Thai Culture Day

Student Led Conferences

Student Led Conferences  Wednesday 1st May  2013

Student Led Conferences will include the students guiding their parents through activities in subject areas such as language, math, U of I, and specialists, spending time with the student’s portfolio, writing up reflections and a short teacher, parent, student conference. This should last about 1 hour.

Wherever possible the student will act as interpreter. If this is not possible please arrange with the official language interpreter mutually agreeable times.  Please include ELL teachers. Please talk with other teachers to ensure there are no sibling timetable clashes. KG will be having their SLC’s on the same day so please coordinate with teachers there if any of your students have younger siblings attending KG.

During this day the student should guide their parent through all specialist rooms including the library, ICT lab etc.

Teachers can arrange their schedule the way they would like it based on this template.

Time	Students
8.30 – 9.30	Shuhan	Kate	Kaede
9.30 – 10.30	TT	Amy	Talon
10.30 11.30	Copter	Annie	Hayama
11.30 – 12.30      pm	Sophia
1pm- 2pm	Lunch

Tuesday 30^th April 2013     8.30am  Tanoo and Jang Jang

                                       3pm      Fuchang and Ayumi

Thursday 2^nd May 2013       8.30am  Yi Yi  and Jasmine

                                      3pm   Tye

UOI 4th Term - Songs, Rhymes and Movement

UOI 4^th Term April 2013     

Songs, Rhymes and Movement       

Transdisciplinary Theme:  How we Express Ourselves                                            

CENTRAL IDEA:

 Songs, rhymes and movement express many aspects of our world.

SCHEDULE OF UNIT OF INQUIRY April 22 to June 7        7 weeks                                                  

April 22 – May 3                                                                                            2 weeks 

Question 1  How we express ourselves through songs, rhymes and movement?

Tuning In:  What are songs, rhymes and movement and what do you know about songs/rhymes/movement?    

Children bring in their favourite song/rhyme/movement and perform it.

Listening to songs/rhymes and performing movement  

Draw a reflection picture of favourite song/rhyme/movement.

May 6 to May 23                                                                                       3 weeks

Question 2 How do songs, rhymes and movement help us learn about our world?

Listen to songs/rhymes and tell us what it is about and what you learned from it.

Listen and perform a movement and tell us what you can and learned from it.

Listen to songs/rhymes/movement from other cultures.  Discuss/reflect

Parents, colleagues come in and teach a song/rhyme/movement from other culture. 

Ms Elena teach us a Romanian song and dance.

Aboriginal song and dance ‘Inanay’.

Thai teachers teach Thai songs, rhymes and movement.

PE teachers teach children the Hakka dance with a poi. 

PE teachers teach other movements

May 27 to June 7                                                         2 weeks 

Question 3 How do songs, rhymes and movement make us think and feel differently?

Recite/sing/move to different songs and rhymes. Are they happy, sad, funny, scary, difficult, easy, fast, slow or just lots of fun?   

After performing a song/rhyme or movement, a rubric is completed of how the song/rhyme/movement made them think and feel and why?

Drawings, painting, role-play.

Assessment and Closure

Friday June 7   at 9am Children perform a song, rhyme or movement for their Parents.

Using a Rubric the children will be assessed and complete a self assessment of their knowledge and understanding of the Unit.

END OF UNIT AND END OF YEAR   -   HAPPY HOLIDAYS   

Songs, Rhymes and Movement

Dear Parents,

During the last term of the school year, our Unit of Inquiry will be ‘Songs, Rhymes and Movement’ under the transdisciplinary theme of ‘How we express ourselves.’  Our central idea is ‘Songs, rhymes and movement express many aspects of our world.’

The Unit of Inquiry will focus on:

·        How we express ourselves through songs, rhymes and movement.

·        How songs, rhymes and movement help us learn.

·        How songs, rhymes and movement make us think and feel differently.

Please assist us in this process of inquiry based learning by completing the following during the Songkran break. 

·        Ask your child to select his/her favorite song or rhyme and have him/her bring a copy or in a book to class during the first week after the Songkran holidays.

