Dear Parents,
Grade 4 has gotten off to a fantastic start this year! To prepare ourselves for the year ahead we did some very important things. We set learning goals for ourselves to challenge how far we can take our learning this year. We created essential agreements for home learning, our reading area, classroom environment, play time, canteen, Seesaw as well as between ourselves to make sure that we are kind to each other and work together cooperatively. We decided a class 『Motto』 would be good way to help us build team spirit in our class environment, to help us learn to work better as a team. We wanted to make our reading area more comfortable and inviting, so we all brought decorations (tents, pillows and our character figurines from our favourite stories to help us make a visual connection when reading) from home and made the area 『ours.』 Now we are enjoying reading even more!
親愛的家長們，
新的學期我們有了非常好的開始。為了給接下來一整個學年的學習做準備，我們完成了很多重要的任務：我們定下了學習目標，準備不斷地挑戰自己；我們為家庭作業、圖書角、教室環境、休息時間、食堂、Seesaw和與人相處制定了大家都要遵守的協議，提醒自己友善待人、團結合作；我們還一起選擇了班級口號，培養團隊精神，以便以後能更好地互相幫助。為了把圖書角變得更加舒適有趣，我們從家裡帶來了各種裝飾物（帳篷、枕頭和故事中人物的掛件和擺件），這樣我們在讀書時也可以把情節和裝飾聯繫起來。現在圖書角成為了我們創造力的見證，和我們的聯繫更緊了，我們也比之前更喜歡閱讀了。
We learnt about 「How We Organize Ourselves」: how new digital media changes the way in which people access information and connect to each other. The lines of inquiry we investigated were 『how new digital energy is used or organized』, 『evaluating information』, and 『our responsibility in a virtual environment』. We did many group activities where we researched, then discussed and formulated understandings on what we were learning. We also drew connection through our P.E lessons, between homeroom learning and traditional Chinese culture as well. We decided as a class to use our Seesaw app as a media platform to communicate with all our parents and teachers throughout the day. Our favourite part is getting to read the comments where our parents, peers and teachers ask us questions about our learning. When we uploaded our Mid-Autumn festival riddles from our Padlet activity and our digital footprints that we created onto Seesaw, we received a lot of responses from our audience, and that made us feel very excited to have the real time responses.
在第一個探究單元，我們學習了「我們如何組織自我」：新型數字媒體改變了人們獲得信息和相互交往的方式。我們的探究思路包括：「人們是如何使用並組織新型數位技術的」、「評價獲得的信息」和「虛擬環境中人們的責任。」我們進行了很多小組活動，搜集資料、討論並針對學習內容形成自己的理解。我們還把探究單元跟體育課和中國傳統文化結合起來。Seesaw成為了我們與爸爸媽媽和老師溝通的媒介。我們特別喜歡讀帖子下面的評論，爸爸媽媽、老師和同學有任何問題都可以在評論區留言。慶祝中秋節時，我們用Padlet自己創作燈謎，還把燈謎上傳到了Seesaw上，學習第三個探究思路時我們也上傳了自己的數字足跡，收到了很多及時的回覆，這讓我們非常高興。
Our math and language lessons are a lot of fun, too! They are closely connected to our units of inquiry and we often use station activities for our learning. This gives us chances to learn through many interesting and engaging activities. We had multiple hands-on tasks in math, such as creating our own 3D shapes and inquiring about place value using the math resources. In English lessons, we incorporated technology while getting ourselves familiar with various features of dialogues in story writing, creating descriptive paragraphs and fictional narratives. We enjoyed using our imagination and creativity in these activities.
