Week 6 Term 2

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balanced learners who thrive and 

become active global citizens.

Important Notice

Half Term Break

Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 is our half term break. We will see everyone back on Wednesday.  

Chinese New Year Celebration

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

We will Tune in and unfold our Central idea: Materials

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

Sort materials to match the material it is made of.

In Literacy/Talk4Writing

• 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
• -Match a number to the amount 
  - Number recognition
  - Find the number hunt 
  - Reasoning - How many do I have? 

In Thai

Happy Chinese New Year! Students are excited to learn about another culture; Chinese New Year. They were joyful with the story and learned about the China map, China flag, Costumes, and Chinese New Year. Students enjoyed coloring the pictures and got dressed in Chinese dresses for paper dolls. 

       

In PE 

This week our learners have been learning about perceptual-motor skills such as body image perception, balance, hand-eye and foot-eye coordination (visual-motor control) by using many different types of materials, such as balls of different sizes and shapes, also table tennis racquets and hula hoops.