We had a wonderful trip to The Big Buddha on Thursday. The children were amazed by the size of the Buddha and used lots of adjectives to describe it. They made sketches and located it on their maps of Phuket after looking down to Chalong Pier and over the other side of Phuket to Kata. We were very proud of how well the children behaved and their politeness to others who were also visiting the site.
We took lots of ipads with us on the trip and the children were responsible for looking after them and taking photographs. They did a great job! You can see the photo's here:
We will now be learning about other man-made and natural features of Phuket and presenting our learning in different ways.
Next week we will also be reading and giving co-ordinates to find specific locations on maps and will use these skills to take part in a Maths Treasure Hunt in the school grounds.
The IXDOS Challenge
Today we sent home a letter with a sponsorship form on to raise money for the IXDOS Project. Since visiting the boat the children have been very interested in this cause and have been thinking of ways that they could Make A Difference to this project. They suggested that we could give money to pay for work on the boat to be done. After lots of ideas of what we could do to earn money we came up with a fun idea of doing some sailing ourselves!
So, on Thursday 12th February all the children in Years 1 and 2 will be working in teams of 6 to paddle a small boat (IXDOS Junior) across the swimming pool. Each length of the swimming pool will represent 1 nautical mile that the IXDOS could sail. We are aiming to paddle enough lengths of the pool (100 or more!) to send the IXDOS 100 miles to one of the Burmese Islands. We will chart it's progress on a map.
We have asked the children to ask up to 5 people to sponsor them to do the sail. People can give one amount of money for the event or sponsor an amount for each length of the pool we sail. Please only send money to school after we have done the sail.
You are all welcome to come along on the Thursday morning and cheer the children on. Year 2 will be setting sail first from 8:15 - 10:10 and Year 1 will take over after that until lunch time.
I wonder how many lengths the children will paddle?
Year 2 Maths Workshop
Next week, on Thursday 5th February at 8:30am we invite all parents to attend a Maths workshop. This will be held in the Year 2 classrooms. We would like to show you some of the different methods that we use to calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Make sure you have all had your coffee as we will be asking you to join in and solve problems!
Well done to this weeks stars!
As we have been learning our 2X tables, this week we have 2X the number of stars. 3 X 2 = 6!
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