Term 1 Week 3

Central Idea

We all mature throughout life and need to take care of ourselves as we change. 

2nd Line of Inquiry

The things that support our well-being during adolescence. 

Puberty

This week we have been learning about puberty with the Y6 class. We learned new words and ideas and wrote them in our notebooks. We learned how puberty works by watching a video and talking with friends and teachers. The new words that we learned are in the picture below.

We were scared at first to talk to our parents about puberty but now we are confident because we know that it happens to us all . We all learned that puberty is natural.  

Science

This week we have been researching the circulatory system. We had to research how the circulatory system works, we also researched how it connects with the lungs and the respiratory system.

On Wednesday we cut open a pig’s heart. We split up into three groups and each group had a heart to cut open with their teammates. We had to look around the heart to see if we could see any blood vessel or any chamber. 

English (EAL)

This week we learned about every country and we made a rule for EAL class. We learned about every country’s costumes. We had to draw  costumes and make questions about counties.

We learned about where other people are from and what foods they like in their countries. 

We drew our hands on paper and we drew our country’s flag and wrote our country’s favorite food on the hand that we draw. 

We also  had a paper for dictation with Ms.Liza, that was 10 words for every one.

Maths 

This week we reviewed graphs and tally charts. We went to every class in the school to collect data about favorite fruits. Right now we are practicing place value up to billions place. It is good to practice because this is the foundation of all mathematics. 

This week's bloggers - Missy, Anfield, Geoff, and Natasha

Term 1 Week 2

Working Together

This week our unit of inquiry has this central idea:

We all mature throughout life and need to take care of ourselves as we change.

We inquired into the social aspects of growing up and changing. The books we read helped us understand how important it is to have good relationships. We talked a lot about teamwork and that was the focus of our personal and social education this week. 

We have been working hard on teamwork. We cooperated in nearly everything, such as P.E, reading, playing, writing, house teams and other class activities. We were so happy that we worked together with our friends because we love them and we want to help them as much as possible.

For P.E, we cooperated in sports games so that we could win and make it easier for us to get to the point that we wanted be in.

 We did a lot of public speaking this week and it was related to our unit of inquiry:

Assembly 

 Basically, we are happy that we have each other, and we will always work together! We Are A Team. The books we read on friendship and working together gave us ideas for this assembly.

Our number work this week was about place value, we have stared the Year 7 curriculum, and so we are looking at numbers up to ten digits. We applied some practical mathematics by measuring ourselves and beginning a height chart. This will be updated monthly. We are going to continue collecting data, analysing it and presenting it in various graphical ways.


Next week, we are going to start our puberty lessons. Please have a look at the agreements below.

Please sign the hard copy of this and bring it to school on Monday.  Please also bring a new notebook which we can put our puberty notes in. 

Bloggers: Porpiang, Bua, Bifern, and Aum. 

Look out for new bloggers next week. 

Term 1 Week 1

Welcome to Year 7

Meet the team:

Cynthia Thomas

Euaaungkoon (Golf) Chaipuripokawin

Charlotte (Charlie) Ramsey

I, Cynthia, am pleased to continue as the homeroom teacher for this class. As you know, I am from England where I completed my teacher training. I have spent the main part of my teaching career in international schools. Of all the places I’ve been to I certainly feel most at home in Thailand. 

We are delighted to have Mr. Golf continuing to work with our class this year. His enthusiasm for supporting  student learning, his knowledge of the Primary Years Programme and his exceptional bilingual skills are a great bonus to our team.

Ms. Charlie will be teaching Year 7 Mathematics and is the new Learning Support Coordinator. She comes to us from Yorkshire in England where she trained as a teacher. This is the first time she has been to Thailand and she is very excited to work with our class.

On the first day we’ll spend some time discussing some of the exciting things that we are going to be doing in Year 7. There is the camp, several field trips and lots of opportunities to exercise some independence in learning.

This year everyone is asked to bring a laptop computer to school every day. This is going to open up many new learning experiences. Please be sure that yours is charged and ready for the first day of school.

Here is our timetable:

Our homework routine this year will be an ongoing reflective journal. Every day students will be asked to think back over what they have learned, practice it and think about how they might extend their own learning.

Please consider being our Year 7 parent representative. This will be explained further at our upcoming meeting for Year 7 parents on Thursday 22 August, 3-4pm.

As always, please keep in touch via email. Otherwise, for quick questions call in and talk to me. For topics that need longer discussion please arrange an appointment to meet us.

Kind regards,

Cynthia, Golf and Charlie