8 Dec 2017

Year 2 Update Wk 16

Wednesday 13th December – Christmas Party. Please cancel Delifresh orders.

Thursday 14th December – Christmas Concert 7pm

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

Friday 15th December – Mid-year reports go live on The Beacon. We will we reporting on our second unit of inquiry and on the children’s progress in Maths and English, so don’t forget to have a look to see how your child is developing.

Please let your class teacher know if you are planning to leave on your holidays before the end of the school term.

Monday 8th January – First day of Term 2

The weather has cooled down in HK and many of the children are coming to school dressed very warmly. Please help your child to dress in layers so that they can be removed when they are hot. The classroom is very warm with 30 children inside it and the children are often very hot after breaks, lunchtimes and PE sessions. Unfortunately, some children have very thick vests and leggings under their trousers that they are sweating and very uncomfortable in the classroom. When the weather turns colder, we have heaters in the classroom.

PMP Helper Needed

Please contact susan.chung@bhs.edu.hk if you would be able to help out with 2K PMP on Thursdays at 2.15pm-3pm in Term 2.

Fun with Maths at Festival Walk

Your child might have chosen to have some fun with Maths at Festival Walk by bringing home some questions entitled ‘Fun With Maths at Festival Walk’. Please return the work to school once your child has completed it so Mrs Dale can prepare your child a certificate of participation. We hope you have fun with your child.

JUNIOR CHOIR

The Junior Choir will have their usual lunch time rehearsal on Wednesday. They will then have one final practice on the playground stage after lunch on Thursday when they will be given their performers pass. The children will then meet on the stage at 6:50pm ready for the concert.

SUNSHINE ACTION

Year 2 helped to pack the food parcels for Sunshine Action toady. They worked hard with the other year groups to pack 1,800 food parcels. Well done.

The children have completed their inquiry into Christmas and have started to work in groups to inquire into other celebrations. They are inquiring into why they are celebrated, the features of the celebrations and how people celebrate them in different ways.

The children have also continued to create their stop motion animations in Learning Technology.

During their second clay session, the children decorated the body of their candle holder. They had to cut out and mould the different shapes they wanted and stick them to their candle holder.The candle holder is based on a celebration of their choice.

Central idea:People recognise important events through celebration and traditions.

Lines of inquiry:

Features of traditions and celebrations (form)
Why people celebrate (causation)
Different approaches to celebrating (the same celebration) (perspective)

This week the children will further their knowledge and understanding of other celebrations by generating questions which they will then research. They will be finding out why people celebrate, the different features of the celebrations and how people celebrate them in different ways.

In this unit of inquiry, the children are very fortunate to have Ms Cassie working with them to produce some clay work. This week the children will be glazing their candle holders.

The children will be taking part in drama activities where they will concentrate on using their body language and facial expressions to create freeze frames to show different celebrations.

We would love you to send in one or two photos of your child celebrating. It could be a photo of them at a Birthday/Christmas/Easter/CNY celebration. We would like to display them so the children can talk about how their family celebrates.

Central Idea: Fractions are a way of representing part of a whole

Lines of inquiry:

Fractions of shapes
Fractions of amounts
How to make simple fractions
The language of fractions

This week the children will continue to look at fractions. They will explore halves and quarters. They are learning that fractions are equal parts of a whole.

Please continue to practise number bonds to 10, 20, 30 and 40:

https://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_10.html

The children will be looking at ways in which people write to socialise. They will continue to read and share a variety of poems.

The children will be continuing to ask and answer questions to help with their inquiry. The children will also be learning to determine the importance of information they find; is it relevant to their question or is it just something interesting?

In phonics we will be looking at the long a sound: oo. ew, ue and u_e

(boot, flew, glue, June)

Please continue to read with your child at home and ask them to retell the story. Please encourage your child to write down the title of the text they choose from Big Universe.

Well done to:

2K – Anaya Balani

2D – Ashley Lau

2A – Andrea Ma

Spelling

Your child will receive a new spelling list after the Christmas holidays.

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.

Year 2 Update Wk 16

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