Year 4 Update – Wk 3
- 16th September – Mid Autumn Festival: School closed
- 23rd September – Y4 Sharing Day: more info to follow
- 27th September – Parent Evening
- 29th September – Parent Evening
- 5th October 6pm- Year 4 Camp Information Evening
- 6th & 7th October – BHS CPD: School closed to students
- 10th – 14th October – Half Term: School closed
- 17th October – ESF CPD day: School closed to students
- 18th October – First day back at school
High Quality Learning at BHS
Being a good digital citizen
Children are reminded to be aware of their digital footprint and demonstrate appropriate behaviour when working on their chromebooks and creating documents on their Google Drive. A good digital citizen is always respectful of other people’s work and thinks twice before sending messages and sharing their work with others.
In English, the children revised their knowledge of sentence structure by reading a range of poems based on different beliefs and values. They also reflected on the class teachers’ sharing and wrote poems inspired by their beliefs and values. Today the children reviewed their homework and presented, in a group of friends, the poem they have chosen. It was wonderful opportunity for them to practice their public speaking and body language!
Who We Are
Central Idea:
Our beliefs and values can influence our attitudes and the way we behave.
Lines of Inquiry
An inquiry into:
- Our different beliefs
- Where our values come from
- Our behaviours and attitudes
Over the coming week, the children will continue to work on their independent personal projects and inquire into the third line of inquiry through connections to the text type as well as online platforms like Powtoons. We will also receive another guest speaker next week.
Number Maths: Pattern and Function
Central Idea – By analysing patterns and identifying rules for patterns it is possible to make predictions.
Lines of Inquiry:
- The ways in which patterns can be described and represented.
- The use of pattern and function in real life situations
- Identifying connections between the operations and patterns
The children will be investigating growing patterns and looking to identify the rule and the nth term in a pattern. We will continue to use mathematical vocabulary to describe patterns, too.
i.e. linear patterns, growing patterns, term, nth term.
We will also be carrying out a pre-assessment for our upcoming number unit on place value.
Strand Maths: Measurement
Central Idea – Objects and events have attributes that can be measured using appropriate tools. By analysing patterns and identifying rules for patterns it is possible to make predictions.
Lines of Inquiry:
- The selection and correct use of standard units
Next week the children will be conducting a mini inquiry into length and body proportions.
*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 comprise 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.
*A weekly homework task
The children have been given homework folders in which to keep homework instructions/tasks, which also has the Term 1 homework schedule attached. The first homework task was given out, explained and placed in the homework folders today. A summary of the task can be found below…
Y4 Math Homework – 02.09.16
Maths: By analysing patterns and identifying rules for patterns it is possible to make predictions
School Fair Necklaces
Rob and Jennie were making necklaces to sell at the school fair.
They decided to make them very mathematical.
Each necklace was to have eight beads, four of one colour and four of another.
And each had to be symmetrical, like this.
How many different necklaces could they make?
Can you find them all?
How do you know there aren’t any others?
What if they had 9 beads, five of one colour and four of another?
What if they had 10 beads, five of each?
Tips
Use 2 coloured pencils and draw each of the symmetrical necklaces you could create.
Draw a table to record your results (see example below).
| Total number of beads | 8 beads | 9 beads | 10 beads | |||
| Colours of beads | 4 red | 4 yellow | 5 red | 4 yellow | 5 red | 5 yellow |
| Number of different necklaces | ||||||
Things to think about
Is there a pattern in your results? Can you describe it?
Can you predict how many different necklaces you could make from 11 beads (6 red, 5 yellow)
