Year 4 Update – Wk 6
- 27th September – Parent Evening
- 29th September – Parent Evening
- 5th October – Dress Casual Day for Community Chest ($20 donation)
- 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
- 18th October 6.30pm – Marie Marchand Parenting Workshop
- 24th-25 October – School photos
- 28th October – Sibling photos
- 1st November – Year 6 bake sale
- 4th November – 4F class assembly
- 16th-18th November – Year 4 camp
Who We Are
Central Idea: People’s behaviour impacts on the habitats of other living things.
Lines of Inquiry
An inquiry into:
- Different habitats and the living things found in Hong Kong
- Impact of behaviour on habitats
- Human responsibility to habitats
We will be starting a new unit of inquiry into impacts on habitats and living things in Hong Kong. Next week, the children will be tuning into the new unit and completing the pre-assessment. We will also welcome a guest speaker, who will be bringing with him some special surprises. We will let the children tell you more about it next week!
Central Idea – Multiplication and division are related to each other and used to help us 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
Next week, the children will be completing some open-ended learning engagements around multiplication and division.
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 consolidating their understanding of area and perimeter.
Next week the children will be reading and deconstructing fables to kick-start their inquiry into the new text type: narrative. The children will also attempt to write their own fables and set their own writing targets based on this. What fables did you grow up reading? Feel free to share and discuss this with your child.
*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 home learning 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…
Year 4 Home Learning Maths 23.9.16
(Please refer to home learning handout for more information)
