Year 2 Update Wk 31
Tuesday 29th May – Year 1 Bake Sale. Bring some money to buy a cake at snack time.
Wednesday 30th May – Year 2 Trip to the Peak (PMP lessons will therefore be cancelled)
Tuesday 5th June – Year 2 pizza lunch.
Monday 18th June – Public Holiday Tuen Ng Festival
Tuesday 19th June – Parent helper tea at 2pm … please look out for invites coming soon.
Friday 29th June – End of school year 12 noon.
This week the children have been reading information reports and learning about the features they usually contain.
We have continued learning about the geography of the world and the continents. 2D have been making physical features of land using playdough.
And of course 2K have been very busy practising for their fantastic assembly! Congratulations 2K, what a fun and entertaining performance.
The children have enjoyed looking at atlases and locating different countries. They have also been trying to put puzzles together.
Central idea: Geography influences how people interact with their environment.
Lines of inquiry:
- The significant features of places -form
- How the features of a place influence our activities -causation
- The relationship of our location to other parts of the world – connection
Next week we will continue to learn some facts about the continents- their countries, geographic features and famous landmarks. The children will be using an atlas and information books to learn more. They will be learning where Hong Kong is on a world map and about its neighbouring countries.
The children will also experience a birds eye view of some of the land use in Hong Kong when visiting Victoria Peak on Wednesday.
Place Value
In Maths we will revisit Place Value.
Central Idea: We represent numbers and number relationships using the place value system
An inquiry into:
- Ways to represent numbers
- How we count numbers
- The Base ten place value system
The children will be working towards the following outcomes:
- Count by naming numbers in sequences, to and back from 999, moving from any starting point
- Recognise, model, read, write and order three digit numbers
- Apply place value to partition and rename, numbers to three digit numbers
- Skip count by 2s, 5s and 10s starting from zero
The children will be involved in solving challenges and playing games.
Please continue to complete the activities on Mathletics.
Please continue to practise number bonds to 10, 20, 30 and 40:
The children will choose a country to research and complete a report about. They will be invited to think about how they would like to present their learning and asked to consider how their use of text and images can be effective. They will also think about who they would like to share their finished work with.
In reading we will begin working on making inferences when reading, using the children’s background knowledge.
We talked about how to be a kind friend this week and made a step plan on how to make a new friend. Keep working on your child’s step plan or if it’s complete, start a new one. Encourage your child to notice when others are smiling, helping and listening, and if you notice it in your own child, let them know how much you like it! Try increasing time spent outdoors or in nature. Home activities are on page 53 of the pupil book.
Mandarin – All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.
