EY1 Class Blog

Dear EY1 community, 

Welcome back everyone! It was lovely seeing you all again and hearing about all your amazing adventures over the October break. We had a PUMPtastic time together in EY1! The children were excited to get right back into the swing of things and enjoyed all our Pumpkin themed learning engagements this week!

It was also a very special time in EY1 as we welcomed our new friend Anya and her family to our EY1 community. All the children have made her feel extremely welcome and she makes a wonderful addition to the class. Thank you for being so brave and a true risk taker this week Anya!

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This Week’s Learning & Fun:
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In our small group calls this week, we began tuning in by inquiring into what family pumpkins belong to fruits or vegetables? We also wondered how pumpkin’s grow and watched a short video on the life cycle of pumpkins. They are pretty amazing!!! 

In Math, we practiced our number recognition, counting and comparing skills as well as learning and saying the words more and less. The children really enjoyed the song about 5 little pumpkins. They showed great enthusiasm when playing the Peekaboo game using visuals to count how many dots they saw. This is called subitizing and helps us making connections.

Link to 5 Little Pumpkins song below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trDl36m9pgA

For our Unit of inquiry on “Relationships,” the children shared drawings and photos from their holidays and practices retelling all the wonderful things they got up to! Everyone did a wonderful job at being risk-takers and communications as they each shared their favourite family memories.

Zuri (3)

Vicky (1)

Summer (1)

Soma (1)

Sea (1)

Proud (2)

Netan) (2)

Kim (2)

Gawin (1)

Charkin (2)

Anya (1) (1)

2021-10-20 (1) (1)

2021-10-19 (25)

2021-10-19 (6)

2021-10-19 (1)

2021-10-19 (7)

2021-10-19 (6)

2021-10-18 Green 1

2021-10-18 EY1 Small green group call

2021-10-18 EY1 Small green group call (1)

Today all the children showed their support in raising awareness for PINKTOBER at our Fun Friday call. They were invited to wear an item of pink clothing or a breast cancer pink ribbon. We also went on a scavenger hunt around the house to find something PINK! 

We continued with our pumpkin themed fun by learning a new song about a dancing pumpkin, read a new story about a visit to the pumpkin patch and a popular friend in EY1 Mr Gerry took us on an adventure to find the BIGGEST pumpkin in the field! 

Grace (3)

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2021-10-21 (13)

2021-10-21 (8)

2021-10-21 (2)

2021-10-21 (1)

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To Note for the Upcoming Week:
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• Important Dates
• Chulalongkorn Day – October 25 – NO SCHOOL
• In remembrance of HM King Bhumibol’s Birthday – December 6 – NO SCHOOL
• Last day of Term 1  –  December 17
• December Break – December 20 – January 7 – NO SCHOOL

• Small Groups / Color Groups

• EY1 Weekly Schedule – Week of Oct. 18th – 22nd

• Resources to Prepare for Next Week’s Classes

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Parenting Corner
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Be sure to check out the school Counselor’s Blog as she provides some information on supporting student engagement for remote learning after the holiday break and also how parents can support their child as they return for in-school learning. 

Thank you for another fun week together, it was so nice seeing you all again! We missed you over the break!

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please email us at dinnhe.kr@kis.ac.th or sian.py@kis.ac.th.

See you all on Tuesday!
EY1 Team 😀

Dear EY1 Families,

Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely October break and were able to take some time to relax and spend time with family. We are looking forward to seeing you next week and hearing all about your holidays. In preparation for this, we just wanted to send a gentle reminder about the ‘Favourite Family Memory’ from your October on Seesaw. We will be sharing our holiday photos in small groups this week.

Best,
EY1 Team

🏴‍☠️Ahoy Matey!! What a fun week it has been in EY1 with all of our pirates!! The enthusiasm for the Art this week says it all!

Slideshow of the Pirate Artwork in EY1

art - sea

art - kin

art - zuri

art - vicky

art - summer

art - soma

Art - Ran 2

art - proud

art - netan

Art - kim

art - grace

Art - gawin

Art - Etta

art - elsa

art - elle

art - ella

art - charkin

2021-10-05 Art B - 2

2021-10-05 Art B - 1

2021-10-05 Art A - 2

2021-10-05 Art A - 1

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This Week’s Learning:
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Even as pirates, we carried on with our learning this week! In Math, we went on a buried shapes hunt and continued to practice our counting skills with all the treasures we found. 

