19 May 2017

Year 4 Update – Wk 30

 

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 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th June.

Tuesday 13th June – Year 3 Bake Sale. Please bring some money for a tasty treat and to support the school.

Living and Growing Lessons

As part of our Personal Social Health Education programme, the Year 4s will be having a couple of in class sessions on ‘Living and Growing’.  They will be learning about the changes their bodies will go through during puberty. In these sessions they will be shown some educational videos which cover the theme of Changes. These lessons will take place this coming Friday. If you would like to view the DVD before then, then please contact Susan Chung, Vice Principal at susan.chung@bhs.edu.hk.

For your information the BHS Sex Education Policy can be found on the Gateway under School Documents – BHS School Policies.

 

Swimming!

Swimming lessons will begin for Y4 on Wednesday 7th June and will continue every Wednesday until the end of term. 

4W have the first swimming session and so need to come to school wearing their swimming clothes underneath their uniform. The bus to the pool departs at 8:50 sharp. Children must arrive at school on time – no later than 8:45! Please make sure that you pack your underwear to change into after swimming!
All Y4 students will need to have their swimming kit (swimming suit/trunks, googles, hat and towel). Those with long hair might also like to wear their hair up to make it easier to put in a swimming hats. Please note that watches and bracelets are not allowed in the swimming pool, so to reduce the chance of things being lost, we highly recommend these are kept at home.
There are some timetable changes brought about by the commencement of swimming lessons. These will begin week of the 5th May and will continue until the end of the term. See below for details.
 
All Y4 classes – no class teacher-led PE lessons (swimming will replace these)
4L – PE (with Mr Teahan) moves to Fridays. Please come to school wearing PE kit on Fridays from 9th June until the end of term.

 

Fruity Fridays – ¨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 their ukulele 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.

 

This has arguably been one of the most enjoyable weeks of Year 4!
How come? Let’s hear from the children themselves!
Provocation for the new Unit of Inquiry
Austin, 4L
“We were allowed to go on 5 tabs and those 5 tabs represent your online life. We could look at anything as long as it was appropriate.”
 
Alex. 4L
“We’ve done what people liked. What their online life is like. Lots of people like Roblox.”
Writing Workshops
Sera, 4L
“We got to sit next to whoever we like and decorate out book however we like, which was kinda fun. We needed to work on our punctuation, but we could write about what we wanted.”
 
Lianna, 4L
“It was fun for us to write about whatever we wanted!”

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How We Organise Ourselves

Central Idea: The way we communicate information through digital media can bring challenges, benefits and responsibilities

Lines of Inquiry 
An inquiry into:

  •  How new digital media is used and organised (function)
  •  Benefits and challenges of new media (reflection)
  •  Our responsibility in virtual environments (responsibility)

Next week will compile and collate further information about how Y4 children use digital media. We will also ask them to share their understanding of the central idea and lines of inquiry.

 Probability

Central Idea – Probability is based on chance and can be expressed in different ways

Lines of Inquiry – An inquiry into:

  • Data from probability and how it can be collected, organised, displayed and analysed in different ways.
  • Different graph forms that highlight different aspects of probability data more efficiently.

Next week the children will continue to explore the language of probability using terms such as likely’, ‘unlikely’, ‘certain’, ‘impossible’. They will also begin to identify familiar events that are dependent and independent of the occurrence of the other.
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This week’s Golden Book Certificate winners were …
4F – Rachel Shin
4L – Ryan Schroeder
4W – Zyrus Luk and Ethen Chen
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Year 4 – UOI Home learning 19.5.17 – DIGITAL MEDIA

Earlier this week you completed the “All about me in 5 tabs” challenge by opening the 5 tabs on an internet browser that best represent you and your use of digital media.

Your homework this week is to ask an adult to complete the same challenge!

You will need to…

  • Explain the challenge clearly
  • Allow the adult to have 15 minutes thinking and browsing time
  • Give them a further 5 minutes to select their final 5 tabs
  • Record/screenshot the tabs they have chosen
  • Have a discussion about why they have selected each of their 5 websites.

Next Friday (26.5.17), you will need to share your findings with your classmates. You may choose how to share your findings, some suggestions include – Google Slides show, oral presentation, poster, Google doc, etc, but you may be as creative as you wish.

Remember to include…

  • A brief description of each of the adult’s 5 chosen websites
  • The reason why each one is important to them

Have fun!

Deadline: Friday 26th May

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.