Another busy fortnight in year four! Our attendance has dropped quite a bit and only 68% of students are attending 95-100% of the last fortnight. Every day counts to make sure your child has the best chances of reaching their potential.

We have been exploring fractions and how a chocolate bar that is broken into more pieces means you get less. We also started looking at location and describing our position using a floor size grid to direct our classmates around. When we learn new math concepts, we learn about the vocabulary, define a few examples and then rotate through different activities during the week to practise the skill. Variations of ‘bingo’ have been a hit in the classroom where students practise vocabulary associated with the skill while trying to fill their board up first.

We have almost finished our character descriptions that we have been working on for the last few weeks and the growth in the students writing and the complexity of their responses has been wonderful to read.

In visual art we have been looking at Jean Dubuffet and how he used scribble to create artworks. We closed our eyes and drew pictures of ourselves and colored them in the same style he used.

Homework was sent out on Tuesday and will be returned next Tuesday. If there are any concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me, otherwise, the children were very excited to begin extra practise at home!