2 Dec 2016

Year 2 Update Wk 15

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Thursday 8th December – Christmas Concert

Monday 12th December – Year 2 Christmas Party- Please wear party appropriate clothes to school

Tuesday, 13th December – End of Term 1 – 12:00 PM

Wednesday, 14th December- Monday, 2nd January – Christmas Holidays

Tuesday, 3rd January – Start of Term 2

Friday, 20th January – Year 2 Sharing Day – 9:00 AM

Please be reminded that Friday 9th December is the House Day. Children are asked to dress in their house colours.

The student council is having a winter clothes drive. They are collecting warm clothes which they will give to Christian Action who will give them out to refugees around Hong Kong. Clothes must be in good condition. There are boxes for any donations at the school entrance.

Letters for the class parties have gone home and we would ask that children provide enough of their designated food for the 6 children in their group

We have had a very busy week in Year 2. We have celebrated St Andrews day in 2M and we created our own tartan. Across the year group we have begun to create our clay models, invented our own music compositions and started to rehearse our Celebrations Drama with Mr Thompson.

Celebrations and traditions can be expressions of shared beliefs and values

Lines of Inquiry

Features of traditions and celebrations (form)
Shared beliefs across celebrations (form, connection)
Why people celebrate (causation)

The children have discussed different types of celebrations they know and they have used a Lotus diagram (graphic organiser) to show their thinking. We have discussed the features and traditions of different celebrations and we are beginning to identify similarities across these. As it’s almost Christmas, we have begun to learn how people celebrate this special time of year around the world. We were very surprised when we learnt that not everyone celebrates Christmas on December 25th. The children have been sharing their learning in different ways e.g. 2M are creating a Lap-book to show their knowledge of Christmas.

Mr Thompson took each class for drama and he has helped us to freeze frame different celebrations from around the world.

In Music we have begun to listen to different types of celebration music from around the world and Mr Gibson has helped us to begin creating our own music compositions using a variety of instruments.

Describe duration using months, weeks, days hours and minutes.

Use a calendar to count and record days, weeks and months.
Order events with respect to time and how long they take using terms like “this takes more/less time than.
Use a time line to order daily events.
Beginning to match the time between analogue and digital clocks.

This week in maths we have been learning how to read analogue clocks to the hour and half hour. We have been learning to record the time using both digital and analogue clocks.

Next week we shall be re-visiting fractions and place value to ensure that we are able to use these in real life contexts. We will also be doing some Christmas maths problem solving. 2K will be measuring with Miss Chung whilst learning how to bake.

We will be assessing the children’s letter writing by asking them to write a letter to a familiar figure. They will be focusing on asking interesting questions and using adjectives to help them describe themselves. The children will recap on their previous learning and ensure that they are self-checking to make sure their writing makes sense. We shall be using our knowledge of card layout to create some wonderful Christmas cards for our loved ones.

The children will continue to look at different types of poetry and using inference to try and understand what the poet is trying to tell us. Inference is when the children reach a conclusion on the basis of evidence and reasoning.