This week, the children planned, drafted and wrote letters to their pen-pals in Delhi, India. We compared sending a letter in the post to sending it by email and evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of each method. In the end we decided to do both, email for speed and post for the feeling it gives. The students also developed their thinking skills to match up the form of communication to the information they want to convey, for example: you want to see if your friend wants to play at lunch-time = ask them in person, you want to tell your grand-parents about your weekend but they don't live in Singapore = email or phone call. In this way, we began to understand how the way we communicate can change and be influenced by different factors (Information, Location, Language, Personality, Resources etc.) Alongside our letter writing, we continued to investigate parts of speech. We collected adjectives to describe a setting and used thesauruses to help us expand our vocabulary. In Maths, we consolidated our number bonds to 20, inquired into doubles and explored how these number facts could help us solve other addition and subtraction problems. The children continued to take more ownership and be engaged in this learning through their choice of how to practise and consolidate their skills. They are developing their use of number lines, 100 charts and written notation as strategies for addition. UN Sustainable Goal of the Week: #12 Responsible Consumption and Production We continue to reuse paper and packaging in class and recycle as much as we can, including the lunch containers. We also visited the e-waste bin located near the main school gate, just behind the guard-house and discussed what e-waste we could dispose of. Independent Student action: The children have begun to make connections and take their learning into other areas. For example, Yuuki showed the class a story she had found that involved communication, friendship and sign language. Maria then found two stories about respecting other people and celebrating differences. Charlie showed us a story about friends and how people can see the same thing in different ways, which connects to our concept of Perspective. Also, Charlie built new relationships by letting some K2 children join her in designing their own emojis (to communicate feelings) during morning and lunch-time play. Well done girls! Student Voice:
Fedor: I like to do Mathematics and the Maths games like Doubles Bingo. I like to use Google docs to show my learning. Sara: I am enjoying UOI because I like to learn about communication.
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