5 Oct 2018

Year 4 Update – Week 7

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Monday 1st October – PUBLIC HOLIDAY (School closed)

Tuesday 9th & Thursday 11th October – Parent Teacher consultations

Monday 15th – Friday 19th October (inclusive) – Mid-term break

Wednesday 24th October – Year 4 Camp information evening (Parents only) at 6:45 pm

Wednesday 20th – Friday 22nd November – Year 4 Camp

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.

*BOOKING SYSTEM CLOSES MONDAY 8th OCTOBER*

BHS Lunchtime Experiences

At BHS we have lots of great clubs which our students really enjoy so Ms Chung challenged us to create even more! As the student councillors we interviewed our friends and classmates to find out their favourite clubs. We were wondering if any parents would like to help run these clubs? Do not panic! You do not need to be an expert or world champion, just enthusiastic and willing to help. This could be as an one off session or more, it is up to you. Please click on this google form to volunteer. The Student Council will then get in contact with you to organise the club. We will help with all the logistics such as venue, students and resources.

Thank you for any help you can give us.

This week we began our Sharing the Planet unit. The students have begun to investigate how the features of different creatures allow them to survive in different habitats. In English we have started to look at the features of information reports in order for the students to start creating an report about an animal of their choice. In mathematics we have just finished our unit on area and perimeter.

Literacy

U.O.I.

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Central Idea

Interdependence of living things can affect their survival.

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into…

Different types of livings things (Form)
What living things need to survive (Connection)
Human responsibility to the survival of living things (Responsibility)

Next week we will be continuing the unit by researching an animal of their choice, presenting their findings and then comparing with other animals.

Central Idea

By analysing patterns and identifying rules for patterns it is possible to make predictions.

An inquiry into:

Rules of patterns and how these predict future terms.
Equivalent number sentences using addition and subtraction
Patterns and relationships in multiplication and division

Next week the students will start looking at their new unit of pattern and function where they will be inquiring into rules of patterns and how to predict future terms.

Writing focus: Writing to inform

To present information about something, generally describing an entire class of thing, whether natural or man-made.

For the first 2-3 weeks of this unit we will be looking at words at sentence level. We will look at how we construct sentences and thinking about how the parts of a sentence work together. We feel that this will give the children a better grasp of grammar and punctuation and enable them to write impressive sentences for the information reports they will produce later on.

Comprehension Strategies

Determining Importance

Next week we will be starting our new text type writing to inform. We will also be looking at our new reading comprehension strategy of determining importance.

There was no Golden Book assembly this week as a result of the BHS CPD Day.

homelearning

Spelling

We will begin Spelling homework on Tuesday 2nd October, thanks for your patience. The children have been decorating the front covers of their new Spelling journals ready to start next week.

Reading

Students should read everyday and talk to an adult about the text they have selected.