19 Aug 2016

Year 2 Update Wk 1

Tuesday 30th August

5:00pm New parents’ wine and cheese

6:00pm Meet the Teacher

Friday 2nd September

Year 2 LEAP Trip

Thursday 8th September

PTA Meeting

Friday 9th September

5:00pm-9:30pm- PTA Social-Bowling

Thursday 15th September

PTA- Mid Autumn Market

Tuesday 27th and Thursday 29th September

Parent Consultations (more details to follow)

Portfolios from Year 1 have gone home today.

Spelling and reading home learning shall be going home with children as of next week. They will receive these at different times to allow them time to adjust to Year 2.

PMP will begin in September. If you would like to volunteer as a parent helper for PMP, please complete the reply slip attached to the letter sent home today.

Meet the teachers:

Mr Greene Miss King

andrew.greene@bhs.edu.hk susan.king@bhs.edu.hk

Mr McCallum Miss Barr (LSC)

antony.mccallum@bhs.edu.hk rhona.barr@bhs.edu.hk

Welcome to the Year 2 weekly update. We have had a super first week back and the children have been extremely busy learning new routines and settling in nicely. This week we have been working hard to recap our previous learning from Year 1. We have been introduced to new phonemes during Language time and place value in Maths.

We got to know our classmates better in the playground and by playing a game of ‘Find Someone Who’.

Lifestyle choices can affect human health and well-being

Lines of Inquiry

What it means to have a balanced lifestyle (causation)
The choices we make that affect our health (reflection)
Our responsibility for our own well-being (responsibility)

This week we were provoked into thinking about the lifestyle choices we make on a daily basis and whether these are good or bad.

We carried out our pre-assessment task on this UOI by identifying what a healthy person might; Eat and Drink, Say, Think and Do. As a class we discussed different ways that we keep ourselves healthy inside and out of school.

Throughout this unit we shall be inquiring into 5 key areas; nutrition, exercise, relationships, relaxation and hygiene.

Count by naming numbers in sequences, to and back from 999, moving from any starting point

Connect number names and numerals to the quantities they represent up to 999
Count on and back to 999, moving from any starting point

This week we have worked extremely hard. We have been learning to count using odd and even numbers whilst moving from any starting point. In class we have been learning how to use our hundred square and to identify patterns within this.

We have carried out mental maths activities such as ‘Guess My Number’

Next week we shall continue to develop our knowledge of numbers to 999. We shall be playing place value games and working with Dienes blocks and place value arrow cards to help us better recognise, model, read, write and order three digit numbers.

Writing– The structure of a procedural text:

Handwriting– Upper and lower case letters.

Phonics– ‘ee’ sound.

In language this week we wrote some super sentences about our holiday. We looked at the ‘5 ws’- who, what why, when and where. These helped us to make our sentences more interesting. We completed a recount about our summer holiday.

During grammar, we identified upper and lower case letters and input full stops where needed.

Next week we shall be focusing on starting guided reading and learning the different tasks we need to complete. During handwriting we shall be working on Nelson Handwriting books and ensuring that our letters are formed correctly in both shape and size.

For writing we will be introduced to the features of a procedural text.

Golden Book Assembly shall begin on Monday 22nd August

Spelling

Spelling home learning will begin on Friday 26th August. Children will receive 24 new words on a four weekly basis. In class each week, the children will choose a further two words of their choice. Then each week the children will be asked to learn only 8 words at a time. They will have one week to learn their words and they will be tested each Friday on the previous weeks words.

Below is a copy of the spelling activities. The children must complete one yellow task and one other per week. We would ask that parents sign the children’s words to show that this has been completed.

Reading

Home Readers will be handed out within the next couple of weeks.

Daily Collection

Children are taken by their class teacher to the front steps at 2:55pm daily, to allow them to leave the building in a safe manner before 3:00pm which is when the Y4-6 classes are dismissed. Please ensure you are there for 2:55pm to pick up your child. Thank you.

Fruity Friday

Every week at Beacon Hill we have ‘Fruity Friday’. Children are asked to bring a piece of fruit as their healthy snack.

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