In Language, we practiced making and listening for the /p/ sound like in “pirate” and forming the letter P with playdough. In the process, the children got to practice their small motor skills too. 

For our Unit of inquiry on “Relationships,” we learned about some people we would meet at school, other than teachers and classmates. We are grateful to our special guests, who “visited” our EY1 classroom via videos. After their visits, some children had the following “wonderings.”

In Fun Friday, it was Pirate Day! The children got to show off their pirate gear and artwork that they had made in Art this week. We had a pirate song, a story and even a treasure hunt!! It’s confirmed!! EY1’s do make great pirates!

Story: Pirates Love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
Song: How to Be A Pirate

Slideshow with Photos of This Week’s Learning & Fun

2021-10-05 yellow - ella

uoi - special guests

2021-10-08 Fun Friday 6

2021-10-08 Fun Friday 5

2021-10-08 Fun Friday 4

2021-10-08 Fun Friday 3

2021-10-08 Fun Friday 2

2021-10-08 Fun Friday 1

2021-10-08 Fun Friday - Vicky

2021-10-08 Fun Friday - Soma

2021-10-08 Fun Friday - Smile 2

2021-10-08 Fun Friday - Proud

2021-10-07 yellow - ty

2021-10-07 Blue - I am wondering

2021-10-06 Smile PE Class A

2021-10-06 orange

2021-10-06 green

2021-10-05 yellow 1

2021-10-05 yellow - ty

2021-10-05 yellow - elsa

2021-10-05 Red 1

2021-10-05 Grey 2

2021-10-05 Grey 1

2021-10-05 Blue 1

PE, Music, Library and Storytime were no exceptions. The children were not only challenged to be active and creative but they were also challenged to be a risk-taker with their learning.

 
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To Note for the Upcoming Week:
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• Important Dates

• Pinktober – Month of October! See KISPA’s letter for more details of events, etc.
• October Break – October 11-15 – NO SCHOOL
• School Begins Again – October 18
• Chulalongkorn Day – October 25 – NO SCHOOL
• In remembrance of HM King Bhumibol’s Birthday – December 6 – NO SCHOOL
• Last day of Term 1  –  December 17
• December Break – December 20 – January 7 – NO SCHOOL

• EY1 Weekly Schedule – Week of Oct. 18th – 22nd
• Small Groups / Color Groups
  
  

• Resources to Prepare for Next Week’s Classes
  

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Parenting Corner
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To help our child become more emotionally intelligent, it begins with us understanding what emotions means. Have a look at the article, “7 Amazing Facts About Emotions That You Should Know.” Did you know that emotions can be “contagious” and that we can “catch” other people’s emotions? Imagine what this can mean for our children!

[7 Amazing Facts About Emotions That You Should Know]

The Three Essential Facts About Feelings is a short video clip that has some interesting information too.


[8 Basic Emotions Link ]

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Thank you for nine amazing weeks together. Your partnership has really made all the difference! Enjoy the upcoming break from school routines. Have so much fun creating special memories together during this time, whether it is just sitting down to read a book together or taking a family trip.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please email us at dinnhe.kr@kis.ac.th or sian.py@kis.ac.th.

EY1 Team 😀

Dear EY1 community,

Can you believe we have already completed 8 weeks of school? Time really does fly when you’re having fun! It’s been a magical ‘unicorn’ themed week in EY1 and we’ve had lots of fun together. 

This weeks Learning

This week we continued with our UOI on relationships. We have been learning about each other and our families and now we want to look at relationships within our school community. For many of our EY1 students this is their first ‘school experience’ and the concept of school might be unnerving for them to understand at this point in time. So we inquired into ‘What is school’?

2021-09-28 Summer 1

2021-09-28 Sea 2

2021-09-28 Proud 2

2021-09-28 Etta 1

2021-09-27 Zuri Small purple group call

2021-09-27 Zuri Small purple group call (1)

2021-09-27 Vicky Small green group call

2021-09-27 Soma Small green group call

2021-09-27 Smile Small orange group call

2021-09-27 Netan Small orange group call

2021-09-27 Netan Small orange group call (1)

2021-09-27 Kim Small purple group call

2021-09-27 Green

2021-09-27 Grace Small orange group call

2021-09-27 Elle Small green group call

2021-09-27 Charkin Small purple group call

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We began tuning in by observing a photo of the KIS PYP building. The children were great thinkers and risk takers as they shared their connections with the group.  We also explored some photos of our EY1 classroom looking at what the previous EY1 children are learning and playing, what they are wearing such as the different school uniforms and most importantly all the fun they were having in the PLAYGROUND!

