15 Sep 2016

Year 4 Update – Wk 5

16th September – Mid Autumn Festival: School closed
23rd September – Y4 Sharing Day (Please see more details below)
27th September – Parent Evening
29th September – Parent Evening
5th October 6pm- Year 4 Camp Information Evening
6th & 7th October – BHS CPD: School closed to students
10th – 14th October – Half Term: School closed
17th October – ESF CPD day: School closed to students
18th October – First day back at school

Y4 SHARING DAY!

Thank you to everyone who has already completed the form, if not PLEASE could you confirm if you will be attending this year’s Sharing Day by completing this form after clicking on this hyper-link (Click Here). We promise that it only takes a second!

Arrangements for Sharing Day

Please go to the following location at 9.00am so our Sharing Day adventure can begin promptly…

4W – Hall (1st floor)

4L – Year 4 classrooms (4th floor)

4F – Music room/Drama Studio (6th floor)

PHOTOS FOR CLASS LEARNING

Please, please, please, if you have not already done so, share family photos with your child for use in the classroom.

Reminders

Please support us by encouraging your child to prepare their own belongings for each school day. This must include:

– Healthy snack

– Lunch

– Water bottle

– Hat

– Diary

– Spelling Journal

– Reading Journal and book

– Reading book

– Book bag

– Mandarin folder

*Please remember, Beacon Hill is a nut free zone!

This week, our inquiry into beliefs and values has continued and been enhanced by a visit from Mrs Farago, who told us about her beliefs around living a vegetarian lifestyle.

We have been busy with our Powtoons (thank you to everyone helped their child to locate some photos to support this project).

We have been delighted to see how hard the children have been working on their Haka moves and chant this week at home and it is clear they are now experts!

Similarly, the children’s personal projects are coming along well. We have been impressed by their independence and enthusiasm whilst working on this project!

As mentioned last week, volunteers from each class bravely stood in front of their peers and outlined the reasons why they would be a great Student Council representative for their class. We were incredibly impressed by the quality of the children’s ideas and the amount of preparation they had put into their speeches. Definitely many future leaders in this year group!

It was incredibly difficult for their classmates to select just one candidate to be their rep. However, after our democratic elections we are delighted to announce that the following children are the student Council reps for their classes…

4F – Ethan Lam

4L – Karl Loynd

4W – Rachel Lee

A huge well done to everyone who gave it a go!

Who We Are

Central Idea:

Our beliefs and values can influence our attitudes and the way we behave.

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into:

Our different beliefs
Where our values come from
Our behaviours and attitudes

Preparation for sharing Day.

Over the coming week, the children will be finishing their personal projects, clay masks and poetry and perfecting their Haka moves and chanting in readiness for our Sharing Day on Friday 23rd! Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Number Maths: Place Value

Central Idea – The base 10 place value system can be extended to represent size.

Lines of Inquiry:

The patterns of 5 digit numbers and how they are represented

We have been playing lots of games to help consolidate our understanding of 4 digit numbers and extending our thinking to 5 digit numbers, too. This was a game many of us enjoyed. We even had a go at making our own versions, too!

Next week, we will continue to compare and order 5 digit numbers, as well as partitioning them, re-grouping numbers and identifying the value of digits in a 5 digit number. We will also be thinking carefully about rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000, as our pre-assessment highlighted this as being something most of us find tricky at the moment!

Strand Maths:

Measurement

Central Idea – Objects and events have attributes that can be measured using appropriate tools. By analysing patterns and identifying rules for patterns it is possible to make predictions.

Lines of Inquiry:

The selection and correct use of standard units

We will continue our inquiry into perimeter and area using the mentor text, “How Big is a Foot?”

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Text Type: Poetry

In this unit the children are exploring how poetry serves a variety of social purposes, e.g. to entertain, to express feelings, to reflect on experiences/people/events, to create mental images, or to be read aloud.

This week we have continued to think about editing and remembering our popular refrain, “Poetry is the best words in the best order!” This is helping us to cast a critical eye over our own poetry and evaluate it in order to make it even better.

We have thought about Shape poems and Calligrams and will be publishing them next week as part of the Poetry Anthology the children will share with you next Friday.

4F – Timothy Chan & Alvin Law

4L – Isabel Chan

4W – Andy Yeung

Music – Koji Lam 4F

P.E. – Nora Yuen 4F

Congratulations to this week’s children. Well done!

*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 comprise 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.

*A weekly home learning task

The children have been given homework folders in which to keep homework instructions/tasks, which also has the Term 1 homework schedule attached. The first homework task was given out, explained and placed in the homework folders today. A summary of the task can be found below…

Year 4 Home Learning English 15.9.16

(Please refer to home learning handout for more information)

You will need:

Computer (to access https://tagul.com/) OR pencils, colour pencils and paper
Dictionary
Lined paper

Word Cloud

Reflect on your learning experiences in Maths, English and Unit of Inquiry this year and create a wordcloud online (Tagul) or on paper. First, brainstorming a collection of new or interesting words from each area. Then, you may play around with the size and orientation of the words in order to make your word cloud.

Please email (Tagul) or hand in your word cloud to your class teacher:

Ms Wu: jane.wu@bhs.edu.hk

Ms Fisher: laura.fisher@bhs.edu.hk

Mrs Fennelly: charlotte.fennelly@bhs.edu.hk