23 Mar 2018

Year 4 Update – Wk 25

Wednesday 28th March – Beacon Hill School Spring Concert 3:30pm in the Hall, featuring Year 4 Ukulele Club and Year 4 Percussion Club members

Thursday 29th March – School Ends at 12pm for Easter Break

Monday 16th April – First Day Back

Scholastic International Book Club

Don’t forget to visit our unique BHS Scholastic website to browse and order from a great selection of well-known and good quality children’s books!

http://world-schools.scholastic.co.uk/beacon-hill-1

20% of everything you spend is ‘rewarded’ to the school to be spent on new books to support students’ learning.

Order deadline: Monday 23rd April

Ukuleles!

Please encourage your child to remember to bring their ukuleles and ukulele booklets to school on the appropriate day. At the moment, we still have quite

a few children forgetting their instruments.

4F – Thursday

4L – Tuesday

4W – Tuesday

Ukulele Club – Wednesday lunchtime (this only applies to members of this club and they know who they are).

Y4 Teacher Contact Information

4F – Mrs Fennelly – charlotte.fennelly@bhs.edu.hk

4L – Miss Fisher – laura.fisher@bhs.edu.hk

4W – Miss Wu – jane.wu@bhs.edu.hk

Year 4 Learning Support Teacher – Ms Mak – haymen.mak@bhs.edu.hk

Vice Principal – Mr Thompson – andy.thompson@bhs.edu.hk

Chinese Cultural Day

The Year 4 children had lots of fun on Monday morning during our Chinese Cultural Day.

International Food Fair

The children did an absolutely amazing job making and running their games for the international food fair. Working in groups really helped them develop their social communication skills. They loved making the games and had lots of fun practising how to run them in class, before the main event on Friday evening.

Sports Day

Well done to all Year 4 children who participated with enthusiasm, sportsmanship, courage and a positive attitude to themselves and others.

Unit of Inquiry

Aside from Sports Day and game making, we have also been continuing on with our unit of inquiry around Earth changes. We have looked at plate tectonics and Pangea, what the Earth used to look like! They have also begun to make connections between plate tectonics and volcanoes.

How the world works

Central Idea

Changes of the Earth impact the natural world.

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into…

How the different components of the Earth are interrelated (connection)
Why the Earth has changed and is continuing to change (change)
How we know the Earth has changed (reflection)

Next week we will be looking in further detail into how volcanoes are formed.

Number Maths: Fractions

Central Idea

Fractions and decimals are ways of representing whole part relationships

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into:

Constructing and representing equal parts of a whole
Identifying, ordering and describing fractions using mathematical language
Understanding the relationship between fractions and decimals

Next week, students will be completing some hands on activities where the children make different fractions of wholes using fraction walls, strips and shapes.

Writing to Explain

Next week, students will be using the animation Wallace and Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions as prompts for a shared construction of an explanation.

Comprehension Strategy: Making Inferences

Next week the children will continue to develop their inference skills when watching short videos, and when inferring the meaning of unknown words in nonfiction texts.

Golden Book Certificates

There was no Golden Book assembly this week due to the Chinese Cultural Day.

homelearning

Year 4 Home Learning 23.03.18

We are sticking with the Home Learning routine from the beginning of the school year. Students will be given two themes and they may choose one to respond to. The new Home Learning choices have been explained to the children and they are already buzzing with creative and imaginative ideas! Here are a selection of ideas to use as a prompt if your child is struggling to get started.

Due date: Wednesday 18th April

Spelling

The children have a list of words they need to learn. They should practise these at home in preparation for “buddy spelling tests” (the children testing each other) in class next week.

Reading

The children have been given their Home Reading Journals and are expected to read for 20 minutes per day at their given comprehension age. Children will record the title of their book in their journal. Please discuss your child’s reading and leave a comment in the journal so that they can change their book.
To support their reading development, please make sure of the following:

Home reading should be fun not a chore.
Keep the timing short, find a comfy, quiet space and have a chat about what your child is reading. This really helps to develop their comprehension skills.
There is information about comprehension at the beginning of the journal, which you can use to help guide your discussion with your child. Please also refer to information your class teacher has sent out to you about how to help your child at home.

Mathematics
All children should aim to spend 30 minutes per week completing their assigned Mathletics tasks and/or practising their times tables.

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

Ms Lynn (Home learning) – Please check your google classroom for details.

Ms Xu – 记得借书读书，写读书报告，完成课堂未完成的功课。完成google classroom 未完成的功课。