Discovery & Key Competencies

Key Competency: Thinking

How did you use your thinking skills today?

"I had to try hard to keep my balance."

Term 4 CARE Values

When you try your best, you do show the value of Excellence. Keep on trying your best, Leah.

Line dance

Dance Term 4
We are learning to: express ourselves creatively through dance.

To be successful we need to:
Learn the specific steps to the dance
Keep in time to the music
Follow instructions
Try our best

Self-portrait

We are learning to draw self-portraits in the style of Matisse.

We will know we can do this when we can:

Use bold colours and patterns in a background

Draw a black line around the outside of self-portrait to emphasise colour

Include all facial features

Draw and correctly place all facial features

Begin to show other facial features such as eyelashes and earrings

Leah's Voice - "I used green, blue, red and purple in my background because it looks pretty. Next time I would change the hair because it doesn't look like me because it isn't black."

Statistical Investigations

WALT: collect data, construct a graph, and discuss the results.

Success Criteria: I will know I can do this when I can:

·      Know what data is

·      Pose questions for investigation

·      Collect data

·      Use tally marks

·      Make a pictograph

·      Make a bar graph

·      Ask and answer questions about the graph

Next Step:  Label my graph and give it a title.

Topic - Venn Diagram

Change - Plants and Seeds

We are learning to understand that:

Scientists follow a specific process and ask questions that lead to investigations.

Plants need many things to move through the life cycle.

We will be able to:

Show the life cycle of a plant.

Label the parts of a plant.

Classify objects using a Venn diagram

We will know we can do this when we can:

Draw pictures that depict the life cycle of plants.

Understand and describe how plants make their own food from water, air (CO2) and sunlight (photosynthesis).

Sort and classify leaves into categories of our own making and independently represent these in a Venn diagram.

Next Step:  To sort and classify different objects into Venn Diagrams.

Recount

We are learning to recount events that happened in the past.

We know we can do this when we can:

·    Follow the Writing Process

·    Have a title

·    Write: an orientation telling when, who, what and where the event happened, a     sequence of events and a personal comment to conclude the recount

·    Use the past tense

·    Use a lot of different descriptive words to make our recount more interesting

·    Start my sentences in different ways

Next step: edit my work for full stops and captial letters.

Narrative

Narratives- Fractured Fairy tales

We are learning to write a fictional narrative by adapting a fairy tale.

We will know we can do this when we can..

Follow the Writing Process – planning, draft copy, editing and publishing

Have a title

Write three paragraphs: an Orientation, a Complication and a Resolution

Write in past tense

Use direct speech (dialogue)

Use onomatopoeia, questions and similes to create pictures with words and build suspense

Next step:  use my fastwords to help me write my stories.

Conflict Unit

We are learning to understand that:

• there are many perspectives and types of conflict
• there are a variety of ways to deal with conflict

We will know we can do this when we can:

• use several strategies to make an \"I feel... when you...\" statement during conflict and know when and why to use them.
• teach others to make an \"I feel... when you...\" statement during conflict.
• act as a role model for others to help them make an \"I feel... when you...\" statement during conflict
• seek feedback on how to improve making an \"I feel... when you...\" statement during conflict.

Leah's Voice: "I learnt that people fight all the time to get their own way. And so they can do stuff. I can say stop it"