Week 5 Term 2

UDIS inspires internationally-minded, 

balanced learners who thrive and 

become active global citizens.

Important Notice

Second parents open house - Saturday 6 February

We will hold our second parent's open house on Saturday 6 February from 9:30am. This is a great opportunity to invite any interested friends and family along to learn more about our school. Please help spread the word!

Chinese New Year Celebration -Thursday 

Your child can wear something red, purple, gold or can wear house team shirts on this day.

Half Term Break

Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 is our half term break 

Global Play Day

Learner Profile this week was 

Knowledgeasaurus- I find some things fascinating 

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.

 Line(s) of Inquiry :

• Behaviour of materials

• Changing properties of materials

• Manipulation and application of materials to new purposes

Learners were able to see, feel and touch what materials are. See, Think, Wonder activity.

Next week:

We will Tune in and unfold our Central idea: Materials

Learners will explore the question of "What are materials?"

Learners will have the opportunity to touch, see and play with different types of materials.

In Literacy/Talk4Writing

- We read Silly Monkey in the Science Lab and introduced new mysteries from the mystery box. 

Next week:

• We will inquire into a new book: Who, What, Where book - Mystery box
• We will focus on learning the new science vocabulary
• Find what is inside the mystery box each day (continue from last week)
• Design our own science lab in the classroom (continue from last week) 
• Explore experiments during our Golden Time

• In Mathematics
• This week we named, sorted, and built shapes during our maths sessions.

Next week:

-Match a number to the amount 

- Number recognition

- Find the number hunt 

- Reasoning - How many do I have? 

Communication and Language/Phonics

- Practiced in smalls groups individual sounds e.g d/o/g - dog

Next week 

Oral blending 

In Thai

 Awesome little learners! They learned the Thai consonant; Sor -So ซ.โซ่  through different activities; listened to a story, made a chain out of paper, practiced on plastic chains. Students are really proud to present their works!

In PE 

This week we have been learning about running, jumping, and balancing motor skills by playing different kinds of relay races such as hurdles race and zig-zag race. In addition, we had a chance to explore the field and playground to play throwing and catching with many different kinds of balls (size and shape).