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YEAR 4 NEWSNIST

Where we are in place and time

OCTOBER 19, 2011

We are beginning our second unit of

inquiry for the year. It comes under

the organizing theme of Where we are

in place and time.

Our central idea is:

Access to opportunities is

determined by borders

and citizenship.We will be inquiring into this throughthe concepts of FORM, CONNECTION

and RESPONSIBILITY.

Our Lines of Inquiry are:

Access to natural resources

The impact the physical

environment has on people and

society

Inter- political, social, economic,

geographical (natural), language

borders

Following on from our first unit Who

we are students will have the

opportunity to create and display their

learning visually and orally. Students

will be sharing their learning to their

peers and will they will be self-

assessing and also peer assess each

other. Viewing and presenting will

allow them to be more confident

communicators while also

We will be taking a field trip to Muang Boran (Ancient

Siam) - due to the possibility of flooding, this date is not

set as yet. More details will be posted on our blogs clos-er to the time.

We also have a guest speaker coming to speak to us

about her work with refugees.

Both Thai Studies and ICT will link closely with this unit.

listening to each other. Students

will be focusing on their

expressive language and will be

assessed on the following

indicators:They

expressed thoughts, ideas and

opinions and discuss them,respecting contributions from

others.

They

understand that language use is

influenced by its purpose and the

audience.

Students will also be focusing ontheir receptive language and will

be assessed on:I can

discuss my own feelings in

response to visual messages; lis-

ten to other responses, realizing

that people react differently.

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TRANSDISCIPLINARY LEARNINGLanguage Arts:Written Language - Reading

and WritingWe will be using both fiction

and non-fiction text during this

unit of inquiry.

What are the features of non

fiction text? (form)

How can we develop real life

concepts from fiction?

(connection)As the students become more

familiar with these features we

aim to see them being

included in their own writing.

Viewing and Presenting

This will be closely connected

to our unit maths work. We willbe learning to interpret

symbols, layouts, charts and

maps. ICT will support this too.

Listening and Speaking

Our guest speaker, and other

conversations will give us the

opportunity to learn more

about oral text. We will belearning more about

picking out main events

and relevant points.

Listening attentively and

speaking appropriately in

small and large group situ-

ations. D e s c r ib in g p e r s on a l

experiences Asking questions to gain

information.

Mathematics:

Conceptually we will be bringing

form and connection into our

maths work too.We will be looking at:

Space and shape - this will link

strongly with our mapping. How

can we describe the position of

something?

We will

Understand that directions

can be used to describepathways, regions, positions

and boundaries of our

immediate environment. Understand that directions for

location can be represented

by coordinates on a grid.

Form - what are maps like?Connection - How do the

symbols on the map connect

to real -world features and

movement?

In ICT we will be using Google

Earth to support this.

Data Handling - This will help us to

interpret a lot of the informationwe find ourselves reading in our

unit books.

U n d e r s t a n d

that data can

be collected,

i n t e r p r e t e d

and displayed

using simple

graphs (Form).