Year 4 Update – Wk 27
Monday 24th April – Friday 28th April – GREEN WEEK
Tuesday 25th April – Year 4 Bake Sale: Please bring along some (nut free) baked goods to sell!
Thursday 27th April – Year 4 Theatre Trip “Melodia”
Friday 28th April – Dress Casual Day (including “From Trash to Fash”) $10
- Deadline for Endangered Animal Art competition
Tuesday 2nd May – BHS CPD Day: School Closed *Please note that Monday 1st and Wednesday 3rd May are public holidays
Monday 29th May – BHS CPD Day: School Closed *Please note that Tuesday 30th May is a public holiday
Thursday 1st June – PTA Quiz
Bake Sale – Tuesday 25th April
As Year 4 students are responsible for providing the goodies for the Bake Sale on Tuesday 25th April, please send in 8-10 individual cakes/cookies/brownies (NO nuts) on this date.
*You should receive a letter with more detail today.
Dress Casual Day and “Trash to Fash” – Friday 28th April
Children may wear Earth colours and/or make an outfit or accessory from “trash.” There will be a competition in the Hall at lunchtime to select the “Trash to Fash” winner from each class (this is optional, but everyone should wear their Dress Casual clothes). $10 donations please.
Ukuleles!
Please make sure that your child brings their ukulele to music class from now until the end of the school year. It makes is very difficult to practice without one! Up to a third of a class have forgotten theirs this past week, so you can imagine how disruptive to their learning that can be. Please see below for when your child should bring their ukulele.
4F – Music on Wednesdays – ukuleles needed.
4L – Music on Tuesdays – ukuleles needed.
4W – Music on Mondays – ukuleles needed.
Portfolios
Please double check that your child has returned his or her portfolio. We know that there are a few students in each class who still have not brought in theirs. Please do let your child’s class teacher know if it cannot be found!
The children are thoroughly enjoying their research into volcanoes and wildfires. They are using the “Draw to recall” strategy to help them remember the key facts. We are benefiting from our additional Information Literacy sessions with Ms. Jeves and creating Mindmaps to show our knowledge of wildfires.
How The World Works
Central Idea: Changes to the Earth and its atmosphere can impact the natural world
Lines of Inquiry
An inquiry into:
- How the different components of the Earth are interrelated (connection)
- Why the Earth has changed and is continuing to change (change)
- How we know the Earth has changed (reflection)
Summative Task: Choose a natural phenomenon/event and create a flow chart to demonstrate how this event changes/has changed the Earth.
Next week the children will choose a fast or slow Earth change that particularly interests them and begin planning for a model or demonstration they can create to demonstrate how this impacts on the Earth.
Central Idea – Fractions and decimals are ways of representing whole part relationships
Lines of Inquiry:
- Constructing and representing equal parts of a whole
- Identifying, ordering and describing fractions using mathematical language
- Understanding the relationship between fractions and decimals
Next week the children will be continuing to look at improper and mixed fractions/numerals and will be exploring equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions, too.
Purpose: Writing to explain
Big idea: Authors explain clearly how and why things happen
Related Language Concepts: Word choice, causal connectives, technical vocabulary, audience
Next week the children will continue to develop their understanding of explanation texts by creating their own creature and explaining its life cycle.
Comprehension Key: Questioning
Next week the children will classify questions into the different question types (open/ closed) and think about their respective uses.
Home Learning 21.4.17 ENGLISH (Explanation texts) Cracking Contraptions
This week the children need to create a flow chart that explains how one of Wallace and Gromit’s “Cracking Contraptions” works… The Tellyscope!
The children have been given a paper copy of the recording sheet, but also have been sent an electronic copy, too.
Extension:
- Turn your flow chart into an explanation text.
- Create/Design/Draw your own Cracking Contraption that could help you complete a simple, everyday task.
Deadline: Friday 28th April
Daily home reading
Please check to make sure your child is taking home home reader books at their level, or reading books on Reading Eggs at their comprehension age level. PLEASE be reminded that the colour sticker on the reading book your child brings home is far less significant than the development of fluency AND comprehension. There is also an expectation that your child will read a book and complete any quizzes on Reading Eggspress twice a week.
Spelling
The children will have 10 new words to learn each week (Friday) and will be tested on them by a classmate three times per week. The words they have consist of some vocabulary relevant to our current U.O.I., some words relating to the spelling rule that we are currently learning about and some words of their choice.
