Penguin Class (K2) Weekly Blog - Term 1 Week 8

 

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Important announcement: School is closed (Thursday) ประกาศปิดโรงเรียน

We have received word that the authorities will cut power to the area from the Railway tracks up to the junction with Route 2021 from 9am to 5:30pm on Thursday which affects UDIS and a lot of the surrounding area. Unfortunately as many of our staff also live in this area we cannot conduct regular online lessons. As such, we have set this as a home learning day and will send work/activities to work on at home on this day. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience and the unique circumstance we are under here.

เนื่องจากทางโรงเรียนได้รับแจ้งจากการไฟฟ้าส่วนภูมิภาคว่าจะมีการตัดไฟในพื้นที่ตั้งแต่รางรถไฟจนถึงทางแยกตัดกับถนน 2021 เวลา 9.00 - 17.30 น. ในวันพฤหัสบดีนี้ ซึ่งจะส่งผลกระทบต่อ UDIS และพื้นที่โดยรอบ และครูหลายท่านอาศัยอยู่ในพื้นที่นี้ จึงไม่สามารถจัดการเรียนออนไลน์ได้ ทางโรงเรียนจึงมีความจำเป็นต้องกำหนดให้เป็นวันเรียนรู้ที่บ้านและจะส่งงาน/กิจกรรมไปทำที่บ้านในวันดังกล่าว ขออภัยอย่างยิ่งในความไม่สะดวก 

Star of the Week

This week's star of the week is: Fuji

You have been: A careraptor (carer) and a balanceatops (balanced)

Fuji has had a great week. Not only has he worked hard with everything he has done, but he has also shown what a kind and caring friend he is to his peers. Fuji has also been a create help with keeping our classrooms neat and tidy. Well done Fuji and have a great weekend with Mr Bucky!

Phonics

Red Stars - Sounds of the Week - Ss and Aa

Blue Stars - Sound of the Week - Mm

Maths

This week, the children have been completing their maths assessments. These assessments included number recognition, counting, shape, positional language and measure. Maths lessons will begin next week. 

Unit of Inquiry (UOI)

Unit: Sharing the Planet

Central Idea: We connect with the natural environment through our curiosities and responsibilities. 

The children knew that milk can come from a cow or goat, but most children did not know that we can have milks that are plant based. This week, the children did some research and took part in a milk taste test to decide if there was a plant based milk they liked. 

Here are some pictures:

We tried almond milk, walnut milk, oat milk and rice milk.

Physical Education (PE)

This week the learners had a chance to play different games related to our motor skills of the week, which are jumping, hopping, and skipping. We played some jumping over the hurdles, skipping using hula hoops, and the hopping frog game. In addition, we started to learn more about balancing skills and why it is important to have physical balance and to be a balanced learner. 

Here are some pictures:

Thai

Here are some pictures:

Here are some other things we have been getting up to:

Home Project - Unit of Inquiry

This week's focus was bananas. Next week's focus will be carrots. Here are some pictures sent in from home of the children exploring 'Banana Week':

Chayno made a banana milkshake at home. 

Excel made a video at home to tell us about her banana research.

Tiny made banana cupcakes at home and made a video to show her recipe.

Khun made banana ice cream with his Mum at home. He also made a video to show how he made his ice cream. 

Vanilla made banana dipped in chocolate at home. 

Library

Our library session is Tuesday afternoon. Please make sure you have returned your child's book to school by Monday to ensure they can take out a new book on Tuesday. If your child does not bring their books back, they will be unable to take another book out until the books are returned. 

Specialists lessons

The children have enjoyed their specialist lessons this week. The specialist teachers your child will be taught by are:

Thai - Ms Must - saowarak@udis.ac.th

PE/Swimming - Mr.Xavi - xavi@udis.ac.th

Library - Ms Marie - marie-christine@udis.ac.th

Drama - Ms Liza - liza@udis.ac.th

Line Group

The Line Group is for general queries. If you have any concerns or questions you wish to ask privately, please either send a separate line message to Ms Patty or Ms Oil. Alternatively, please send me an email. Ms Patty and Ms Oil are available Monday to Friday, 7:30am until 4pm. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact either myself,  Ms.Patty or Ms.Oil. We are more than happy to help and answer your questions. 

Hope you had a wonderful half-term break. 

Kind regards,

Ms.Charlie

K2 Class Teacher