Year 4 Update – Week 33
Tuesday 21st May – Year 4 Pizza lunch (see below)
Thursday 23rd May – BHS Summer concert
Friday 24th May – 3G Assembly
Friday 31st May – 4W Assembly
Tuesday 4th June – Year 4 swimming lessons begin (see below)
Friday 7th June – Tuen Ng Festival (School closed)
Dear Parents,
In a few weeks time, our Year 4 students will be having a couple of in class sessions on ‘Living and Growing’. In these sessions they will be shown some educational videos which cover the theme of Changes we go through as we grow and develop. Please contact me at susan.chung@bhs.edu.hk if you would like to borrow the DVD to view at home beforehand stating your child’s name and class.
Kind regards,
Susan Chung
Pizza Lunch
Dear Parents,
We will be having Pizza lunch on Tuesday 21st May 2019. As part of our theme of well-being and responsibility we would like to protect our environment from unnecessary waste. If your child is having pizza, they will need to bring in a reusable lunchbox or plate to use. We greatly appreciate your support in this.
致家长：
我们将会在5月21日安排批萨饼午餐。
Swimming Lessons
The students completed a provocation to help them tune into their new unit. They considered how they would deal with a range of internet safety-related scenarios.
English
Students wrote an independent, unaided explanation text to describe volcanoes. They organised their information on a flow chart to help them. They included causal conjunctions, cause and effect, time connective and technical vocabulary in their work.
Maths
This week Year 4 have been thinking about temperature and using thermometers. They learned to estimate and measure temperature in Celcius as well a begin to develop temperature landmarks (e.g. boiling and freezing point, room temperature and body temperature).
Central Idea:
Technology changes and challenges the way we express ourselves.
Lines of Inquiry:
- Digital tools for The Arts (Form)
- How to be respectful, responsible and aware of their online reputation (Responsibility)
- Creative expression through technology (Perspective)
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Next week the students will be thinking about their own technology usage. They will start to look at some different digital tools that they can use to express themselves through The Arts. They will be introduced to ‘common sense education’, where they will start to think about their digital citizenship and taking ownership of their digital lives.
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 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 inform: writing to socialise (letter writing and writing skills). The children will be learning to adapt their writing style for the appropriate platform and audience.
Reading Focus: REVISION of all 7 comprehension strategies
No Golden Book awards due to the public holiday on Monday.
Spelling
- Mon, Weds, Fri – borrow a BHS home reading book
- Tues, Thurs – read a book online from Big Universe
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 – Please complete home learning assigned in Mandarin Matrix.
