On Wednesday we were lucky enough to meet Scott Riley, the author of The Floating Field for Global Read Aloud Day. This wonderful story had a special connection to us all as it is a true story from the south of Thailand.
If you would like to pre-order the book for your family, please sign up on the form below. The cost is 990 baht.
Communication with our community
We are continuing to send an information email presently, and the same information, along with photos and shared work can be found here. Important updates are sent directly by Mr. Paul or Ms. June. Emails from the Grade relate more to the learning of your child and in Grade 1. If you have any queries regarding information sent, please contact us for clarification. We do try to keep emails to a minimum to help our community organise itself easily.
Ms. Helen helen.mc@kis.ac.th
Ms. Lisa lisa.di@kis.ac.th
Mr. Ashley ashley.ke@kis.ac.th
Grade Home Reading
Just to clarify the home reading process in Grade 1. All home reading books are sent home in individual student reading folders. Please make sure you always return books to school inside the folders. This helps us to keep books safe.
Monday
Library books and Oxford Reading Tree (ORT) books are sent home for the week. We ask that students try to explore books for at least 15 minutes per day. This is a great opportunity for parents to read with your child and enjoy books together.
Friday
All home reading books need to be returned to school. If students don’t return books on Friday it is difficult for the new books to be ready for the next week. So we appreciate your help in this process.
Chinese New Year
The school-wide celebration will take place on Tuesday February 1st, when students are encouraged to wear red clothes or special clothes for New Year. Today’s celebrations are a part of student planning in G1 which we have supported the students in planning.
Maths
It is the 100th day of school on Monday. We will use this day to step off into counting large collections of objects using our own methods for accuracy – applying patterns and grouping. An important part of this will be exploring how we choose our method and why it helps us.
Literacy
We will explore poetry further and look at how to write poems using our senses – what we can see, hear, taste, smell and touch. Poetry is a form of expression and we will delve into the big question of WHY we read and write poetry.
Inquiry
This week, students will be inquiring into our first line of inquiry ‘Why do we express ourselves?’ This will support the students to gain more insights into the concept of self-expression.
G1 Weekly Plan W4 T2 January 31 2022
This week in G1
Here is a snapshot of what has been happening in G1 recently.
Our modelling centre has become busy with students interacting and sharing their creativity.
In Maths we continued patterns and blended them in to our Self Expression unit and our intentions to be inclusive and caring by learning about Lunar New Year. Here is a student creating patterns for a dance for New Year.
In Literacy we looked at poems and responded to them, sharing whether we connected to the words or the feelings or illustrations. We also had a try at writing our first poems in G1.
For inquiry, we are continuing to tune in to the expression unit and have been considering what self -expression is. On Friday we tried to make a statement about what we understand now.
We had our first House Shirt Day of the year, that included bot the students in campus and our friends at home.
Upcoming dates
February 1st Chinese New Year Primary School celebration
February 10th Remote learning day with morning meeting and asynchronous activities.
Week of 7th February Maths Week in Primary School
14th – 18th February Mid-term Break
21st February School reopens
Chinese New Year
We will celebrate on Friday 29th January. We would love to hear stories, arts, crafts and traditions you have with your family and can organise a Zoom meeting with the Grade if you would like to share a book with us in Chinese or English about the celebration. Please contact us as we would love to share this with you and the grade.
During the day we will hold a small food celebration. If you are able to, send some Chinese food, we would love to share with our students. Please make sure they are small individual portions (COVID protocols). On that day, we will wear red or special outfits to reflect New Year – it is a non-uniform day.
Remote Learning Days
KIS staff will be receiving their booster COVID vaccine. Learning will all be online on these days.
Tuesday 25th January – Wednesday 26th January
Thursday 10th February
A small learning pack has been sent home for inquiries on those days. Please return the reading books on Friday to be exchanged.
Inquiry
This week we will begin our new inquiry ‘How we Express Ourselves’. This will see the students tuning into what they already know about self-expression and exploring what they would like to know, or think. We will be also asking students to select a photo of them participating in one of their passions, and we will be asking students to select an Artefact to bring into school.
For Language ,we will explore poetry and how fonts and colours can impact how we read something. If you have a favourite poem, please share with us as I am sure the children will enjoy it as well.
In Maths, we will describe and define patterns, as well as continue and create and solve problems in patterns. SOme pattern work will be linked to our New Year celebrations.
