Important Dates

19th-30th October Class Habit

Trees Exhibition– Multi Purpose

Room

20th October Indigenous Incursion

20th—28th October Life Education

3rd November Melbourne Cup Day

11th November Inquiry Unit

Presentations in classrooms

4A: 9:10-9:40

4G: 9:40-10:10

4M: 10:10-10:40

27th November Curriculum Day

(Student Free Day)

Notices Sent

Home Last Week

1 Shoebox (or a similar type of box) required per student

Inquiry Explorers Presentation note (date and time noted above)

Indigenous Incursion (on Com-pass)

Life Education (On Compass)

Music lessons timetable

Win an iPad—stir crazy kids

Art Smart

Welcome to Week 5 Term 4!

Last week the students enjoyed another busy week that includ-

ed some hard work on their explorers projects, some wonderful

numeracy and literacy work, and an enjoyable a trip to the Life

Ed van to visit Harold the giraffe and learn about the different

systems of the human body.

4A hard at work on Explor-

ers Projects.

4M with Harold.

4G learning about the systems

of the human body.

Grade 4 Home Communication

3rd November , 2015

11th November Inquiry Unit

Presentations in classrooms

4A 9:10—9:40

4G 9:40—10:10

4M 10:10—10:40

16th Nov– Xmas Raffle begins

27th Nov—Student free Curricu-

lum Day

Dec 1—X-mas stall

Dec 7—Leadership Day

Dec 9—Christmas Carols Night

Dec 14—Kids end of Year Sausage

Sizzle PSG

Dec 17—Last day of school Free

Dress

Senior School writing project

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7HABITS AT HOME

The Parktone Community has learnt a lot about the 7 Habits and we are learning how to apply these habits at school and in our daily lives. The ideas included here are to help your family use these habits at home.

Encourage win-win solutions to sibling dis-putes. Don’t always be the mediator; let them workout a solution and be sure to be lavish children with praise when they do.

Congratulations to our Stars of the Week!

4A—PramathTrevedi For showing a thoughtful and proactive attitude

towards his classmates this week. What a true su-perstar you are!

4M—Jemma M For an extremely well-written and edited Dream-

time Story! Jemma's talent and efforts amaze me! Well done, Jemma!

4G — Daniel Kaman For working hard in all areas this week, particularly

with his Dreamtime Narrative and for being a helpful and energetic member of our class. Thank you Dan!

This week in Grade 4

Literacy This week will celebrate the culmination

of the past 4 weeks of hard work on Dreamtime

narratives, as students publish their work and share

with home made damper around a campfire on the

oval.

Mathematics This week will see students begin

assessment in the domains of Measurement & Ge-

ometry, Statistics & Probability, and Number & Al-

gebra.

Inquiry This week students will Synergise with a

small group as they prepare to present their Explor-

ers projects.

Science Fact from Ms Ziogos

Other reminders/notices

Jo Moriani 4M, Arran Armitage 4A,

& Sophie Glover 4G

Colouring and Drawing Club

During lunch time there is a new tub that

children can use to draw and colour pic-

tures.

It is set up near the grade 2 portables, un-

der a shady tree and encourages anyone who would like to draw,

colour and make new friends. It is all about having fun! The grade

two children look forward to any student who would like to join in

and be a lunch time artist.

Sun Smart

A reminder to bring hats to school this term. Thank you!

Did you know that strawberries come from a plant called ‘fragaria’.Strawberries are edible (and rather tasty) but techni-cally they are receptacles (the thickened part of a stem) rather than berries. Mak-ing things even more confusing, the little hard pieces that appear to be seeds on a strawberry are actually a type of dry fruit (called achene)....that contain their own seeds! Strawberries have lots of vitamin C. Unlike some other fruits, they don’t continue to ripen after being picked.