Welcome to Term 1. We have 25 amazing children in our
class this year, all of who come highly recommended from last year’s Year 3
teachers!
We are going to have a
fantastic year together full of fun and exciting learning experiences and
challenges!
Rosina Tippen will be
teaching on Monday, Tuesday and Fridays and Trish Bunting is teaching
Wednesdays and Thursdays.
We are looking forward to
getting to know both yourselves and your children. 2013 is going to be a
fabulous year!
Some Key dates for Term
1 you may wish to add to your calendar are:
• Middle Syndicate Aqua Gym Swimming
Lessons – 18th - 22nd February
• Y4-6 Swimming Sports at Jellie Park
Pool – 4th March
• Goal Setting Interviews – Tuesday 5th
March, Wed 6th
March
• Big Day Out at Spencer Park – Thursday
11th April
Our first Inquiry focus for the
year is ‘ Learning to Learn’.
In Literacy, we will be
focusing on both Transactional (diary and recount writing) and Narrative (
creative) writing this term.
Our Reading programme is
designed to scaffold and support the learning of each individual student. This term we will be using a specific
programme designed to build upon the children’s reading skills.
In Maths, this year the children will continue to be
involved in an interchange programme across our Year 4 team. This will bestarting in Week 4 of this
term.. This will enable us to
teach more specifically to individuals’ Numeracy stage and ability.
Homework expectations: The children
will have weekly spelling, tables and reading. They will be given these on a Monday to be learnt for
testing on the Friday.
Reading:
Is
the most important task to do every night at home, a reading book for the week
will be used at school and the children are free to take this home and share it
with you but our preference would be your child’s personal choice of reading
material. The idea is that this is the time to practise fluent reading and that
it should be fun. As adults we
choose to read easy material for our recreational reading and therefore this is
the habit we are seeking to create.
It is time to practise
using funny, read aloud voices and expression and talk about what is happening
in the story.
Maths: Basic facts or
a timetable will be sent home each week and your help in assisting your child
to commit these to memory so they are able to recall them almost immediately is
a great advantage to their maths learning in the classroom.
Year 4 Camp: Living
Springs Term 4: This is a very exciting rewarding experience for our
children. We will not be undertaking any school wide fundraising for camps this
year, so to make budgeting as easy as possible for families we will let you
know the cost of this as soon as possible. It is estimated to cost you $120.
Housekeeping:
·
Term 1- is a hat wearing term so please help your child to
ensure they have one at school to wear.
·
Extra Notices: will be available on the wall in the foyer of
the classroom. Feel free to check
to see that you have received every thing, we will also include these on our
class blog: teamtwenty2013.blogspot.com
·
Our Classroom Timetable: will soon be on displayed here so
that you can find us if you need us when we are not in the room.
Thank you to those parents
who have introduced themselves already.
We really appreciate your interest in your child’s education and look
forward to meeting you all during the next few weeks.
Please feel free to
contact us at school should you have any concerns or questions.
Kind
Regards
Trish Bunting and Rosina Tippen
Ph 355 9132
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