Year 4 Update – Wk 11
Tue 8th November – Mandarin Consultations – no Mandarin for students
Wed 9th November – 4F Sai Kung Trip
Thur 10th November – Mandarin Consultations – no Mandarin for students
Thur 10th November – Final day to bring in Box of Hope
Wed 16th – Fri 18th November – Year 4 Camp
Mon 28th November – LEAP Visit
Wed 30th November – Mandarin Consultations – no Mandarin for students
Fri 2nd December – PTA Disco
Thur 8th December – Christmas Concert
Tue 13th December, noon – School’s out for Christmas Holiday
3rd January – First Day Back
Reading Workshops
To support your child’s reading at the home, the English department at Beacon Hill School will be holding reading workshops for parents and helpers. These will be held next Wednesday (9th November) at the following times:
- Reading Workshop for Helpers – 2pm
- Reading Workshop for Parents – 6.30pm
An email has already been sent out to parents, with the link to the sign up form. However, it’s also included here for your convenience: https://goo.gl/forms/tCO
Mandarin Parent Consultations
Please make sure that you have signed up for one of the Mandarin Parent Consultation time-slots that are coming up starting from next week.
Camp Is Coming!
How to Help Your Child Get Ready ….
- please bring in snacks to share (multi-packs) by 14th November
- practice making their own bed
- show them how to hang their towel (so it will dry for the next shower!)
- give them a plastic bag to bring home their dirty/wet clothes in
- ensure they know which clothes belong to them…and make sure they are named clearly
- be positive about camp with them and be excited for them!
Box of Hope
Many thanks to all the Year 4 students and families who have brought in a Box of Hope to be donated to those in need at Christmas.
For your information, the boxes will be collected on Thursday 10th November, so if you would like to contribute and make a child’s day, please bring your box, or boxes, on or before next Thursday.
Reminders
Please make sure your child comes to school with a school hat on break times and PE lessons.
It was noticed that some students did not have their hats on our recent outings, and even though the weather is getting cooler now in Hong Kong, the sun is still strong and so hats are the best way to keep your child safe for the rays. Please, please make sure he or she has one and that they bring it every day!
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.
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
The children have continued to look more closely at the habitats of Hong Kong and are excited to start their student-led inquiries. They have been acquiring and practising the skills they will need to do this (researching from the media, making observations and summarising) with their class teachers and also with the support of Ms Jeves, who has been working with the students in Information Literacy sessions.
The students will begin their own inquiries next week. Please feel free to support them by sharing any knowledge you have of their chosen habitat, or better still, by going out into nature and experiencing it together!
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
The children are at different stages of looking at the concept of “Times as many” and will work through an array of challenges to help them develop their understanding.
Strand Maths: Data Handling
Central Idea – Different graph forms highlight different aspects of data more efficiently.
Lines of Inquiry:
- Collect, organise 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 have begun thinking about their own fables – who their characters will be, what problems they will face and importantly, what lesson they want the reader to infer from their story.
This will be developed further next week into more concrete plans for their fables and they will use these to begin their first drafts.
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 – English – 04.11.16
Instructions
- Read the two fables in the home learning booklet.
- Consider how they are similar and how they are different.
- Summarise your ideas in the Venn Diagram on the final page.
- Try to include information you have inferred, as well as information you have directly read from the text.
Optional : Practise inferring by doing this quiz! https://www.quia.com/pop/43335.html
