English
Reading
During Readers’ Workshop sessions, students will participate in daily mini lessons focussing on a range of strategies to comprehend non-fiction texts, such as ‘topic, sub-topic, detail’, ‘Boxes and bullets’, ‘Tic, Tac, Toe’. Students will have daily opportunities to read independently, work towards their personal goals and make their thinking visible using a range of graphic organisers.
Writing
The text types we will focus on this term are writing to persuade, writing to inform and writing to explain. This will include the appropriate structure and language features of each text type. We will also follow the writing cycle of planning, drafting, editing (proofreading and re-crafting) and publishing written work. Students will regularly conference with the teacher in order to improve their writing and set goals.
Word Work
Students participate in a 20 minute word work session four times a week.
Mrs Evans - prefixes, suffixes, derivations, mnemonics
Miss Markos - revising long vowel sounds and graphemes such as ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph
Miss Murphy & Merriel - alternate spelling for long and other vowel sounds
Mrs Van Audenaerde - revising double letter phonemes (ll, ss, ff, zz), consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th, ng) and long vowel sounds
Miss Vernon & Mr Arranz - revising graphemes (ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, ey), split digraphs (a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e), alternate spellings for single and double letter graphemes
Maths
Year 3
Problem solving, number patterns, symmetry, properties of 3D objects, data collection, multiplication, division and measurement
Year 4
Problem solving, properties of 2D shapes, Area, Perimeter, data collection and graphing, multiplication and division mental and written strategies
Science
Heating Up - Physical Science
The Heating Up inquiry provides opportunities for students to investigate different heat sources and how heat moves from one object to another. Through hands-on activities, students investigate the difference in conductivity of materials.
HaSS
Civic and Citizenship - How can I participate in my community?
This inquiry explores why people participate within communities and how students can actively participate and contribute. It introduces students to the values of fairness, care and compassion that underpin a civil society. The activities and case studies assist students to explore the motivations of different people who contribute to their community.
History - What is the role that people of diverse backgrounds have played in the development and character of the local community?
Students will investigate the features of a community, compare our local community with Broome and Melbourne and research the lives of Australians from diverse backgrounds including Theo Notaros, Fiona Wood, Sidney Myer, Terri Irwin, Anh Do and David Wirrpanda.
Health and PE
Fresh Tastes - Food and Me - Healthy Foods for Me
Students will review the Five Food Groups and their main nutrients. They will learn about the traffic light food categorisation system and explore cultural variation of lunch boxes from around the world.
Social and Emotional Learning (SELs) - Self-Management
Managing Our Feelings, Positive Thinking, Perseverance and a Growth Mindset
Physical Education
Tennis - 3/4 JA (week 1-7) 3/4 MM (week 8 - term 3)
Dance
Cross Country
FMS - Dodging, kicking, forehand strike, 2-hand side arm strike
Technologies
Digital Technologies
Students will be using problem solving skills to create and develop animations using the computer coding program Scratch. Year 3 will be using code to add sounds, movement and backgrounds to their animation projects. Year 4 will be working on more complex tasks such as scoring and navigation when developing games.
During term 2 3/4 students from 3/4KE and 3/4JA will participate in a series of lessons as part of a Little Bits Bag Alarm Design Project. Students will generate, develop and communicate electronic circuit design ideas and decisions using technical terms and detailed diagrams to solve a problem.
Design and Technologies - Lunch Box Blitz
Students will investigate how they will prepare, package, transport and store their lunch to keep it safe and fresh.
Performing Arts
Students are developing their musicianship skills. This includes reading music notation and playing the recorder with particular attention to correct technique. We sing and play the ukulele, increasing our chord knowledge and improving our strumming patterns. We work together and individually to create interesting musical compositions that demonstrate a variety of musical elements such as pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo and form.
Japanese
Students will be learning vocabulary for parts of the body, and more adjectives so that they can describe people and creatures. They will continue to learn reading & writing of hiragana sounds and words.
