Yr2 Curriculum Update – 09/11/18
Working together to achieve success for every child
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We write a regular newsletter keeping you up-to-date and informed about your child’s learning. This will provide you with a good understanding of happenings in Year 2 and how you can support these learning experiences.
Let’s Inquire – Who We Are
This week, the students conclude their learning journeys, inquiring into the central idea, ‘Forces affect the objects around us.’
Personal inquiry time has provided students with learning opportunities to plan, formulate and carry out their own scientific investigations connected to their interests in forces (e.g. magnets, floating & sinking, etc). Collaborative-play based activities have served as the medium through which students developed their science skills, progressing through the different stages of the science inquiry cycle and collect evidence to support their investigations.
You will know ‘Success’ at KJS has a specific definition. It is:
Achievement: What are we achieving? Within Maths, students have continued to explore a diverse range of problem solving tasks centred around place value promoting greater creativity, conceptual understanding and imaginative approaches to learning. Subsequently, students are now starting to recognise, model, read, write and order numbers up to three-digit numbers in sequence and apply place value to partition. Meanwhile in Language, students have continued to create their informational books connected to forces, containing the different features of non-fiction texts
Agency: What agentic opportunities have we had? The students shared their learning and discussed their targets with both parents and teacher during three way conferences, communicating the message of how home and school will work in partnership to support success for every child.
Respect: How are we developing a respectful community? Students have accepted responsibility with regards to the 6Rs (i.e. reduce, reuse, recycle, refuse, repair & rot) through initiatives like composting and recycling, attempting to end plastic, paper & metal pollution at KJS.
Opportunity: What opportunities have we had? The students are now familiar with the expectations in Y2 shared learning area connected to their expected and unexpected choices.
Wellbeing: How are we developing a sense of wellbeing? Students have started to create their own motifs representing wellbeing at KJS. These motifs have expressed through the creative mediums of loose parts, painting, mosaics, collage and sketches.
Chinese
In the Chinese classrooms, Year 2 children continue to inquire into how their actions can affect others and how to work together as a successful learning community. They learn through songs, rhymes, games and stories.
Here’s a glimpse of some of our classrooms
KJS Bingo Night
This exciting family event has been rescheduled to Friday 23rd November 2018 from 5pm to 7pm. Tickets will be priced at $80 per person for children and their family members. Snacks will be provided by the school, please bring your own drinks and water in environmentally friendly containers. Once again, this will be a non-alcoholic event. We do not encourage parents to bring their own alcohol. Let’s make this event as child-friendly as possible.
Tickets are on sale from the PTA office.
Look out for posters with more details around school.
Thursday 15th & Friday 16th November
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang School Musical – tickets are on sale from the main office.
Friday 23rd November
Quiz Night/Bingo Night
We hope that the pictures we add to our curriculum update each week will help you to make connections to the information shared above and to give you an insight into our week in Year 2.
Please remember if you have questions or concerns, contact your child’s teacher. We welcome feedback and look forward to working with you all to achieve success for every child.
Kindest regards,
The Year 2 Team
