What’s Happening in Grade 4 in Term 2 2025

Important Dates:

• Monday 6^th October – First day of Term 4
• Friday 31^st October – Pupil Free Day
• Monday 3^rd November – Curriculum Day – Report Writing Day
• Tuesday 4^th November – Melbourne Cup Public Holiday (No school)
• Friday 19^th December – End of Term 4 (12:30pm dismissal)

In Reading and Phonics students will be:

• Explicitly taught clear spelling rules to help them understand why words are spelled the way they are. These are some of the key spelling patterns that they will be covering in their learning:  
  • i and o: when i and o make a long vowel sound like in wild and most.
  • c and g: c = /s/ and g = /j/ before e, i, y; otherwise hard sounds.
  • Rabbit Pattern: Double consonants after short vowels (e.g., rabbit)
  • Open Syllables: Open syllables end in a vowel with a long sound.
  • Open vs Rabbit: Open = long vowel, Rabbit = short vowel + double consonant.
  • ors Pattern: Words that contain the ‘ors’ spelling pattern (e.g., horse).
  • i not at the end: Learning that English words don’t end in i, instead we use y at the end of words when we hear a long or short i sound.
• Learning how to make a reasonable choice for spelling words that include these sounds through identifying different spelling patterns within the English language.
• Exploring a range of Fiction and Non-Fiction texts and demonstrating their capacity to comprehend and learn new vocabulary.
• Improving their fluency by using reading decodable passages connected to the sounds we have learnt.
• Participating in a daily review to help strengthen their previous knowledge and enhancing recall of the spelling rules they have learnt (topics learnt in Terms 1-3 of this year).

In Core Knowledge students will be:

Developing their vocabulary and comprehension skills through understanding the text elements of informative texts.

The Human Body

• Learn about the main body systems such as the skeletal, muscular, circulatory, and digestive systems.
• Understand the roles of organs like the heart, lungs, stomach, and brain.
• Explore how the body works together to stay healthy, including the importance of nutrition, exercise, and hygiene.

The Great Inventions

• Explore important inventions that changed the way people live and work (e.g., the wheel, printing press, electricity, telephone).
• Learn about inventors and how their ideas shaped the modern world.
• Understand how inventions solved problems and made life easier over time.

Across the Seas

• Discover the history of exploration and the journeys made across seas and oceans.
• Learn about famous explorers and the lands they reached.
• Understand how sea travel connected different parts of the world and impacted trade, culture, and ideas.

In Writing students will be:

• Define subjects and predicates, and identify them within clauses.
• Complete sentences using sentence stems with conjunctions such as since, whenever, although.
• Use different levels of modality in sentences:
  • Low (could, would, might)
  • Medium (will, should, need to)
  • High (must, ought, has to)
• Identify and use regular and irregular past tense verbs in sentences.
• Identify and use regular and irregular plural nouns in sentences (e.g., sheep).
• Exploring persuasive devices and texts.
• Students will be create a single paragraph outline (SPO) to help them plan their paragraph/s.
• Showcasing their understanding from Core Knowledge by writing a persuasive text.
• Practising their letter formations in Victorian Modern Cursive font with a focus on achieving desired legibility, size and fluency on 18mm dotted thirds

In Mathematics students will be:

Fractions

• Identify halves, quarters, and eighths of collections, shapes, lengths, time, mass, and capacity.
• Solve problems involving halves, quarters, and eighths.
• Identify the whole from a half of a collection.
• Compare and recognise fractions that are equal in value.

Data

• Make observations to inform data collection planning.
• Collect data multiple times to improve results.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of data collection.
• Display data in tables, picture graphs, and column graphs.
• Interpret and compare different representations of data.

Location

• Create and interpret maps of familiar places.
• Identify and describe the position of key features on a map.
• Follow and give directions between locations on a map.
• Create maps from models.
• Move around a grid using directional instructions.
• Solve map and grid problems using directional instructions.

Patterns

• Identify, continue, and create increasing and decreasing patterns using one-digit numbers, 10, and 100.
• Identify and create additive patterns with materials.
• Identify additive patterns in natural and built environments.
• Create additive patterns and use them to solve problems.

In Inquiry students will be:

• Using a play-based approach to show case what they have learnt within the Core Knowledge units.

Wellbeing:

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program.

Students will engage in lessons looking at Positive Gender Relations and Stress Management.

There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.

Home Learning:

In addition to supporting your child to complete the Expected Home Learning tasks each week, you may also like to encourage your child to select one or more of the following tasks:

• Encourage your child to read aloud to you to assist them with fluency and expression and ask questions about what they are reading to ensure
• comprehension of the text.
• Keep a holiday diary/journal to write about the weekend, events or special days during the term. Focus on using boundary punctuation, conjunctions, adverbs, adjectives, correct letter formation and finger spaces.
• Play Mathematics games (cards/dice) to revise counting, addition, and subtraction skills.
• Use cooking as an opportunity to discuss measurement, fractions, and time.
• Support your child to continue to use a growth mindset when faced with challenges or new experiences.