23 Jun 2017

Year 2 Update Wk 35

Monday 26th June – Return Portfolios to school (unless leaving)

Friday 30th June – Last day of school, school finishes at 12pm.

Please let your class teacher know if you are planning on leaving for your holidays before this date.

The children have worked really hard this year and we wish them all the very best for Year 3 in BHS or wherever they may be going. Have a lovely summer break.

The children worked very hard to make gifts, food and drinks to say ‘Thank you’ to all the parents who have helped during PMP and many other things at BHS over they year.

We have also been continuing our extra Information Literacy sessions with Ms Jeves, and the class has really enjoyed finding out about juicy questions and determining what’s important vs what’s only interesting when reading for information.

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

The children have selected countries or places that they would like to learn more about to create an informative travel brochure.

The children have begun crafting their information collected last week into interesting and persuasive sentences.

Model multiplication and division using groups and/or arrays

Groups and shares collections of objects equally, recording the grouping and sharing informally
Models the relationship between multiplication and division using arrays

Recognise and represent division as grouping into equal sets and solve simple problems using these representations

Use estimation to check reasonableness of answers to calculations

Skip count by twos, fives and tens starting from zero

Skip count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s making connections to multiplication tables

Much of our English time has centred around crafting our research questions about places, and trying to find the answer. Students were encouraged to find more information for their answers by using the word because. For example, “Going to shopping in malls is a popular activity during Hong Kong summers because the weather is so hot and humid.” Thinking in these terms helps children focus their attention to the Central Idea’s emphasis on geography and place and how it influences activities.