Year 4 Update – Wk 10
1st November – Year 6 Bake Sale
2nd Novemeber – 4L Sai Kung trip
3rd Novemeber – 4W Sai Kung Trip
4th November – 4F Class Assembly
9th November – 4F Sai Kung Trip
16th – 18th November – Year 4 Camp
28th November – LEAP Visit
2nd December – PTA Disco
8th December – Christmas Concert
13th December, noon – School’s out for Christmas Holiday
3rd January – First Day Back
Athletics at the Pitch
A gentle reminder to return permission slips for the pitch (starting on Thursday 3rd November).
Our First Class Assembly!
We wish everyone in 4F good luck on their assembly next Friday!
Reminders
Please make sure your child comes to school with a school hat on break times and PE lessons.
Please support us and your child by helping them create a positive impact on the habitat around them by bringing their snacks, lunches and drinks in reusable containers.
In Maths, we are continuing to develop the children’s knowledge of basic facts and introducing multiplication using larger numbers. The children have also collected and represented data using web tools with Mr Lowe in ICT.
Who We Are
Central Idea: People’s behaviour impacts on the habitats of other living things.
Lines of Inquiry
An inquiry into:
- Different habitats and the living things found in Hong Kong
- Impact of behaviour on habitats
- Human responsibility to habitats
Children will be reflecting on their experiences from the Wetlands Park, and drawing from their observation and research skills to think about a mini-inquiry of their own into a Hong Kong habitat. They will be building on this case study until the end of the unit.
Central Idea – Multiplication and division are related to each other and used to help us solve problems.
Lines of Inquiry:
- The methods that are used to solve calculations
- The operations of multiplication and division
- The different relationships between the four operations
Next week the children will be revising mental and written strategies for multiplication and begin to work with larger numbers.
Strand Maths: Data Handling
Central Idea – Different graph forms highlight different aspects of data more efficiently.
Lines of Inquiry:
- Collect, organize and represent data (including bar and line graphs, 3 ring Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams) where one object or symbol can represent many data values
- Interpret data and draw conclusions using a variety of scales
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of data representation forms
The children will continue to gather and represent data in different ways using web tools.
The children will continue to develop their story-writing skills by inquiring into stereotypical animal personalities, character traits and ‘show don’t tell’. They will continue to infer meaning from various types of texts (i.e. audio, visual) using the equation BK (background knowledge) + TC (text clues) = I (inference). We have kept ‘The Clocktower’ on, a previous inference activity, in case you have not seen this lovely short!
Daily home reading
A reminder that the colour of the home reading book your child brings home will reflect their reading ability at the end of Year 3. However, as reading assessments continue over the course of the coming few weeks, this may or may not change. PLEASE be reminded that the colour sticker on the reading book your child brings home is far less significant than the development of fluency AND comprehension. There is also an expectation that your child will read a book and complete any quizzes on Reading Eggspress twice a week.
Spelling
The children will have 10 new words to learn each week (Friday) and will be tested on them by a classmate three times per week. The words they have consist of some vocabulary relevant to our current U.O.I., some words relating to the spelling rule that we are currently learning about and some words of their choice.
Year 4 Home Learning – Unit of Inquiry – 28.10.16
The children will be building on their experiences and knowledge of the Wetland Park. They should look over the notes they took on the day and see how they can edit and revise their work in order to publish a complete booklet. They should also look at what information they are missing and do a little bit of research on their own (e.g. Visiting the Wetlands Park website) to fill in any ‘gaps’.
