19 Feb 2016

Year 2 Update Wk 22

Friday 26th February

Latest unit of inquiry reports available on the Gateway.

Friday 3rd March

Student-led conferences – please book your appointment time on the Gateway. Please note, your child must only come to school at the appointment time you select. There will be no normal classes on this date.

Thursday 24th March

12pm End of Term 2

Portfolios

We are still missing some portfolios. Please remember to return your child’s portfolio to their class teacher a.s.a.p. This is really important as we are currently updating portfolios in readiness for Student-led conferences next month.

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.

Thank you for joining us at Sports Day today. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and we all really appreciated your support. We were delighted to see the children trying their best, having fun and being so supportive of one another.

People use and change material to suit their needs

The children completed a pre-assessment this week to encourage them to start describing materials according to their properties. We have also been brainstorming all the materials we know and thinking about how they can be used.

poster

Next week, we will continue to collect words that can be used to describe the properties of materials, but we will also be inquiring into solids, liquids and gases.

Shapes are classified and named according to their properties.

The children have been revising the names of common 2D shapes and described them according to the number of sides and corners. We have played games and even created pictures involving 2D shapes to improve our understanding.

Your child may have been referring to ‘quadrilaterals’ at home, too, as we have been learning that this is the correct name for any 4-sided shape with straight sides. We have been describing quadrilaterals in more detail by learning about parallelograms, trapezoids and rhombuses!

Next week, we will be thinking about 3D shapes and describing them according to their faces, edges and vertices.

This week, we have started thinking about our next text type – information reports. Next week we will be beginning to identify the feature of reports (subheadings, opening statement, summary, etc) and recognise the different parts. We will be looking at examples of reports and use the work we created about celebrations to support this. We will be re-organising (deconstructing and reconstructing) jumbled reports in order to increase our understanding.

During our phonics lessons, we are beginning to look at Unit 6 in the Get Reading Right programme, which focuses on the phoneme /ue/ as in blue, few, rude, juice.

2A – Jafar Wong

2F – Chloe Leung

2M – Rachel Leung

Spelling

Your child received their latest spelling words yesterday and our next spelling test will be on Friday 26th February.

Reading

Children continue to bring home one book per night to read with an adult. If they do not complete the book in one night, they are able to bring this home to read the following night. Please ensure that you are leaving a comment about your child’s reading in their reading journal. Teachers are in the process of assessing children and therefore the colour of their reading may change.

Learning Centre Parent /Family Borrowing

As you will have seen in the school newsletter it is now possible for parents, younger children and other family members to borrow from our library. By registering for a family borrowing card you can borrow two books from any section of the library, including the new Parent Collection which contains books about healthy living, behaviour management, fun art activities and days out for children in Hong Kong.

The library is open for family borrowing at these times:

	Before school	After school
Monday		2.45-3.30pm
Tuesday	8.15- 9.00am
Wednesday		2.45-3.30pm
Friday	8.30-9.15am

To register for a family borrowing card please complete the form found on the school website’s communications page.

For any questions please contact Emily Jeves; emily.jeves@bhs.edu.hk

Fruity Friday

Every week at Beacon Hill we have ‘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.

Year 2 Update Wk 22

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