Year 4 Update – Week 32

The children continued to develop their understanding of the features of explanation texts. Some students were inspired by Wallace and Gromit’s Cracking contraptions animations to create a useful contraption for the classroom. They worked in pairs to design a contraption, then drew a flow chart to explain the process before writing an explanation text to go with it.

Maths

This week Year 4 have been rounding up our work on position and direction and shape by revising transformations (flip, turn and slide) and learning about different types of angles. Some of us also began thinking about temperature and using thermometers.

Central Idea:

Technology changes and challenges the way we express ourselves.

Lines of Inquiry:

1. Digital tools for The Arts (Form)
2. How to be respectful, responsible and aware of their online reputation (Responsibility)
3. Creative expression through technology (Perspective)

Central Idea:

Events have attributes that can be measured using appropriate tools

Lines of Inquiry:

• The selection and correct use of standard units
• Solving real-life problems using time, temperature, length, mass and capacity

Next week, the students will explore measurement again. This time our focus will be on the standard units used to measure temperature (celsius/centigrade), mass (kilograms) and capacity (litres). This work will include learning how to read the relevant scales to measure these units as well as practical work to put these skills into practice in real life. We will also undertake some problem-solving challenges related to these areas of measurement.

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 to explain: Students will complete this text type inquiry by writing an independent, unaided explanation text to describe the process that takes place during one of the Earth changes we have been researching in U.O.I. Students should be including causal conjunctions, time connective and technical vocabulary in their work.

Reading Focus: REVISION of all 7 comprehension strategies

Monday 6th May 2019

4A – Marcus Chan
4F – Shaun Ho
4W – Nicole Cheng

Mandarin – Mark Yuen

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