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Term 2- week 4: January 23th- 27th 2017

   Such a busy week we have had. Sports Day on Tuesday and Chinese New Year celebration on Friday! It was very nice to all the parents who were able to join for these events. (and beat us at tug of war) I will post lots of pictures on our blog for you to upload/see.

Since all students returned their books last weekend- they have taken home another nonfiction book from our classroom library to enjoy for the weekend. Could you please help your child to remember to bring it back on Monday again? Thank you.

The students have just starting planning their own invention; there are lots of creative ideas and everyone is exciting about their creations. They are using up all our recyclable materials very quickly, so if you could please send any more recyclable materials it would be appreciated.  

Everyone had such a fun day for sports day!! Everyone joined their houses : Vikings, Titans, Trojans and Aztecs to try different activities and games together.

Chinese New Year
What an impressive show for Chinese New Year for 2017! We had dancing dragons to greet us at the gate in the morning and amazing shows filled with singing and dancing from Primary as well as Secondary to entertain us.

We also had lots of fun activities in our classroom, learning about China, trying Fung-Fu and making Lanterns.

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Y2 Weekly Update: Week 4 2017

                                                                                                           

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week we finished off our work on explanation texts - We reviewed our posters from inquiry about forces.  We reviewed nouns, verbs and how to use them in sentences.	·         We begin looking at adventure and fantasy stories!
Maths	The teachers decided to review all the topics we have covered so far and to assess the students.	·         Order 2-digit numbers and revise the < and > signs; ·         locate 2-digit numbers on a landmarked line and grid; ·         round 2-digit numbers to nearest 10; ·         estimate a quantity <100 within a range
Inquiry	This week we made posters about forces as part of our ‘sorting out’ phase of inquiry. We began making plans for our own simple machines that use forces. There were some interesting ideas for sure. The students also discussed their ideas and plans to see if they could be made easily, what materials are needed and what the purpose of their machine is.	·         We will be going further and building our designs and test them out.
Notices and Events	Recycled materials- Thank you for all the materials sent into class so far. The students will be doing plenty of building next week so any more materials will be most helpful!