Welcome to the new term, we hope
you enjoyed your holiday. We are
really looking forward to the
second part of the year because
we have many events to look
forward to such as, P1 Field
Trip, UN Day and Sports Day.
We
are very pleased to welcome Mrs
Sophai back to Amnuay Silpa and
it is great to have her on the
P1 Team.
We
would like to share with you a
brief overview of the core
subjects we are studying.
Phonics
The
children are studying phonics
using a programme called
‘Letters and Sounds’. The
children are currently at Phase
4 which involves the following
-:
·
Practise recall and recognition
of Phase 2 and 3 graphemes – ch,
sh, ng, th, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo,
ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air,
ure, er;
·
Practise spelling CVCC and CCVC
words, C = Consonant V = Vowel;
·
Learn tricky words and use them
in their writing;
·
Spelling high frequency words;
·
Practise reading and writing
sentences.
Phase 4 is a recap phase so your
child will already know the
sounds, although there will be
new words for them to learn.
The
children learn phonics through
games and activities each
morning in homeroom. Also the
children learn and sing songs as
part of their phonics learning.
Literacy
We
have started this semester in
Language Arts by looking at
Information texts. We have been
looking at main features of
Information Texts such as
contents pages, diagrams and
headings. We have studied a text
on sharks this week, which the
pupils seem to find very
interesting. This topic allows
us to incorporate many Thinking
Skills in our Literacy lessons
as well as lots of partner games
and speaking activities. We are
working to producing a
non-fiction Information Text at
the end of the module. If you
would like any more information
about this module in terms of
objectives, please feel free to
follow the link below.
http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/19059?uc
= force_uj
Our Speaking Workshop’s focus
for next week is Freeze Frames
based on seaside activities.
After next week we hope to do
some work on Circle Time.
Mathematics
This next 2 weeks in Maths we will mainly
be learning:
Wk start 08.11.10
WALT use mental addition to solve simple
problems and puzzles is the
basic walt for the week. So the
students will do problem solving
games like sudoko, trios and
dice games using mental
addition.They will be asked to
explain how they got their
answers.
Wk 15.11.10
WALT derive and recall multiplication
facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times
table and to recognise multiples
of 2, 5 and 10.
Basically we will be teaching the
students about the 2, 5 and 10
times tables.
We will use lots of hands on/interactive
games so that we will fully
engage and so that they will
have fun whilst learning. etc
etc etc
Theme Studies
This semester we have started
studying about the seaside
places around Bangkok. We will
be contrasting this with
Bangkok and looking at the
different localities to see what
are the differences between
them. We will also be looking at
different seaside spots around
the world and what happened at
the seaside in the past.
On
November 30th we will be
visiting Bang Saen Beach to
finish this topic.
If
you would like more information
on how the Mathematics and
Literacy is now assessed please
go to the the following page and
click on the links -
http://www.amnuaysilpaschool.org/KG%20&%20Primary%20ANS%20News%20Webpages/Head%20news/template.htm
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