Year 4 Update Wk 3
- PTA Welcome Bowling Evening – Friday 11th September
- BHS CPD, School closed – Thursday 24th and Friday 25th September
- Public holiday, School closed – Monday 28th September
- Dress Casual Day – Wednesday 30th September
- Public holiday, School closed – Thursday 1st October
- ESF CPD, School closed – Friday 2nd October
- Parent Consultations – Tuesday 6th and Thursday 8th October (information to follow)
- School Photos – Week of 12th October
- Camp Information evening – Tuesday 13th October, 6pm
- Thank you to all the parents who came to the ‘Meet the Teacher’ evening, the slides will be available on the school website in the next couple of days.
- Thank you to the parents who supported their children in returning the homework in on time. Please remember that homework is given out on a Monday and is expected to be returned on the following Friday. Many thanks!
- PTA bowling night is coming up next Friday evening. We look forward to seeing you there!
This week we started the weekly spelling testing. Some students needed reminding to practise their words at home. Please refer to the homework booklet for strategies to support the learning of spellings.
In Drama, students have been practising the Drama convention of ‘Role on the Wall’ using the book ‘Ish’. This helped with the concept of perspective as students reflected on how the characters viewed themselves and their subsequent actions.
Cassandra Chan and Mr. Evers came into our classrooms to share their beliefs and values with the students. Thank you to both of our speakers, this was particularly valuable in helping the students consolidate their own beliefs and values.
Our dance teacher Mrs Martin has introduced more steps for our dance piece and would like the children to practise their series of movements at home.
This was our first week of giving out the homework booklets on Monday and asking the children to return it on a Friday.
Who We Are
Central Idea: Beliefs and values can influence our attitudes and the way we behave
Lines of Inquiry
- Our different beliefs
- Where our values come from
- Our behaviours and attitudes
Concepts: Connection and Perspective
Learner Profile: Open minded
Attitudes: Tolerance and Respect
In this unit the children will be inquiring into theirs and others’ personal beliefs and values. Making connections to themselves and others. Learning will take place through the arts; music, ICT, drama, dance and visual art, and this will be shared with you at the end of the unit.
Moving on from looking at similarities and differences, students will be investigating different perspectives that they, and others, may hold in the same or different situations. Students will reflect on how these perspectives affect attitudes and behaviours.
A Maths unit on measurement is connected to this UOI. We have begun to inquire into non-standard units using body proportions which will coincide with art. Children will look for relationships between parts of the body to support the skills of proportion, ratio and measurement.
Place Value
Central Idea
Base 10 place value systems can be extended to represent any size
Line of Inquiry
Using the language of number
Reading, writing and ordering numbers
Relationships between number within the place value system
Pre-assessment: Concepts within place value
This week we are:
- Reading numbers up to 99 999
- Comparing and ordering numbers up to 99 999 positioning them on a number line
- Writing numbers up to 99 999 using digits and/or words
- Rounding numbers up to 99 999 to the nearest 10,100,1000.
Poetry is the text type for our first Unit of Inquiry. We will focus on these three types of poetry: Kennings, Cinquain and Haiku. With each of these forms of poetry students will listen to examples, explore how each is written and then experience writing their own examples.
This week we will focus on:
- Haiku Poems
- Syllables
- Introduce Cinquain
- Adjectives and verbs
Joseph Wan 4J
Mateo Chow 4W
Dylan Chai and Brian Keung 4M
Home Reading
15 to 20 minutes
Homework booklet
Week 4
Remember to give your child a healthy start to the day with breakfast and a nutritious snack to ensure sustained energy levels.
Please remember to sign your child’s home reading journal so that they are able to borrow a new book. A kind reminder that students are expected to read Reading Eggspress twice a week.
