8 Jan 2016

Year 2 Update Wk 18

Tuesday 12th January

Year 4 Bake Sale

Friday 22nd January

Year 2 Sharing Day

Friday 5th February

China Day

Chinese New Year

School will close for Chinese New Year at 3pm on 5th February and classes will resume at 8:45 am on 15th February.

Portfolios

Please remember to return your child’s portfolio to their class teacher.

Sharing day

The Year 2 sharing day will take place on 22nd January 2016. Please make a note of the date. Further details to follow.

Sharing Unit Dance Attire

The children will be having dance on the following dates;

Monday 11th, Wednesday 13th, Monday 18th and Wednesday 20th 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 have looked at Christmas and New Year celebrations and created some New Years resolutions. We have generated some questions around our UOI and mind mapped all of the celebrations we know already, including some key features of these. We have chosen a celebration and will find out information regarding traditions and key features of this. We shall then present our findings to our peers.

dance

Mrs Martin has been working hard with all children in Y2 to learn some basic dance moves. As we have now chosen our celebration of choice, we will be working hard to create a short dance sequence based around this.

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 their individual celebration of choice. As part of our homework we will be researching our chosen celebration and gathering information to create a showcase of our findings.The children will then be able to display their learning and information in their own chosen format.

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. We will be creating a maths game that uses our UOI as a theme and incorporates our knowledge of addition, subtraction and doubling. Parents will be able to enjoy this when they attend our sharing day.

We have been learning about the key features of some poetry. The children will be continuing to write their own poems based around our UOI. 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.

During our phonics lessons, we have been learning about the ‘ay’ sound.

golden book

2A Ethan Lo

2F Ragin Chan

2M Liane Thang

Mandarin Zedric Wong (2M) and Johnny Deng (2F)

Spelling

Spelling homework has resumed weekly. The first spelling test of the new term will take place on Friday 15th 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.

Year 2 Update Wk 18

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