Primary Students

Wednesday 26th October

Please find below some further ideas, activities and learning opportunities from our Music, ICT and PE teams.

Music

Have you sung any of these songs at school?  Perhaps you could teach them to some of the people in your house?

·         Bell Horses

·         See Saw

·         Bow Wow Wow

Can you point to the pictures on the bell horses beat chart on the beat whilst you are singing?

How about the See Saw beat chart?

Make your own Rain Rain card – print off the Rain Rain sheet and colour it in. 

You can do the same with the See Saw sheet.

To access the beat sheets and the colouring sheets please use the following link: 

http://www.patana.ac.th/bpsnet/blog/index.asp?id=284

Kind regards,

The Music Team

ICT

There following websites are suitable for general all round ICT ‘experience’ type activities that would help the children with their:

• General typing skills, and specifically key locations

• Confidence using a keyboard

• Mouse control and accuracy

• General enjoyment

(Some of the activities may seem to be a little challenging for the children, but with a bit of support they should be able to do them)

Their website URL’s are:

1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

2. http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html

3. http://funschool.kaboose.com/gamesFiles/flash/kaboose/spidertyper/spidertyper.swf

4. http://www.auntlee.com/crazytyping.html

5. http://www.typingmaster.com/individuals/bubbles.asp

The following activities follow up on what the children have been doing in their ICT lessons:

1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/theme/fairytales/

2. http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-teddys-adventure-popup.htm

3. http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/

4. http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

The children can also access any of the LINK AND LEARN activities which can be found on the PATANA website – these are curriculum area specific and area a good collection of children learning resources.

Kind regards,

The ICT Team.

PE

Physical Development Opportunities

Have a go at some of the activities below and see how well you can do!!!  Remember, it’s all about setting yourself a personal challenge and enjoying what you do.

Kind regards,

The PE Team

Tuesday  25^th October 2011

Dear Year 1 Parents,

Due to the school being closed until Monday 7^th November 2011 the Year 1 team have put together a bank of suggestions and ideas for the children to continue their learning whilst they are at home.  These activities have been chosen to reflect the children's learning needs. Please look through the activities and select those that will interest your child.

Reading Books

When reading, can the children become "Sound Detectives" and find all of the different sounds they have been learning in class? How many can you find in one book? (sh, ch, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, er)

When they have finished reading a book, instead of the grown up asking the questions, see if the children can ask any about the book for others to answer. Remember to remind the children to use the question words at the beginning - why, where, when, who what and how. Some children may need some initial help to think of questions to ask and you can model how to look for information and then ask a question about it. With a little help they should get the idea. This is another good way for them to show their comprehension of the text.

Let's Celebrate!

Our new theme is all about celebrations around the world called "Let's Celebrate!" Over the course of this week the children would have been investigating the following questions:

Key Questions:

• 1. Why does my family celebrate special occasions?
• 2. What special occasions do we know about? (Birthdays, Tiger day, Loy Krathong, International Day, Chinese New Year, Christmas, Easter)
• 3. How do we celebrate these special occasions? (dancing/food/people together/gifts/ /music/fireworks/presents/dress)
• 4. How can we find out about other celebrations? (non-fiction books/pictures/video clips/experts/other people)
• 5. How is my family's celebration of events different to other peoples?

Activities to do at home:

• Discuss the above questions with your child.
• Make a list of different celebrations you know about already.
• Use different forms of media to research other celebrations for example; internet, magazines, books or perhaps talk to some family members about their special occasions.
• Look through your family photos and share your experiences of the celebrations you have had as a family.
• Make a poster all about a chosen celebration that is special to you - include things like photos, food, pictures, clothes, music and decorations.

Maths Activities and Links

Time and Money

• Use vocabulary related to time; order days of the week and months
• Solve problems involving counting, adding, subtracting, in the context of numbers, measures or money, for example to 'pay' and 'give change'

As this half term we will be looking at money it would be a good opportunity for your child to set up a shop at home. Talk about paying for items and receiving change. This can raise many discussion points: How much does that cost? Do you have enough money? How much change would you get? This will help to familiarise the children with the vocabulary we will be using.  Some useful words to use are: money, coin, note, baht, pay, change, buy, sell, price, spend.

The following websites will help the children's learning in relation to time and money.

• http://www.ictgames.com/moneypayer.html
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/numeracy/money/index.shtml
• http://www.ictgames.com/moneysplat.html
• http://www.ictgames.com/hickory4.html

We will continue to update the Year 1 website with further activities over the course of the next two weeks. Please check the website regularly for updates on the situation. We appreciate that Parent Conferences will not take place as planned. These will be rescheduled.

