13 Oct 2017

Year 2 Update Wk 8

Friday 13th October – Deadline for Scholastic orders.

Tuesday 17th October – Parent workshop on reading 6.30pm

Friday 20th October – School closed, Staff CPD & UOI 1 Reports available on the Beacon

Monday 23rd & Tuesday 24th October – School photos

Friday 27th October – school photos (make-up day for absentees and sibling photos)

Tuesday 31st October – Year 6 Bake Sale….bring in some money to buy treats to support our PTA

Tuesday 8th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway

Monday 13th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway

Wednesday 15th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway

Tuesday 21st November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway

Thursday 14th December – Christmas Concert

Friday 15th December – last day of Term 1, 12pm finish

Please see the ‘Home Learning’ section below for important information about your child’s new spelling book.

Mother Tongue Story Telling

Last year a group of parents told stories to our students in their mother tongue during lunchtimes. As you can imagine this was very popular with our students and a great way to share the range of languages we speak within our community. If you are interested please click here to add your details. Any time you can give and to any year group is really appreciated. For those interested we can meet to discuss logistics in more details. If you have any questions please email me at andy.thompson@bhs.edu.hk.

Parent workshop on reading

On Tuesday 17th October at 6.30 pm the B.H.S English team will be holding a workshop for parents about reading. This will be a chance to learn practical ways to help develop your child’s comprehension skills. Please look out for the information on how to sign up. We would like to encourage all parents of year one children to attend.

Scholastic International Book Club

Don’t forget to visit our unique BHS Scholastic website to browse and order from a great selection of well-known and good quality children’s books!

20% of everything you spend is ‘rewarded’ to the school to be spent on new books to supplement the students’ learning.

Order deadline: Friday 13th October

Well done to 2A for a wonderful assembly this morning teaching us all about Diwali. What amazing dancing and singing! A fantastic start to Friday.

The children are continuing to practise the ‘Five Finger’ rule to help them choose a book that is ‘just right’ for them. They have been showing ‘real reading’ by questioning, predicting and making connections whilst they read.

The children have been inquiring further into the different types of waste we have in HK and where it all goes. The children have discussed what it means to be responsible and how they show responsibility in their lives.

Central idea: People’s choices can impact the environment

Lines of inquiry:

Types of waste
What happens to waste
Choices people make to sustain the environment

The children will start inquiring into how we can reduce the amount of waste we create. We will have a visiting speaker from “Plastic Free Seas’ on Thursday to talk about waste in our oceans.

CENTRAL IDEA: The operations of addition and subtraction are related to each other

LINES OF INQUIRY:

How we solve problems using addition and subtraction
Mental and written strategies for addition and subtraction
The language and symbols of addition and subtraction
Patterns in addition and subtraction

The children will be solving mathematical problems related to addition facts. They will continue to use counting on as a strategy to solve a calculation and will learn how to use the split strategy.

In their writing, your child will learn about the features of persuasive letter writing.

The children will be looking at using a range of connectives to extend their sentences such as because, so, if, but.

In phonics we are looking at the long o sound: o, oa, ow, o-e (bow, boat, show, hope).

Please continue to read with your child at home and ask them to retell the story.

Well done to:

2K – Megan Wong

2D – Azeen Asif

2A- Kinson Lee

Info Lit Award – Yuto Balenieri (2A)

SLT Award – Seraphina Chow (2D)

Spelling

Your child has been given a new spelling book for their home learning. Inside is one spelling card and a list of activities in white and yellow boxes.

Your child will need to learn the list of words in the column dated for this Friday 13th October. They will be tested on these 8 words next Thursday in school (19th October – due to school being closed on the Friday).

Your child will need to choose two activities to complete – one from a yellow box and one from a white box. They are not completing these activities in the spelling book. These activities are designed to help your child to learn their 8 words. It is up to you where your child completes these activities (they could buy a notebook or use scrap paper). When the activities are completed, please sign your child’s spelling card to let us know that they have been done.

Your child will also be doing some handwriting practise to help them learn the words. This is done in the spelling book.

Your child is only learning 8 spelling words this week, not all 32 words.

Reading

Please be reminded that in Year 2, your child will not bring home a reading book on Tuesday or Thursday they will need to read on Big Universe. Children login and select ‘My Library’ from the top of the page. At the right hand side in the ‘Filters’ section they can select the ‘Grade Level’ of books. If the children select kindergarten,grade 1 and 2 this is the most appropriate reading age for them (5-8 years).

Mandarin – All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.

Reading Eggs

We would like to inform you that we will no longer be subscribing to this online reading programme. The costs associated with this subscription are high and data shows that less than 25% of BHS students are accessing the website regularly. The money saved will be used to purchase additional books for the school.

Please remember that the children may still access Big Universe, which has a far more comprehensive selection of books available, to supplement their home reading and for research purposes.

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