15 Jan 2016

Year 2 Update Wk 19

Friday 22^nd January

Year 2 Sharing Day – 9am-11.00am (see below for more information).

Tuesday 2^nd February

Year 2 Bake sale – please provide 6-8 home-made cakes or cookies (NO nuts) in a disposable OR named container. Thank you.

Wednesday 3^rd February

Year 2 Dim Sum Lunch and CNY Flower Market visit with parents.

Friday 5^th February

China Day – children should dress in their Chinese clothing or red/gold clothing. They will take part in a range of activities to commemorate the new year and watch the special CNY assembly. Please note this will also incorporate a lion dance.

Chinese New Year school break

School will close for Chinese New Year at 3.00pm on 5th February and classes will resume at 8.45am on 15th February.

Friday 19^th February

Sports Day (more details to follow).

Portfolios

We are still missing some portfolios. Please remember to return your child’s portfolio to their class teacher a.s.a.p.

Y2 Sharing Day

Please return the reply slip a.s.a.p., if you have not already done so. If you are unable to attend yourself, please ensure another family member or friend is able to come to share your child’s learning. Please note, your child may wear their casual clothes, but bear in mind, they must be able to dance comfortably in this clothing.

We will all begin together in the school hall at 9.00am.

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.

Thank you very much for supporting your child with their research homework into the celebration they have chosen. This work has been incredibly useful in helping them to prepare for their mini presentation to you on Sharing Day.

We have also been busy in Music and Dance where the children have been continuing to make connections between our central idea and these curriculum areas. In Music lessons, the children are singing celebration songs and learning to play celebration music on percussion instruments. In Dance, the children are adding some of their own moves to the class dance.

Celebrations and traditions can be expressions of shared beliefs and values

The children have chosen to share their celebration information in a variety of different ways; lapbooks, flipbooks, leaflets and posters. We will be busy continuing with this work next week. This work provides us with a great opportunity to develop the students’ viewing and presenting skills. We have also been busy preparing some artwork that connects with the celebrations they are interested in.

We look forward to sharing all of this work with you next Friday.

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

The children will be putting the finishing touches to the Maths game they have created. They will be playing and evaluating one another’s games and working on their mental addition and subtraction strategies in the process. Their game has an addition and subtraction focus and also makes a link to the celebration your child has chosen to inquire into. The children are very excited that they will be able to play their games with you on Sharing Day.

We have been learning about the key features of some different forms of poetry. The children will be continuing to write their own poems based around the celebration that they have chosen to inquire into. We will have the choice of writing our poetry in 3 different styles; Haiku, Acrostic and Diamond. In order to make our poems fun and interesting, we will be using our knowledge of verbs, nouns and adjectives. You will have the opportunity to see the poems your child has created on display during Sharing Day.

During our phonics lessons, we will continue to focus on the phoneme ‘ay.’

2A Christine Chu

2F Cass Lam

2M Gavin Chung

Spelling

Spelling homework has resumed on a weekly basis. The next spelling test will take place on Friday 22nd 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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