Our Solar System

Our main focus last week was learning about the solar system. The kids have been very interested about the different colours and sizes of the planets. They were asking if "Mars is really hot because it's red" and "why they all turn around?".

Here are some photos of the kids making/drawing what they learnt:

 Pailin and Lexie made a solar system with many planets!

Ploen joined Porsche and Arthur to make the "Blue planet". 

 "This one very big earth!" [Ploen]

Mai and Arthur worked together to make funny shaped planets. 

"Why this one is so big?!" [Mai]

Lucy made her own solar system with shapes and glitter. 

"This one here...see... " [Lucy] 

"Sun!"

Pailin and Irene places the clipart in the right places of the solar system. Pailin: "Neptune my favourite... far far away from sun."

 "What this one call?" [Pailin]

"I drawing earth...blue and see green inside" [Lucas]

"Sun very very big!"

We also had a very good maths day. The kids have gotten very good at recognising numbers, writing them and also representing quantities!

I must also note that the kids have shown a real improvement in their ability to make models using various material. For this, they need to use their critical thinking skills to analyse what could balance and what they need to do to hold everything together. They also learn how to trial and error. Have a look at some of the space models that we made.

"My rocket have fire!!" [Totem]

The kids also enjoyed their time to free play. They have become very sociable with each other and it is great to see how well they have adapted to the layout of the class. We are becoming very good at tidy up time as well!

"We making moon cake!"

"Hello! We are shopping!"

"Miss.Myshi, I make a bi [iii]g rocket house" [Mungkorn]

As a home activity, please practice the phonics letters that we have learnt this term. 

s,a,t,p,i,n,m,d,g and o. 

Ask your child to remember the sound and then think of words beginning with that sound. A great way to do this is ask if they can think of a friend whose name begins with that sound. 

For example: Mmm...M-M-Myshi, Nnnn...N-N-Noon. 

I hope everyone has a fantastic holiday! See you in Term 3. 

Let's go to space!

Wow what a week we had! The kids loved our space theme and they have already gained a lot of knowledge on the solar system, space and rocket/space ships! I'm sure you have noticed a lot of new words being used, at home.

The kids enjoyed pretending to be inside the rocket that we made for them! 3-2-1 -blast offfffff!!!!!

They also had a lot of fun role-playing driving a rocket and pretending to be in space!

 We walked on pillows pretending we were on the moon. 

 Ploen reminded EQ that he had to wear a helmet before going into space, or he cannot breathe!

The kids enjoyed making space helmets! They learned that people need to wear helmets in space so that they have air to breathe.

We also learnt about star constellations and practiced making shapes and some kids even tried to make their names into star constellations!

We started learning about the solar system last week and plan to do more on it, this week.

The kids already know some of the names and properties of the planets in our solar system. Have a look at this video, with them, and practice the names and properties again. 

Solar system song

Thank you to the parents who have sent in photos of their kids doing homework! It's so nice to see that they are taking home what they learn in school :)