Three-Way Conferences
Three-way conferences will be held week 4 (Week of January 31). More details will follow including sign-up and the format of the discussions.
Reading Books
The book bag will be sent home every Monday and is to be returned every Friday. Included in the bag next week will be two library books and two ORT reading books at your child’s reading level. Library books will often need adult support to read as students select these independently. ORT books will be more independent but can still be used to read together with parents at comfortable reading times.
Remote Learning
We understand that students will at times need to be online due to close contacts or exposure. Please let your class teacher know as soon as possible if you have concerns so that we can continue to support your child. The day in Remote Learning will be:
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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7.50am Thai Meeting 8.10am G1 Meeting (Same Zoom) |
7.50am G1 Meeting |
7.50am G1 Meeting |
7.50am G1 Meeting |
7.50am G1 Meeting |
There will be a daily Zoom at 7.50 with the Grade 1 teacher to review learning and answer any questions the students may have.
Week 3: Ms Helen
All learning engagements will be posted in Seesaw. Students are expected to complete the task that day and tasks will be removed the next day.
Grade 1 School day times
Just a quick reminder that Grade 1 begins at 7.40am and finishes at 2.10pm. Our students will be ready for collection at 2.05pm to assist with traffic around the school.
Student Council in G1
The students are excited about New Year and have suggested activities and decorations that we have incorporated into learning engagements and centres for next week. The students are expressing their viewpoints and asking for help to enable engagements that they find exciting.
Regards
Grade 1 Team
Our first week at school has been successful. It has been 41 weeks since we had students on campus on a Wednesday. It’s crazy to think how long our students have adapted to constantly changing learning environments. Please note that Grade 1 begins the day at 7.40am and should be collected at 2.10pm.
In Language we will begin to look at creative expression and poetry. Our focus will be how colours and fonts change the way we read and write poems.
In Inquiry as a way of finishing off our inquiry into Mindset, we will be exploring the concept of “YET” and how this connects to personal growth and setting personal goals/challenges.
In Maths, we will start to explore patterns and work towards building our own definition of what a pattern is. This will include more than one area of math – colour, data, number, shape etc. We will be encouraging the students to develop their own ideas and explain why they think what they do. The inquiries do not lead to a ‘right’ answer and may take more than one day to complete.
G1 Weekly Plan W2 T2 January 17 2022
Reading Books
The book bag will be sent home every Monday and is to be returned every Friday. Included in the bag next week will be two library books and two ORT reading books at your child’s reading level. Library books will often need adult support to read as students select these independently. ORT books will be more independent but can still be used to read together with parents at comfortable reading times.
Remote Learning
We understand that students will at times need to be online due to close contacts or exposure. Please let your class teacher know as soon as possible if you have concerns so that we can continue to support your child. The day in Remote Learning will be:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 7.50am Thai Meeting
8.10am G1 Meeting (Same Zoom) |
7.50am G1 Meeting | 7.50am G1 Meeting | 7.50am G1 Meeting | 7.50am G1 Meeting |
Week 2: Mr Ashley
Week 3: Ms Helen
Just a quick reminder to send water bottles every day and spare masks in the backpacks.
This week in G1
We have focussed on developing our Essential Agreement for the start of being in school together as a whole grade once again. We will reflect and add to the agreement as the year goes on as we grow and change and adapt to different circumstances.
Our first published writing about our passions has been shared in our central area so that the students and visitors can learn about who we are as individuals.
In Maths we have been exploring numbers and skip counting and looking to see what interests us on a number grid.
Most importantly, we have been developing friendships and learning to share our space comfortably and happily.
Upcoming Dates
12th January – Whole School Faculty Meeting
Week of January 31st – Three Way Conferences
2nd February – Global School Day of Play
Week Beginning 7th February Maths Week
Feb 14th-18th February Break (no class)
What an amazing journey we have been on together in our five months as G1. We have successfully met every challenge we have faced and drawn together as a community to move forward together. We thank staff, students and families for everything they have done to help us thrive in all the circumstances we have faced.
This week has been about celebration. Here we are celebrating the end of the year this week.
Below is the link to the schoolwide celebration of learning and passion in KIS.
Best wishes from us all. See you in 2022.
