UOI Tuning In

This week we worked on understanding our UOI topic by discussing what we already know about the topic and what we are hoping to find out. 

Scrapbooking

We had an awesome UOI lesson today where we did some very creative scrapbooking as a tuning in activity for our 'Who we are' theme. 

Reading our Favourite stories to our friends!

Emoji Writing Reflection

In English this week, we showed our friends what we did really well in our writing! Some students used excellent sentence starters, others used really amazing adjectives and a few were even able to include a number of different connectives and types of punctuation! What a fantastic start to the Year! 

Music Blog

Check out the link to our new music blog to see what our students are doing in Music this year! 

Link: http://ascotbkkmusic.blogspot.com

Weekly Update

	This Week	Next Week
English	'Let me introduce myself' piece of writing where we discussed facts about ourselves, our families, likes, dislikes, future plans, feelings and personality.	To proofread, edit, peer assess and form a Shape, Simile, Acrostic and Haiku Poem. Public speaking skills: To recite a poem.
Math	After studying the 'Math about me' poem, we made a mind map of all the areas that we use Maths in our own lives! We also investigated place value.	Finding pairs with a total of 100; adding to the next multiple of 100 and subtracting to the previous multiple of 100; subtract by counting up to find a difference; adding several numbers.
UOI	The 10 Learner Profiles: communicator, balanced, risk-taker (courageous), reflective, knowledgeable, caring, thinkers, principled, inquirers and open-minded. These profiles are at the core of everything we teach at Ascot. The students were able to identify how the fit into each of these learner profiles.	We will begin the 'TUNING IN' part of our UOI next week by exploring our first unit: "Peoples relationships with each other can have an impact on well-being". We will discuss the meaning of 'well-being', questioning techniques, consider different types of relationships and act out conflict resolution.
Notices and Events	*Please ensure that your child is keeping up to date with his/her homework. New homework will be allocated every week. *Times table test on Wednesday will be on the 3X table. Please revise. *Please bring in favourite books on Monday. *Please encourage your children to do extra reading and Mathletics at home!

Math about me

After studying the 'Math about me' poem, we made a mind map of all the areas that we use Maths in our own lives! This helps us to understand why we learn the subject at school.