2 Mar 2018

Year 2 Update Wk 22

Wednesday 7th March – World Maths Day (See below)

Tuesday 13th March – Year 1 & 2 Sports Day (Please sign the eNotice on the Gateway)

Friday 16th March – Year 5 Big Business Market (Children may bring some money to buy items from the Year 5 Market Stalls)

Saturday 17th March – ESF 50th Carnival at KGV

Tuesday 20th March – Year 2 Transport Trip (more details to follow)

Friday 23rd March – International Food Fair

Thursday 29th March – School finishes at 12pm for the Easter holidays

BHS Dance Off 2018
 
Our BHS Dance Off has been postponed until after Easter.  Our student council will be sharing more information next week.  Important things to remember for the Dance off are:
  • To have fun 
  • You perform in groups or solo
  • Your dance should be around 1 minute
  • heats for the competition will take place at various lunchtimes after Easter
  • there will be a lower school and upper competition

You can support your child by helping them create and rehearse their dance.

 Student Council Fruity Friday

The last term we surveyed our students to find out how we can make BHS even better.  A lot of students wanted Fruity Friday back.  This is an opportunity for you to help your child have delicious and healthy snacks at least once a week.  Can you please support and encourage your child to bring in a fruity snack each Friday.  We do not want processed snacks with fruit in them as they contain preservatives and man-made sugar.  Thank you in advance for your support.
Keeping our playground clean
During PTA bake sales, children buy cakes which are handed to them in a tissue. Unfortunately tissue cannot be recycled in Hong Kong and go to the landfills. Also, many children leave bits of cake and tissue on the floor as they do not have a container to eat from. It would be great if on bake sale days the children could please bring a reusable container to school to put the cake in while they eat it to stop the rubbish problem.

The children have been reflecting on the work they have been doing in Year 2 and preparing for the Student-led conference.

The children have enjoyed being a ‘scientist’. They have been thinking like a scientist by asking a question, making a hypothesis, observing experiments, recording their observations and drawing conclusions.

The children have been working hard in the library. They have been learning about the Dewey decimal system and how to order non-fiction books. They have also been trying to use alphabetical order to sort fiction books.

The children have been using Numicon to create pictures and practise writing multiplication in different ways. They have also been using the Numicon equipment to help solve word problems.

Central idea

People use and change materials to suit their needs     

Lines of inquiry:

  1. The properties of materials (form)
  2. Materials are used for specific purposes (function)
  3. How materials can change  (change)

The children will continue to inquire into the different properties of materials by planning and carrying out some scientific investigations. They will be planing the investigations, making predictions, observing what happens and drawing conclusions. 

The children will decide which materials are more suitable than others for certain jobs due to their properties.

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 gathering and representing their results and observations from their Science experiments.

Central Idea: The operations of multiplication and division are related to each other

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

The children will be consolidating their learning of multiplication and division by applying their understanding to solve real life word problems.

Remember to go onto Mathletics to complete the tasks your teacher has set and then continue to complete available tasks.

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

 
Our English focus is narrative. We will work on this throughout the unit. The children will be creating their own version of the Three Little Wolves.  They will become author and illustrator for their own books.
The children will continue to learn how readers use the strategy of questioning before, during and after reading to make sense of the texts.
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 –  Angus Wu
2D – Tate Huang
2A –  Amartya Shiv Agarwal
homelearning
Spelling
Your child has received a new spelling card. They will be tested on the fourth list on Friday 9th March.
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.

 

World Maths Day is a free, fun, online competition with up to 4 million students world-wide participating. The competition measures speed in arithmetic and numeracy skills on our Live Mathletics platform and runs for 48 hours and is open to all schools around the world. Students compete online with other students and top scores are displayed on a live ‘Hall of Fame’.

Will BHS be the World Maths Day champion in 2018?

On Wednesday 7th March children will have the opportunity to take part in their Maths Lessons.  They will also be able to earn points until Thursday 8th March.  Encourage your child to have fun with Maths and take part at home.