Curriculum
Overview Year 4
Term
2, 2016
Dear Parents and Carers,
This overview outlines the content that will
be covered during this term with your child. It is a great reference to keep
somewhere prominent so that you can refer back to it with your child and
discuss specifics of their learning.
Religious Education
Sacraments of
Initiation: In this unit the students will
relate their entry into various communities and groups with their welcome into
the Church through the sacraments of Initiation. Students will study the
various sacramental rituals and symbols of Christian initiation and explore
their meaning.
Eucharist: The
Structure of the Mass: The aim of the unit is to promote
the students’ full, conscious and active participation in the celebration of
the Eucharist by learning more about the liturgies, rites and symbols of the
Mass.
English
Reading, writing, talking and listening
skills are strategies learnt through modeled, guided (small group), shared and
independent experiences. The new English Syllabus states the key processes of
responding to and composing texts are central to students using language
purposefully and meaningfully, while engaging with a wide range of texts. This
year students will study examples of spoken texts, print texts, visual texts,
media, multimedia and digital texts. The students will create imaginative,
informative and persuasive texts using a growing knowledge of text structures
and language features. They will gain practice in understanding the process of
planning, drafting and publishing these imaginative, informative and persuasive
texts.
Mathematics
Students will be challenged to work mathematically
in the areas of:
Whole number: Apply
place value to order, read and represent numbers of up to five digits.
Addition and subtraction: Use
mental and written strategies to add and subtract.
Patterns and algebra:
Generalise properties of odd and even
numbers, generates number patterns, and completes simple number sentences by
calculating missing values
Area: Measures,
records, compares and estimates areas using square centimetres and square
metres
2D shapes: Manipulates,
identifies and sketches two- dimensional shapes, including special
quadrilaterals, and describes their features
Angles: Identifies,
describes, compares and classifies angles
Chance: Describes
and compares chance events in social and experimental contexts
Science
Students
will investigate the features that distinguish living things from non-living
things. Students begin to consider how their interaction with the environment
impacts the survival of all living things.
They will begin the unit by exploring a range of
objects and classifying them in one of two categories: Living or Nonliving.
Students will then come to an understanding that
Living things have life cycles. This will be unpacked during Literacy with a
range of graphic organisers used to explore the life cycle of different living
things in particular plant life.
They will consider the impact they have on the living things around them. They will begin to develop a product or service that will aim at educating and advocating for the protection of all living things.
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
In term 2, Year 4 will have their sports day on
Thursdays. In PE, students will be participating in a series of invasion games
and sports. This unit specifically identifies sports that require a team/player
to enter opposition territory to score points. Sports included this term will
be Netball, futsal, AFL and oz-tag. Students will participate in skill develop
and modified games.
In PDH, Students will focus on the “Safe Living” unit , in which students will learn to discuss the relationship between safety hazards in their environment and their health. Students will develop the ability to create a safe environment and make a plan for what to do in a dangerous situation.
Creative Arts
Visual Arts
will be taught in class and will explore the use of recycled materials to
create an artwork. This will be
integrated with our Science unit on sustainability and is a follow up activity to our excursion earlier this term to
Scenic World.
Music
will be taught by Mr Thanh Nguyen each Thursday.
Dance: Students
will be involved in the Dance Fever program every Tuesday.
They will also be involved in the CEO’s
Captivate program. CAPTIVATE is the exciting Creative and Performing Arts
program for primary and secondary Catholic schools in
the Diocese of Parramatta.
CAPTIVATE gives students the opportunity to participate in creative and
performing arts projects with students from other schools in the diocese. This
will occur during music lessons in odd weeks.
Drama
will not be taught this term
Library
Library borrowing day is Monday for both
classes. Students are to bring their library bag each Monday in order to
borrow.
Please don’t hesitate in contacting us should
you have any queries. Keep an eye out on our Class Dojo Class Story for regular updates on Year 4's learning.
Mrs Sonia Awkar (4G)
Mr Patrick Mackey
(4W)
