Year 4 Update – Wk 19
Monday 23rd January – New Unit of Inquiry begins
Wednesday 25th January – Chinese New Year Performance at 6pm
Thursday 26th January – China Day, school ends at 3pm
Monday 6th February – First day back at school
Wednesday 8th February – Marie Merchand Parenting workshop @ 6.30pm
Friday 10th February – 4W Class Assembly
Tuesday 14th February – Y2 Bake Sale – bring some money for a tasty treat!
Thursday 16th February (10am-1pm) – Y3-6 Sports Day
Friday 24th February – 4L Class Assembly
Friday 3rd March – Student Led Conference
Letters
On the last day of school before CNY, children can come into school dressed in their best Chinese New Year costumes. Please note that school will be out at 3pm. Letters have gone home regarding Chinese New Year festivities in school.
The Y4 children will be going on a trip to HK island to attend a city tour on the Big Bus and site tour of Asia Society during the first week back from CNY. Letters have gone home today to provide more information. Please make sure your child returns the permission slip before the deadline.
Sports Day will be taking place on Thursday the 16th February. Letters have gone home with the children.
Health and wellbeing
Good eating and sleeping habits help to sustain and improve your child’s well being and academic success. Please make sure that your child gets enough rest at night (as recommended by AASM to be 9 to 12 hours for children from 6 to 12 years old) and have a balanced diet. It may be helpful to allow your child some extra snack and fruit if they are not able to eat breakfast in the morning.
How We Express Ourselves
Central Idea: Nature, purpose and creativity inspire the design of structures in the community
Lines of Inquiry
An inquiry into:
- Architecture in the local and global environment (reflection)
- Elements that influence design (perspective)
- Pattern and shapes in structures (form)
Next week will see the start of our next unit on structures! Children will have many opportunities to participate in various STEM challenges as well as inquire into famous structures around the world throughout this unit.
Number Maths: Operations – Multiplication and Division
Central Idea – The operations of multiplication and division are related to each other and used to process information to solve problems
Lines of Inquiry:
- The methods that are used to solve calculations
- The operations of multiplication and division
- The different relationships between the four operations
This week the children revisited multiplicative thinking and made some great progress on how to approach a math problem and record their thinking and answers in a systematic way. They will be consolidating these skills next week.
Central Idea – Objects and events have attributes that can be measured using appropriate tools.
Lines of Inquiry:
- Read and write the time to the minute and investigate the relationship between units of time.
- Convert between the units of time.
- Describe time and duration (elapsed) in terms of am and pm.
The children will participate in a series of open-ended tasks which have required them to work out elapsed time (duration).
- develop characters to engage readers in stories
- write stories with familiar settings told in first person
The first weeks will involve the children reading a range of point-of-view stories and identifying the perspectives and development of the main characters.
Comprehension Key: Making connections
In the next few weeks the children will read stories with a familiar setting and learn to make connections between the story and themselves, other texts and the world.
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 – Ongoing
D.I.Y.
A reminder that children are expected to blog about their progress of their projects from DIY.org onto their class blog. They are also encouraged to browse the blog to see what their classmates got up to and leave a comment!
