Week 8 - International Day

UDIS inspires internationally-minded, 

balanced learners who thrive and 

become active global citizens.

Important Notice

Mrs Phibz will return on Wednesday!

International Day - 

International Day event- Focused on learning about other cultures and costoms from around the world. 

Learner Profile this week was 

Reflectosaurus - I think about how well my activity is going. 

Student led action was made by Gin. He brought in a story and read it to the his friends! A great example of independance and engagement. 

Our new Unit of Inquiry - Tuning In

Transdisciplinary Theme

How the world works

Central Idea:  Materials behave and interact in certain ways, which determine how people use them.

 Lines of Inquiry :

• Behaviour of materials

• Changing properties of materials

• Manipulation and application of materials to new purposes

This week we looked at bridges. How they are built, what they look like, why we need them and materials used to build them.

Learners built their own bridges to show their knowledge, creativity and coorporation. With a focus of manipulation and application of materials to new purposes

In Literacy/Talk4Writing

• Discussed different materials
• What is a bridge?
• Do all bridges look the same?
• Why do we need bridges?

Learners were able to design their own bridge and what materials they would use to build it. 

Phonics

• This week we did observations this week

• In Mathematics
• Match a number to the amount 
  - Number recognition
  - Reasoning - How many do I have?
• How many in the set  

 

First time in a while we were able to play outside due to the bad air quality. We took advantage of the morning and took maths outside. 

In Thai

The learners are happy This week the learner had fun with the lesson, we learned Thai alphabet Yo-Ying ญ หญิง and we linked to the International week , we made a paper doll; Japanese girl ผู้หญิงญี่ปุ่น . The learners are happy with new friends from Japan.

       

In PE 

This week we had a chance to learn more about handing skills such as basic hand-eye coordinator controlling a small ball. In additon, we learn about jumping and crawling skills by using different materials such as jumping rope and hula hoops.