8 Dec 2017

Year 3 Update Wk 16

Monday 11th December – Year 3 Christmas Party
Thursday 14th December – Christmas Concert (7:00pm – 8:30pm)
Friday 15th December – Reports are available on Gateway
Friday 15th December – End of Term (finish at 12:00pm)
Monday 8th January – First day of Term 2

Portfolios

Your child’s portfolio will be sent home on Friday 15th December. This is a great opportunity to share your child’s learning journey this term. If you are leaving for the holidays early please let your teacher know so that they can be handed out before you go. All portfolios need to be returned on the first day back at school.

Christmas Party

It is the Year 3 Christmas party on Monday. Students will come to school in their party clothes and will bring a plate of food to share with no more than six people. All Secret Friend presents should already be at school, if not please ask your child to bring it in on Monday.

Old SCMP or similar

If you have any old copies of the SCMP or similar sized newspaper, please send in to be used for party games on Monday.

BHS Action Day

Students were busy packing bags of food today with the money that was raised on the Action Day earlier in the term. Over 1500 bags were packed and it was a great team effort by the whole school to help those in Hong Kong who are less fortunate than ourselves.

Boxes

We still have a few clay houses at school. If your child has not brought theirs home, please send in a small box so it can be transported home safely.

Clothing

Please remember to make sure that your child is wearing layers in this changeable weather. It is better they wear short sleeves with a jumper and fleece as layers can be added or removed as necessary.

Mother Tongue Story Telling

Last year a group of parents told stories to our students in their mother tongue during lunchtimes. As you can imagine this was very popular with our students and a great way to share the range of languages we speak within our community. If you are interested please click here to add your details. Any time you can give and to any year group is really appreciated. For those interested we can meet to discuss logistics in more details. If you have any questions please email me at andy.thompson@bhs.edu.hk.

In English and Information Literacy the students have continued to work with Ms Jeves and their class teacher to determine what is important within a text and how to make notes on what they have read. We started to write our own explanation text and also used an app to explain the system used in the library.

In class the children have continued to looked at how the circulatory, respiratory and nervous system work. They have also continued their work with Ms Jeves on the digestive system in the Info Lit lessons. The focus in these lessons is to look at the parts of the system and the function it plays.

In Maths the children continued looking at what fractions are and how to describe both what the numerator and denominator are. They have named the fraction of a whole and started to investigate equivalents.

This week the Y3 enjoyed their last session at the pitch. The children continued to rotate through the activities and enjoyed being outside in the gorgeous weather we had this week.

The interaction between body systems helps us to keep healthy and survive.

How the body systems work (function)
Interdependence and independence between the body systems (connection)
Impact of lifestyle choices on the body systems (responsibility)

Next week we will finish looking at the body systems we have been focussing on in class. For each system we examine:

What does each system do?

How does the system do its job?

What are the different parts of the system?

How do we look after each body system?

How is it linked to the other systems?

The students will then choose which body system they want to investigate further in the New Year. Initial research will begin next week on answering the above questions and thoughts on how they want to present their work.

Fractions are ways of representing parts of a whole. We will be inquiring into

Equivalent fractions
Adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator

Next week we will finish our focus on fractions. We will explore further using a fraction wall to discuss equivalent fractions. We will end this topic with a summative assessment.

Mathletics passwords are in your child’s diary. Please make sure that an adult supports your child when working through the activities.

Next week we will continue to write an explanation focussing on the use of the present tense, connectives and the passive voice. Students will also plan and write a narrative.

We will be moving on to our next phonics unit, learning to read and write words with the /r/ sound, spelt, r, rr or wr.

Next week the children will continue to learn about determining importance. The children are learning to recognise that with reading comes thinking. For every part that they decode, they must also be mindful of what they are thinking.

Year 3 will read books from Big Universe on a Monday and Friday. They will borrow home readers on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

3A – Heston Ma

3F – Emma Shan

3S – Shamu Tharm

Mandarin- 3A -Nadine Schneider

Boy who borrowed the most books

3S – Aiden Lai

There will not be any themes for Home Learning set over the Christmas Holidays. We encourage the students to continue with their daily reading over the holidays. They can also review their spellings as well as go on to Mathletics.

Please make sure that they spend time at the weekend learning their five individualised words. In the back of their Spelling Journal is a list of words for the Unit. Students can learn these if they wish to challenge themselves. You could also use these words to discuss their meaning and put them into sentences together.

Mandarin – All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.

Ms Lynn (Home Learning #10) – Please read the following book in Mandarin Matrix – BR10 放风筝。

Ms Xu: 熟读学过的课文。练习问题词。借书读书。