Year 4 Term 2 Overview 2022
Term overview
Welcome to Term 2!
We would like to thank you and your child for their efforts over the duration of last term and the beginning of Term 2. We have had a productive term and are looking forward to seeing more success in learning throughout Term 2.
Our Year 4 Teaching Team consist of Mr Jacob Neill (4A), Mrs Julie-Anne Kentish / Mr Gregory Okulov (4B), Mr Chris Paterson (4C), Mrs Jessica O’Kane (4D), Mrs Chey-Lee Sokolowski (4E). The best way to contact us is through email.
Our Math, Science, English and HASS programs will continue to follow the National Curriculum framework for Grade 4. Term 2 is a 10 week term.
Our specialist classes include 3 specialist lessons per week. Classes vary across the year level, but consist of a mixture of Health and Physical Education, Music, Drama, LOTE and Technology.
Homework has also commenced for the term, please check with your child’s teacher if your child has not yet arrived home with their homework.
The assessment schedule for Term 2 provides a good insight into what your child is working on in class and their assessment task. If you have any questions regarding this please contact your child’s classroom teacher.
Report Cards will be sent out in the last week of school. Please make sure your contact details are up to date.
Attendance
How to report an absence:
- Email attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au or
- Call the school's absence line on 4057 1444, then press #1 and don't forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, or
- Send a note to the classroom teacher on their return
Our schools attendance target is 95%
Reading / Spelling
Our school is implementing a systematic synthetic phonics approach that has a teaching sequence for reading and spelling which goes across the entire school. Promoting Literacy Development or PLD for short, provides teachers with an innovative, evidence-based approach to literacy and advocates that children’s literacy and learning outcomes are maximized when the areas of literacy, oral language and movement & motor skills are simultaneously targeted. With this change, we will be working with decodable texts instead of predictable texts in the teaching of reading.
Due to this change, home reading will look different as well. Students may come home with games with high frequency words or sounds instead of home readers. This is reading practice. Please be assured that students will be getting a much higher level of reading mileage at school every day.
English
In English, students will be learning about poetry. In Year 4, students are advancing from writing poetry to analysing poetry. For the assessment, students will need to analyse poetic language for structure (such as rhyme and rhythm) and word play such as puns, spoonerisms, neologisms and nonsensical words. Students will also evaluate the effectiveness of these language features considering the purpose of the poem.
Maths
In Maths, students started the term by studying the properties of odd and even numbers. They are moving onto learning about measuring length, area, temperature and capacity. Finally we will look at symmetry and tessellation. Students will also be practising their multiplication facts up to multiplying by 10.
Science
In Science, students are learning about and investigate contact and non-contact forces. This includes a focus on both gravity and friction. For the assessment, students will analyse how a particular game uses forces.
HASS
In HASS (History and Social Studies), students will consider a law to change. They will need to present arguments that consider all points of view. They will also explore who they are as a person and member of society through the creation of an ‘All About Me’ poster.
HPE
Students in year 4 will focus on developing their technical understanding of athletic activity. They learn how to set targets and improve their performance in a range of running, jumping and throwing activities. In Health, students will continue to recognise strategies for managing change. They will interpret health messages and discuss the influences on healthy choices.
Music
In this unit, students will learn about rondo form. They will be introduced to a semiquaver rest and how anacrusis is used in songs. They will consolidate their knowledge of compound time, accents on strong beats in a bar and knowledge of notes on the staff. Students will learn correct conducting technique for different time signatures.
Drama
‘Create a Character’
Students will develop a character through individual and group exploration, dramatic improvisation and response. They plan a character backstory and change the way they walk, talk and move. At the end of the term students participate in an improvised interview, in character, in front of their class.
Lote
In this unit, students will use the Chinese language to explore the concept of school life in Chinese-speaking cultures and make connections with their own school experiences. They will engage with a range of texts and discuss about school experiences in Chinese. They will also analyse and understand the Chinese pronunciation and sentence structure.
Assessment schedule
| LEARNING AREA | UNIT | TASK | DUE DATE |
| ENGLISH | Students interpret and evaluate a humorous poem for its characteristic features. Students read the poem to the teacher. Students read an unseen text to their teacher and interpret and evaluate a humorous poem for its characteristic features. | Written | Week 7 |
| MATHS | Students will learn multiplication and division strategies, using the properties of odd and even numbers. | Test | Week 3 |
| SCIENCE | Students use games to investigate and demonstrate the direction of forces and the effect of contact and non-contact forces on objects. They identify how science knowledge of forces helps people understand the effects of their actions. | Test | Week 8 |
| HASS | Students identify what makes them who they are and develop questions they could ask to find out similarities and differences between them and peers. | Poster | Week 5 |
| LOTE | Students will respond to simple texts by selecting learned words and numbers. They will also need to demonstrate their understanding of the formation and use of Pinyin in spoken Chinese. | Written / Oral | Week 7 |
| HPE | Athletics Health | Written | Week 3 |
| MUSIC | Responding through an aural written test that includes recognition, application and analysis of known concepts and Art and World music. | Responding | Week 7 |
| DRAMA | ‘Create a Character’ | Performing responding | Week 8/9 Term 2 |
Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
4A Jacob Neill jhnei0@eq.edu.au
4B Greg Okulov gokul0@eq.edu.au & Julie-Anne Kentish kent16@eq.edu.au
4C Chris Paterson cpate100@eq.edu.au
4D Jessica O'Kane jtilt6@eq.edu.au
4E Chey-Lee Barber Sokolowski cxbar18@eq.edu.au