Year 2 Update Wk 18

Thursday 25th January – Year 2 Theatre Trip to see Monstersaurus

Tuesday 6th February – Yerar 2 Bake Sale (please send in small cakes or cookies to the PTA office that day).

Monday 12th February – China Day (more information to follow).

Wednesday 14th February – Dim Sum Trip Year 2 (please sign the eNotice).

Thursday 15th February – Break up for Chinese New Year holidays at 3pm.

Well done to all the children. What a wonderful performance on the stage and in the classrooms! We hope that you enjoyed watching, listening and working together with your child. We all felt very proud of them.

PMP Helper Needed

Please contact susan.chung@bhs.edu.hk if you would be able to help out with 2K PMP on Thursdays at 2.15pm-3pm in Term 2.

Marie Marchand – Visiting Speaker

We are delighted to welcome back Marie Marchand to present at Beacon Hill School on January 31st from 6-8pm. This year’s focus will be positive behaviour management strategies for parents- Discipline without Shouting. Please see the details and sign up via the gateway https://tg.esf.edu.hk The cost will be $50 per person.

Marie is an excellent speaker- both entertaining and informative and we thoroughly recommend any parents from year 1-6 to come and enjoy her presentation.

Student Council Fruity Friday

The last term we surveyed our students to find out how we can make BHS even better.  A lot of students wanted Fruity Friday back.  This is an opportunity for you to help your child have delicious and healthy snacks at least once a week.  Can you please support and encourage your child to bring in a fruity snack each Friday.  We do not want processed snacks with fruit in them as they contain preservatives and man-made sugar.  Thank you in advance for your support.

Keeping our playground clean

This week lots of children bought cakes from the bake sale. Each cake is handed to the children in a tissue. Unfortunately tissue cannot be recycled in Hong Kong and so will now have to go to the landfills. Also, many children left bits of cake and tissue on the floor as they did not have a container to eat from. It would be great if on bake sale days the children could please bring a reusable container to school to put the cake in while they eat it to stop the rubbish problem. The next bake sale is at the beginning of February. Thank you very much!

The children have been finishing their work in preparation for their Sharing Morning with you.

Those children who completed all their work for sharing were able to continue inquiring into different celebrations.

All the Year 2 children were able to rehearse their song and dance together in the hall for the first time.

Central idea: 

People use and change materials to suit their needs     

Lines of inquiry:

1. The properties of materials (form)
2. Materials are used for specific purposes (function)
3. How materials can change  (change)

The children will start the unit by going on a material hunt around school. They will be looking for different materials and thinking of vocabulary to describe their properties.

We would be delighted to see any action showing how the children continue this materials hunt at home.

The children will also sort materials based on their properties e.g. hard, soft, waterproof, etc.

Central Idea: Fractions are a way of representing part of a whole

Lines of inquiry:

• Fractions of shapes
• Fractions of amounts
• How to make simple fractions
• The language of fractions

Next week the children will continue to look at fractions. They will explore halves and quarters. They are learning that fractions are equal parts of a whole. They will also be investigating problems involving fractions.

Please continue to practise number bonds to 10, 20, 30 and 40:

 

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