14 Jan 2019

Year 4 Update – Week 18

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Tuesday 22nd January – Year 4 Popcorn Day (see below)

Thursday 31st January – CNY Performance (Time TBC)

Friday 1st February – Chinese Cultural Activities Day

Tuesday 22nd January – POPCORN DAY!

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Students should bring $20 and an empty container (snack box is fine) if they wish to participate in this tasty fund-raising event for the PTA.

Book Drive

Brody, Ryan and Muchan in Year 6 are organising a Book Drive to help spread our love of reading. The Sony Corporation will collect books to create mobile libraries in South Africa for schools that do not have enough books for children to read. If you have books that are:

Please send them to school. There will be a collection box in the school foyer from Monday 21st January. Any books you can donate will help spread the enjoyment of reading.

Action in the PYP at BHS

It has been great celebrating the talents and achievements of our students through the ’Student Achievement’ section in the newsletter. We would like to do something similar with Student Action. Action in the PYP is when students are inspired through their learning and their experiences to make a difference to their lives or the community connected to real life issues and opportunities. We would like to celebrate our students taking action outside of school.

Please could you email examples to me, andy.thompson@bhs.edu.hk and I will share through our newsletter.

There are different types of Action. We would like to start with a focus on Participation. See below for a definition and examples

Type of Action

Examples

Participation

Being actively involved in their learning and contributing as an individual or a group

Getting involved with community projects

Making appropriate choices and taking responsibility to help people

Taking on different roles e.g. being a leader, completing my chores, working in a group, looking after my pet

Taking part in any decision making process

Joining a new club

4F Assembly

4F thoroughly enjoyed sharing their learning about 5 significant explorers this morning during assembly. They did a fabulous job and we are extremely proud of the confidence, commitment and enthusiasm they demonstrated whilst preparing and performing their assembly.

We thoroughly enjoyed the quiz show, music, acting and their singing and dancing!

4F Parents, we will send a link to the assembly video once it has been made available by the ICT technicians.

Maths

This week the students have continued to work on multiplication and division strategies, both mental and written. They have completed some more problem-solving challenges and been investigating the relationship between multiplication and division.

English

Image result for hk forest schools adventure logo The students came up with some fantastic reasons why all BHS students should get the opportunity to visit HK Forest Schools Adventure. Their maturity and thoughtful ideas were impressive. Each class has been working on a jointly constructed text which gives reasons and examples/explanations to support their opinion.

U.O.I

This week the students have continued to investigate different explorers from around the world, but have also been thinking about some significant scientists, including Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming and how their discoveries changed the world.

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Changes in our word can happen through exploration and discovery..

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into…

- A range of explorers and discoveries (form)

- Explorations and discoveries that have changed our world (change)

The reasons why people choose to explore and discover (causation)

Next week, the Y4 students will continue to find out a little more about significant scientists, their discoveries and the impact they had on the world. The students will also be carrying out a mini personal inquiry into a significant person whose exploration or discovery has changed the world. They have begun thinking about who they might select and undertaken some research. Next week, they will be answering 3 questions in relation to their significant person…

Who was this person and what did they do?
Why did they do this?
How did their exploration/discovery change the world?

Then they will have the opportunity to present and share their findings.

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Central Idea:

The operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are related to each other and are used to solve problem

Lines of Inquiry:

1. The different ways to model/show multiplication and division

1. Mental strategies that can be used to solve multiplication and division

Written strategies that can be used to solve multiplication and division

Next week in Mathematics we will continue looking at different multiplication and division strategies. We will be looking at the relationship between multiplication and division and be learning more about how to solve problems involving larger numbers.

Please continue to help your children to practise their multiplication tables at home. Click the image below to access some online games that might support this…

Writing focus: Writing to persuade

Next week, the students will be having a go at writing to persuade others that the significant explorer/innovator they have chosen is the MOST significant of all. This will allow them to apply their knowledge of persuasive techniques, use causal conjunctions and apply the OREO model to an independent piece of writing.

Comprehension Strategies: Summarise and synthesise

Then students are researching and note-taking in order to utilise their summarising skills. We are reading a range of texts with unexpected endings to encourage us to think-aloud and explain how our ideas change as we read through a text.

Monday 14th January 2019

4A – Tsz Kiu Chan

4F – Ethan Duong

4W – Emilie Sadler

homelearning

Home Learning Challenge – DIY.org

Don’t forget that by the end of this UOI we would like every student to have earned a “patch” on DIY.org by completing 3 challenges. Please refer to previous email sent in December 2018 (click to read it here).

DUE: Friday 25th January

Spelling

The students have 8 spellings each week that they will need to practise at home. They will have 3 spelling tests each week to make sure they know how to spell their words correctly on a consistent basis.

Reading

Students should read everyday and talk to an adult about the text they have selected. This can be a chance for them to practise their comprehension strategies.