Year 4 Update – Wk 28
Tuesday 2nd May – BHS CPD Day: School Closed *Please note that Monday 1st and Wednesday 3rd May are public holidays
Thursday 4th May – 10th May – Food Drive (Y6 Exhibition action). Please donate food or money for those in need.
Friday 5th May – Year 3 Action Day (see below for more information)
Tuesday 9th May – Year 4 Pizza Lunch
Tuesday 9th May – Y4 Charity Football Match (part of the Year 6 Exhibition; see below for more information)
Tuesday 23rd May – Year 1 Bake Sale. Please bring some money for a tasty treat and to support the school.
Monday 29th May – BHS CPD Day: School Closed *Please note that Tuesday 30th May is a public holiday
Thursday 1st June – PTA Quiz
Thursday 8th June – Y4 Swimming starts. 4 sessions to be held on 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th June.
Tuesday 13th June – Year 3 Bake Sale. Please bring some money for a tasty treat and to support the school.
Supporting Action at Beacon Hill
May sees a whole lot of action taking place in Beacon Hill School! There will be a host of activities and learning engagements for the Year 4 children to participate in. The activities being offered are outlined below.
Friday 5th May – Year 3 Action Day: Year 3 children will be taking Action for the end of their Inquiry into Children’s Rights.
- Selling toys, books and squash in the playground at playtime
- Zumbathon/Danceathon in the Drama Room, 1.00pm – 1.30pm
All items and entry fees will be between $5-$15. The money raised will be divided between the following charities: IndoChina Starfish Foundation, OneSky, CrossRoads and Christina Noble Children’s Foundation. Please bring along some money to support the students and their worthy causes!
Tuesday 9th May – BHS Y6 Exhibition Action: Year 4 charity football match to raise awareness for HK refugees of war. Open to boys and girls. 10 students per team, 7-a-side. 4 teams so 40 participants in total – “First come, first served!”. Please contact Ronny Yeung, Isaac Lam, Jason Luk, Alvin and Praise at yeungln1@beaconhill.edu.hk if you would like to participate. $10 to enter. Money raised will go to the Justice Centre charity. Donations also greatly received.
Saturday 20th May – Recycled Paper Bin Competition: Make a recycled paper bin out of recycled paper! Deadline the 20th May.
Friday (date to be confirmed) – ¨The Fate of Food Waste¨ Y6 Exhibition Group will be doing Bokashi composting, and to do composting they need fruit peels. To get enough fruit peels, they are hosting a ¨Fruity Friday¨ event. To contribute to this event, please bring in a fruit; apples, mangoes, and grapes. The Y4 teachers will award house points for the different fruits that are brought in!
Ukuleles!
Please make sure that your child brings their ukulele to music class from now until the end of the school year. It makes is very difficult to practice without one! Up to a third of a class have forgotten theirs this past week, so you can imagine how disruptive to their learning that can be. Please see below for when your child should bring their ukulele.
4F – Music on Wednesdays – ukuleles needed.
4L – Music on Tuesdays – ukuleles needed.
4W – Music on Mondays – ukuleles needed.
Portfolios
Please double check that your child has returned his or her portfolio. We know that there are a few students in each class who still have not brought in theirs. Please do let your child’s class teacher know if it cannot be found!
They have chosen an area of the UOI to find out more about. From tsunamis to hurricanes, earthquakes to weathering and floods to landslides and more, the wide range of choices reflects the high level of curiosity and engagement the children have shown throughout the unit.
On Thursday, the children the went to see Melodia. The children thoroughly enjoyed the show: the music, the costumes and the acrobatics! The Year 4 teachers were (once again!) impressed by their conduct in this busy venue and as an enthusiastic audience.
How The World Works
Central Idea: Changes to the Earth and its atmosphere can impact the natural world
Lines of Inquiry
An inquiry into:
- How the different components of the Earth are interrelated (connection)
- Why the Earth has changed and is continuing to change (change)
- How we know the Earth has changed (reflection)
Summative Task: Choose a natural phenomenon/event and create a flow chart to demonstrate how this event changes/has changed the Earth.
Next week the children will continue to research how the Earth changes (in their chosen area outline above) and will focus on one way they can demonstrate this to their classmates.
Central Idea – Fractions and decimals are ways of representing whole part relationships
Lines of Inquiry:
- Constructing and representing equal parts of a whole
- Identifying, ordering and describing fractions using mathematical language
- Understanding the relationship between fractions and decimals
- Identify prime numbers on a 100 square
- Identify the factors of composite numbers up to 10x
- Use knowledge of factors to solve multiplication and problems e.g. 18 x 5 is (9 X 2) x 5
Next week the children will say good-bye to fractions and will explore the wonderful world of composite and prime numbers.
Purpose: Writing to explain
Big idea: Authors explain clearly how and why things happen
Related Language Concepts: Word choice, causal connectives, technical vocabulary, audience
Next week the children will focus in on their student led unit of inquiry research and will explain how the Earth changes in this way in an explanation text.
Comprehension Key: Questioning
As the children continue their unit of inquiry research, they will gain first hand experience of the importance of questioning (keeping a question in mind) and how questions can be used to gain information.
Home Learning Task 28.04.17: Scrumptiously Simplified Fractions
Imagine the look on your parents’ or guardians’ faces when you tell them that they need to get you a BIG bag of candy this home learning task!
Work with a cupful of candy (you’ll need around 70 pieces) to calculate fractions. Follow the instructions on the worksheet and complete the table.
Helpful notes:
- The best candy to work with are M&Ms or Skittles, you will need about a big cupful.
- The more candy you work with, the more challenging the task will be.
When completing the table, make sure that your denominator is EVEN. If that means you have to eat a few candies to make that happen, go ahead!
Deadline: Friday 5th May
Home Learning Task 05.05.17: UOI There will be no Weekly Update next week so your home learning for the week of 8th May – 12th May is to continue finding out about your chosen area of change for your UOI. Also, start, if you haven’t already, to look for ways you can demonstrate this to your classmates. Decide what to do with your partner, gather together some materials and practice!
Daily home reading
Please check to make sure your child is taking home home reader books at their level, or reading books on Reading Eggs at their comprehension age level. 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.
