During Term 4, Homegroup TP and L  will be focusing on the following areas:

Phonics
Students will continue to work in their phonics and grammar groups. The teachers use ongoing assessment to determine each child’s area of need and place them into groups accordingly. Some students will continue using the Sounds Write program to build their knowledge of more complex sound patterns and how to segment and blend sounds to read and write words, while others will build their knowledge of morphemes to extend their awareness of word structures and meanings within words. 

Reading
Students will begin the term by exploring the messages within texts and how those messages relate to their lives. They will then look at different forms of fiction including historical fiction, realistic fiction and myths and legends. 

Writing
In Writing, students will revisit narrative writing and will further develop their skills in creating imaginative narratives with engaging characters, a logical structure and a problem and resolution. Students will also explore transactional writing forms including diaries and letters and will revisit persuasive writing structures. 

Maths
During Term 4, students will continue to develop their knowledge of multiplication and division as well as begin some learning about fractions and decimals, chance and probability. Students will also explore measurement including lots of hands-on practical activities involving measuring length, area, capacity and mass. 

Inquiry
During our history unit, students will take on the role of a historian and will examine how objects can tell us about our past and present lives. Students will examine artefacts loaned from the Melbourne Museum to learn about the contributions that people from diverse groups have made to many aspects of the Australian way of life. They will also explore how to sequence significant events in their past and in Australia’s past in chronological order. 

Religion
During our Religion Inquiry this term, students are learning about the birth of Jesus as written in two pieces of scripture by Matthew and Luke, who wrote about and included different aspects and details of this event. Students will compare the two scriptures and look for similarities and differences within the scripture and discuss their findings.