Year 2 Update Wk 28
Year 3 will be having an Action day on Friday 5th May to support the following charities; Indochina Starfish Foundation, Christina Noble Children’s Foundation, OneSky and Crossroads. The children have organised and will run a series of different activities and stalls to help raise awareness and funds for the below charities.
IndoChina Starfish foundation is an organisation committed to changing the lives of disadvantaged children in Cambodia.
OneSky aims to unlock the vast potential hidden in our world’s most vulnerable young children.
Crossroads Foundation is a Hong Kong based non-profit organisation. Their goal is to connect people in a broken world.
The Christina Noble Foundation is an international partnership of people dedicated to helping underprivileged children. Christina Noble strives to raise funds to support those in need in neighbouring countries, Vietnam and Mongolia.
The stalls will include a toy, book and juice stall at snack time. The lunchtime activities will include a Y1-3 football tournament, The movie Sing and popcorn, a danceathon in the drama room and Maths and book making activities in the Art Room. All items and entry fees will be between $5-$15.
What a fun Green Week! Children played a scavenger hunt game throughout the school, looking for animal pairs, played games in the library, and got to watch a movie in the hall during lunch times.There was also an endangered art competition that was due Friday, and there were lots of wonderful entries. The Trash to Fash fashion show was a lot of fun, and children really enjoyed the opportunity to make some fun recycled clothing. Students also purchased wheat grass to plant in their own creative pot, and the proceeds will help fund the WWF.
Please keep up the Earth Day and Green Week mentality going all year long!
Central idea: Transport systems are directly related to the needs of a community
Lines of inquiry:
- Features/parts of transportation systems
- Decisions involved in using transportation
- How elements of a transport system connect to meet the needs of a community
Most small groups have planned their trips to Discovery Bay, and are working out the smaller details of where to walk, what signs to look for, and how to behave along the way. Classes have finished up their models of transport, and they have started to inquire into a transport aspect to write a small information report on. We have focused on including nonfiction features like photos, captions, glossaries, and table of contents.
Fractions
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?
Use the language of fractions, for example, half, whole, equal
- Describe amounts using fractional language e.g.: this bottle is half full, there are an equal number of boys and girls in PE.
Data Handling
- Identify activities and familiar events that involve chance and describe them using appropriate vocabulary for example ‘likely’ or ‘unlikely’.
We have started a small section on probability to build vocabulary and understanding of chance. Students have a growing understand of likely, unlikely, definitely, must, probably, and others. We have talked about situations which are unlikely and impossible. Children had difficulty understanding that if something is certain, or definite, then there could be no chance of it not occurring. It is not definite that you will go to school on Friday because you may be sick, or there may be a Black Rain storm notification. Some students also mentioned that in Macau you can bet if something will happen or not with cards and games, but most said their moms and dads go to Macau for the food!