我們的數學和英語課也很有意思，它們和探究單元是緊密聯繫的，我們經常分組輪流完成不同的活動，這樣有機會通過很多有趣的任務投入到學習中。在數學課上我們動手製作3D立體圖形，並利用教學資源學習進位。在英語課上，我們用iPad和網際網路先了解了故事中人物對話的特點，再自己創作描述性段落和故事。在這些學習活動中，我們都儘可能發揮想像力和創造力。
Reading Comprehension 閱讀理解練習
Spelling Vocabulary Stations
Math Integration
學習單詞並加入數學練習
Making Our Own 3D Shapes 動手製作立體幾何形狀
QR Code-Narrative Fiction Dialogues
用二維碼學習故事對話
When we returned from our Chinese National Holiday we began our new unit of inquiry on 「Who We Are」. During this unit we will be discussing and learning about our different body systems, the structure of the human body in general, our skeletons, muscles and organs. To how these interactions all contribute to our health and survival. We are thoroughly enjoying this unit of inquiry so far, as it is allowing for in-depth research and a lot of discussion and hands on use of resources on the many different topics. We are even taking the unit further than planned, showing that we are indeed 『inquirers』 and are extremely 『curious』 about our body systems and the world around us. We are doing a lot of group work and this is helping us learn 『tolerance』 and how to be more 『cooperative』 when working with each other. These are good life lessons!
國慶假期返校之後，我們開始了新的探究單元「我們是誰」的學習。在這個單元中，我們將討論並學習不同的身體系統、人體的結構、骨骼、肌肉和器官的功能及特點，還會探討人體系統是如何互相協作來確保人的生存和身體健康的。我們很喜歡這個探究單元，因為我們有機會做研究、收集資料、討論和利用教學資源學習回答不同的問題。我們甚至將話題引申至更深的內容，漸漸地成為「探究者」，對人體系統和周圍的世界充滿「好奇」。我們完成了很多小組活動，這也讓我們學會「寬容」和「合作」。通過對本單元的探究，我們收穫了知識和人生的道理。
Unpacking Our Central Idea
學習理解中心思想
The beginning of our inquiry center
我們的探究角
Tuning in to our" Who We Are" unit of inquiry.
What do we know?
引入「我們是誰」的單元學習：我們已知的是什麼？
We had an amazing first learning celebration! We want to say 『Thank you』 to our families that came to share in our learning and have fun inquiring with us. We made presentations using different media platforms such as Keynote and PowerPoint (because learning to use technology is very important) to help share our learning from our first unit on digital media. We also made sure to incorporate our math, language, science and social studies learning in our presentations. We were able to walk them around our classroom to share what resources we use in all our studies. The most interesting part was our new inquiry centre. Our parents really enjoyed this with us. We have amazing resources there to help us learn about our body systems. Our parents got to see for themselves how exciting inquiry can be. We were very pleased with how it all turned out!
本學年的第一次學習成果展非常精彩。感謝前來參與成果展的所有人，我們一起進行了有趣的探究。為了給成果展做準備，我們利用不同的軟體，如Keynote和Powerpoint（學習使用科學技術是非常重要的），製作幻燈片，在成果展中針對第一探究單元做小匯報。我們還留意在匯報中加入我們在數學、英語、科學和社會研究課上的學習內容。成果展中，我們帶爸爸媽媽參觀教室，向他們展示了我們的教學資源。最有趣的部分是我們的新探究角，爸爸媽媽和我們一起學習使用教具，利用這些教具加深了對身體系統的了解。通過成果展，爸爸媽媽也能夠親身體驗平時我們在學校探究學習的過程，和我們一起分享激動的心情。我們很高興成果展能順利進行。
Investigating our new unit using our resources in the inquiry center.Our parents inquiring with us during our first learning celebration.在學習成果展中利用教室資源，向爸爸媽媽展示如何進行學習探究。
Thank you for taking the time to read up on what is happening in Grade 4 at SLIS.
感謝您抽出寶貴時間，閱讀四年級的推送文章。
「Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. It always seems impossible until it's done.
教育是可以改變世界的最強大武器。一件事在被完成前看起來都是不可能的。」
~ Nelson Mandela 納爾遜·曼德拉
「What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others. 己所不欲，勿施於人。」
~ Confucius 孔子
Kind regards,
Ms Sophie and Ms Tamsen
此致，
Sophie和Tamsen老師