20 Mar 2016

Year 2 Update Wk 26

Saturday 19th March

8:30pm Earth Hour (Turn off all lights for an hour and help #ChangeClimateChange)

Tuesday 22nd March

3.30pm – Junior Choir concert (Hall)

Thursday 24th March

12pm – End of Term 2

Monday 11th April

8.45am – Term 3 begins

2F Kowloon Tong transport trip

Thursday 14th April

2A & 2M Kowloon Tong transport trips

Wednesday 4th May 2016

Year 2 Theatre Trip – Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales

Portfolio reminder

We are still missing a few portfolios so if you could please return any remaining portfolios to school as soon as possible.

Kowloon Tong transport trips

During the week beginning 11th April, all Year 2 classes will visit Kowloon Tong transport interchange. This will serve as a provocation for our next U.O.I. which is all about transport systems. We will not require parent helpers for this trip. You will be receiving a permission slip to sign and return to school shortly.

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 steps at 2:55pm daily, to allow them to leave the building in a safe manner before 3:00pm which is when the Y4-6 classes are dismissed. Please ensure you are there for 2:55pm to pick up your child. Thank you.

This week in Year 2 the children have been immersed in lots of Environmental Week activities. There have been environmental puzzles, movies and an endangered animal art competition. It has been great to see the whole year group getting involved and being green by spreading the awareness and participating in the activities. Thank you for all the support through the donations to the dress casual day today. The money raised by BHS will go to a charity supporting endangered animals around the world.

People use and change materials to suit their needs

We began to gather together all our knowledge in order to create and write our very own non-fiction book about Materials. We have also been identifying the properties of different materials. We are able to understand why we use certain materials to make things depending on their properties and why it is the most suitable.

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Next week, we will be completing the summative assessment for this unit. After the Easter holidays we will begin our new unit starting with a trip to Kowloon Tong transport interchange.

The operations of multiplication and division are related to each other and used for problem solving.

This week, we began to think about arrays and reading “Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream” to support us with this. After reading the book we looked for different arrays in the pictures from the story. We investigated how arrays can be seen in different ways such as groups or row. We learnt that an array displays things in rows and columns with an equal amount in each. Each class is in the process of creating their own Amazing Dream Arrays Book.

Next week, we will continue our work on arrays and finish our Amazing Dream Arrays Book. We will also create our own colourful arrays and circle the groups, record multiplication fact and skip counting.

This week, we continued to identify the feature of reports (opening statement, subheadings, paragraphs, summary, etc) and recognise the different parts of an information report. We used skeletons to plan a non-fiction book about Materials. We began to plan our own non-fiction texts and we will be trying to incorporate all the features of an information report.

Next week, we will continue to publish our own non-fiction texts. We will be trying to incorporate all the features of an information report, as well as, contents page, index and glossary.

During our phonics lessons, we will continue to look at Unit 6 in the Get Reading Right programme.

2A- Hao Sen Liu

2F – Cadence Wong

2M – Hei Hei Cheung

Spelling

Spelling homework is given out weekly. Our next spelling test will not be until after the Easter holidays on Friday 15th April.

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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