4 Nov 2016

Year 2 Update Wk 11

Monday 7th November

2K to visit the Eco Park

Monday 14th November

2M to visit the Eco Park

Thursday 17th November

2G to visit the Eco Park

Friday, 25 November

2G Class Assembly – 9am in the school hall

We are looking for parent helpers for Thursday PMP sessions starting on 23rd November 2016 for 3 weeks.

If you are able to volunteer between the hours of 12:00-12:45, or 14:15-15:00, please notify Miss Chung at susan.chung@bhs.edu.hk

Box Of Hope

The boxes will be collected from BHS on Thursday 10th November.

Year 2 will be going to Kowloon Tsai pitch every Monday afternoon from Monday 31st October until Monday 5th December. Please ensure your child wears their PE kit, has a hat and a water bottle.

As 2K will have pitch on Monday afternoons, they will visit the library on Thursday and so will need their library books and red book bags.

Reading Workshops

The workshops are an opportunity to learn more about how we explicitly teach comprehension skills at school.

Wednesday 9th November – 2pm for helpers only. 6.30pm parents.

An email was sent out to all parents with details and the link to the sign up form: https://goo.gl/forms/tCOExvSBubJkDCSy2

Please send in the reply slips for our trip to the Eco Park if you have not already done so.

This week in Year 2 we have started our weekly visits to the Pitch. We carried out a variety of different activities including football, javelin, races and cricket. Each week we shall take turns at trying out a different activity. We thoroughly enjoyed this and the sun was shining for our outing.

We looked at our science experiments and listed any changes in their appearance.

Children have begun their personal inquiry into different types of pollution.

We have been learning about pollution in Hong Kong and creating some fabulous drawings using a variety of media.

Our personal choices can impact the environment

Lines of Inquiry

Decomposing (function)
How our actions affect the environment (causation)
Personal choices that can help sustain the environment (reflection)

We have analysed our science experiments and listed the physical changes in our groups. We identified what we saw, smelled and felt. The children will be creating a Green Pledge; an action they can take to help the environment. We shall be looking at the causes, effects and resolutions of 3 different types of pollution; air, land and water. We shall be using different media to research these three key areas and reporting our findings in a variety of ways, such as creating informative posters.

We shall be recording our findings in a variety of ways and sharing them with our peers. We will be working in groups and individually and practising our speaking and listening skills

Find equal parts of shapes and collections

Equally share a collection of objects into 2 or more equal groups for example by sharing 12 balls between 3 bags by using number facts 4+4+4=12.
Discuss possible strategies if the whole parts cannot be shared equally e.g.: 3 people, 5 cakes – how much cake each?
Find equal parts of shapes for example folding paper squares – how many ways can you divide it equally?

Addition and subtraction

We have been learning how to use different strategies to solve subtraction problems. 2M have been trying to solve different word problems and showing their thinking in a variety of ways.

Fractions

We shall begin to look at fractions of shapes and whole numbers. The children shall begin by recapping any previous knowledge they have of fractions e.g. what is a fraction and what isn’t?

Writing– What is a sentence? /Basic punctuation/ Sentence structure/ Tenses/ Verb agreement/ Prepositions/ Parts of speech/ Interesting vocab choices

Handwriting– Upper and lower case letters

Phonics– ‘o, o_e, ow, oa’

Students will continue working on making connections while reading to understand and comprehend the material better. We shall begin to plan our persuasive letter relating to our pledge. We will be looking at letter formation, structure, persuasive language and connectives to ensure that our letters make sense and are emotive.