·        Please use your first language to ask your child why it is their favorite song or rhyme and send the answer in your child’s communication folder. 

We would appreciate your support and encouragement for your child’s learning.

Kind regards,

Kindergarten 1 Team

เรียนผู้ปกครองชั้นอนุบาล 1 ทุกท่าน

      หัวข้อของหน่วยการเรียนรู้  สุดท้ายของปีการศึกษานี้ ในชั้นอนุบาล 1 คือ “บทเพลง และบทกลอนประกอบท่าทาง” โดยมีจุดประสงค์การเรียนรู้หลักคือ เพื่อให้นักเรียนได้เรียนรู้ว่าบทเพลงและบทกลอนประกอบท่าทางเหล่านี้สะท้อนให้เห็นวัฒนธรรมที่หลากหลายของมนุษย์

         หน่วยการเรียนรู้จะเน้นให้นักเรียน:

-          สามารถแสดงความรู้สึกของตนผ่านทาง บทเพลง บทกลอนประกอบท่าทาง

-          เรียนรู้ว่าบทเพลง บทกลอนประกอบท่าทาง ช่วยให้เราเรียนรู้เกี่ยวกับโลกได้อย่างไร

-          เรียนรู้ว่าบทเพลง บทกลอน ประกอบท่าทางทำให้เราคิดและรู้สึกต่างกันได้อย่างไร 

ขอความกรุณาผู้ปกครองทุกท่านให้ความร่วมมือ ในการทำให้กระบวนการเรียนรู้ของนักเรียนสมบูรณ์แบบยิ่งขึ้นโดยการสนับสนุนนักเรียนให้ทำกิจกรรมต่อไปนี้

    --  ให้บุตร หลานของท่านเลือก บทเพลง หรือ บทกลอนที่ชอบมากที่สุดซึ่งจะเป็นภาษาใดก็ได้ แล้วนำมาโรงเรียนในสัปดาห์แรกหลังวันหยุดสงกรานต์

    --  ถามบุตร หลานของท่านด้วยภาษาที่ใช้พูดที่บ้านว่าทำไมถึงชอบ บทเพลง หรือ บทกลอน นั้น แล้วส่งคำตอบแนบมาใน Communication folder ส่งกลับครูประจำชั้น

          ทีมงานชั้นอนุบาล 1 หวังเป็นอย่างยิ่งว่าจะได้รับความร่วมมือจากท่านในการสนับสนุนการเรียนรู้ ของนักเรียนซึ่งเป็นบุตรหลานของท่านเช่นที่เคยเป็นมา

                                                                             ขอแสดงความนับถือ

                                                                               ทีมงานชั้นอนุบาล 1

News from K1/H : February 26 to March 22, 2013

Thank you to parents for supporting their children in their learning during this term’s UOI ’Air, Food and Water’.  Over the past 4 weeks we have been exploring:  How do our air, food and water change and how can we look after these resources?  We observed: 

·        Simple experiments with ice and water measurement

·        Dehydrated foods to hydrated

·        Fresh fruit smoothies

This Unit of Inquiry has provided the children with lots of learning opportunities and they now have more awareness of how important air, food and water are to their lives and to the future of our earth.  

·        Love to Read Week:  The children listened to stories every morning at Assembly. We had fun travelling to the MBC and the children and were in awe of seeing the elementary students performing songs in the musical ‘Pirates’.  Today K3 and Grade 1 performed shorts plays for everyone’s enjoyment.   It was a fun week.  The children who brought books to swap were pleased with their new books.  Thank you for your participation.

 

·        It is VERY IMPORTANT that your children wear shorts and PE shoes on Mondays for safety and agility.   Swimming will continue on Wednesdays after the holidays.

Your child must have a separate swim bag.

No plastic bags please. Your children cannot recognize their belongings in a plastic shopping bag.  If possible, please dress your children in their swim wear from home.  Please have your children wear clothes to change into after swimming which are easy for them to put on themselves.  Thank you.

Please send in a new toothbrush with your child next term.

  No toothpaste necessary thank you.

 

Show And Tell: Air, Food And Water

Air, Food And Water