Grade 4  Term 4 Overview

Grade 4 Team

4A: Suzie Rawas     

4B: Wade Dinning & Emily Richards

4C: James Marsay       

4D: Katalin Jaross

4E: Alisa Besim

Weekly Specialist Classes Schedule:

Important Dates:

•       October 6th - 14th - Somers Camp (participating students)
•       October 14th - Regional Athletics (participating students)
•       October 15th - Division Basketball
•       October 16th - Year 4 Skateboarding Incursion
•       October 19th - Assembly
•       October 23rd - Year 4 Skateboarding Incursion
•       October 30th - Year 4 Skateboarding Incursion/ World Teacher Day
•       November 2nd - Curriculum Day (NO SCHOOL)
•       November 3rd - Melbourne Cup Public Holiday (NO SCHOOL)
•       November 6th - Year 4 Skateboarding Incursion
•       November 9th – Assembly
•       November 11th – Remembrance Day Service
•       November 30th – Assembly
•       December 8th– Step Up Day Transition
•       December 11th - Curriculum Day (NO SCHOOL)
•       December 17th - Last Day of School (Early Finish - 2:30pm)

Learning:

In Term 4, Year 4 students are focusing on the following:

English: 

During Term 4, Year 4 students will explore and respond to How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell. They will develop their comprehension skills by exploring characters, settings and key events, making inferences, and using evidence from the text to explain their ideas. Students will also consolidate their sentence-writing skills, focusing on writing complete sentences, expanding ideas and adding detail. They will apply these skills to construct clear, connected paragraphs. Students will deconstruct narrative texts to understand how authors introduce characters and settings, develop problems and bring stories to a resolution. Using this learning, students will plan, draft, revise, and edit a narrative of their own. The term will conclude with students exploring the texts Flotsam and Tuesday by David Wiesner, using clues in the pictures to make inferences and explain their ideas.

Mathematics: 

During Term 4, Year 4 students will use grid maps to locate positions, follow and give directions, and draw their own maps. Students will also explore capacity and mass, developing their skills in measuring and comparing. They will strengthen their understanding of decimals and apply this learning to represent money and calculate change, before finding unknown values in number sentences. The term will conclude with students applying their understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to solve worded problems involving financial situations.

Inquiry: 

Students will begin Term 4 with Physical Sciences and Design and Technology, exploring how forces are pushes and pulls that can change the movement of objects. They will apply their understanding of forces to design, build and test a marble run. The term will finish with Chemical Sciences, where students will investigate materials, their properties and how they can change.