Year 4 Update – Wk 30
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.
Living and Growing Lessons
As part of our Personal Social Health Education programme, the Year 4s will be having a couple of in class sessions on ‘Living and Growing’. They will be learning about the changes their bodies will go through during puberty. In these sessions they will be shown some educational videos which cover the theme of Changes. These lessons will take place this coming Friday. If you would like to view the DVD before then, then please contact Susan Chung, Vice Principal at susan.chung@bhs.edu.hk.
For your information the BHS Sex Education Policy can be found on the Gateway under School Documents – BHS School Policies.
Swimming!
Swimming lessons will begin for Y4 on Wednesday 7th June and will continue every Wednesday until the end of term.
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 their ukulele 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 compile and collate further information about how Y4 children use digital media. We will also ask them to share their understanding of the central idea and lines of inquiry.
ProbabilityCentral Idea – Probability is based on chance and can be expressed in different ways
Lines of Inquiry – An inquiry into:
- Data from probability and how it can be collected, organised, displayed and analysed in different ways.
- Different graph forms that highlight different aspects of probability data more efficiently.
Next week the children will continue to explore the language of probability using terms such as likely’, ‘unlikely’, ‘certain’, ‘impossible’. They will also begin to identify familiar events that are dependent and independent of the occurrence of the other.
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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.
Year 4 – UOI Home learning 19.5.17 – DIGITAL MEDIA
Earlier this week you completed the “All about me in 5 tabs” challenge by opening the 5 tabs on an internet browser that best represent you and your use of digital media.
Your homework this week is to ask an adult to complete the same challenge!
You will need to…
- Explain the challenge clearly
- Allow the adult to have 15 minutes thinking and browsing time
- Give them a further 5 minutes to select their final 5 tabs
- Record/screenshot the tabs they have chosen
- Have a discussion about why they have selected each of their 5 websites.
Next Friday (26.5.17), you will need to share your findings with your classmates. You may choose how to share your findings, some suggestions include – Google Slides show, oral presentation, poster, Google doc, etc, but you may be as creative as you wish.
Remember to include…
- A brief description of each of the adult’s 5 chosen websites
- The reason why each one is important to them
Have fun!
Deadline: Friday 26th 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.
