14 Sep 2018

Year 4 Update – Week 4

Parent Teacher Consultations

Our first Parent Teacher Consultations this year will be on Tuesday 9^th and Thursday 11^thOctober. This is a valuable opportunity for you to find out more about your child’s learning in Inquiry, English and Mathematics through conversation with their class teacher. Bookings for appointments are made through the Gateway and this is available for families with more than one child at school from 3pm Monday 17^th September and for all our families from 3pm Friday 21^st September. This means that families with more than one child in school can get appointments on the same day. For more details please see this week’s school newsletter. https://www.beaconhill.edu.hk/bhs-news/#newsletter-2018-19

Year 4 Sharing Day – Family photo required

The students are getting very excited about sharing our learning with you on Friday 28th September from 9am. They are participating in many learning engagements linked to our Central Idea; working hard and showing great enthusiasm.

One of our activities on Sharing Day will require a family photo for each student. Please could you email a photo of your family (including your child!) to your child’s class teacher.

Email a family photo to your child’s class teacher at the address below…

4A jane.andrews@bhs.edu.hk

4F charlotte.fennelly@bhs.edu.hk

4W james.whyman@bhs.edu.hk

Deadline: Friday 21st September

Many thanks indeed for your support with this, all will be revealed on Sharing Day!

We look forward to seeing you then.

Unit of Inquiry

This week we have continued preparing for our sharing day by practicing for our dance routines. In addition to this the students have also been working collaboratively to create a superhero whose beliefs are portrayed by their actions.

English

The students have continued to develop their understanding of a variety of poetry devices such as alliteration and personification in order to see how they can create mental imagery through their writing. They have also been practising using these in different forms of poetry such as Cinquain and emotions poems.

Maths

This week the students have begun working on measurement. They started this by investigating measurement statements about the human body to see if they were true or false. They are now learning to compare, order and convert different forms of measurement.

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Central Idea

Experiences and beliefs shape a person’s actions

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into…

How our actions affect our lives (Causation)
People’s many and varied beliefs (Perspective)
The interconnectedness of beliefs, experience and actions (Connection)

Next week, students will continue their dance lessons with the class teachers and Ms Kannis. They will be creating a multimedia project to showcase their own superheroes. The students will also be working on Art projects connected with their beliefs and having the opportunity to use Toontastic 3D software.

Central Idea

Events have attributes that can be measured using appropriate tools

An inquiry into:

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

Next week the students will be continuing to investigate measurement using standard units. We will be beginning to inquire into area and perimeter through a series of problem solving engagements.

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Writing focus: Writing to entertain

Poetry

We will continue to work on poetry and create senses poems that showcase the students’ awareness of alliteration and similes. We will still be looking at the poetic devices we may find in some poems (metaphor, alliteration, similes, repetition, rhyme, onomatopeia).

Comprehension Strategies

Visualising and Self-monitoring

The students have been looking at the self-monitoring strategies that they use to help them understand the text they are reading. They have been looking at any problems they might come across when reading and chosen a strategy to help them understand. They then reflected on how this strategy helped them understand the text better.