Year 2 Update Wk 8
Community Chest Casual Dress Day
BHS CPD Day, No School
BHS CPD Day, No School
Half Term
Please take note of the days that school is closed for half term. Have a lovely and rested holiday.
Beach Clean Up
Parents and pupils are welcome.
If you’d like to help out, there is a beach clean up on the following dates.
Tue, 11 October (Term Break), Clearwater Bay Beach (2) and Sheung Sze Wan Beach by Clearwater Bay area.
Mon, 17 October (CPD Day), Gemini Beach by Tsuen Wan area
Please contact the school office for more details.
The children have begun to think about their environment and the impact they can have on it. We have begun to collect a variety of litter to create a graph with.
We have been learning lots of new strategies to use in Maths and working on having a Growth Mindset. We have been trying to challenge ourselves and to work in our ‘Stretch Zone’ instead of our ‘Comfort zone’. This is very hard but we understand that this is how we learn new things.
Our personal choices can impact the environment
Lines of Inquiry
- Decomposing (function)
- How our actions affect the environment (causation)
- Personal choices that can help sustain the environment (reflection)
In our unit of inquiry we have been unpacking the central idea to show our understanding of what it means to be ‘Green’, we created posters.
Recall number bonds for 20 and related subtraction facts
- Recall doubles to 20
- Recall number bonds to twenty accurately.
Identify and describe the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction
- Recognise number properties that might help predict a pattern, e.g. odd and even or inverse relationships (7-2=5 and 5+2=7).
We shall be introduced to the work of Peter Sullivan and start to use a variety of problem solving strategies to overcome challenges. In class we will particularly focus on the task of adding two groups of numbers together to find as many solutions to a problem as we can.
We shall continue to look at ‘Making connections’ with our reading to other texts and also to real life.
In Info Lit, we shall be looking at De Bono’s thinking hats
Please remember to work through the tasks a little at a time, and return the spelling journal to the teacher for review. Please remember to sign your child’s spelling sheet when they have completed the tasks.
Reading Eggs and Mathletics passwords are in the front of your child’s diary.
Just a reminder to stay familiar with Hong Kong’s policy on the different typhoon’s and rain signals. ESF has collected the policies here!
http://www.esf.edu.hk/severe-weather-procedures
BHS Community Choir
Last January we held the inaugural meeting of the BHS Community Choir and went on to perform at the International Food Fair, the Chinese New Year show and the Summer Music Concert. The choir will re-form this year, starting on Thursday October 20th at 7pm. Everyone is welcome – no experience necessary! New and existing members are very welcome. Please click on this link to register: https://goo.gl/forms/fERvdJNghaaC1YYa2
