2 Mar 2018

Year 3 Update Wk 22

Monday 5th March 2018- 3A Class Assembly
From the 12th March 2018- 50th Anniversary Fortnight
Thursday 22nd March 2018- Sport’s Day
Friday 23rd March 2018- International Food Fair
Thursday 29th March 2018- Easter Holiday starts
Friday 30th March 2018- Good Friday Public Holiday
Monday 16th April 2018- Start of Term Three

Student Council Fruity Friday

Don’t forget to continue to support Fruity Friday. Please make sure your child has delicious and healthy snacks each Friday.

BHS Dance Off 2018

Our BHS Dance Off has been postponed until after Easter. Our student council will be sharing more information next week. Important things to remember for the Dance off are:

To have fun
You perform in groups or solo
Your dance should be around 1 minute
heats for the competition will take place at various lunchtimes after Easter
there will be a lower school and upper competition

You can support your child by helping them create and rehearse their dance.

World Maths Day is a free, fun, online competition with up to 4 million students world-wide participating. The competition measures speed in arithmetic and numeracy skills on our Live Mathletics platform and runs for 48 hours and is open to all schools around the world. Students compete online with other students and top scores are displayed on a live ‘Hall of Fame’.

Will BHS be the World Maths Day champion in 2018?

On Wednesday 7th March children will have the opportunity to take part in their Maths Lessons. They will also be able to earn points until Thursday 8th March. Encourage your child to have fun with Maths and take part at home.

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.

Thank you for your fabulous contributions and support you gave at the Student-Led Conferences today. It was fabulous to hear all the children confidently talking about their learning, how far they have come and what they want to be able to do next.

During Inquiry the children used the BHS’ primary scientific inquiry cycle. The classes then used the inquiry cycle to inquire into if the size of a parachute makes a difference to how quickly it falls.

In Maths the students continued to investigate data handling. The children learned to produce and read tally charts, bar charts, pictographs and Venn diagrams.

In English we continued to look at the features of a procedural text and reading using visualisation. The children worked hard on writing their own personal learning reflections and goals.

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, the children will continue their work on the scientific inquiry cycle and inquire into the different types of forces. The children will be using the cars that they have designed and produced in the 3D printer. Each child will consider which variable they want to change and design their own investigations to compare them. The children will be learning more about magnets too.

Multiplication and division are related and are used to solve problems.

The children will be inquiring into:

The roles of symbols and the language of multiplication and division
Mental and written strategies for multiplication and division
The relationship between multiplication and division

Next week the children will show us what they can do and know about multiplication and division. They will be working through some challenges and open ended tasks.

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. The children will write their own procedure independently on how to make balloon rockets. They will focus on editing their work using a procedural checklist.

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 – Steven Yu

3F – Karsten Tsang

3S – Luca Zabbialini

Mandarin- Stephanie Lowe

ICT- Julien

The new home learning themes will be issued next week. Please reflect on your child’s student-led conference and goals together ready to return the portfolios this week.

Please make sure your child has completed the Friday spellings at home and found and learned five new words.

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: 完成Google Classroom功课。记得借书读书。元宵节快乐！