26 Jan 2018

Year 3 Update Wk 19

Tuesday 30th January – Year 3 Pizza Lunch- please bring a container to eat the pizza out of.
Wednesday 31st January – Marie Marchand Positive Behaviour (more information below)
Tuesday 6th February – Year 2 Bake Sale- please bring a container to eat the cake out of.
Friday 9th February – 3A Class Assembly
Monday 12th February – China Day
Thursday 15th February – Break up 12.00pm

Keeping our playground clean

This week lots of children bought cakes from the bake sale. The cakes are given to the children in a tissue. Unfortunately tissue cannot be recycled in Hong Kong and so will now have to go to the landfills. Also, many children left bits of cake and tissue on the floor. It would be great if on bake sale days (the next one is on the 6th of February) the children could please bring a reusable container to school to put the cake in while they eat it to stop the rubbish problem. The next bake sale is at the beginning of February, thank you very much.

Marie Marchand – Parenting Consultant

We are delighted to welcome back Marie Marchand to present at Beacon Hill School on January 31st from 6-8pm. This year’s focus will be positive behaviour management strategies for parents- Discipline without Shouting. Please see the details and sign up via the gateway https://tg.esf.edu.hk The cost will be $50 per person.

Marie is an excellent speaker- both entertaining and informative and we thoroughly recommend any parents from year 1-6 to come and enjoy her presentation.

It is great to see that so many Year Three parents have signed up to this parent meeting. If you have not yet signed up please do so through the e-notice service.

Student Council Fruity Friday

The last term we surveyed our students to find out how we can make BHS even better. A lot of students wanted Fruity Friday back. This is an opportunity for you to help your child have delicious and healthy snacks at least once a week. Can you please support and encourage your child to bring in a fruity snack each Friday. We do not want processed snacks with fruit in them as they contain preservatives and man-made sugar. Thank you in advance for your support. Fruity Friday starts on Friday 19th January.

Sincerely

Connor, Vien, Alena and Alice, Student Council

Mother Tongue Story Telling

This Monday the children were all invited to listen to the Mother Tongue Story Group and really enjoyed hearing the stories. A group of parents tell stories to our students in their mother tongue during lunchtimes. As you can imagine this is very popular with our students and is a great way to share the range of languages we speak within our community. If you are interested please click here to add your details. Any time you can give and to any year group is really appreciated. For those interested we can meet to discuss logistics in more details. If you have any questions please email me at andy.thompson@bhs.edu.hk.

Book Drive

Hi, my name is Muchan, a Student Councillor for 5C. I am organising a Book Drive to help spread my love of reading. The Sony Corporation will collect books to create mobile libraries in South Africa for schools that do not have enough books. If you have books that are:

Please send them to school. There will be a collection box in the school foyer. Any books you can donate will be spread our love of reading.

We wrapped up our Unit of Inquiry on body systems. Those that had presented their work did, and all students reflected on how well they had answered the five questions. They also thought about their time management skills and organization. Ask your child how they think they did, it’s very important they are able to identify their areas for improvement.

Students then repeated the pre assessment they completed at the start of the unit. It was impressive to see how much they have learnt on body systems, how they are interconnected and their new bank of body system vocabulary.

Students then started generating questions on their new unit of inquiry. To do this they played with balls, paper airplanes, cars and many other movable objects to think about how they move and questions they had in relation to this.

In Maths the students finished off measuring area and perimeter using non standard units like unifix cubes. They then moved on to investigating how we measure weight.

In English we ordered a procedural text and started to look at its features.

Scientists learn about forces and motion through the scientific process

Types of forces (form)
Forces affect the motion of objects (connection)
Scientific process (function)

Next week, we will introduce the Inquiry Cycle that they will follow when completing science experiments. Students will generate a class test to investigate. In small groups they will observe, measure and record results before reflecting on this as a class.

Estimation allows us to measure with different levels of accuracy

The children will be inquiring into:

Identifying the standard units used to measure length / mass / capacity
How we measure objects with accuracy
How we solve problems involving measurement

Next week the children will continue to look mass, comparing mass of different objects and looking at the standard units of mass we use. They will also continue their work in class on some mental maths strategies.

Mathletics passwords are in your child’s diary. Please make sure that an adult supports your child when working through the activities.

This coming week we will continue to look at the features of a procedural text and write one as a class.

Visualising is a very important part of reading and makes reading meaningful. During this unit we will be helping the children to create images and ‘movies’ in their heads as they read a text. At home they can practise creating images when they read and also when they are read to. Talk together about what you see and see if it is different.

Year 3 will read books from Big Universe on a Monday and Friday. They will borrow home readers on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Well done to all the children who got the award this week!

3A- Nadine Schneider

3F- Cassie Razon

3S- Davy Wong

The new home learning themes have also been shared with your child, please discuss with them some ideas on how they might like to present their theme. Please support your child as necessary over the next 12 days ready to bring their projects in to share on Wednesday 7th February 2018. We look forward to seeing all the different creative ways they choose to share their chosen theme.

Please make sure that they spend time at the weekend learning their five individualised words. In the back of their Spelling Journal is a list of words for the Unit. Students can learn these if they wish to challenge themselves. You could also use these words to discuss their meaning and put them into sentences together.

Mandarin – All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.

Ms Lynn (Home Learning) – Please read this week’s assigned book in Mandarin Matrix。

Ms Xu: 熟读学过的课文。完成“googleclassroom”练习。借书读书。

Cold Weather Clothing

Thank you for making sure the children have their names in their clothing. Can we also ask that the children only wear layers over the top of their sport’s kit as many children get very hot and sweaty and waste a lot of their lesson time removing the under layers as they are underneath their t-shirts.

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