Our last week of term 1

We have reached the end of term one and I should like to thank parents for your help and support. I hope everyone has a restful break,whether you are travelling, or staying in Udon.

It was lovely to see so many of you at the Christmas performance last night. I was really proud of your children. They thought of the Udon gifts themselves and I think they succeeded in taking a traditional song and giving it a local Isaan twist.

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On Thursday, Rainer and Liew Liew talked in the PY assembly about the storytelling ECA that I led this term.

On Wednesday, we were very pleased to welcome so many parents, teachers and students to our Learning Showcase about famous explorers. I really liked the independence shown by the students in the creation of, and the manner in which they shared their slide presentations.

Reading! Reading! Reading!

There is no formal homework set for the holidays but I encourage parents to ensure that their children read as often as possible to keep their skills sharp. Why not visit a bookstore together and let your child choose some books that excite them?

Next Term, in Maths, we will start with angles which will contain a lot of vocabulary to enhance their speaking and cognitive skills as we continue with our measurement unit. 

• Know angles are measured in degrees: estimate and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles.
• Draw given angles, and measure them in degrees (°).
• Identify: angles at a point and one whole turn (total 360°), angles at a point on a straight line and half a turn (total 180°), other multiples of 90°

week Beginning 2nd December

This week we put up our class Christmas Tree and continued rehearsing for the Christmas Show. We hope to see you all there next Thursday. 

Gentle reminder...costumes for the Y5 part of the Christmas Show is anything with a Christmas theme!

We have also been finding about the Nativity, which tells about the birth of Jesus. This story is very important to followers of the Christian faith.

The children have been busy making Christmas or New Year cards.

This is the Christmas display outside the Year Five classroom.

Ben and Kavier helped in the King's Birthday assembly.

A special invitation to parents

On Wednesday 11th December, Year Five parents are invited to our classroom to see our Showcase about our liearning about explorers. It will be period 7 (14.00) at the end of the day. Do join us if you can. If you cannot your child should be able to share their slide presentation with you at home. 

In Maths this week, we focused on the following standards: 

•  Continue to read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 and 24-hour clocks.
•  Solve problems involving converting between units of time.

We did this by completing daily questions or prompts in large groups to help develop their problem-solving skills and modelled strategies to use to advance their thinking e.g how many minutes in 24 hours? How many hours do you sleep in a day? Convert from hours to minutes. 

                                  

                                             60 mins x 24 hours= 1440 mins. in a day 

Y5 also worked in levelled maths books to further their multiplication/division skills by converting units of time at their ability. As learners work at different speeds and have a variety of multiplication and division skills this means we had 3 levels this week going at any given time. 

4a bookwork

5a bookwork 

6a bookwork 

Next week we will be completing any unfinished projects to end the term. Most learners have pending unfinished work or projects and time will be given to complete these. Assessments will be given throughout the week on time including vocabulary and converting time based on individual abilities. This will conclude our unit study of Measurement. 

Homework will be a conversion worksheet given out on Monday and due back on Thursday.