We have had a lovely start to this half term as the children have been using kind words and doing kind acts during Kindness week. We used the story of 'The Rainbow Fish' as our stimulus for thinking about what it means to be kind and the children designed their own list of kindness challenges. In our school assembly on Friday the children rocked the school with their song 'Light it up'- they performed this so well!. Our focus on being kind will continue throughout this term.
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| The Year 2 Kindness superstars. |
Our learning this Half Term
We have a geography focus for our theme this term and will be asking 'What do we use maps for?' and 'How do maps help us understand the world?"
Children will be involved in following and creating their own maps and routes, using coordinates, giving directions and locating places on maps. We will be focusing on Phuket and learning about it's features, both natural and man-made. This theme will also involve the children in programming robots to follow routes. We will be reading the texts 'What the Ladybird Heard' by Julia Donaldson, Juk's Adventures in Phuket by Lin Chen Meng and Michael Kirjon and some of the Katie Morag
Stories by Mairi Hedderwick.
If you have any photographs-paper or digital, of different places around Phuket, we would love to use them. Children can bring these in over the next two weeks or they can be emailed to the teachers. jsherlock@bisphuket.ac.th
ccarey@bisphuket.ac.th
kgriffiths@bisphuket.ac.th
In Maths the children will be learning about multiplication and Division. They will be asked to memorize their 2x, 5x and 10x tables. We will be using money to go shopping and applying our multiplication skills to buy multiple items. We will also be learning directional and positional language.
Maths Workshop for Year 2 Parents
We would like to invite you all to a Maths Workshop on Thursday 5th February from 8:30-9:30am. In Year 2 Maths becomes more complex for the children and we use a range of strategies to teach calculating skills. We would like to share some of these strategies with you and look forward to seeing you there.
Homework
A new Homework Grid will be sent home on Monday. We are trying to encourage the children to be creative in how they present their homework tasks, understanding that there are many ways we can present, record and respond.
Some Reminders
PE and Swimming
For the next 5 weeks (this half term) the children will continue to have two PE lessons per week (Monday and Wednesday) with NO swimming lessons. Swimming will begin again after the mid term break.
Hats and Water Bottles
Please can you ensure that your child has a hat and water bottle in school every day. This term is likely to be very hot!
Chinese New Year
This will be celebrated on the last day of the half term-Friday 13th February. Children should come to school wearing red clothes on this day.
Important Dates
Please check the 'Important Dates' page on this blog to keep up to date with what is happening. This page also has a link to the school's live calendar so you can see all the events happening across BISP.
