Year 4 Update – Wk 21
Friday 24th February – 4L Class Assembly
Friday 3rd March – Student-Led Conferences
Monday 13th – Friday 17th March – Book Week
Thursday 16th March – Y5 Market Day: Bring some money to buy some goodies and support a good cause!
Friday 24th March – International Food Fair: Keep selling those raffle tickets to win the class excursion!
Thursday 30th March – Spring Concert
Friday 31st March – End of Term 2 – Easter holidays begin! School finishes at 12:00 noon.
Student-Led Conferences
Please make sure that you have signed up for a Student-Led Conference session with your child’s class teacher.
Health and well-being
As you will have seen in notices sent home recently, there have been some cases of scarlet fever and chicken pox at the school. We would be very grateful if you could remind your child to wash their hands frequently throughout the day and to stay home if unwell.
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.
Dome Structures and Shelters
We will be exploring structures that can offer shelter and protection from the elements, and will pay particular attention to dome structures.
Challenge
Next week we will be researching and planning how to build a dome structure.
Central Idea – Shapes can be identified, classified and used in different ways
Lines of Inquiry:
- The relationship between 2D and 3D Shapes
- Symmetry and transformations can be found in our environment
- Angles in 2D and 3D shape
We are continuing with shape and space, looking at different types of angles and identifying them in the real world.
- develop characters to engage readers in stories
- write stories with familiar settings told in first person
We will be thinking in more detail about the characters we will write about in our point of view narratives. As part of this, we will be imaging our own characters and creating and sharing their character profiles.
Comprehension Key: Making connections
We are continuing to make connections while reading with the story and ourselves, other texts and the world. We are particularly focusing on the connections we can make with the characters in the story as this will support our narrative writing.
Home Learning 17.2.17 – English CHARACTER STUDY
As we are currently thinking about stories with a familiar setting, with a particular focus on characters, we would like you to share your knowledge about one of your favourite book characters. However, as it is the 21st century, we would like you to share this information in the form of a Facebook profile!
- Identify a book/book character that you now really well.
- Read the instructions to remind you about the information you need to include on the profile page.
- Think carefully about some of the events that take place in the book and how your character might describe them on his/her profile page.
- Think about your character’s personality – this will help you to decide who they might be friends with.
Don’t forget: You have an assessment rubric which describes how to make your profile page the best that it can be.
Have fun!
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.
