Year 4 Update Wk 26

• 24th March (Thursday 12.00pm) – End of Term
• 11th April – Term 3 begins

 

 

Early Close For Easter

School will close on Thursday at 12 pm for the term break. Please inform us if your child will be leaving earlier for the holidays.

Reading Eggspress

Please remember that this is a school supported and PTA funded reading resource for BHS.  Things have changed since we were students and now more books and stories are available to our young readers than ever.  Please use Reading Eggspress at least once or twice a week, including quizzes which are included at the end of each chapter or book. These books are meant to supplement the home readers from school.

Teachers are checking results, beware!!

How the World Works

Central Idea: Changes of the earth and its atmosphere can impact the natural world

Lines of Inquiry

1. How the different components of the earth are interrelated
2. Why the earth has changed and continuing to change
3. How we know the earth has changed

 

After the holidays we will begin our new unit.  It is a science based unit on the earth.  In your spare time during the holidays, you might like to visit the natural history museum to learn about Hong Kong’s volcanic history or visit the Hong Kong Geographic Park.  See website information below.

Hong Kong Geographic Park – http://www.geopark.gov.hk/en_s2b.htm

HK History Museum – http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/History/en_US/web/mh/

 

 

Multiplication and Division

Central Idea – Addition, subtraction, 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 will be:

There have been many questions about the outcome for division. In class we are teaching short division.  Many parents have raised a concern that they are teaching their child long division, thinking this is wrong.  A good mathematician is armed with many different strategies, teaching your child long division is a great thing as it is another way of solving division with a written method.

Please find examples of what we are teaching below.

Our next writing unit is centered on non-fiction; writing to explain.

Watch this space for more detail after the holiday!

 

There is no homework until we return after the holidays.

It is a great idea to keep reading!

Library News

As you will have seen in the school newsletter it is now possible for parents, younger children and other family members to borrow from our library.  By registering for a family borrowing card you can borrow two books from any section of the library, including the new Parent Collection which contains books about healthy living, behaviour management, fun art activities and days out for children in Hong Kong.  The library is open for family borrowing at these times…

To register for a family borrowing card please complete the form found on the school website’s communications page.  For any questions please contact Emily Jeves  jevese2@beaconhill.edu.hk

Mr Gibson has shared a link to help the children practise their ukulele at home.

http://goo.gl/CH5vHz

Ukuleles to be brought to school on the following days; 4M Thursdays, 4W and 4J Fridays