Year 4 Update – Week 22
Tuesday 26th March – Year 2 Bake sale
Friday 1st March – BHS Principal Presentations (6pm-8pm)
Tuesday 5th March – Year 4 Bake sale
Friday 8th March – Student-Led Conferences
Friday 29th March – BHS P.T.A. International Food Fair (please see below for important information)
Thursday 4th April – ESF Primary Choral Concert
Friday 5th April – Public Holiday School Closed
Friday 12th April – End of Term 2 (12:00pm)
29.3.19 – International Food Fair
The BHS International Food Fair will take place on Friday 29th March from 5-8pm.
This year, Year 4 students will be researching, designing and building the games that will take place in the Hall during this event. This is a brilliant opportunity to give our current UOI a real-life focus.
We need to find out which students will be attending the Food Fair and at what times to help us organise the groups accordingly.
Please click the relevant link to access the Google form survey for your child’s class:
Please complete the survey by Wednesday 27th February. Thank you to the parents who have already completed the survey.
Action in the PYP at BHS
It has been great celebrating the talents and achievements of our students through the ’Student Achievement’ section in the newsletter. We would like to do something similar with Student Action. Action in the PYP is when students are inspired through their learning and their experiences to make a difference to their lives or the community connected to real life issues and opportunities. We would like to celebrate our students taking action outside of school.
Please could you email examples to me, andy.thompson@bhs.edu.hk and I will share through our newsletter.
There are different types of Action. We would like to start with a focus on Participation. See below for a definition and examples
| Type of Action | Examples |
| Participation
Being actively involved in their learning and contributing as an individual or a group |
Getting involved with community projects
Making appropriate choices and taking responsibility to help people Taking on different roles e.g. being a leader, completing my chores, working in a group, looking after my pet Taking part in any decision making process Joining a new club |
Sports Day
We had a great day at Sports Day on Thursday morning. The children enjoyed themselves competing in range of different sporting activities. The sprint races at the end of the day were fantastic to watch with everyone cheering and encouraging one another. Thank you to the parents that came to support their child, we know it meant a lot to the children to have you there. Please see the newsletter for more photos of Sports Day.
Maths
We have been working on a variety of things in Year 4 Maths this week! We spent some time calculating elapsed time using a cinema and train schedules as our focus. Some of the children even did ateam Kahoot! on elapsed time. Some of the children continued to investigate prime and composite numbers and spent a lot of time defining and applying the terms factor and multiple!
English
We are continuing to by explore more well-written texts and looking for examples of beautifully written sentences. One of the texts we have been looking at is ‘Fox’ by Margaret Wild. We have been writing a series of sentences using Margaret Wild’s style of writing. In our sentences we have been trying to use adverbial phrases, verbs and adjectives.
U.O.I
We thought more about the work of famous architect, Zaha Hadid. We read the book ‘The world is not a rectangle’ to understand what inspired her ideas for her buildings around the world.
We continued to look further into the Design Thinking process in class and with Mr Lowe. As a class we brainstormed the different types of games that people play. Then in groups we used Tinkercad to individually design a game and thought about the parts, people and interactions that would be connected to our games.
Central Idea:
People and purposes affect the design and construction of objects and systems.
Lines of Inquiry:
An inquiry into…
- The skills and knowledge needed to realise designs (CAUSATION)
- Designers use and reflect on their plans in order to be successful (REFLECTION)
- The factors that influence the design and construction of objects and systems. (CONNECTION)
Next week in U.O.I the children will be using the design process to help them design their games for the food fair. In groups that they have chosen they will begin to go through the first few steps of process.
Central Idea:
Lines of Inquiry:
An inquiry into…
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- Constructing and representing equal parts of a whole
- Identifying, ordering and describing fractions using mathematical language
- Understanding the relationship between fractions and decimals
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Next week in Mathematics, the children will complete the pre-assessment for our new unit on fractions. They will be focusing on being able to read, write, compare and order fractions.
Please continue to help your children to practise their multiplication tables at home. Click the image below to access some online games that might support this….
Writing Focus: Writing to entertain
Comprehension Strategies: Making Connections
Next week, the children will continue to look at making connections and how readers make links between the text and what they already know. There are three kinds of connections children can make when they read; text to self connection, text to text connection and text to world connection.
4A – Stephanie Lowe
4F – Nadine Schneider
4W – Aiden Hong
- Mon, Weds, Fri – borrow a BHS home reading book
- Tues, Thurs – read a book online from Big Universe
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 – Please complete home learning assigned in Mandarin Matrix.
