Year 4 Term 2, 2023 Curriculum Overview
Term overview
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 Ms Petai Wilson (4A), Ms Julie-Anne Kentish / Ms Ebony Hopkins (4B), Ms Caitlin MacDonald (4C), Mr Steven Kotzikas (4D), Ms Rashi Handa (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.
Swimming will take place over weeks 3-6 dpeending on what class your child is in. Please check the swimming timetable that has been sent home.
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
Before School
We encourage parents to drop students off to school after 8:30am. If students arrive before this time, they are to sit in the COLA until the 8:30am bell.
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
We are continuing our work with our Structured Synthetic Phonics approach implemented last year. This programs includes:
Reading: Students work in guided reading groups 4 days per week, at similar levels to develop skills of comprehension, fluency and vocabulary. Students are tested at the beginning of each term/end of the term to determine their progress and new guided reading groups.
Spelling: Students work in ability groups with different goals, 4 days per week, developing their spelling skills. Students are tested at the end of each term to determine their progress and new spelling words/groups.
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 the forces in a "Minute to win it" style game .
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.
Technology
Students create an Australian Native Bees multimodal presentation using a Makey Makey and
‘Scratch’ coding sharing the importance of Bees in a plant’s life and for the health of humans.
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 - Chinese
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.
IEC
Our students in year 4 are off to a great start this Term!
To improve literacy skills, we've been spending time aligning our decodable readers with targeted spelling words each week and working on reading comprehension.
In English, Year 4s are working on poetry and for Maths, time and direction is the focus for this term.
Our bi-weekly social skills lessons for both year levels align with our school behaviour focus. Students are role playing school-wide expectations and engaging in conversation about how to be safe, be respectful, and be a learner here at TBSS.
We are also supporting our Year 4s in their swimming lessons over the next few weeks.
Ariel Ballou (nabal2@eq.edu.au) and Jude Doherty (jmdoh0@eq.edu.au) can be contacted by email or in our office in the Inclusive Education Centre (IEC) should you have any further questions or concerns.
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. Measurement, Use scaled instruments to measure and compare temperatures, lengths, shapes and objects using metric units | Test | Week 3 week 7 | |
| 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 | |
| Technology | Students create an Australian Native Bees multimodal presentation using a Makey Makey and Scratch coding sharing the importance of Bees in a plants life and for the health of humans. | Folio | Week 7 | |
| HPE | Superstar Criss Cross Skipping | Written | ongoing throughout the term | |
| 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 | |
| LOTE |
| Speaking, listening, Writing | Week 8 |
Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
4A Petai Wilson pwils96@eq.edu.au
4B Ebony Hopkins ehopk13@eq.edu.au & Julie-Anne Kentish jkent16@eq.edu.au
4C Caitlin MacDonald cmacd154@eq.edu.au
4D Steven Kotzikas sskot0@eq.edu.au
4E Rashi Handa rxhan6@eq.edu.au