Grade 4 Newsletter

CURRICULUM

Week 3 TERM 1

What are we learning this week?

LITERACY FOCUS:

During A sentence a Day we are

focusing on adjectives. Our writ-

ing genre is persuasive texts. Our

question this week will be

“Convince your classmates to vote

you in as Class President”.

NUMERACY FOCUS:

Measurement and Geometry,

with a focus on measurement.

Number and place value, with a

focus on Money. Maths Masters

is also running weekly.

February 16th—February 20th

Dates to remember:

17th February

Pancake Day—8:20am

23rd February:

You tell us night.

5th March :

School Photos

Pakenopoly What is it?

This term our whole school top-

ic is Pakenopoly. Students have

to form their own business, de-

cide on what their business is

going to sell and how they will

make a profit.

What to bring

Students are only allowed to

bring in old or recycled items.

For example students can bring

in old T-shirts, re-used beads,

cardboard from cereal boxes, or

recycled paper. They cannot

bring in new things nor can

they purchase items for their

business.

Spelling

We have just finished conduct-

ing our Single Word Spelling

Tests. Students will be

grouped and have their

spelling words sent out soon

based upon the results of

these tests. Please practice

with your child regularly to en-

sure steady growth in their

spelling abilities.

Guess the Baby: This term we would like to run a

’guess that baby’ competition. We

are asking all students in Grade 4

to bring in a picture of themselves

when they were a baby or a tod-

dler. We will then have a competi-

tion to see if anyone is able to cor-

rectly match the toddlers to the

students.

We are asking all students to

please bring in a picture of them-

selves for this event. We will pho-

to copy all pictures and return the

originals.

Fruit

Please remember to pack

some fresh fruit for your child

as we have fruit time every

day.

Fruit needs to be nude fruit

and cannot be fruit substi-

tutes such as roll ups or fruit

jelly. No nuts please as we

have students with severe nut

allergies in our grade.

Stars of the Week

4AM: Sienna Harrington

4MW: Maia Nimmo

4ZE: Dinith Jayasuriya

Great Mate: Brendan

Whalley

Positive Phone Calls: Abigail Bocian, Piper Cooper,

Alannah Walsh, Kody Gale,

Lachlan Doodson, Dredon

O’Carrol and Shenae Sen-

dak.

Photos

Specialist Stars ICT STARS: Jordan Malesza, Tyler

Plant and Alex Hennessy.

SCIENCE STARS: Hayley Stone, Alan-

nah Walsh, Sienna Harrington

PE STARS: Piper Cooper, Jessica

Blay and Lachlan Doodson.

PERFORMING ARTS STARS: Pana

Chase, Ryan Asche and Tobi Godden.

Arriving at school on

time:

Just a reminder to parents that students

should be at school by 8:45am. Students

arrive early are not supervised as there are

no teachers on duty at this time. Arrange-

ments can be made at OSHC if your child

needs to be dropped off outside of school

hours.