Year 4 Term 3 Overview 2022
Term overview
Welcome to Term 3!
Welcome back to school. We hope you all enjoyed the holidays with your children. It has been wonderful to see the children back safe and sound and happy for a new term. Thank you for your continued support, as education is a team effort!
Our specialist classes include 3 specialist lessons per week. Classes vary across the year level, but consist of a mixture of HPE, Music, Drama, LOTE and Technology.
Our Math, Science, English and HASS programs will continue to follow the Australian Curriculum for Grade 4. Term 3 is a 10-week term.
This term, in weeks 9 and 10, our classes will also be taking swimming lessons. Further information will be sent out closer to the date.
We would also like to take the opportunity to remind everyone of our school rules. Be safe. Be Respectful. Be a learner. It would be great if you could spend some time with your child to discuss these rules and their impacts in a classroom.
Incidences at lunchtime need to be reported to a duty teacher for the problem to be solved properly. If your child is experiencing challenges on the playground please send an email to their class teacher so we are aware. If you have any questions or concerns please contact your child’s teacher as a first point of contact.
Thanks again for your support. The Year 4 team is looking forward to continue working with you and your children.
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 this term students in grade 4 will be exploring persuasive texts. They will explain how language features, images and vocab are used to engage the interest of audiences and be describing literal and implied meaning connecting ideas in texts. Students will also learn that persuasive advertising has different text structures depending on purpose and context. Speaking and listening skills will also be developed as students participate in giving a speech and being a part of an audience.
Maths
This term students in grade 4 will focus on:
- describe different methods for data collection, representation and evaluate the effectiveness of these methods to choose the most effective way to collect and present the data
- construct data suitable displays from given or collected data with and without the use of digital technology
- continue to practice multiplication facts to 10 x 10 and related division facts, connecting division to multiplication by using efficient and mental and written strategies
- classify angles in relation to right angles using greater than or less then language and create angles
- interpret information in maps using scale, legends and direction to find features on a map.
Science
The Beneath our Feet unit provides opportunities for students to explore how natural processes and human activity shape their surroundings. Students’ understanding of soils, rocks and landscapes and how they change over time is developed through hands-on activities and student-planned investigations. Students also investigate factors that affect the erosion of soils. In the Plants in action unit students will develop a sense of wonder and appreciation of plants as they investigate the processes of pollination and germination, students sequence the life cycle of a bean. They consider a plant’s life cycle and environmental conditions that plants need for growth.
HASS
This Semester in HASS, students will be learning about the environmental features of different landscapes and the effects of human impacts on the environment. They will explore the difference between sustainable and unsustainable practices and the waste management process to propose a more sustainable use of a waste item.
HPE
In PE, students in year four will be involved in a unit on Netball. Students will learn the skills, strategies and rules of the sport and practice these through modified netball games and activities. The unit provides activities for students to practice and develop fundamental skills such as passing, shooting, defending, player positioning and footwork required for successful game play. Students in year 4 will also take part in an intensive swimming program at the end of the term. In Health, students will examine and interpret health information about cyber safety and online protocols. They reflect on young people's use of digital technologies and online communities, and identify resources to support their safety.
Music
During term three, students will extend their knowledge about dynamics, pentatonic scale, metre, rhythmic elements and percussion instruments. They will learn a large number of songs and games. Students will listen to and analyse a range of musical pieces.
Drama
Students work in small groups of 4–5 to create, present and respond to a freeze frame story around a given theme. They will create 3 freeze frames representing a beginning. middle and end of a story based on a headline.
Lote
In this unit, students will use the Chinese language to communicate ideas relating to family and group identity. They will share information about family and discuss about the family activities they have been participating in. They will also explore the Chinese family traditions, and to compare the similarities and differences of family culture between Australia and China.
Assessment schedule
| LEARNING AREA | UNIT | TASK | DUE DATE |
| ENGLISH | Persuasive assessment task, written response and presentation. | Written Presenting | Week 6 Week 10 |
| MATHS | Data Mapping, angles and multipilication/ division | Test | Week 4 Week 9 |
| SCIENCE | Students are to conduct an investigation that explores how the earth’s surface can change over time due to weathering processes. Students are to record their findings from a conducted experiment. Students are to make predictions and reflect on their findings to compare with their prediction. Students respond to questions about the relationship between plants and animals. | Written | Week 9 |
| HASS | Assessment 1 A short answer response utilising cartography skills and interpreting graphs to answer questions about resources and sustainable and unsustainable practices. | Written | Week 9 |
| 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 | Week 8 |
| HPE | HEALTH - Netiquette PE - netball | Written | Week 9 & 10 |
| MUSIC | Singing the nursery song with lyrics and clap the rhythm. Perform it as a two-part canon. | Practical | Weeks 7-8 |
| DRAMA | Freeze frames | Practical | Week 9 |
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