Guest speaker

Marketplace

A busy week making products, surveying students, checking results, making modifications, writing infomercials and getting ready for our day of sales next week.

Last Home learning tasks for Grade 4

Home Learning Activities due Friday 2nd June 2017      

	Personal reading Read for a minimum of 15-20 minutes each day and record your reading in your reading log.
	Maths - Mathletics / Basic Facts Complete Mathletics tasks as they are assigned to you. Practice your addition and subtraction basic facts for a quick quiz on Friday.
	UOI:  How We Organize Ourselves Central Idea:  Markets operate in response to supply and demand. Market day production - Make sure you have at school everything you need to make your products at school. We only have limited time left to make your products. Everything will need to be made by Friday. Food - this will need to be made next Monday evening by you and brought to school on Tuesday. Make sure you have all the ingredients and your group know who is making what.
	Market Day Reflection Blog post - On your blog reflect and tell me the following: What are you making? How you and your group are going? How are you working as a team? Have you had to make changes to your product and if so why? What has been the most challenging thing for your group so far? Include photos that I will share with you this week of you all busy creating your products.

Reminders :

Return any outstanding library books.

Market day with Grade 3 customers - Tuesday 6th June

End of year class party - Wed 7th June -1.30pm

Final Assembly - Thursday 8th June 7.45am Black box theatre

Student plays

For the past week the students have performing plays they have written and directed themselves.
We have enjoy a wide variety of performances, ranging from comedy, horror, historical fiction and drama.

Running dictation

A fun way to listen, speak, write and read ... running dictation.

She's an App Maker

Anvitha Vijay has built two educational apps and is at work on a third.

She aims to use her skills to help others.

AUGUST 31, 2016

By Brenda Iasevoli

Anvitha Vijay creates educational apps. This one helps kids identify animals.

Need an app for that? Anvitha Vijay, 9, can build it. With the help of YouTube videos, the young techie from Melbourne, Australia, learned to code at age 7. Soon, she was trying her hand at making apps.

“When I first got my iPad, I was fascinated by all the apps on it,” she told TFK. “It wasn’t long before I wanted to create my own.”

She built her first two apps with her younger sister in mind. Smartkins Animals helps children identify more than 100 animals and their sounds. Smartkins Rainbow Colors teaches kids colors. Each app has been downloaded thousands of times.

The Power of Technology

Anvitha’s skills won her a scholarship to attend a big tech conference hosted by Apple in San Francisco, California. There, she got tips from the pros. She went to workshops where she learned about the latest software for app building.

All that training led to an idea for a third app. This one, called GoalsHi, inspires kids to practice good habits. Users are rewarded for achieving goals, such as eating their vegetables or practicing piano. Anvitha says the rewards are like getting a sticker for a job well done.

“Kids can set goals with this app and get stars when they achieve them,” she says. “The idea is to empower and motivate kids to achieve one little step a day.”

Anvitha’s goal is to continue creating technology that helps kids learn while having fun. But even more important to her is that the world sees the power of technology in kids’ hands. “The more training we get in tech at an early age,” she says, “the better chance we have of becoming innovation champions who will one day change the world.”

Home learning

Grade 4     Home learning tasks         Due  Friday 26th May 2017

	Personal reading Read for a minimum of 20 minutes each day and record your reading in your reading log. Try to finish a chapter book this week to contribute to the class reading challenge. So far we have read 78 books.
	Maths - Multiplication Practice your multiplication skills. We will have a quiz on Friday to see how you are progressing.
	Marketplace - Designing currency At our Marketplace we will use ISPP currency. Design a 1000 Riel note we can use at our market. Use the template provided and do not use color as we will be photocopying the winning design. Be creative and think of a design that reflects ISPP and Cambodia. Be ready to share your design on Friday. We will vote and select our favorite to use on the day.
	Keep brainstorm ideas This week we will start planning for our small businesses. Keep thinking about ideas of products you could design and create.

Reminders:

Monday - Art

Tuesday  - Swimming & Music

Wednesday - FL, PE

Thursday - PE

Friday - Homework due, FL