The children were also invited to engage in an asynchronous activity on Seesaw where they needed to create a self portrait piece. We introduced the idea in small groups by first looking at a picture of a face (made of buttons and other craft materials) and asked the children to share their thoughts. The children made some great connections as we explored our similarities and differences such as hair colour, do we all have the same or is it different? We also counted out how many eyes we have, ears, nose and mouth. We then made our own faces with playdough together, Then the children were encouraged to check out the activity and draw their portraits independently with the support oftheir parents.

We responded to the story ‘Does a Panda go to school’ and began to make connections and comparisons as to how people and animals can learn and why the animals do not join children in going to school. Next week we will talk about our school community and how we connected to other people within that. We will be interviewing a few very important people within the school community and learning a little more about them.  We also learned a new goodbye song this week. “Zoom zoom zoom,” which the children really enjoyed!

Unicorn Art & Fun Friday!

This week the children were invited to make unicorn horns with Ms Noi in Art class. They were super proud of their wonderful creations and were excited to share these with their teachers and friends during our small group calls. For Fun Friday this week we decided to have a unicorn party and dress in unicorn clothing and our horns, play a Unicorn game and learn a new unicorn dance. 

2021-10-01 Vicky (1)

2021-10-01 Soma

2021-10-01 Proud

2021-10-01 Gawin (2)

2021-10-01 (11)

2021-10-01 (9)

2021-10-01 (5)

2021-10-01 (1)

2021-09-28 Summer 1

2021-09-28 Sea 2

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Story: The Unicorn and the Horse

Song: Koo Koo Kanga Roo – Unicorns R Real (Dance-A-Long)

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Parenting Corner
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How to help our children to be good at making choices? Let’s look at the phrase, ‘Be careful!’ As parents and educators, we find ourselves using this phrase too often with our children even though we know taking calculated risks and engaging is risky play is beneficial to their overall development. It is important to remember to use meaningful language to help them navigate a risky choice rather than dissuade them from trying it.

See below some great alternatives for the words ‘Be careful’.

Please visit the Counselor’s Blog for helpful information from Ms. Alex on how to talk to your child about school.

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To Note for the Upcoming Week:
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Important Dates

• October Break –  Mon. Oct. 11th – Fri. Oct. 15th (NO SCHOOL)
• Chulalongkorn Day –  Mon. 25th Oct. (NO SCHOOL)
• In remembrance of HM King Bhumibol’s Birthday  –  Mon. 6th Dec. (NO SCHOOL)
• Last day of Term 1  –  Fri. 17th Dec.
• December Break –  Mon. 20th Dec. – Fri. 7th Jan. (NO SCHOOL)

Congratulations EY1 for completing another busy week of FUN and LEARNING!

Conferences – Thank you to all the parents for making time to meet with us for our Parent-Teacher Conferences! It was a great opportunity to check in with you to see how it has been going and what your hopes and wishes are for your child for their EY1 year. Your feedback and insight are invaluable. We really appreciate your partnership and continued support.

House Day – We hope the children enjoyed the special House Day filled with amazing activities as well as the opportunity to meet other teachers. It’s so great to see them in their House shirts and having fun! THANK YOU to all the teachers who helped organize and run the day’s events!

tosakan

tosakan - thai

tosakan - art

naga - vicky

naga - thai 2

naga - thai

naga - art

haunaman - zuri

hanuman - thai

hanuman - art

erawan - thai

erawan - proud

erawan - art

International Peace Day – Sept. 21 – We hope the children enjoyed learning a little about Peace Day through the stories and activity of making a crane. Some children shared with us that “Peace is like playing with my little brother,” and “Peace is having my Mom with me.”

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This Week’s Learning
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We continued to explore the types and names of different relationships in families in our unit of inquiry. The children enjoyed making up their pretend animal families too. In Math, we practiced the concept of big and small as well as the language of “bigger” and “smaller.” In PE, the children practiced and refined their movement skills and coordination. Music class was a lot fun learning about the beat in music. 

ty

soma 2

smile 2

proud

PE

netan

Music

kim

grace

gawin

etta

elsa

elle

ella

charkin

- small group

- small group 2

- small group 1

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To Note for the Upcoming Week
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• Small Groups / Color Groups
  There are slight changes to the small group members for next week. Please have a look to see the group your child is in and let us know if there are any concerns.
  
