Year 2 Update Wk 32
Tuesday 6th June – Year 2 pizza lunch (deadline 15th May)
Tuesday 13th June – Year 3 Bake Sale
Friday 30th June – Last day of school, noon release.
Due to the Peak trip cancellation we have rescheduled for Monday, June 5th. Please note that if you were contacted by your child’s teacher to be volunteer on this trip, you are asked to continue this commitment. Please contact your child’s teacher and confirm either way concerning your ability to volunteer.
We thank all other parents for volunteering, however on this occasion the numbers are limited.
This has been a short week in Year 2 but this hasn’t stopped us from inquiring and learning lots.
We have been learning about primary and secondary sources, creating lap books, solving maths codes and writing recounts about our long weekend.
Central idea: Geography influences how individuals interact with their environment.
Lines of inquiry:
- The significant features of places -form
- How the features of a place influence our activities -function
- The relationship of our location to other parts of the world – connection
This week we have been looking at our location in the world. The classes have been looking at maps of Hong Kong and the surrounding environment. We have been identifying key geographical features and looking at the different tourist attractions within and around Hong Kong.
Next week we shall be visiting Victoria Peak and sketching maps of the key features from different aspects. We will be identifying different ways that Hong Kong is used by locals and visitors.
Count by naming numbers in sequences, to and back from 999, moving from any starting point
- Connect number names and numerals to the quantities they represent up to 999
- Count on and back to 999, moving from any starting point
Recognise, model, read, write and order three digit numbers
- Model numbers up to 999
- Read numbers up to 999
- Write numbers up to 999
- Order numbers up to 999
- Round up or down to the nearest 10
Apply place value to partition and rename, numbers to three digit numbers
- Partition and combine numbers to 999 (Hundreds, Tens and Units/Ones)
- Identify the value of a digit within a three digit number
- Apply their place value knowledge in a game situation Regroup/trade numbers up to 999
We have really stretched our brains this week in Maths. We have decoded a secret 100 square and created a key to help others. We have identified the symbols for numbers and are able to explain that these can sometimes replace the numbers when creating calculations. This was an extremely challenging task and we found ourselves in our “Stretchy Space”.
Next week we shall be looking at jump counting to help us add 2 and 3 digit numbers. We shall also be trying to calculate the total when 3 numbers are added together.
We have continued with our writer’s workshop this week and have focused on different skills to help improve our writing. After returning from our long weekend, we have written a recount of our activities. We have ensured that we have been using our individual writing targets to make our writing more interesting and engaging for the reader. We have proof read to check for errors in spelling and punctuation. During Info Lit, we have been looking at determining the importance of the information we research. Miss Jeves has been teaching us how to identify primary and secondary sources. We looked at videos of Hong Kong, maps and books and we discussed which were important and which were interesting.
We shall continue to work on our writers workshop with a particular focus on generating an information leaflet/holiday brochure for Hong Kong as a class. In groups we shall be researching the information we feel is important and deciding upon 5 questions we would like to find out when creating our individual brochures.
As Monday was a holiday, there was no Golden Book.
This shall resume on Monday 5th June
Spelling– Friday 2nd June was the last Spelling Test of the year. The children will not receive new words. Parents are welcome to continue practising the words previously given to the pupils.
