Welcome back to Term 4. It is great to be back after a glorious break and we hope you had a relaxing holiday and enjoyed some time with your family.

The term has started well in Year 4 and it is hard to believe that Week 1 is over already. 

Below are some of the topics that Year 4 will be learning about this Term are: 

Religion 

How can relationships heal our world?   

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) 

Zones of Regulation 

Engilsh

•Genre – Persuasive Text

•Guided Reading - Reading strategies & comprehension development (literal, inferential and applied)

•Spelling – (phonics, word origins, letter combinations, homophones, prefixes and suffixes, uncommon plurals, spelling rules, strategies to spell known and unknown words)

•Speaking and Listening- listen to and respond to texts, using appropriate voice, articulation, body language, eye contact and deliver short presentations to peers)

•Language elements (grammar, vocabulary and visual knowledge)

•Punctuation, proofreading and editing

Mathematics

•Number and Algebra

•Statistics and Probability

•Measurement and Geometry

Geography 

 What does Local Government do for me?                        

Science 

 Material World - Natural and Processed Materials  

Arts - Music 

Christmas Around the World 

Reminders 

Library Day is Wednesday – please ensure Library bag is packed on that day 

Health and Physical Education 

Teacher: Melanie Turner (Thursday) 

Physical Education is Thursday – please wear Sports Uniform on that day 

Health Lesson 

Teacher Simmons (Thursday) 

Auslan 

Teacher: Meg Newall (Friday) 

Communication 

If you have any questions or queries, please email us on 

mturner@cns.catholic.edu.au and sulanas@cns.catholic.edu.au 

and we will endeavour to return your email within 24 hours.