  
  

• EY1 Weekly Schedule – Week of Sep. 27th – Oct. 1st
  Below is what next week’s schedule will look like.
  
  
  
• Resources to Prepare for Next Week’s Classes
  
  

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Parenting Corner
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Last but not least, we would like to share with you the learning intentions behind the Morning Check-ins on Seesaw. In addition to helping us see who’s checked in, the activity helps our students develop other skills too. Have a look at the image below. Thank you for your continued support with that. You can extend their learning by having discussions about feelings at home too.

Thank you for another AMAZING week! We truly cannot do it without your support!! As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please email us at dinnhe.kr@kis.ac.th or sian.py@kis.ac.th.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the special time with your family!

EY1 Team 😀

Dear EY1 community,

Although it was a short but sweet week, we still managed to have lots of fun together. We continued to inquire into our current UOI ‘‘Relationships” by getting to know each other a little better. This week the children were encouraged to be risk-takers by teaching their teachers and friends how to greet others in their home language. We also shared some of our favourite things such as food, toys and animals and discussed who had similar interests and likes within the class community. 

2021-09-15 (80)

2021-09-14 Ty (4)

2021-09-14 Summer (1)

2021-09-14 Sea (2)

2021-09-14 Proud (2)

2021-09-14 Netan (1)

2021-09-14 Kim (1)

2021-09-14 Elsa (3)

2021-09-14 Ella (8)

2021-09-13 Zuri Small group calls

2021-09-13 Vicky Small group calls

2021-09-13 Soma Small group calls

2021-09-13 Smile Small grou calls

2021-09-13 Grace Small group calls

2021-09-13 Etta Small group calls

2021-09-13 Elle Small group calls

2021-09-13 Charkin Small group calls

We had a lovely time celebrating ‘Dot Day’ on Wednesday! The children all looked fantastic in their dot clothing and we had lots of fun playing games using our dots from our home learning packs, reading ‘The Dot’ story book and then creating our own marks/dots and sharing them on Seesaw. 

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To Note for the Upcoming Week:
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• Important Dates:

Friday, Sep. 24th – Parent Teacher Conferences 

You should have received an email from your homeroom teacher with information on the parent teacher conferences and the sign up sheet. Please let us know if you are unable to meet on this day. We can then organise another time that suits you.

• Small Groups

Thank you again for filling in the parent survey. We now have a good indication for what works best for your child and family schedule. 

• EY1 Remote Learning Schedule – Week of Sept 20th – 24th

• Resources needed for next week

Thank you for another great week of learning and fun! We really appreciate all your support!! As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please email us at dinnhe.kr@kis.ac.th or sian.py@kis.ac.th.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the long weekend with your family!

EY1 Team 😀

Dear EY1 community,

Yay! We made it through another week of fun and learning EY1 and our children are getting to know each other more and more. With your continued support, they are learning the names of their classmates and greeting them by name! So much to celebrate!

This Week’s Updates:

• EY1 Back-to-School Meeting
  Thank you for attending the Back-to-School Meeting. Congratulations!! We had 100% in attendance!! We don’t believe that’s ever happened in our teaching career. That just shows how dedicated and engaged you are as parents!! Like we said before, THANK YOU FOR YOUR AMAZING SUPPORT!! In case you need it, links are below.

• Link to presentation document
• Link to recording of the meeting

• International Literacy Day – Sep. 8
  EY1 celebrated International LIteracy Day by enjoying stories and sharing a favorite story of our own.
  

7 my favorite book - EY! 2021-2022

6 my favorite book - EY! 2021-2022

5 my favorite book - EY! 2021-2022

4 my favorite book - EY! 2021-2022

3 my favorite book - EY! 2021-2022

2 my favorite book - EY! 2021-2022

1 my favorite book - EY! 2021-2022

• Small Group Calls
  During small group calls, we continued to learn the names of different shapes, played hide-and-seek with Mr. Worm as well as learning the color names in one of our favorite stories, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See by Bill Martin Jr & Eric Carle.

