10 Feb 2017

Year 2 Update Wk 20

Tuesday 14th February – Year 2 Bake sale

Thursday 23rd February – Year 1 & 2 Sports Day

Friday 3rd March – Student Led Conferences (more details to follow)

Cooler Weather has arrived! With the cooler weather you are naturally wanting your child to wear more layers of clothing to school. Please note that the correct school uniform must be worn, in particular school jumpers and P.E. jackets instead of non uniform long-sleeve tops underneath P.E. and school shirts.

We have clear expectations regarding our school uniform. Sometimes students may need to wear something different for a short period of time if they have outgrown a pair of shoes for example, but we encourage everyone to adhere to the uniform at all times. We appreciate your support in helping to ensure we maintain our strong identity and that all the children feel a sense of pride in wearing the BHS colours.

The children have had a great first week back after the Chinese New Year holidays.

We started off by making some ice cream to see the changes that take place. The children have enjoyed their time in the library and have started to make a collage out of different materials.

Central idea: People use and change materials to suit their needs

lines of inquiry:

The properties of materials and how they are used
How materials can change
The manipulation of materials for new purposes

The children will be inquiring into the different properties of materials. Some of the inquiring into the properties will include looking at their strength, whether they float, whether they are waterproof and whether they dissolve.

Here are the outcomes that we are inquiring into in Maths.

Model multiplication and division using groups and/or arrays

Groups and shares collections of objects equally, recording the grouping and sharing informally
Models the relationship between multiplication and division using arrays

Recognise and represent division as grouping into equal sets and solve simple problems using these representations

Use estimation to check reasonableness of answers to calculations

Skip count by twos, fives and tens starting from zero

The children will continue to practise sharing amounts and objects into equal groups using arrays. They will also solve multiplication word problems and look into dividing numbers. We will be looking at the relationship between multiplication and division.

Year 2 are focusing on narrative writing. We will be looking at different ways to describe characters and settings using adjectives. The children are looking at the story of the Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig and will start to create their own versions of this. They will be concentrating on describing the characters and the houses they will build using a variety of adjectives.

Well done to:

2M – James Borg

2K – Ava Lin

2G – Aidan Lai

To reinforce what we have been learning in school, you and your child could take some time to look at the many different things you have around your home. What material is it made from? Why is it made from this material? What are the properties of this material? Would another material also be suitable?

Many students have ordered winter jackets and fleeces, but few of these have names written on them. Many of these items have already lost their owners and are lonely and afraid. If your child has lost something, let us know, and more importantly, put your child’s name on everything!

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