27 Oct 2017

Year 2 Update Wk 10

Tuesday 31st October – Year 6 Bake Sale….bring in some money to buy treats to support our PTA

Tuesday 8th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway

Monday 13th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway

Wednesday 15th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway

Tuesday 21st November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway

Wednesday 22nd – Professor Peter Sullivan parent workshop

Friday 24th November – 2Ds class assembly

Thursday 14th December – Christmas Concert

Friday 15th December – last day of Term 1, 12pm finish

Wednesday 22nd November – 6:30p.m. in the school hall

Professor Peter Sullivan

Peter Sullivan is Professor of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, at Monash University in Australia. He is the immediate past President of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers and was the lead writer of the Australian Mathematics curriculum.

Professor Sullivan is one of the world’s leading authorities in Mathematics, and will be making his a visit to Beacon Hill School this November. During his visit, Professor Sullivan will work alongside the teachers to challenge all our students to reach their full potential in Mathematics through the use of open-ended, rich learning tasks and problems.

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Sullivan will run a workshop for parents in order to enhance your understanding of how you may help your children in the development of Mathematical thinking. This is for parents only, there is no need for children to attend.

An e-notice will be sent to all parents, please let us know if you are attending.

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Mother Tongue Story Telling

Last year a group of parents told stories to our students in their mother tongue during lunchtimes. As you can imagine this was very popular with our students and a great way to share the range of languages we speak within our community. If you are interested please click here to add your details. Any time you can give and to any year group is really appreciated. For those interested we can meet to discuss logistics in more details. If you have any questions please email me at andy.thompson@bhs.edu.hk.

ESF Christmas Cards

Christmas is fast approaching! ESF wish to prepare an e-card for Christmas and are inviting ESF students to come up with a design. The Christmas artwork could be a painting or drawing on A4 or A3 paper with any media such as water color, pastel, photography or digital. Please send the original artwork to Ms Yu by 13, November if you would like to enter this exciting competition. Please refer to this link if you wish to see the cards in previous years: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1e1HGWSZqL0clF3MlF2aWk3OEE?usp=shar

The children had an exciting experience visiting the SENT landfill. They saw how construction waste is managed in HK. They watched the trucks unloading their waste onto the tipping site and then saw the bulldozers spreading and flattening the waste. They also saw the trucks being cleaned before they left the landfill. Ask your child about what they found interesting.

Central idea: People’s choices can impact the environment

Lines of inquiry:

Types of waste
What happens to waste
Choices people make to sustain the environment

The children will continue to look at how they can reduce, reuse and recycle the amount of waste they produce. They will consider taking action by making responsible choices. The children will continue work on their scientific investigations, looking into how our food waste decomposes. The children will need to continue to make careful observation of any changes and consider making predictions as to what may happen next.

CENTRAL IDEA: The operations of addition and subtraction are related to each other

LINES OF INQUIRY:

How we solve problems using addition and subtraction
Mental and written strategies for addition and subtraction
The language and symbols of addition and subtraction
Patterns in addition and subtraction

The children will be solving mathematical problems related to addition facts. They will continue to use counting on as a strategy to solve a calculation and will learn how to use the split strategy.

To use the split strategy, the children will be using their knowledge of place value to split numbers into hundreds, tens and ones and regrouping the numbers as necessary.

The children will also be looking at the Jump Strategy to help them add two numbers together and will start exploring subtraction.

In their writing, your child will learn about the features of persuasive letter writing.

The children will be looking at using a range of connectives to extend their sentences such as because, so, if, but.

The children have done very well with using the ‘Five Finger’ rule to find a ‘just right’ book to read. The children have looked at the different types of thinking that they do whilst reading and are now making connections between what they are reading and their own experiences.

In phonics we are looking at the long o sound: o, oa, ow, o-e (bow, boat, show, hope).

Please continue to read with your child at home and ask them to retell the story.

Well done to:

Due to school photographs being taken there was no Golden Book assembly.

Spelling

Your child has been given a new spelling book for their home learning. Inside is one spelling card and a list of activities in white and yellow boxes.

Your child will need to learn the 3rd list of words dated for this Thursday 19th October. They will be tested on these 8 words next Friday in school.

Your child will need to choose two activities to complete – one from a yellow box and one from a white box. They are not completing these activities in the spelling book. These activities are designed to help your child to learn their 8 words. It is up to you where your child completes these activities (they could buy a notebook or use scrap paper). When the activities are completed, please sign your child’s spelling card to let us know that they have been done.

Your child will also be doing some handwriting practise to help them learn the words. This is done in the spelling book.

Your child is only learning 8 spelling words this week, not all 32 words.

Reading

Please be reminded that in Year 2, your child will not bring home a reading book on Tuesday or Thursday they will need to read on Big Universe. Children login and select ‘My Library’ from the top of the page. At the right hand side in the ‘Filters’ section they can select the ‘Grade Level’ of books. If the children select kindergarten,grade 1 and 2 this is the most appropriate reading age for them (5-8 years).

Mandarin – All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.

Reading Eggs

We would like to inform you that we will no longer be subscribing to this online reading programme. The costs associated with this subscription are high and data shows that less than 25% of BHS students are accessing the website regularly. The money saved will be used to purchase additional books for the school.

Please remember that the children may still access Big Universe, which has a far more comprehensive selection of books available, to supplement their home reading and for research purposes.

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