Year 1 Update – Wk 26
BHS International Food Fair
We would like to say a big thank you to all the parents who attended the annual PTA International Food Fair. It was such a lovely evening filled with yummy food, music, dance performances and fun. It was lovely to see so many of you there and hope that you all had a wonderful evening.
7 days of ABC’s and 1,2,3’s
This year’s annual BHS Book Week took a different direction and our Maths and English teams combined to organise a jam packed 7 days of Maths through literature. The children have enjoyed listening to a variety of children’s authors, engaged in lunchtime activities based around Maths stories and a wonderful dress up day where the children came to school in book character or Maths based costumes. We were so impressed by all the creative costumes that the children had come up with especially those that were made by the children themselves.
Author visit
This week the Year 1 and 2 children were treated to a visit from author David Schwartz who has written and published several popular Maths and Science books including, “How Much is a Million?” and “Millions to Measure”. The children really enjoyed listening to David and were especially amazed by his interactive way of counting to a million using bags of popcorn!
We are looking for parent helpers to assist with PMP for Term 3. The PMP program aims to give students experiences in seeing, hearing, touching, processing, making perceptual judgements and reacting through carefully sequenced activities. These include running, hopping, skipping, jumping, balancing, crawling, climbing, throwing, catching, bowling, sliding, etc. using a variety of common and specially designed equipment to develop perception and motor outcomes along with memory training. Please email Miss Chung if you think you could commit to a weekly timeslot at susan.chung@bhs.edu.hk
Central Idea: Plants and animals depend of each other for survival in their environments
During U.O.I next week we will be continuing to look at the connections between living things and how they depend on each other for survival. The children will be exploring how humans rely on plants as a food source by preparing and cooking vegetable and fruit kebabs. We will also be engaging in drama activities based on the life cycles of different living things and the connections between living things.
Ms Jeves will be focusing on the connections between the honeybee and plants. She will explore the connection and reasons why they are connected.
Cooking at Home
Well done to Carsten and Ava from 1F who have been busy at home helping to prepare and cook their own food. Carsten made yummy chocolate brownies and Ava enjoyed baking chocolate cupcakes with her sister. Baking is a fun and practical activity that children love. We would love to see more photos of the children engaging in cooking activities at home so please keep sending your pictures into your class teachers.
Objects and numbers can be divided into equal parts and groups.
Share collections into equal parts
Divide objects into equal parts.
Next week will be completing our work based on fractions and will continue to focus on fractions of numbers. The children will explore halving numbers using a range of manipulatives and will be inquiring into odd and even numbers and whether we can half both odd and even numbers.
The following are key questions that our maths will focus on: How do you know each half is equal? How could you check that each piece is equal? What could you change to make sure that each piece is equal?
Phonics
Next week we will be continuing with the Set 5 of phonics:
ch, sh, th, wh
Camera Words: like do says what going give
Please continue to support our work in school by playing the suggested games on the back of the bookmark that was sent home a few weeks ago.
Due to our Book/ Maths parade on Monday morning there were no Golden Book certificates given out.
The next Golden Book assembly will be on Monday 27th March 2017.
Eco Warriors
If you are looking for some outdoor fun over the Easter break Ark Eden is running a series of nature based learning camps in Lantau.
3rd April – Teddy Bear Survival Camp – Making fires and cooking, building dens and wild adventure walks.
5th April – We’re Building a Tree House – natural forest play, carpentry, tree climbing and making rope ladders.
6th April – A Day on the Farm – planting, composting and fishing in the stream.
7th April – Walking with Waterfalls
10th April – Egg Static!
If you are interested in any of these events contact Ark Eden on the following email: jasmine@arkedonlantau.com.
If you do go along please let us know and send us some photographs of your wonderful experiences!
