Year 4 Update – Week 34
Tuesday 28th Bake Sale
Thursday 30th – PTA quiz
Friday 31st May – 4W Assembly
Tuesday 4th June – Year 4 swimming lessons begin (see below)
Friday 7th June – Tuen Ng Festival (School closed)
Dear Parents,
In a few weeks time, our Year 4 students will be having a couple of in class sessions on ‘Living and Growing’. In these sessions they will be shown some educational videos which cover the theme of Changes we go through as we grow and develop. Please contact me at susan.chung@bhs.edu.hk if you would like to borrow the DVD to view at home beforehand stating your child’s name and class.
Kind regards,
Susan Chung
Pizza Lunch
Dear Parents,
Swimming Lessons
Dear Parents,
Non-profit organisation EcoDrive has teamed up with The New Youth Energy Think Tank in what promises to be the biggest green campaign Hong Kong has ever seen.
In the lead up to May 30 2019 Hong Kong’s first ever No Single-Use Plastic Awareness Day. EcoDrive and The New Youth Energy Think Tank have launched the “Enough Plastic” campaign in order to tackle the growing issue of single-use plastic, which plays a huge part in polluting our planet.
As EcoDrive co-founder Emily Lam-Ho said: “It takes 20 days to break a habit, so here’s to hoping that by the end of our campaign, you will have cut out some form of plastic.”
Please take 1 minute to watch the Enough Plastic Campaign Video.
We would love if you could support this campaign next Thursday 30th May 2019 and help make sure that your child has a plastic free snack and lunch.
This week students will start to learn how to manipulate digital images using Pixlr software. They will continue to learn about internet safety and being a digital citizen. We are looking at a range of online tools to express ourselves creatively.
English
Students have begun looking at the features of formal and informal letters and writing a letter for a specific scenario. It is a great opportunity for students to develop an awareness of when to write formally or informally.
Maths
This week students have been learning how to estimate, measure, label, compare and order capacity of containers using standard units (ml, L). The have also learnt ho to estimate, measure, label, compare and order mass of objects using standard units (g, Kg).
Central Idea:
Technology changes and challenges the way we express ourselves.
Lines of Inquiry:
- Digital tools for The Arts (Form)
- How to be respectful, responsible and aware of their online reputation (Responsibility)
- Creative expression through technology (Perspective)
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Next week the students will be thinking about their own technology usage. They will start to look at some different digital tools that they can use to express themselves through The Arts. They will be introduced to ‘common sense education’, where they will start to think about their digital citizenship and taking ownership of their digital lives.
Central Idea:
Events have attributes that can be measured using appropriate tools
Lines of Inquiry:
- The selection and correct use of standard units
- Solving real-life problems using time, temperature, length, mass and capacity
Next week, the students will explore measurement again. This time our focus will be on the standard units used to measure mass (kilograms) and capacity (litres). This work will include learning how to read the relevant scales to measure these units as well as practical work to put these skills into practice in real life. We will also undertake some problem-solving challenges related to these areas of measurement.
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 to inform: writing to socialise (letter writing and writing skills). The children will be learning to adapt their writing style for the appropriate platform and audience.
Reading Focus: REVISION of all 7 comprehension strategies
Julian Leung 4F
Ayden Hong 4W
Jonathon Wen 4A
Mali Tan 4A
Charlotte Wan 4A
Spelling
- 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.
