20 Nov 2015

Year 2 Update Wk 13

Tuesday 1st December – Year 5 Bake Sale

Tuesday 1st December – Transdisciplinary Parent Workshop (6.30pm)

Friday 11th December – PTA Disco

Wednesday 16th December – Christmas Concert

Year 2 Pitch Sessions

Year 2 will continue having pitch sessions every Thursday until Thursday 10th December 2015. As 2F and 2M already wear PE kit on Thursday, there is no change for them, but 2A will need to wear their PE kit on Thursdays, too. Please remind children to bring a hat and a water bottle to school on this day.

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.

Jewelry Some children have been coming to school wearing costume jewellery. Children are kindly asked to leave this at home to ensure that it does not get lost or damaged in school.

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This week we had a guest speaker, Mr Chau who is an environmental lecturer in Hong Kong. He helped us to understand and make connections to our second line of inquiry: our actions can affect the environment. He gave us lots of new ideas on how we can be more environmentally aware at school and at home.

Scott Darlow a professional singer, guitarist and didgeridoo player from Melbourne performed during assembly on Friday. Scott grew up in Hong Kong and attended BHS for primary school. It was so great to have him back at his old primary school to perform!

This week the children enjoyed a variety of different rotations during their time at pitch. 2M were working on their football skills, 2F learnt about quick cricket and rugby and 2A were introduced to some fitness skills and hockey.

Our personal choices can impact the environment

They have been sorting pictures of different natural resources and deciding how to classify the groups they have sorted them into. They have learnt about what a renewable and non-renewable resource is. The children have been using different thinking tools to record their thinking. This week they were introduced to a consequence wheel and were asked to reflect on the impact of using natural resources on the environment in these terms.

The children read the environmental book ‘Wump world’ and as a class used a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the different characters in the story. They discussed as a class the similarities and differences of the two worlds the characters had created. The children were then asked to sketch their ideal world using different sketching techniques in their art books.

The base 10 place value system is used to represent numbers and number relationships

The children have been enjoying our place value unit and have continued to learn new ways of showing different numbers. They have been learning to recognise, model, read and write three-digit numbers in a variety of ways. The children have done a lot of work on using an abacus to show a three-digit number. They have also been working on recording a three-digit number in expanded form.

This week in Year 2 the children have been focusing on correct sentence structure. They have been editing and reflecting on their own work for the correct punctuation and grammar. They have been writing about their art work and describing their ideal worlds using lots of adjectives. The children have continued their work during guided reading rotations to look at working on their fluency of reading and retelling of the story.

2A – Alexander Lam

2F – Allegra Sek

2M – Jasmine Maruli

Spelling

The children’s next spelling test will be on Friday 27th November. If you could please make sure they are completing at least 3 activities during the week, but recording only one in their spelling journals.

Fruity Friday

Every week at Beacon Hill will be having ‘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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