Year 4 Update – Wk 29
Tuesday 23rd May – Year 1 Bake Sale. Please bring some money for a tasty treat and to support the school.
Monday 29th May – BHS CPD Day: School Closed *Please note that Tuesday 30th May is a public holiday
Thursday 1st June – PTA Quiz
Thursday 8th June – Y4 Swimming starts. 4 sessions to be held on 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th June.
Tuesday 13th June – Year 3 Bake Sale. Please bring some money for a tasty treat and to support the school.
Supporting Action at Beacon Hill
May sees a whole lot of action taking place in Beacon Hill School! There will be a host of activities and learning engagements for the Year 4 children to participate in. The activities being offered are outlined below.
Saturday 20th May – Recycled Paper Bin Competition: Make a recycled paper bin out of recycled paper! Deadline the 20th May.
Fruity Fridays – ¨The Fate of Food Waste¨ Y6 Exhibition Group will be doing Bokashi composting, and to do composting they need fruit peels. To get enough fruit peels, they are hosting a ¨Fruity Friday¨ event. To contribute to this event, please bring in a fruit; apples, mangoes, and grapes. The Y4 teachers will award house points for the different fruits that are brought in!
Ukuleles!
Please make sure that your child brings their ukulele to music class from now until the end of the school year. It makes is very difficult to practice without one! Up to a third of a class have forgotten theirs this past week, so you can imagine how disruptive to their learning that can be. Please see below for when your child should bring their ukulele.
4F – Music on Wednesdays – ukuleles needed.
4L – Music on Tuesdays – ukuleles needed.
4W – Music on Mondays – ukuleles needed.
How We Organise Ourselves
Central Idea: The way we communicate information through digital media can bring challenges, benefits and responsibilities
Lines of Inquiry
An inquiry into:
- How new digital media is used and organised (function)
- Benefits and challenges of new media (reflection)
- Our responsibility in virtual environments (responsibility)
Next week will see the start of an inquiry into digital media. This will be a paperless unit where children explore their online identity and investigate the pros and cons of the digital world.
Central Idea – Objects and events have attributes that can be measured using appropriate tools
Lines of Inquiry:
An inquiry into:
- The selection and correct use of standard units
- Solving real life situations using time, temperature, mass and capacity
Next week the children will complete their investigations into temperature, volume and mass.
Comprehension Key: Determining Importance
The children will be differentiating between important and interesting facts in their reading. They will also use graphic organisers to record any questions and responses they have to a text.
Home Learning Task 12.05.17: Demonstration Reflection
The children are asked to reflect on their demonstration using the “10 Sentence Starters” reflection sheet.
Deadline: Friday 19th May
Daily home reading
Please check to make sure your child is taking home home reader books at their level, or reading books on Reading Eggs at their comprehension age level. 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.
