Yr2 Weekly Update – 06/16/17

 

Where we are in place and time

 

Knowledge of family history helps us understand the connection between past and present

 

Unit of Inquiry

It was museum, museum, museum this week with all the classes visiting the History Museum to experience different historical eras in the Hong Kong story.  Just as important was the opportunity to use some inquiry skills and techniques and to take the opportunity to notice the many different ways used to record history.  We found the following:

Photographs

Paintings and drawings

Models

Artefacts

Writing

Video

Audio

Simulations

Interviews

Costumes

 

 

Literacy

Most of the writing work this week has focused on our Personal History inquiries.  We are busy getting things ready for Thursday when parents can come in for assembly (1.30pm to 2.10pm) and then a Personal History Half Hour (2.15pm to 2.45pm).

 

Mathematics

We have been checking up on all sorts of maths this week.  Shapes, multiplication, subtraction, probability and even a bit of data handling and measurement.

The probability has been interesting, and connects well with data handling.

 

Here is a home challenge:

If you throw two six-sided dice, which number is the most likely to come up?

Can you use data collection and display to show why this is the case?

It’s tough, but it’s fascinating too!

 

Clue:

Try organising data in a similar way to this.

 

Possible result (on 1d6)	Number of ways of getting this result (on 1d6)
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6

 

My conclusion:

When throwing 1 six-sided dice all results have the same chance of coming up.