Year 2 Update Wk 19
Tuesday 6th February – Year 2 Bake Sale (please send in small cakes or cookies to the PTA office that day).
Monday 12th February – China Day (more information to follow). Children should come dressed in Chinese New Year clothing on this day.
Wednesday 14th February – Dim Sum Trip Year 2 (please sign the eNotice). Please contact susan.chung@bhs.edu.hk if you and your child are not joining.
Thursday 15th February – Break up for Chinese New Year holidays at 12pm.
Marie Marchand – Visiting Speaker
We are delighted to welcome back Marie Marchand to present at Beacon Hill School on January 31st from 6-8pm. This year’s focus will be positive behaviour management strategies for parents- Discipline without Shouting. Please see the details and sign up via the gateway https://tg.esf.edu.hk The cost will be $50 per person.
Marie is an excellent speaker- both entertaining and informative and we thoroughly recommend any parents from year 1-6 to come and enjoy her presentation.
Student Council Fruity Friday
Book Drive
Hi, my name is Muchan, a Student Councillor for 5C. I am organising a Book Drive to help spread my love of reading. The Sony Corporation will collect books to create mobile libraries in South Africa for schools that do not have enough books. If you have books that are:
Please send them to school. There will be a collection box in the school foyer. Any books you can donate will help spread our love of reading.
The children have started thinking about the properties of materials. They had fun feeling different items hidden from view and trying to describe the properties of the materials using appropriate vocabulary. They also enjoyed looking at the different materials around the school.
The children thoroughly enjoyed visiting the theatre on Thursday to watch Monstersaurus. It was very entertaining and the children showed what a good audience they could be.
Central idea:
People use and change materials to suit their needs
Lines of inquiry:
- The properties of materials (form)
- Materials are used for specific purposes (function)
- How materials can change (change)
The children will continue to sort materials based on their properties and use descriptive vocabulary to describe their properties.
The children will decide which materials are more suitable than others for certain jobs due to their properties.
The children will create some art using a variety of materials.
The link below has some activities that your child can complete about different materials. See ages 6-7 and 7-8.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/index_flash.shtml
Central Idea: We collect and organise data to make sense of the world around us
Lines of inquiry:
- Gathering information
- Representing information
- Interpreting information
The children will be using Venn diagrams to sort and organise the properties of various materials.
Central Idea: We collect and organise data to make sense of the world around us
Lines of inquiry:
- How we solve problems using multiplication and division
- Mental and written strategies for multiplication and division
- The language and symbols of multiplication and division
We will be finding out what the children already know about multiplication and division. The children will be learning to model multiplication using groups and arrays.
Please continue to practise number bonds to 10, 20, 30 and 40:
Mandarin – All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.
