Welcome to Week 7 of Home Learning

The Grade 4 team would like to again thank you for the continued support you are giving to your child/ children at home. We really appreciate all your effort! We continue to encourage all students to remember to have breaks away from their devices, to move their bodies and to stay hydrated. There is light at the end of the tunnel with only 9 days left of remote learning!

Please note that Monday 25th May is a Pupil Free Day as all staff will be at school for professional learning and preparing for the return to onsite learning.

Over the next few weeks, we will continue our inquiry into Where We Are In Place and Time and how events shape societies. Students will examine primary and secondary sources to explore significant historical events. They will consider the impact of these events from multiple perspectives and consider how they have shaped society today.

Please read the following overview of the learning tasks for Week 7. These tasks will continue to be posted on Google Classroom with additional instructions and resources 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 include:

Making text-to-world connections between historical or current events in texts.
Students demonstrating their understanding of the different ways to make connections with texts - personal, across texts and with the world.

WRITING

Tasks this week include:

Identifying the main idea in information texts.
Identifying the topic sentence in a paragraph.
Analysing the structure of a paragraph.
Creating a primary source diary entry about life in lockdown.

Writing this week continues to develop students' ability to construct information texts. While writing information texts, 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. They will also continue to "bootcamp" a reading rule which will help them when they decode words. 4A, 4B, 4C and 4D will connect their knowledge of when "c" makes its second sound /s/ to when "g" will make its second sound /j/. 4E will learn about jobs 4 and 5 of the silent final e. The "bootcamp" process allows students to practice the new skill until it becomes "automatic" in their brains.

Mathematics

In Mathematics, students will continue learning about multiplication. They are also encouraged to play number games or use Mathletics to continue practicing basic number skills. Tasks for the week include:

Using written strategies to solve multiplication problems and investigating how the size of answers changes when we multiply.
Explaining our thinking when solving multiplication problems.
Using strategies to solve one and two-step multiplication word problems.
Completing Mathletics tasks.

Unit of Inquiry

This week, we continue our unit inquiring into how events shape societies. Students will engage in the following tasks:

Describing significant events that have had an impact on Australian society.
Recording information from research in efficient and effective ways.
Drawing conclusions about significant events by describing the impact from multiple perspectives and considering how they have shaped society today.

Wellbeing

This week we invite students to explore the notion of giving and receiving compliments. It is hoped that this can be one of many strategies that your child is using to support their wellbeing throughout the home learning period.

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

Cosmic Kids Yoga (YouTube channel)
Smiling Mind (mindfulness app)
Art Hub for kids (YouTube channel)
Go Noodle
Mindfulness Challenge Cards (on Google Classroom)
Yoga cards on Google Classroom

Reminders

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

Monday 25th May - Pupil Free Day

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 7 of Remote Learning

Issue 10 · 22 May 2020

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