Curriculum Overview - Term 2

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)