English
ReadingDuring Readers’ Workshop sessions, students will participate in daily mini lessons focussing on a range of strategies to comprehend fiction texts, such as 'Story Structure', 'BME' and 'SWBST'. As well as non-fiction texts, such as ‘topic, sub-topic, detail’, ‘Questioning Web’ and ‘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 entertain and writing to persuade. 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 - revision of long vowel sounds, prefixes, suffixes, derivations, mnemonics
Miss Markos - revising long vowel sounds, split
digraphs and alternate spellings of graphemes
Miss Murphy & Merriel - revising short
vowel sounds & double letter phonemes (ll, ck, ss, ff)
Mrs Van Audenaerde - revising single letter
sounds, using their knowledge of the letter sounds to blend and sound out words
and segmenting words.
Miss Vernon, Miss Robbins and Mrs Burgess - split
digraphs and alternate spellings of graphemes through activities such as sound
sorts, silly sentences and spelling bees
Maths
Problem solving, numbers in context, place value, addition and subtraction strategies, 2D shapes, transformations and patterns
Year 4
Problem solving, numbers in context, place value, addition and subtraction mental and written strategies, multiplication and division mental and written strategies, data collection and graphing
Science
Why do balls roll? Why
do apples fall from trees? Why do some things slide across ice but not on
carpet? What makes our bikes stop when we brake? We use all types of forces
including friction, gravity and pushes and pulls when we exercise, ride
bicycles and drive cars. Engineers and scientists use their knowledge of forces
and motion to design things for our homes, work and school.
The Smooth
Moves unit provides students with the opportunity to explore forces
and motion. Through hands-on activities students identify forces that act at a
distance and those that act in direct contact and investigate how
different-sized forces affect the movement of objects.
HaSS
This inquiry encourages students to examine
rules in society, understand why they exist and who makes them. It is hoped
that students will begin to perceive rules as needed and necessary, in small and
larger communities to protect people's rights.
History - Our Fleeting Past
Students will explore the diversity of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, their connection to place and
their contact with other societies. Through a study of navigation, exploration
and trade, students come to learn about Australia’s early colonisation and
develop understandings about contact between societies and its effects on
people and their environments.
Inquiry Questions
- · Why did the great journeys of exploration occur?
- · What was life like for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples before the arrival of the Europeans?
- · Why did the Europeans settle in Australia?
- · What was the nature and consequence of contact between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and early traders, explorers and settlers?
Health
and PE
Health - Fresh Tastes - Food and Me
Students will review the Five Food Groups and their main nutrients. They
will learn about the traffic light food categorisation system.
· Acts of Kindness
· Exploring My Values
· Values and Manners
Online and Offline Life Education visit
· Values and Social
Rules
· Values in My Community
· Perseverance and a
Growth Mindset
Physical Education
Tennis - 3/4 KE (week 2-7) 3/4 EV (week 8 - term 2)
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. We will be using code to add sounds, movement and backgrounds to their animation projects before moving on to more complex tasks such as scoring and navigation when developing games.
During term 1 3/4 students from 3/4 EV and 3/4KE will participate in a series of lessons as part of a STEM Little Bits Torch Design Project. Students will generate, develop and communicate electronic circuit design ideas and decisions using technical terms and detailed diagrams to solve a problem.
I have a cool book with 1001 facts and one of the rules in it is that in Virginia all bathtubs must be kept outside!!
ReplyDeleteWow! No thank you. I'll have my baths inside!
Deletewhat are some things you can do on scratch?
ReplyDeleteKate E
Hi Kate. You can make lots of different games and animations on Scratch. Mrs Van will be teaching the year 3/4s lots of new things they can do on Scratch throughout the year.
DeleteGreat I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteKATE E
This looks fun
ReplyDeleteI like scrach it is sooo fun
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