Penguin Class (K2) Weekly Blog - Term 1 Week 13

 

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Important Announcement - Antigen Testing

Dear parents,

This is a gentle reminder that parents can submit your child's antigen or PCR test result from tomorrow to 12pm on Sunday 14 November.

Students will need to submit an antigen or PCR test result before returning to school. You can send this to either admin@udis.ac.th or to @udis (our Official Line account).

Students without a test result will not be able to enter campus.

Best regards School Office

Loy Kratong - Thursday 18th November

Our Loy Kratong event this year will be held in our classrooms to ensure our children remain in bubbles. All staff and children are to wear Thai clothing for this event. Please ensure you have a change of clothes in your child's bag, should they wish to change later on.

Special announcement about our Christmas performance from Ms Marie

Dear Parents,

We are currently practicing our song for the Christmas video. This year, due to Covid, we will not be able to welcome parents on site, but we will prepare a video for you. K2 students will record their song on Tuesday 30th of November. For this occasion, could you send the following items in your child's bag:

- White t-shirt

OR

- Snowman costume

- Christmas accessories (OPTIONAL)

The final video will be shared with parents on the 10th of December.

Thank you so much for your support and please let me know if you have any questions.

Ms Marie

Star of the Week

This week's star of the week is Vanilla. She has been a risktakerocus (risk-taker) and openminderocus (open-minded) this week. Vanilla has been playing and exploring more with her friends and practising her writing every day. Well done Vanilla!

Science Day (Wednesday 10th November)

Although we celebrated World Science Day as a whole school, we participated in different science activities within our class bubbles and the children had lots of fun. We had a velocity race, made shadow puppets, inquired about floating and sinking and discussed the changes of state with water. Here are some pictures:

Show and Tell - Our favourite soft toy/teddy

Today (Friday 12th November), the children brought in a soft toy from home. We played positional language games linked to our Maths and the children each presented their toy to the class. They did really well and they have loved having their favourite toy at school with them today. Here are some pictures from our Maths activity:

Phonics

Here are some pictures of our phonics this week:

Maths

This week, we have been exploring positional language, practising our number writing and recapping the four basic shapes and their properties - circle, triangle, square and rectangle. Here are some pictures:

Unit of Inquiry

This week we have returned back to our year-long unit 'Who We Are'. We have been talking about what is it to be kind and unkind, what is a good friend and who are our friends. Here are some pictures below:

Physical Education (PE)

Here are some pictures:

Thai

This week we learned about number 4. We learned how to count and write correct numbers, both Thai and Arabic numbers. In addition, it was fun playing maths games by trying plus and minus numbers as well.

Here are some pictures:

Drama (Friday afternoons - last week)

Here are some pictures:

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

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 Oil. Alternatively, please send me an email. Ms Oil is available Monday to Friday, 7:30am until 4pm. 

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

Have a great weekend!

Kind regards,

Ms.Charlie

K2 Class Teacher