Congratulations to our Service Ambassadors-Griffin, Sebastian, Devangi, Finnley, Coco, Toby and Sama-who did us all proud last weekend. We really enjoyed hearing about your visits and look forward to finding out more at the last K2 Assembly of the year. It has also been great to hear from you, the parents, who went on the trips and, by all accounts, it was a meaningful, emotional and eye-opening experience for everyone involved.
The children are evidently thinking and talking a lot about Service at the moment and it is heartening to hear stories of children taking the initiative to help others outside of school, such as Saanvi, who decided to bake cookies for the Aunties who clean our floor everyday and provide such a valuable Service to all of us. Keep it up, guys!
Thank you to everyone who returned the Service Diaries this morning. It has clearly been a worthwhile experience for many of you and the children have been helping out in all sorts of areas at home. Some of you have explained how helping out at home is already something of an expectation for your child and, in line with this, were slightly reluctant to "reward" them for "doing their chores." This is completely understandable and, once again, the aim of the diaries is to raise awareness about the importance of Service as well as begin to instil something of an expectation in the children. Completing the diaries encourages the children to think about and reflect upon Service and this is far more powerful than raising money. Having said that, any money raised in the process is an added bonus and, this year, will be donated to help fund the purchase of an air-con unit for the kitchen at the Kuma School.
This week, we divided into interest groups and began researching specific animals and how their physical adaptations help them survive. Next week, each group will work on the iPads to create and record a page for a class non-fiction eBook using Book Creator. Each page will include a photo, illustration or annotated diagram of the animal, a number of facts related to adaptations and survival and any other non-fiction book features the groups choose to make their information clearer to the reader. After deciding on an animal to investigate, the groups adopted the MISO research technique to organise their thinking and ideas. This technique incorporates media, interviews, surveys and observations.
We have been using the human graphing activity, "Mostly True...Mostly False" to help organise our ideas, separate fact from fiction and decide on the most important information to include in our eBooks.
Many of the children are using their Reading Workshop sessions to find out even more information on their chosen animals, using the features of non-fiction texts to discover new and interesting facts to share. We have explored ways of synthesising various pieces of new information to develop a deeper understanding of a particular area. The children are becoming more familiar with Contents Pages, glossaries, indices, ‘Did you know?’ and ‘Read more’ boxes. Many of the children are trying to include these features in their own ‘All About Books’ during Writing Workshop. The children have been encouraged to include a lot more than one sentence on a page in order to “say more” about their chosen subject. Next week, the children will begin to revise one or more of their pieces with the aim of publishing a final piece or two before the end of the year.
In Mathematics, the children are becoming experts at inventing more and more complex growing patterns. This week, the children have created their patterns using musical instruments in the music room, inch grid paper, wooden shapes and, even, hundred squares. They have even been creating Lego animals with growing pattern camouflage!! Exploring patterns is evidently an enjoyable experience but it is an essential building block in understanding about number. In time, the skills the children develop will translate to skip counting, repeated addition (and therefore multiplication and division), algebraic reasoning and beyond.
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This week, we divided into interest groups and began researching specific animals and how their physical adaptations help them survive. Next week, each group will work on the iPads to create and record a page for a class non-fiction eBook using Book Creator. Each page will include a photo, illustration or annotated diagram of the animal, a number of facts related to adaptations and survival and any other non-fiction book features the groups choose to make their information clearer to the reader. After deciding on an animal to investigate, the groups adopted the MISO research technique to organise their thinking and ideas. This technique incorporates media, interviews, surveys and observations.
We have been using the human graphing activity, "Mostly True...Mostly False" to help organise our ideas, separate fact from fiction and decide on the most important information to include in our eBooks.
Many of the children are using their Reading Workshop sessions to find out even more information on their chosen animals, using the features of non-fiction texts to discover new and interesting facts to share. We have explored ways of synthesising various pieces of new information to develop a deeper understanding of a particular area. The children are becoming more familiar with Contents Pages, glossaries, indices, ‘Did you know?’ and ‘Read more’ boxes. Many of the children are trying to include these features in their own ‘All About Books’ during Writing Workshop. The children have been encouraged to include a lot more than one sentence on a page in order to “say more” about their chosen subject. Next week, the children will begin to revise one or more of their pieces with the aim of publishing a final piece or two before the end of the year.
In Mathematics, the children are becoming experts at inventing more and more complex growing patterns. This week, the children have created their patterns using musical instruments in the music room, inch grid paper, wooden shapes and, even, hundred squares. They have even been creating Lego animals with growing pattern camouflage!! Exploring patterns is evidently an enjoyable experience but it is an essential building block in understanding about number. In time, the skills the children develop will translate to skip counting, repeated addition (and therefore multiplication and division), algebraic reasoning and beyond.
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Lastly, next week, our second swimming session has been switched from Thursday to Friday due to a clash with the Junior School Aquatics Day. Please make sure your child brings their swimmers on that day.
Reminders
*K2BeM End of Year Party Lunch-Thursday 12th June-10.10-11.30am
Reminders
*K2BeM End of Year Party Lunch-Thursday 12th June-10.10-11.30am
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*Swimming next week is on Wednesday and FRIDAY (not Thursday)
*End of Term-Friday 20th June-School finishes at 11.00am for Infants
Have a great weekend.
*End of Term-Friday 20th June-School finishes at 11.00am for Infants
Have a great weekend.
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