Year 4 Update – Wk 20
Tuesday 14th February – Y2 Bake Sale – bring some money for a tasty treat!
Thursday 16th February (10am-1pm) – Y3-6 Sports Day
Friday 24th February – 4L Class Assembly
Friday 3rd March – Student-Led Conferences
Sports Day
We are looking forward to seeing may of you from 10.00am-12.15pm on Thursday at King’s Park. If you have not yet returned the permission slip, please do so by Monday 13th February.
Health and well-being
Good eating and sleeping habits help to sustain and improve your child’s well being and academic success. Please make sure that your child gets enough rest at night (as recommended by AASM to be 9 to 12 hours for children from 6 to 12 years old) and have a balanced diet. It may be helpful to allow your child some extra snack and fruit if they are not able to eat breakfast in the morning.
How We Express Ourselves
Central Idea: Nature, purpose and creativity inspire the design of structures in the community
Lines of Inquiry
An inquiry into:
- Architecture in the local and global environment (reflection)
- Elements that influence design (perspective)
- Pattern and shapes in structures (form)
Inspiration for design
We will be beginning to think about what inspires architects when they are deigning structures. We will start to look at innovative structures and make suggestions about the inspiration behind them.
Successful bridge designs
We will complete and evaluate our bridges. We will decide how they could have been improved and what additional background knowledge we might need in order to do this. We will learn more about bridge design and engineering techniques.
Challenge
We hope to have the opportunity to repeat the bridge challenge, but this time incorporating our new knowledge into our updated and improved design.
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
We will be completing our work on 3D shape and nets and moving on to the early stages of our new inquiry into fractions.
- develop characters to engage readers in stories
- write stories with familiar settings told in first person
We will be hot-seating (answering questions in role as a character), writing diary extracts and doing role plays based on a character we have read about in a class text.
Comprehension Key: Making connections
In the next few weeks the children will read stories with a familiar setting and learn to make connections between the story and themselves, other texts and the world.
10.2.17 Maths and UOI – Labelled Structure Montage
They can use google drawing, google docs or stick/draw the structures on paper.
Daily home reading
A reminder that the colour of the home reading book your child brings home will reflect their reading ability at the end of Year 3. However, as reading assessments continue over the course of the coming few weeks, this may or may not change. 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.
