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8/3/2019 Year 4 How We Express Ourselves Newsletter
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YEAR 4 NEWSHow we express ourselves
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Our fourth unit of inquiry comes under the transdisciplinary
theme of How we express ourselves. Our central idea is:
Voice can be found in creativity and innovation.We will be inquiring into this through the concepts of CHANGE
and REFLECTION.
Our Lines of Inquiry are: voice and how it is used in the Arts
how we can be critically reflective
how we revise to make voice stronger
As teachers we were very lucky this unit to have our professional
development days with Kathy Short, an educational expert on inquiry.
She assisted us with ways that we can help the students to connect
personally to the conceptual ideas of this unit. We began by asking
the students when they feel heard, or noticed and what is reallyimportant to them.
With this underlying connection to their own life experiences and
developing understanding the students curiosity and interest is very
high already!
We have Music, Art and Drama all working on this same unit along
with homerooms, so the students are being exposed to a wide variety
of experiences that will help them to expand their knowledge,
experiences and perspectives, to build upon their currentunderstandings.
We already have a lot of interesting inquiries developing and are
looking forward to seeing what creative and innovative things happen
as a result of these.
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YEAR 4 NEWS: How we express ourselves
TRANSDISCIPLINARY LEARNING Language Arts:Written Language - Reading and
Writing When writing, the words we choose and how we
chose to use them enable us to share our
imaginings and ideas.
Throughout this unit we will be looking
at the revising process of writing -
how do we ensure our personal
voice is ‘heard’ in our writing. We will
be using a variety of genres to look
into this such as poetry, cartoons and
reviews.
Viewing and Presenting Visual texts provide alternative means to
develop new levels of understanding.
Selecting the most suitable forms of visual
presentation enhances our ability to express
ideas and images
With the varying art works we’ll be
viewing we’ll be considering the
creator’s intent and aims and thechoices they’ve made to achieve
certain results.
Reading Wondering about texts and asking questions
help us to understand meaning.
Year 4 will be using Literature Circles
to encourage discussion amongst
the students regarding what they arereading, and the meaning of it. They
will discuss the physical aspects of
the book - such as illustrations, as well
as the creative aspects of the story.
Listening and Speaking Wondering about texts and asking questions
help us to understand meaning.
The idea of being an active
participant will come through in thisunit, both as a member of a
reflective discussion, as well as an
audience.
Mathematics:Shape and Space - We will also be
looking at the real life application of
shape and space through creative
and innovative expressions - such as
architecture, and cubism.
We’ll be looking into the language to
sort and classify shapes - both 2D and
3D, as well as developing our
understanding of the different
properties of these.
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