13 Jan 2017

Year 2 Update Wk 18

Friday 13th January – Deadline for Scholastic book orders.

Friday, 20th January – Year 2 Sharing Day – 9:00 AM

Monday 23rd January – Year 2 CNY trip

Thursday 26th January – China Day

Friday 27th January – Sunday 5th February – School closed for CNY holidays

Tuesday 14th February – Year 2 Bake sale

Thursday 23rd February – Year 1 & 2 Sports Day

Friday 3rd March – Student Led Conferences (more details to follow)

The Year 2 Sharing Morning is on Friday 20th January. Your child will need a parent or family member to come to school between 8:45 and 11 am to share their learning journey.

Your child should come to school dressed in their own clothes on this day.

Please remember to return all portfolios ASAP if you have not already done so.

The children have completed their clay models for Sharing Day. With Ms Cassie we have been reflecting upon the skills we used to make our candle holders.

We have been working with lots of adults in the school to ensure that our Sharing Day is a huge success.

We have finished off our Christmas Lapbooks and we have begun using our inquiry skills to research our chosen celebrations.

In PMP we have had lots of fun trying new activities.

Celebrations and traditions can be expressions of shared beliefs and values

Lines of Inquiry

Features of traditions and celebrations (form)
Shared beliefs across celebrations (form, connection)
Why people celebrate (causation)

This week we have begun our personal inquiries into our chosen celebrations. Some examples of these are Valentine’s Day, Day of the Dead and Hanukkah. We have used different media to carry out our research; books, computers, information sheets and also by asking adults questions.

We have been working very hard to ensure that we are ready to share our learning with the parents on Friday.

Mr Gibson has been teaching us how to play different songs using different musical instruments; keyboards, the xylophone and the glockenspiel. We have been learning to read some simple tunes and play these with a partner.

Each class has been learning some new dances from around the world to share with their parents and Mr Thompson has been helping us to practise our drama skills.

We have been working in small groups with Miss Kannis to create a stop motion animation about our chosen celebration and to share some of the traditions and customs associated with these.

The children are consolidating and extending their knowledge and understanding of place value.

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

We have been recapping our previous learning by looking at place value. We really challenged ourselves this week by ordering 2, 3 and even 4 digit numbers. Across the Year, we have been using 100 squares to find possible solutions to number problems. We have been in our ‘stretch zones’ all week and lots of learning has taken place.

Next week we shall begin to look at multiplication and division. We shall start by looking at different arrays and practising our 2,3 and 5 times tables.

The children are using inference to deduce meaning from poetry – What is the poem about? How do you know this?

They are also looking at the descriptive language used.

We have begun to create our own poems about our chosen celebrations. We have worked on creating adjective wheels to help give our writing more detail. We shall continue with our poems this week and also ensure that we are self checking our work for any errors.

We have used skills previously learned to write our reply letters to our pen pals and we have revealed our names.

We are now learning about the phonene /ay/.