7 Sep 2018

Year 4 Update – Week 3

Friday 14th September – PTA Bowling Evening (see below)

Monday 24th September – BHS CPD Day (School closed)

Thursday 20th September – Mid-Autumn Market

Tuesday 25th September – PUBLIC HOLIDAY (School closed)

Friday 28th September – Year 4 Sharing Morning 9am -11am

Monday 1st October – PUBLIC HOLIDAY (School closed)

Tuesday 9th & Thursday 11th October – Parent Teacher consultations (more details to follow)

Monday 15th – Friday 19th October (inclusive) – Mid-term break

P.T.A. Bowling Night!

There is still time to sign up for this fun event on Friday 14th September. It is always a great evening of bowling, delicious food and opportunities to get to know more members of the BHS community.

The form for ordering tickets can be accessed here.

We look forward to seeing you there.

5F Assembly

This morning we were treated to the first assembly of the year. 5F put on quite a show for all of BHS, the Y4’s loved seeing the start of the learning that they will be doing this time next year. Well done to all the adults and students involved in 5F’s wonderful assembly.

Unit of Inquiry

All of Year 4 have been lucky enough to have Ms Claudia and Ms Kannis to help support the classes with their dances ready for sharing. The children have enjoyed getting creative with their dance moves to their classes chosen songs. The students are using dance to show a belief and the actions that come from these beliefs. They have also been thinking about how they can create some Visual Art connected to this unit.

English

The students have enjoyed looking at Cinquain poems and analysing the features of this type of poetry. The children have been looking at using the right type of words for their poems. They have had to review their learning of verbs and adjectives to help them write their Cinquain poems. These poems will be added to their anthology ready to share with you on Year 4 Sharing Day.

Maths

As part of our work on place value, the students have been consolidating their knowledge of rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. Some of the classes have enjoyed using Kahoot! (online game-based learning platform) to test their knowledge of rounding.

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Central Idea

Experiences and beliefs shape a person’s actions

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into…

How our actions affect our lives (Causation)
People’s many and varied beliefs (Perspective)
The interconnectedness of beliefs, experience and actions (Connection)

Next week, students will continue their dance lessons with the class teachers and Ms Kannis. They will be creating their own superheroes and thinking about the beliefs that their superhero might have. The students will then start to think about how their superheroes’ experiences can affect the actions they may choose to take.

Central Idea

Base 10 place value system can be extended to represent size

An inquiry into:

The patterns of 5 digit numbers and how they are represented
Representing number patterns using words, symbols, numbers and tables

Next week the students will continue consolidating their understanding of rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. They will also be completing a pre-assessment on measurement. This will be the new focus where they will be estimating, constructing, measuring, labelling and comparing perimeter and area of objects using standard units.

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Writing focus: Writing to entertain

Poetry

We will continue to create our own Cinquain poems and start to look at another type of poetry. We will still be looking at the poetic devices we may find in some poems (metaphor, alliteration, similes, repitition, rhyme, onomatopeia).

Comprehension Strategies

Visualising and Self-monitoring

The students have been looking at the self-monitoring strategies that they use to help them understand the text they are reading. They have been looking at any problems they might come across when reading and chosen a strategy to help them understand. They then reflected on how this strategy helped them understand the text better.