Here we are in the second half of Term Two already! It seems like this term is whizzing by!
Some updates for the next fortnight:
Learning/Class topics:
A reminder if you want to see what we are learning about in class in Year 4, you have access to it all on your child's class notebook in the onenote app on their laptop in each tab section for each subject. All of the spelling words and focus phonemes for this term have been uploaded if you wish to do extra spelling homework.
Maths: We will be investigating distances, data and map measurement in an investigation this week called Aussie Adventure, then later will begin to look at equivalent fractions and fractions on a number line late this week and into Week 7.
English: reading includes comprehension skills such as summarising information read, finding facts that answer questions and reasoning. Writing we are competing our information report on our totem animal, the emu (noongar is Wedtj) as well as a biography information report. Grammar - suffix 'ly' prefixes, comparative language (adjectives and adverbs), nouns and pronouns, and contractions.
We have completed our Scratch name animation last fortnight and have begun our visual art project first investigating radial symmetry in famous artworks and nature then beginning our own printmaking project. Our design technology project about food and fibre sources and production is also well underway!
Seesaw:
This term, an example of your child's English writing and Mathematics number skills has been uploaded with an indicator to how they are achieving in accordance to Yr 4 WA Curriculum. Next week, there will also be an example of your child's current reading skills. Please reach out if you have any problems accessing your child's electronic learning journal in Seesaw.
Homework
Please keep up the homework each night or morning - it creates good habits for your child's learning in the later years. It is still very important to be reading for 10 minutes aloud to someone most nights to maintain your child's reading skills. This is a good opportunity to discuss new vocabulary words, the structure of sentences and punctuation use as well as an opportunity to continue to develop your child's reading comprehension and text understanding skills. We also ask that you ensure your child is completing both parts of the reading log - the title/author as well as the response question (choose which question from the back section of the homework booklet). Feel free to review and mark your own child's mental maths if you wish before we review it on Fridays. We will be reviewing the next cycle of homework this Friday.
Star Citizen
Congratulations to James who was our half term star citizen award winner. He continuously displays our school value of appreciation by thanking others, ensuring equality and fairness and appreciating his environment, taking action to look after things around him. Well done, James!
St Valentine is the patron Saint of love. He did not listen to the emperor at the time who decreed those young men in the army were not to be wed. St Valentine married couples in secret so that they could be together!Are close relationships very important to you?Are you warm and genuine?