Small group - Brown Bear

2021-09-08 Charkin Green Small group

2021-09-07 yellow

2021-09-07 Ty - yellow

2021-09-07 Netan - blue

2021-09-07 Kim - red

2021-09-07 Ella - yellow

2021-09-06 purple

2021-09-06 orange

• Unit of Inquire (UOI)
  Our current UOI focuses on “Relationships” and the different types of relationships we have in our community. The students began by exploring the people in our family. Have a look at the families in EY1.

[ Click on LINK HERE to see the book. ]

• Art Fun – Shapes Pizza
  The children had a lot of fun using different shapes to make their “pizza.” Many were so proud to share photos of their creation!

pizza 1

pizza 2

pizza 3

pizza 4

Art with Ms. Ran - shapes pizza 1

Art with Ms. Ran - shapes pizza 2

• PE, Music, Library and Storytime Fun
  Whether it’s enjoying stories, singing songs or moving around, our EY1 students had fun with our specialist teachers.
  
  Be sure to check out the link to today’s Library Time with Ms. Lindsay in case you’ve missed it. It can be found in our EY1 Recorded Classes Folder, which has links to other classes too. Those links have been emailed to you.
  
  

• Fun Friday
  For Fun Friday this week, we all wore clothes in our favorite color. We were able to make connections with the friends who had the same favorite colours. We celebrated by singing The Color Song and enjoyed the song version of the story, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See, by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle.
  
  Click to hear the song again:
  Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See, sang by David Glenn

The Color Song - TeachingMama.org - Updated copy

EY1 Fun Friday

2021-09-10Summer

2021-09-10 Zuri (1)

2021-09-10 Vicky

2021-09-10 Smile

2021-09-10 Proud

2021-09-10 Kim

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To Note for the Upcoming Week:
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• Important Dates❗️
  • Thursday, Sep. 16th – Professional Development Day for Teachers
    No School for Students
    
    
  • Friday, Sep. 17th – KIS September Break
    Holiday, No Classes

• Small Groups / Color Groups
  Thank you to all the parents who shared feedback with us by completing the survey. This has really helped us to plan accordingly for what’s best for our EY1 students. Please see below for next week’s small groups.
  
  

• EY1 Weekly Schedule – Week of Sep. 13th – 15th
  Below is what next week’s schedule will look like. (Link to the schedule was email to you in Sep. 10’s EY1 Parent Email)
• Resources to Prepare for Next Week’s Classes (also on page 2 of EY1 Weekly Schedule)
  
  

Thank you for another AMAZING week! We truly cannot do it without your support!! As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please email us at dinnhe.kr@kis.ac.th or sian.py@kis.ac.th.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the special time with your family!

EY1 Team 😀

Dear EY1 community,

Thank you for another wonderful week of learning in EY1! Our class community is continuing to grow as the children meet new friends each week and build those important relationships. With your continued support, the children are learning each other’s names and some of our class songs and routines quickly.

This Week’s Updates:

Small Group Calls
We continued our greetings by saying hellos to friends and telling friends our names. We also learnt a new hello song Hi-Ho DERRY-O and practised the action of celebrating our friends with Hurray!

• All About Shapes!
  We all had fun meeting our shape friends this week and learning their songs. We also read a story that took us on a deep sea adventure in Hawaii identifying all the different shapes on the ocean animals.
  
  
  

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  2021-08-31 Yellow (7)

  

  2021-08-31Blue (2)

  

  2021-09-01 Green 1

• Fun with Mr Max, Mr Chris and Ms Lindsay in specialists classes
  We had lots of fun this week moving our bodies in PE, singing along in music and reading stories and singing more songs in library time.
  
  
  

  2021-08-30 PE class A (1)

  

  2021-09-02Music Class A (2)

  

  2021-08-30 PE class B (3)

  

  2021-09-02Music Class B (4)

• Fun Friday
  For Fun Friday this week, we had a great time on our Shape Scavenger Hunt looking for objects around the house in the shape of a rectangle, square, triangle and circle. Well done EY1 friends for finding all the shapes in time! Please find the link to the Shape Dance below:

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6Ge0FzHG0

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2021-09-03 Proud

2021-09-03 Sea

2021-09-03 Etta

2021-09-03 Ella

2021-09-03 Charkin

2021-09-03 Summer

2021-09-03 Grace 1

2021-09-03 Kim 2

2021-09-03 Gawin

2021-09-03 Soma

2021-09-03 Vicky

2021-09-03 Smile

To Note for the Upcoming Week:

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Class A / Class B
Thank you for sending in the photos for our class boards. We now have everyones and it looks great! We will be continuing with our split classes of A and B for specialist calls. The times and links can be found on the EY1 Weekly Schedule.

