25 Nov 2016

Year 4 Update – Wk 14

Mon 28th November – LEAP Visit

Wed 30th November – Mandarin Consultations – after school

Fri 2nd December – PTA Disco

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Thur 8th December – Christmas Concert

Tue 13th December, noon – School’s out for Christmas Holiday

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3rd January – First Day Back

FRIDAY SPECIAL SNACK DAY!

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We were so overwhelmed with your generosity with snacks for camp that we have a huge surplus!

Therefore, for the next 2 Fridays (2nd and 9th Dec) and Tuesday the 13th, we will be inviting Y4 students to take a snack from the Y4 Camp snack bags. Your child DOES NOT need to bring a snack on those days. Of course, if you would like your child to still bring snacks from home, they are most welcome!

LEAP

4L will be missing their PE lesson on Monday due to LEAP so please come to school in regular school uniform. Many thanks!

Reminders

Please make sure your child comes to school with a school hat EVERY DAY.

Please support us and your child by helping them create a positive impact on the habitat around them by bringing their snacks, lunches and drinks in reusable containers.

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Y4 Camp Awards

This week, to celebrate the fantastic effort of Year 4 during camp, we awarded children with the following certificates: winners of the Sandcastle Competition, Best Kept Dorm and Star Camper.

As you can see from the photographs below, the children were thrilled to be recognised for the efforts. Well done to all, and well done to everyone for a BRILLIANT camp!

STAR CAMPERS

Best Dorm Room

Sandcastle Competition Winners

A special award was given to Nora Yuen from 4F for the commitment and creativity she put into her independently built sandcastle.

Back in the classrooms the children have been working very hard finishing off their fables and their Google slide presentations about a HK habitat. They carried out the research themselves and had to summarise the information in the slideshow. They really enjoyed sharing their learning with their friends.

Next, the children had to complete a series of assessments. They have shown their understanding of our unit of inquiry in our summative task, as well as having completed a series of pre-assessments for our upcoming maths units.

Lastly, the children have been introduced to the new unit of inquiry and have had fun exploring their own interests. More about this later!

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Where We Are in Place and Time

Central Idea: Change in our world can happen through exploration and discovery.

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into:

explorations and discoveries that have changed our world (CHANGE)
why people choose to explore and discover (CAUSATION)

As mentioned, the students began this inquiry by exploring their own interests. We did this by sharing with them the following blog, http://interestorium.blogspot.hk/ and inviting them to spend their time discovering new things. They then shared their discoveries with the classmates.

We also looked at different images of explorers, inventions, scientists and discoveries and tried putting these into different groups. The children shared their background knowledge of these areas in our unit’s pre-assessment.

Next week we will be finding out about a world famous explorer as well as having some more hand-on experience when making our own discoveries. Here’s a little hint! airplane

Strand Maths: Measurement – TIME

Central Idea – Objects and events have attributes that can be measured using appropriate tools.

Lines of Inquiry:

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

By the end of next week the students will have completed a pre-assessment and will be beginning to read and write the time to the minute and investigate the relationship between units of time.

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Number Maths: Operations – Addition and Subtraction

Central Idea – The operations of addition and subtraction are related to each other and used to process information to solve problems

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Lines of Inquiry:

The different ways to model/show addition and subtraction
Mental strategies that can be used to solve addition and subtraction
Written strategies that can be used to solve addition and subtraction
Equivalent number sentences using addition and subtraction

The children have completed their pre-assessment for this unit.

Next week they will be exploring the Toys R Us website and planning how to spend their imaginary money whilst making use of addition and subtraction strategies.

Text Type: Persuasive Texts

Throughout this unit the children will be learning to:

to argue a case from a particular point of view

to attempt to convince the reader/listener

Comprehension Key: Summarising and Synthesising

This week was mostly taken up with finishing and editing our fables. Next week the children will be introduced to our reading comprehension key and text type examples.

Congratulations to this week’s winners!

4F – Zoie Chan

4L – Lianna Wong

4W – Shafay Khan

ICT – Sofie Yeung 4F

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Daily home reading

A reminder that the colour of the home reading book your child brings home will reflect their reading ability at the end of Year 3. However, as reading assessments continue over the course of the coming few weeks, this may or may not change. PLEASE be reminded that the colour sticker on the reading book your child brings home is far less significant than the development of fluency AND comprehension. There is also an expectation that your child will read a book and complete any quizzes on Reading Eggspress twice a week.

Spelling

The children will have 10 new words to learn each week (Friday) and will be tested on them by a classmate three times per week. The words they have consist of some vocabulary relevant to our current U.O.I., some words relating to the spelling rule that we are currently learning about and some words of their choice.

Year 4 Home Learning – UOI – 25.11.16

Continue exploring interestorium and making your own discoveries! http://interestorium.blogspot.hk/

All good explorers report back and share their discoveries and you will need to too!