
• Vocabulary - synonyms, building meaning
• Alphabetical order, dictionary use
• Answering literal comprehension questions by identifying the information within the text
• Non-fiction text features and purpose
• Determining between fact and fiction
• Understanding and interpreting diagrams

Mathematics:

Number and Algebra: 

• Multiplication & Division (sharing and groups of)
• Subtraction & Addition strategies
• Place value of two, three and four digit numbers: ordering, comparing, read numbers, partitioning and expanding
• Skip counting by 2s, 5s, 10s and 3s
• Number patterns
• Partners to twenty to solve addition problems
• Solving addition and subtraction equations using doubles and near doubles
• Worded problems
• Decimals and Fractions (incorporated into 'Telling the time')

Measurement and Geometry: 

• Telling the time: quarter to and quarter past, half past
• Telling the time including describing duration using calendars, months, seasons, weeks, days and hours

Statistics and Probability: 

• Chance: identify outcomes that are likely, unlikely, possible and impossible

Humanities:

Sustainability - Being Green on the Blue Planet

• Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape; daily and seasonal changes affect everyday life
• Earth’s resources are used in a variety of ways
• Weather and seasons
• People create familiar designed solutions and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs

Inquiry Skills: Critical and creative thinking, taking action, sharing ideas, communication, and collaboration (working in teams, offering ideas, problem solving).