Year 2 Update Week 5

• Monday 24th September – CPD Day – BHS closed.
• Tuesday 25th September – Public Holiday – BHS closed.
• Thursday 27th September – Year 2 trip to Penfold Park. Please ensure you have completed the permission form via the Gateway.
• Monday 1st October – Public Holiday – BHS closed.
• Tuesday 9th October & Thursday 11th October – Parent Consultation evenings.
• Friday 12th October – Dress Casual Day (Community Chest). Last day of half term. School finishes 3pm.
• Monday 22nd October – School resumes.

Although it was a short week, the Year 2 children managed to achieve a lot. Mr Lowe worked with each class to assist with assembling the fitness trackers. Once the micro-bits were in place, the children tried out their fitness routines and looked at how many steps they had taken. They then used the i-pads to take a photo of their buddy.

The children had a great time buying fruit and lanterns from the PTA Mid-Autumn Festival market. They were able to practise their Mandarin when deciding what to buy.

As well as continuing to model and write 3-digit numbers, the children learnt more about rounding numbers to the nearest 10.

The children also had lots of fun with books.

Central idea: 

Lifestyle choices can affect human health and well-being

Lines of inquiry:

1. What it means to have a balanced lifestyle (causation)
2. The choices we make that affect our health and well-being (reflection)
3. Lifestyle changes (change)

The children will cooperate in small groups to decide some of the activities they will carry out in Penfold Park. They will listen to each others ideas and take turns when talking. They will make their healthy sandwich to take with them for their lunch. They will also try out their fitness routines using their trackers in the park.

The children will continue to look at ways people make unbalanced lifestyle choices and what they could do to improve this. They will also be looking at their own lifestyle choices.

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
• Odd and even numbers (pattern and function)

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
• Round numbers to the nearest 10
• Estimate up to 20 objects
• Identify and describe patterns in odd and even numbers

The children will be continuing to take part in problem-solving challenges to develop their understanding of place value in the real world. They will also be looking at pictographs linked to healthy lifestyles.

The children have their Mathletics usernames and password in the front of their school diary. Please spend some time on it each week.

The children will continue to discuss the language of instructional writing. They will be giving clear verbal instructions for some of their activities as Penfold Park. They will write a procedure to show how to make a sandwich.

In reading, the focus is self-monitoring and summarising. The children will be asked to show their understanding that it is their job to make sense of the texts they are reading and learning more about the strategies to use if they get stuck.  They will be using SCOOP to help them retell the stories they have read.

• Learn the second list of 8 words.
• In their spelling book, they will need to write each word in a sentence. One has been done already as an example.
• Complete one activity from the boxes to help them learn their spelling. This does not need to be seen by the teacher.
• Please sign the bottom of spelling card to show that they have done these things.