G1 update 1st October

Term 1 Week 9 4th- 8th October

Parent Helpdesk

Due to a low need for the weekly parent help desk on Monday we will suspend the meetings until there are changes to our learning environment. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your classroom teacher directly.

Passion Time & Story Time Changes

Passion time will now be scheduled for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at 1.45pm

Storytime will be on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 2.15pm

Inquiry

This week students will continue to tune into ‘The Natural World’. They will be sourcing Artifacts, identifying areas of interest and asked to pose questions that will support us to explore student areas of interest.

Maths

We will continue to explore measurement using inquiry, by asking questions, observing and sharing the children’s own ideas about how to measure in a way of their choice. We will also explore subtraction, as well as using addition and subtraction to solve problems. We are encouraging students to be risk-takers and share thinking and ideas and explain rather than be correct.

Language

In reading we will be looking at finding facts in our reading and in writing continuing to look at fact and fiction. This concept of facts and fiction can be very difficult sometimes as there are often ‘grey’ areas. We have introduced Literacy Planet to offer additional learning opportunities in language development.

Groups

CHANGE: G1A Wednesday reading groups – Fire 12 PM Air 12:40 PM

G1 Weekly Plan W9 T1 October 4 2021

Grade 1 Timetable Links (Parents) (1)

This week in G1

We are tuning into our new unit about observing change in the natural world by thinking baout what the natural world is. That was the initial quesiton for this unit about how the world works. On Thursday we went looked around our homes to see where the natural world is visible.

We wrote our non fiction factual writing this week and started to create an introduction page. Here is a very small sample of our writing.

In maths we were inquiring into what measurement is and collecting artifacts around our houses. Here is one post that shows this:

It has been a fulfilling week in which we have seen our students asks questions, take risks in developing their own learning by theorising what they think they understand and thinking about thinking.

We are proud of our community’s commitment to each other to grow and change together. We thank our families for their continual support and flexibility.

Have a wonderful weekend.

The G1 Team

Ms. Lisa, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Danny, Ms. Nong, Ms. Cha, Ms. Ploy and Ms. Helen

Upcoming dates to remember

October KISPA Pinktober

Monday 11th – Friday 15th October: October Break

Monday 25th October: Chulalongkorn Day  (school and office closed)

4th November KISPA Diwali