20 Apr 2018

Year 4 Update – Wk 26

Tuesday 24th April – Year 4 Bake Sale

Tuesday 8th May -Year 4 Pizza Lunch

Wednesday 9th May – Leap Trip (eNotice)

Monday 21st May – BHS CPD – School Closed

Thursday 31st May – PTA Quiz

Wednesday 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th June – Year 4 Swimming (more info to follow)

Friday 29th June – School Breaks for Summer at 12pm

Year 4 Bake Sale

The bake sale will take place next Tuesday 24th April. Please send in 8-10 pieces of bite-size cakes (cupcakes, brownies, cookies) in a reusable container with your child’s name on it. Your child can drop their cakes off at the PTA office in the morning when they arrive into school. Please be reminded that there can be no nuts in your cakes.

BHS Clothes Drive with

A huge thank you to all the people who have donated to our Redress Asia Clothes Drive. This is a great opportunity to donate unwanted clothes to a fantastic cause. We have one more week to go, all clothes must be in by Friday 27th April. We are looking for:

Good quality clothes, accessories and shoes for women, men and children.
Clean items.
No underwear, socks, swimsuits or home textiles.

Ukuleles!

Please encourage your child to remember to bring their ukuleles and ukulele booklets to school on the appropriate day. At the moment, we still have quite

a few children forgetting their instruments.

4F – Thursday

4L – Tuesday

4W – Tuesday

Ukulele Club – Wednesday lunchtime (this only applies to members of this club and they know who they are).

Y4 Teacher Contact Information

4F – Mrs Fennelly – charlotte.fennelly@bhs.edu.hk

4L – Miss Fisher – laura.fisher@bhs.edu.hk

4W – Miss Wu – jane.wu@bhs.edu.hk

Year 4 Learning Support Teacher – Ms Mak – haymen.mak@bhs.edu.hk

Vice Principal – Mr Thompson – andy.thompson@bhs.edu.hk

50th Anniversary Mural

Before the holidays, students started working with Ms Cassie on creating their clay murals to celebrate the 50th anniversary of BHS. Our murals will consist of different habitats from around the world. Here is a sneak peak into their projects!

Tuning In

This week in Unit of Inquiry, students began to inquire into earthquakes and how they change the Earth. They addressed any ‘roadblocks’ by looking up the definition of vocabulary, making inferences using text clues and their background knowledge and gathered information that addressed areas they wanted to learn more about.

How the world works

Central Idea

Changes of the Earth impact the natural world.

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into…

How the different components of the Earth are interrelated (connection)
Why the Earth has changed and is continuing to change (change)
How we know the Earth has changed (reflection)

Next week students will conduct case studies to deepen their understanding and reflect on how earthquakes change the Earth. They will also begin think about which Earth change they would like to learn more about.

Number Maths: Fractions

Central Idea

Fractions and decimals are ways of representing whole part relationships

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into:

Constructing and representing equal parts of a whole
Identifying, ordering and describing fractions using mathematical language
Understanding the relationship between fractions and decimals

Next week, students will be completing rich tasks that look into fractions of quantities and equivalent fractions with related denominators.

Writing to Explain

Next week, students will be reviewing the structure and language features of an explanation text and begin to design their very own Cracking Contraption to help with a process in school.

Comprehension Strategy: Making Inferences/ Questioning

Next week students will continue to practise their inference skills with fiction and non-fiction texts. They will also be reviewing their questioning skills and generating ‘juicy’ questions that will further their learning and challenge their thinking for their personal inquiries.

Golden Book Certificates

Well done to the children who received Golden Book awards this week!

4W – Cadence Wong

4F – Ellie Huang

4L – Jasmine Maruli & Jayden Tong

homelearning

Year 4 Home Learning 20.04.18

We are sticking with the Home Learning routine from the beginning of the school year. Students will be given two themes and they may choose one to respond to. The new Home Learning choices have been explained to the children and they are already buzzing with creative and imaginative ideas! Here are a selection of ideas to use as a prompt if your child is struggling to get started.

Due date: Wednesday 2nd May

Spelling

The children have a list of words they need to learn. They should practise these at home in preparation for “buddy spelling tests” (the children testing each other) in class next week.

Reading

The children have been given their Home Reading Journals and are expected to read for 20 minutes per day at their given comprehension age. Children will record the title of their book in their journal. Please discuss your child’s reading and leave a comment in the journal so that they can change their book.
To support their reading development, please make sure of the following:

Home reading should be fun not a chore.
Keep the timing short, find a comfy, quiet space and have a chat about what your child is reading. This really helps to develop their comprehension skills.
There is information about comprehension at the beginning of the journal, which you can use to help guide your discussion with your child. Please also refer to information your class teacher has sent out to you about how to help your child at home.

Mathematics
All children should aim to spend 30 minutes per week completing their assigned Mathletics tasks and/or practising their times tables.

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

Ms Lynn (Home learning) – Please check your google classroom for details.

Ms Xu – 记得借书读书，写读书报告，完成课堂未完成的功课。完成google classroom 未完成的功课。