January 10th – First day of Term 2
Feb 14th-18th February Break (no class)
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SEND IN INDIVIDUALLY PORTIONED OR WRAPPED ITEMS FOR SAFETY. (No shared dishes)
We will be celebrating the end of term twice this year – Tuesday 14th December and Friday 17th December so that both hybrid groups get to enjoy a small celebration. Here is the signup for food and drinks. Please remember to adjust the portion size of the food/ drinks you send in for the parties. Tuesday is 15 students and Friday is 15 students.
2021 Holiday Gift Giving Poster.pptx
See the above link for details of our annual donation to communities in Bangkok.
We will be practising writing using a plan and in reading we will continue learning letter sound combinations and fluency in reading groups.
We will continue to reflect on interests and passions while connecting these to personal growth and the process of identifying and developing goals.
In maths, we will review months for the end of the year and also create data using the months based on our own experience and a brief review of counting.
G1 Weekly Plan W18 T1 December 13 2021
This week in G1
We are thinking about character in literacy work and are starting to describe characters by appearance and internal emotions as well as actions.
In inquiry, we are thinking about our own passions but have also interviewed our family members to learn about their passions and interests too. In this way we keep all our community included and learn more about each other, appreciating and valuing our similarities and differences and celebrating ourselves. as well as the core values of KIS.
January 10th – First day of Term 2
Feb 14th-18th February Break (no class)
We will be celebrating the end of term twice this year – Tuesday 14th December and Friday 17th December so that both hybrid groups get to enjoy a small celebration. Here is the signup for food and drinks.
We will consolidate the previous weeks’ work by reading data and answering questions from information presented. There will also be a review of data management in IXL.
In writing we are looking at characters – what they look like on the outside and who they are on the inside and words we can use to describe what we have read about characters and use in our writing.
We will continue to explore Personal Growth through student’s Passions and Interests. This will focus on individual Talents/Skills/Interests and to inspire others to develop and target their own personal growth.
G1 Weekly Plan W17 T1 December 6 2021
– Google Docs G1 W17 T1 Week 17 Resources
Grade 1 Timetable Links (Parents) W16
Whether at home, or at school, we are always a community.
Happy Father’s Day
Importantly, we wish ALL our fathers, those departed and those near and far a HAPPY FATHER’S DAY. To the fathers of G1 students, we thank you for your support throughout this difficult year and appreciate all you do and have done for us.
6th December In remembrance of HM King Bhumibol’s Birthday (school and office closed)
17th December last day of Term 1
20th December – 7th January. End of Term 1 Break
10th January – First day of Term 2
This week in G1
We have been considering how we can use Kelso’s choices as guides to help us be inclusive and create a safe and caring community for each other. What would you do if you saw a new community member sitting alone? Here are some responses from students in G1.
In Maths, we have been choosing ways to share data. Here are some examples of how student shared information about KIS house groups.
In Literacy, one of our regular practices is to sort words according to our own criteria. Watch along here to be amazed by this catalogue of words!
Week 16 the PE team will be holding Sports Day on Wednesday. Grade 1 will hold a Grade Morning Meeting 7.50am to connect with students and explain the day ahead. Students are expected to wear house shirts. There will be no Grade 1 Seesaw learning engagements this day.
Inquiry
This week, students will continue to explore and reflect on Kelso’s Choices and how to develop and manage personal relationships. We will then explore mindsets within stories and how we can create a positive mindset.
Literacy
In reading we continue recognising sounds to assist with reading and spelling unknown words. In writing we will re-look at creating plans and writing stories based on our ideas.
Maths
Data collection continues as we introduce graphs. The students will also create their own table or diagram to display information. As well as, collect information from oral data. December Daily data booklet will be sent home W15 for Group 2 and W16 for Group 1. Group 3, if you would like to arrange a collection from the KIS car park, please notify Ms Lisa (lisa.di@kis.ac.th)
G1 Weekly Plan W16 T1 November 29 2021
Grade 1 Timetable Links (Parents) no links
Changes to Timetable
Aimmy, BM and JiaJia, Mohana Guided Reading will move to Tuesday 12.00pm Amy, Chanya, Penplerm, Nisha, Tate, Teya, & Mika’s Reading Group Wednesday will move this week to Tuesday 12.00pm (due to Sports Day)
This week in G1
Some snapshots of us at work in school:
Upcoming dates
1st December Sports Day
6th December In remembrance of HM King Bhumibol’s Birthday (school and office closed)
17th December last day of Term 1
20th December – 7th January. End of Term 1 Break
10th January – First day of Term 2
Have a wonderful weekend
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