Year 4 Update Wk 30
- May 2nd & 3rd – School Closed
- May 4th – Book Week
- May 10th – Yr 4 Pizza Lunch
- May 20th – 4M Assembly
- May 26th – PTA Quiz, 3.15 pm
- May 27th – Summer Music Concert, 7 pm
- June 1st, 8th, 15th & 22nd – Year 4 Swimming
- June 9th & 10th – School Closed
- June 24th – End of school year, 12.00 pm finish
Reading Eggspress
Please remember that this is a school supported and PTA funded reading resource for BHS. Things have changed since we were students and now more books and stories are available to our young readers than ever. Please use Reading Eggspress at least once or twice a week, including quizzes which are included at the end of each chapter or book. These books are meant to supplement the home readers from school.
Teachers are checking results, beware!!
The Year 4 team hope you all had a wonderful holiday and it has been great seeing the students so refreshed and ready for the action of the final term of school. We welcome a new family to the Year 4 Beacon Hill Family, the Nishikiori Family. Tina is a most welcome addition to 4M.
How the World Works
Central Idea: Changes of the earth and its atmosphere can impact the natural world
Lines of Inquiry
- How the different components of the earth are interrelated
- Why the earth has changed and continuing to change
- How we know the earth has changed
We have been tuning in to our new unit by completing activities about Pangaea and investigating the layers of the earth, including the atmosphere.
Pangaea or Pangea (/pænˈdʒiːə/) was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It formed approximately 300 million years ago and then began to break apart after about 100 million years. Unlike the present Earth, much of the land mass was in the Southern Hemisphere.
We will be finding out what we already know and looking for relationships with the changes of the earth and the natural world, weather and natural phenomenons.
Fractions and Decimals
Central Idea – Fractions and decimals are ways of representing whole part relationships
Lines of Inquiry:
- Constructing and representing equal parts of a whole
- Identifying, ordering and describing fractions using mathematical language
- Understanding the relationship between fractions and decimals
The children will be learning to:
Read, write, compare, and order fractions
- Understand and use equivalent fractions
- Sequence and order fractions.
- Order fractions
Use the language of fractions, for example, numerator and denominator.
Count in quarters, halves and thirds, including mixed numbers
Model and compare improper fractions and mixed numbers
- Rename simple mixed numbers as improper fractions and vice versa
Explanation
To explain the processes involved in natural and social phenomena, or to explain how something works.
- The structure of an explanation text is often:
– a general statement to introduce or identify the topic
– a series of sequenced steps/paragraphs explaining how or why something occurs, steps continue until the final state is produced or the explanation is complete
– a concluding statement
– text may include labelled diagrams, flow charts etc
- Group related information using conventions of paragraphing
4M – Trinity Knight
| Before school | After school |
| Monday | 2.45-3.30pm |
| Tuesday | 8.15- 9.00am |
| Wednesday | 2.45-3.30pm |
| Friday | 8.30-9.15am |
To register for a family borrowing card please complete the form found on the school website’s communications page. For any questions please contact Emily Jeves jevese2@beaconhill.edu.hk
Mr Gibson has shared a link to help the children practise their ukulele at home.
Ukuleles to be brought to school on the following days; 4M Thursdays, 4W and 4J Fridays