If you have any queries or questions about your child's learning please contact your child's teacher, EAL instructor or Learning Support teacher.

Year 1 Teachers

stmu@patana.ac.th

emla@patana.ac.th

dijo@patana.ac.th 

clto@patana.ac.th

cobr@patana.ac.th

kaho@patana.ac.th

mamd@patana.ac.th

loil@patana.ac.th

EAL Instructors

viha@patana.ac.th

pajo@patana.ac.th

jaml@patana.ac.th

capi@patana.ac.th

Learning Support

elwe@patana.ac.th

We will talk to the children once we are back at school and look at what they have done while they were at home. While they are at home it would be great if the children could make entries onto their class blogs or send any photos or examples of their learning to our email addresses so we can add it onto the blog.

Please check the school website before Monday 7^th November for further updates and information. Thank you for all of your support with your children's learning at home, it is very much appreciated.

Please take care and stay safe - we look forward to seeing everybody soon.

Kind Regards,

The Year 1 Team.

Year 1 had a lot of fun today (Friday 7th October) with all of their Tiger Day activities. We had a wonderful Tiger Assembly, with stories, songs and dancing and then we were visited by children from Year 5 who helped us with making a variety of Tiger creations. The children also brought in their 100 Baht notes (and more sometimes!) as a donation towards our central charity fund. Money from this is given to many deserving charities throughout the year.

Have a look at the photos and see what we got up to.

Mr. M.

In our Year 1 Assembly this week, the Teachers awarded 2 certificates per class to children who they felt had recently demonstrated a variety of attributes from the IB Learner Profile. There are 10 attributes and they are:

1. Caring

2. Thinker

3. Knowledgeable

4. Inquirer

5. Communicator

6. Risk-taker

7. Open-minded

8. Balanced

9. Principled

10. Reflective

They were all very proud of their certificate and what they had done to achieve it - as you can see from the photographs! A big cheer and a round of applause was given to each and every one. Well done!! :)

Today the children got a chance to try out their drama skills and ‘Step out' the story Year One are looking at over the next 2½ weeks - "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"  by Eric Carle. ‘Stepping out' is a strategy that involves the children (and adults!) standing in a line and then taking a step every time a new thing happens in a story. That way, the children learn about sentences, paragraphs and even chapters as they demarcate the story into its different parts. Alongside this strategy, we then used Pie Corbett's Storytelling initiative where over a few weeks the children will imitate the story, innovate by changing certain details and finally inventing their own stories, based on the original text. The end product for this unit should be a caterpillar book in which the children have invented their own foods that the caterpillar eats. These books will hopefully then go into the children's Record of Achievement for them to take home and show their families!

Click here for more photos!

Year One enjoyed their first day back at school and were able to meet their teachers and the people that will be working in their classrooms. The children all made new friends and were able to catch up with their K2 friends from their old classes too.

During the day children joined together collectively to learn about the Year One routines and see all the people that will be working within the year group this year.

see the pictures here

We look forward to working with your children during this fun packed year ahead.

The Year One Team  

Our final topic in Year 1 is ‘Dreams'. This topic will focus on fantasy lands, dreams and aspirations as the children get ready for their move to Year 2.

The children will be listening to different fantasy stories and will be looking at the different elements of a fantasy story, such as, settings, characters and magical objects. The children will be telling their own stories and will then move onto writing their own stories towards the end of the topic.

Some stories you might like to read with your child are: The Sandcastle, Billy's Bucket, Mr Benn, Where the Wild Things Are, The Magic Bed, Jasmine's Box, Magic Key books, Magic School Bus etc

The children have been very busy with their new topic ‘Our Wonderful World!' We began the topic by looking at where we live in Thailand and the children did lots of research on Thailand and their home countries. From this they will then talk about and find out about another country that they might like to visit. When they do this, they will begin to make some comparisons and discuss ways in which the two countries are the same and are different. As part of this topic the children will also be learning a lot about Buddhism when some local monks come into school and when they visit Wat Kra Tum for their final trip in Year 1.

Songkran (and the celebrations for the New Year) has now come and gone - with a lot of fun being had making people wet!

Year 1 were able to celebrate it a little earlier as the school had set up some wet fun and games for the children to enjoy during the last week of term. The children loved being able to soak their teachers (and each other) whilst also enjoying the water slide, the dunk tank and the "jail". It was a great way to enjoy the warmer weather we were experiencing and put everyone in a great mood!