Small Groups / Color Groups
Please locate your child’s name in the groups below. They will follow the schedule for small calls for the color of the group they are in for the upcoming week.

EY1 Weekly Schedule – Week of Sep. 6th – Sep. 10th
Below is what next week’s schedule will look like. It is very similar to last week’s, however, we will be introducing EY1 Art on Tuesday morning’. It is also in the parent email that was sent Friday afternoon.

PE Resources to Prepare for Next Week’s Classes

Resources Needed:

• 2 stuffed dolls / toys
• paper tape for marking on the floor
• a plastic bag or balloon  for throwing and catching
• 4 sheets of A4 paper 
• 1 basket

Important Dates:

EY1 Coffee Meeting – Monday, 6 September from 2:00pm-2:30pm Bangkok time.

Below is the agenda for our meeting:

• An overview of the units of inquiry that we will cover this year
• Some routines to establish at home to help EY1 students to be successful
• Check-in, Questions, Concerns & Feedback

This meeting is for parents. Children do not need to attend. 

Here is the link for joining the meeting on Monday, 6 Sept. at 2:00pm.

Thursday September 16th: Professional Development Day – no classes for students

Friday September 17th: September Break – holiday, no class

Thank you for all your amazing support so far. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, you can email us at dinnhe.kr@kis.ac.th or sian.py@kis.ac.th 

Dear EY1 Children and Families,

Well done to all on another week of learning and fun!! We appreciate your enthusiasm and engagement. As teachers, it is very rewarding to see the smiles on the children’s faces as they have fun while learning.

This Week’s Updates:

• Small Group Calls
  We reviewed and practiced our greetings by saying hellos to friends and telling friends our names. We also practiced saying goodbye at the end of our small group calls.
  
  Hide-and-Seek with Mr. Worm & Alphabet Action
  We all had fun meeting Mr. Worm this week and playing the hide-and-seek game to practice our basic colors and numbers 1-5. We hope Mr. Worm will visit and play with us again in EY1. We also began to learn the first letter in our name and some fun actions for those letters.

Yellow 8:23_4 copy

Yellow 8:23_2 copy

Purple - Summer 8:24 3 copy

Purple - Soma 8:24 2 copy

Orange 8:24 2 copy

Orange - Elle 8:24 1 copy

Green - Netan 8:24 2 copy

2020-08-25 Red - Smile copy

2020-08-25 Red - Kim copy

Blue 8:25_3 copy

Green - Charkin 8:24 1 copy

2021-08-23 Blue - Proud

• Fun with Dance and Movement, Music and Library
  We were lucky to have Ms. Lynn joined us for another special class of Dance and Movement this week. From next week, we will be back to our PE and movement classes with Mr. Max. Thank you Ms Lynn!! We also enjoyed Music with Mr. Chris and Library with Ms. Lindsay!
  
  
  

  EY1 Story Time

  

  Library with Ms. Lindsay

  

  Music with Mr. Chris

  

  Dance & Movement with Ms. Lynn

• Make A Letters Lego Center at Home to Practice Your Name

• Fun Friday
  Our first Fun Friday was also our first KIS House Day! It was great to see all the children in very colorful clothing and wearing their house colors. We also had fun with our Scavenger Hunt for the house colors. Can you spot the different house colors in the photos below?
  
  

_2021-08-27 Fun Friday 5

2021-08-27 Fun Friday 1 (1)

2021-08-27 Fun Friday 2 (1)

2021-08-27 Fun Friday 2 copy

2021-08-27 Fun Friday 3 copy

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To Note for the Upcoming Week:
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• Class A / Class B
  Please take a moment to note which class your child is in. From next week, they will be split into PE A and PE B classes as well as Music A and Music B classes. The times and links can be found on the EY1 Weekly Schedule.
  
  
  

• Small Groups / Color Groups
  Please locate your child’s name in the groups below. They will follow the schedule for small calls for the color of the group they are in for the upcoming week.

•  EY1 Weekly Schedule – Week of Aug. 30 – Sep. 3
  Below is what next week’s schedule will look like. It is the same link as previous weeks. It is also in the parent email that was sent Friday afternoon.

