11 Dec 2015

Year 2 Update Wk 16

Wednesday 16th December – Christmas Concert (7pm – 8pm)

Thursday 17th December – Year 2 Christmas Party

Friday 18th December – Portfolios sent home

Friday 18th December – Christmas Holidays begin (BHS closes at 12pm)

Monday 4th January – Term 2 begins

Early Holiday Leave

If you could please inform your child’s class teacher if you are leaving early for the Christmas holidays.

Year 2 Christmas Party Day

Year 2 will be having their Christmas Party on Thursday 17th December, the children may come in party clothes on this day. A letter was sent home this week with information about party food. Please can you make sure that any food your child brings in does not contain any nuts. If you could please make sure that the children bring enough food for about 6 children.

Sharing Unit Dance Attire

The children will be having a dance lessons every Wednesday starting in January. Can you please make sure that girls wear leggings and socks on this day and not tights as they need to remove their socks and shoes for dance.

Library Book Bag

Please make sure your child has their book bag and library books on the correct day.

Daily Collection

Children are taken by their class teacher to the front stairs at 2:55pm daily, to allow them to leave the building in a safe manner by 3:00pm.

The children have begun their inquiry into our new unit How we express ourselves. The children had a look at their new central idea and discussed as a class some of the new vocabulary and what these words meant to them. The children used a lotus diagram for their pre-assessment to record their thinking on a celebration of their choice.

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Year 2 began their dance sessions with Mrs Martin, we learnt some basic routines and got thinking about the different types of movements we can use during dance.

This was Y2’s last week of pitch rotations, the children have really enjoyed doing a range of different activities and learning lots of new skills. They have participated in some of the following activities in their groups; cricket, rugby, running, fitness, hockey and football.

Celebrations and traditions can be expressions of shared beliefs and values

Next week Year 2 will be using their thinking and research skills and inquiring into the celebration of Christmas. They will be looking into some of the traditions of Christmas as well as the shared beliefs and values associated with the celebration. The children will create their own Christmas Lap book with lots of information and activities that they can share with you over the Christmas holidays.

The operation of addition and subtraction are related to each other and are used to process information for problem solving

Next week the children will continue their work on addition and subtraction and using the base ten strategy to help them add or subtract two digit numbers. The children will be exploring the use of number lines to add two numbers. They will also be looking at doubling and near double facts.

Next week the children will continue working on their sentence structure and making sure they are using the correct grammar in their writing. They will be doing some Christmas themed writing on the traditions and shared beliefs of Christmas. The children will also begin looking at poetry, they will be introduced to Haiku poems and will also write their own Acrostic poems too. They will be looking using the concept of perspective and will try to generate some questions they may want to ask Santa, reindeer and the elves.

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2A Chee Cheung (Absent)

2F Nelson Symmonds

2M Charlie Yu

Information Literacy Kristy Chan

Spelling

There will not be any spelling homework over the Christmas holidays, new words will be sent home in January 2016.

Reading

Children continue to bring home one book per night to read with an adult. If they do not complete the book in one night, they are able to bring this home to read the following night. Please ensure that you are leaving a comment about your child’s reading in their reading journal.

Learning Centre Parent /Family Borrowing

As you will have seen in the school newsletter it is now possible for parents, younger children and other family members to borrow from our library. By registering for a family borrowing card you can borrow two books from any section of the library, including the new Parent Collection which contains books about healthy living, behaviour management, fun art activities and days out for children in Hong Kong.

The library is open for family borrowing at these times:

	Before school	After school
Monday		2.45-3.30pm
Tuesday	8.15- 9.00am
Wednesday		2.45-3.30pm
Friday	8.30-9.15am

To register for a family borrowing card please complete the form found on the school website’s communications page.

For any questions please contact Emily Jeves; emily.jeves@bhs.edu.hk

Fruity Friday

Every week at Beacon Hill we have ‘Fruity Friday’. Children are asked to bring a piece of fruit as their healthy snack. We will let you know in advance if and when PTA will be selling fruit so that your child can bring in money then.

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