MUNICH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

the ideas can be mixed up and developed to improve them

Grade 4 at

Community decisions can promote or deny opportunities.

you can help each other when you are struggling

people dont always agree and we have conict

Upcoming Events
!Wednesday, September 28 !Three-way Conferences !Friday, September 30 !Three-way Conferences !Thursday, October 6 !Three-way Conferences Feel free to contact us: 4A Bodo Heiliger bheiliger@mis-munich.de 4B Susan Bushby sbushby@mis-munich.de 4C Sheila Majithia smajithia@mis-munich.de 4D Heather Rich hrich@mis-munich.de 4E Graeme Anshaw ganshaw@mis-munich.de

Have you ever dreamed about running your own country? Do you have the skills and knowledge to work as part of a team in charge of setting up a country? This week our students have been discovering the benets and pitfalls of community decision making as they continue in their quest to decide how to govern a country. As you can see the students are developing the ability to communicate, be respectful, be reective, and understand different perspectives and work together towards a common goal.
You have stand up and protest unjust decisions! Yes, but you can do it in a civil way!

Decimals! Tenths! Hundredths!

Since returning to school, our new budding Grade 4 mathematicians have been continuing their development and understanding of the base 10 number system. The place values of numbers is the foundation of all mathematics and whilst the grade expectation is to understand from the hundredths up to hundreds of thousands. Following our study of the base 10 number system, we are going to move into a study of addition and subtraction strategies leading up to our study of multiplication and division.

MATHS

What Makes Us, Us? The Grade 4 teachers have continued to assess the students levels in reading, writing, and spelling in order to effectively differentiate. In addition, students have been adjusting to the daily routine of their literacy blocks. Students have been immersed in personal narrative literature-personal stories with a message in order to begin recognizing and utilizing effective story structures. Following our study of personal narratives, students will begin writing and inquiring into effective persuasive writing. Finally, students will take a stand against a rule or rules they deem unfair/unjust and persuade the rulemaker to change it.

LITERACY

SINGLE SUBJECTS

Grade 4 students are continuing to discuss the role of art in society and are also creating a front cover for their art journal inspired by Henri Matisse collages. In Deutsch Language A lag der Schwerpunkt auf den lateinischen Fachbegriffen und Aufgaben der verschiedenen Wortarten In the German Language B classes we continue working on vocabulary in relation to the learner prole and to being a member of an international class (e.g. cultural background...). In addition, the students are studying / further developing vocabulary in connection to their daily life and practice the German grammar, spelling and sentence structure.
Does it smell good?

ART

GERMAN A

GERMAN B

In music we are learning the song 21 Guns by Greenday. We are exploring how the song can be interpreted and accompanying our singing by playing the bass line on the Orff instruments. By studying a song that is played on the radio, we are bringing music from outside school into an educational context with the goal of becoming more aware and analytic about the music we hear in our day-to-day lives.

Connecting with their 'Unit of Inquiry', the librarian has read the book, 'The Librarian from Basra'. This is a true story about a woman librarian who decided is was important to saved the books of the local library before they would be destroyed by the war which was raging around her. With the help of other people in the community they managed to keep 30,000 books ! safe. Being risk-takers,! open-minded and caring are just some of the words which connect Next: A close look at a very to this story. popular musician, who It might be a tasty ower, but I would rather keep a beautiful unfortunately passed away at a ower. very young age, who wrote many songs with a message of peace. Which musicians come to mind? Stay tuned for more from the music room!
You see soil, but if you go deeper there are potatoes!

MUSIC

LIBRARY

Look how much has grown since last year!