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GROWING UP TO GRADE 4.ORIENTATION EVENING 2016

WHAT WILL CHANGE IN GRADE 4?

MORE SUBJECTS TO DEAL WITH

- Home Language (English) - Additional Language (Afrikaans)

- Mathematics - History - Geography - Natural Science and Technology

- Life Skills - Visual Art - Music - Physical Education

LARGER AMOUNT OF WORK

More time will be needed for homework.

Effective organisation of time.

Parental guidance and support.

WHAT WILL CHANGE IN GRADE 4?

DIFFERENT TYPES OF ASSESSMENT

Tests and exams

Projects that require independent work

Rubrics

Paragraph and full sentence construction

Higher order and application questions

WHAT WILL CHANGE IN GRADE 4?

MOVING FROM CLASS TO CLASS

Time table is less flexible – must work in allocated time.

Deal with many subjects in one day – ability to change mind set

Deal with different teacher personalities

Writing homework down in Homework Diary

(Homework timetable and Web homework)

WHAT WILL CHANGE IN GRADE 4?

READING SKILLS

Faster pace of reading required

Reading for information takes over from Learning to read

WHAT WILL CHANGE IN GRADE 4?

ENCOURAGE READING AND VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENTIdentify the letters on number plates and find unusual words to make with the

letters.

Read a short story and re-tell it to a parent.

Read a recipe to a parent who is cooking.

Switch the volume off on the TV and ask your child to read the subtitles aloud – this could become a family participative reading activity if each member chooses a

different character to read.

Comics stories, factual information, menus in a restaurant, road signs, instructions on packets, credits at the end of movies…anything that can be read.

HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO BECOME INDEPENDENT

Teach children how to pack their own bags. This teaches responsibility.

Teach children to check their pencil bags once a week so that they can ask parents to replace missing or finished items.

Teach children to get the clothing and other equipment ready before they go to bed:

school uniform, sports equipment, letters and homework for signing, etc.

HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

TESTS AND EXAMSOne of the biggest adjustments in Grade 4

Encourage children to take notes in class and re-tell what they learned.

Teach them how to summarise (Not only memorise)

Teach the use of key words/mind maps and conversion to sentences

Use Post-its to display key words on the fridge, mirrors, toilet doors, etc.

Support the Study Skills Program

Compile ‘practice tests’ / Download old exams from the website

Go through marked tests to make sure the errors not repeated in future.

HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

GETTING ON WITH OTHER CHILDREN

Encourage tolerance.

Encourage children to be assertive – not aggressive.

Your children tell you what they think will make you demonstrate that you love them. Their truth and reality are not always the same.

If you believe half of what they tell you about school,

we will believe half of what they tell us about home.

HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

SUPPORT THE BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME

Tracking system Kudo system

Classroom Rules Code of Conduct

Encourage honesty

Behaviour Management is incremental and developmental

rather than punitive

Allow children to take responsibility for their own actions

HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

BE AN INSIDER – NOT A SPECTATOR

Children

Participate in extra mural activities

Attend school functions

Arrange for play dates

HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

BE AN INSIDER – NOT A SPECTATOR

ParentsJoin the BOFFS or become a CLASS MOM/DAD

Volunteer to help at functions

Attend events and extra mural activities

Ask your child “What did you enjoy at school, today?” This phrasing will help them to concentrate on the positive events of the day.

HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

Thank You for Attending

GROWING UP TO GRADE 4.ORIENTATION EVENING 2016

Grade 4 EducatorsMrs Singh – Head of Department

Mrs Mpesu – Control Teacher

Mrs Van Schalkwyk

Miss D’Hottman DeVilliers

Mrs Mc Gonnel