Ice, chocolate and butter!

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School Vision

Udon Thani International School (UDIS) inspires internationally-minded, balanced learners who thrive and become active, global citizens.

Unit of Inquiry - How the World Words

Central Idea: Materials behave and interact in certain ways, which determine how people use them.

Current Line of Inquiry: Behaviour of materials, Changing properties of materials


Maths

This week the children have been working on counting to, recognising and matching the correct amount to the number 4. 






Phonics

This week in phonics we have played sound matching games on the PhonicsPlay website. We have also started to practise writing our names and continued to learn our song for our end of year show. 










Specialist Lessons

This week in Thai, the children made paper boats! 










Learner Profile

A short paragraph about which learner profile dinosaur was the focus for this week and how the children have met this.



International Mindedness/Student Choice (UOI)

This week the children explored changes of state and investigated how water turns from a liquid into a solid and back again, how chocolate melts and made butter from double cream which they then enjoyed on their pancakes! 



































Parent Notices

Mon 27 - PTA #8
Fri 31 - Parent and Toddler morning/Stay and Play (8:20 - 10:00)
Mon 3 JUNE - SCHOOL CLOSED: Queen's Birthday
Thu 6 - Preschool Fieldtrip - more details to follow
Fri 7 - Parent and Toddler morning/Stay and Play (8:20 - 10:00)
Mon 10 - Parent Cafe #8
Mon 10 - distribute reports
Fri 14 - End of Unit Showcase/SLC'S - optional Parent Teacher Conferences
Wed 19 - End of Term 



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