• PE Resources to Prepare for Next Week’s Classes

• Parent Tutorials
  For the upcoming week, we are going to ask students to do our Daily Check-in in the morning on Seesaw. The check-in activity will be posted every morning at 7:50am. Students can check in anytime after that time. We recommend that the earlier they check in, the better.
  
  View the EY1 Morning Check-in Parent Tutorial if you would like to have a look on how to do it beforehand. It’s quite easy. Thank you for all your support!!
  
  Here’s the link to the Parent Tutorials Folder 🗂 in case you’ve missed the previously posted links on the schedule or you would like to review something again. It might be helpful to bookmark it for future reference.

• Recorded Specialist Classes
  Here’s the link to the Recorded Specialist Folder 🗂 in case your child has missed the class or they just want to do that class again. It might be helpful to bookmark it for future reference.

• Seesaw Family App
  A link to join the EY1 Seesaw through the Family App was sent to you in the parent email date Friday, 27 August. Please look for it there and click on it to join.
  
  Watch this video to learn how to sign up for Seesaw for families.
  
  

• Parent Resource: Developing Independence in the Early Years
  Click on the image below to read the short article.
  
  🔗Link

Thank you for another great week in EY1! We are getting to know the children more and more and are looking forward to the day when we will be able to see and play with them in person.

If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to email us dinnhe.kr@kis.ac.th or sian.py@kis.ac.th.

All the best,
EY1 Team

Dear EY1 Families,

It has been lovely spending time with you all in our small group calls this week. While this start to the school year was not what we had anticipated, we are extremely thankful for all for your efforts this week. Our main goal over the next few weeks is to make this a positive experience and a smooth transition to life at KIS for our little ones.

We had  lots of fun in our small group calls this week playing games, singing songs and getting to know each other. They children were engaged, they listened, watched and joined in for the parts they felt comfortable to do so. It was with your gentle support and guidance that made these first group calls such a huge success and all the children did so well!

Although remote learning is not ideal for most children, especially for the children in our age group, there is still so much to be gained. As parents, you have been modeling to your children how to deal with situations that are not ideal by handling them with positivity and choosing to make the best of them. These life skills are so valuable and are often not so easy to teach. WELL DONE, PARENTS!

While remote learning is not what we (parents and teachers) have signed up for, looking on the bright side of things, there are still so much to be gained for our young children, especially when our understanding is that this is only a temporary situation.

Benefits include:

• Becoming familiar with our teachers and EY1 peers and building those important relationships within our EY1 community
• Learning new songs and games from the EY1 program that the children will then know when we start on campus
• Online skills – Sooner or later, our children will need to learn these skills to be successful adults in the world we live in today. Though the timing for them to learn these skills is not ideal, we have the opportunity to guide them and to teach them about finding the right balance

We hope you enjoyed this week as much as we did. Here are some photos from this weeks’ online engagements:

Charkin

Proud

Summer

Kim - green 1 (3)

Charkin

Ty

Gawin - Blue 1

Soma - Blue 1 (1)

Vicky - Blue 1 (2)

Etta - Red 1 (2)

Netan - Red (1)

Elle - green 1

Grace - green 1

Sea - purple 1

Zuri - purple 1 (1)

Ms Noi and Ms Ran really enjoyed meeting you all this week as well as all the specialist teachers! We had lots of fun dancing with Ms Lynn and Mr Max on Wednesday. We learned some new songs with Mr Chris on Thursday and listened to some wonderful stories with Ms Lindsay on Friday!

Dance and Movement

DANCE AND MOVEMENT 1

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Looking ahead…. Schedule and reminders for next week:

EY1 Weekly Schedule – A copy of the EY1 Weekly Schedule for week of 23rd-27th August (like the one below) has been emailed to you. Please refer to that document for all the active links to access the calls and classes. The image below is just for reference so that the links remain accessible only to our EY1 community.

*We have kept the timings of the small group calls similar to last week with a few minor changes. There will now be small group calls on Monday instead of Friday and a special group call for our FUN FRIDAY/HOUSE DAY activity. You will also notice we have swapped the grouping of the children so that you all have opportunities to meet some new friends and their families. Please check carefully for your child’s name as their group colour might have changed. 

*If you have not yet had the opportunity to sign in and join our class Seesaw, it would be great if you could give this a try over the weekend. We have posted an activity for you to practice uploading a photo.

If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to email us dinnhe.kr@kis.ac.th or sian.py@kis.ac.th 

Have a lovely weekend

EY1 Team