9 Mar 2018

Year 3 Update Wk 23

From the 12th March 2018- 50th Anniversary Fortnight
Saturday 17th March 2018 – ESF 50th Anniversary Carnival
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

Year 5 Big Business

Year 5 Market Day & Sharing Day

The Year 5 children have been busy creating some fantastic products handmade products to sell for their Market Day which will be held next Friday, 16th March in the hall from 11:00am – 2pm. All year groups will be visiting the market place during the day and we would suggest that the children bring around $80 to spend. Please note that due to the space available we can only allow the children and teachers to attend.

All profits from the market day will be donated to the Immanuel Kindergarten in South Sudan. This is a charity that Mrs. Quinn, one of our ex-staff members, has been involved in for a number of years. It is a charity that we have supported in the past and would like to support again, especially in light of the extremely difficult situation that many find themselves in South Sudan.

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.

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.

It’s been an exciting week with the students building their 3D printed cars. As a class, they then designed an experiment using their cars using the BHS’ primary scientific inquiry cycle. They have been thinking carefully about which one variable they will have and how they can make sure the test is fair. They also made ballon rockets to see how the type of string used affected the distance it would travel. The reasons for this was explored using their knowledge of forces.

In Maths, the students started the week with a pre-assessment on what they understood by multiplication and division together with what number facts they knew. We then built on this by exploring practical problems to introduce arrays to the students.

In English, we continued to look at the features of a procedural text. Students continue to edit their work for punctuation and checking they have included all features of this text type. In reading we are verbalising our visualisation by using sentence prompts. These focus on the senses.

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 carry out their own experiment. With guidance, they will choose if they want to use a helicopter, parachute or their 3D printed car. They will then decide which which variable they want to change and design their own investigations to compare them. They will record all of this on the scientific inquiry cycle and interpret their data to see if it matched their hypothesis.

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 continue to work through open ended tasks and practise their recall of multiplication facts.

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

This is the final week we will be spending on procedural texts. The students will write their own procedure independently. We will also look at grammatical features of this text type, including use of the infinitive (bossy verbs) and adverbs.

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.

As 3A missed doing their assembly before the Chinese New Year holiday, we were treated to a show case of all the knowledge on body systems. Well done 3A

Students were told the next two themes for their Home Learning. Please encourage your child to choose the theme that interests them. They can decide to use one of the ideas listed or choose their own. Home learning is due in on Wednesday 21st March.

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 – Please read this week’s assigned book in Mandarin Matrix。

Ms Xu: 完成Google Classroom功课。记得借书读书。