Reading:                                    Wednesday, June 6

Maths:                                                                    Monday, June 11

Science:                                                                 Tuesday, June 12

Humanities                                                          Wednesday, June 13

Wednesday June 6 : English Reading Comprehension test – Students will be given a story on the day of the test and will be asked various comprehension questions. The story will not be sent home prior to the test. Students will be helped with spelling their answers if needed. The focus here is on comprehension (understanding of the English language and subtleties in the story).

Thursday June 7 : English Grammar and Writing test – Students will have to look at 5 images and find the inspiration to write 5 sentences about them. Students will not be helped with spelling or vocabulary for this part of the test. Some review grammar questions will be asked (nouns, verbs, punctuation, synonyms, antonyms, compound words).

Monday June 11 : Mathematics test – A review from the whole year.

Tuesday June 12 : Science test – A review from the whole year (forces and movements, weather, recycling, 5 senses, living and non-living things)

Wednesday June 13 : Humanities A review from the whole year in both Geography and History (Phuket, continents and oceans, time-lines, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton, Jane Austen, Fridjof Nansen, Great Fire of London)

Although this seems like a lot, the review in class should be sufficient for an average student to pass the exams. We are not trying to trick the students and the questions require general knowledge, not specific details. All questions will be read aloud to the students. This is the last year students have ”home-made exams”. We have based our tests on the Cambridge format. Starting KS2, they will pass the official Cambridge exams. We aim to prepare them adequately for these.

Some review lessons are scheduled and books will be sent home to study. If your child has some areas of weakness in a subject and you feel some extra help is needed, please contact me or Laurence for help.

On Friday May 18 there will be a Geography test. Students need to learn to write and identify the 7 continents (North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica) and 5 oceans (Pacific, Arctic, Atlantic, Southern, Indian) on a world map. The geography book will be sent home on Wednesday to help with studying.

See you there!

Here are some links if you want to sing with the movie clips:

Summer Nights : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8orR1oK6Kk

Greased Lightning : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzePr0ct9b0

We go together : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUrxG8APyiI&feature=related

In my Mathematics class, we have been working on a project to build our own Snakes and Ladders game. Students started with a cardboard and an instructions sheet. The had to cut out 10 centimetres of f the cardboard and figure out how to draw 80 even squares. They numbered the board from 101 to 200. After that, they had various clues to draw the snakes and the ladders. For example, they needed to draw a snake whose tail is on a multiple of 10 and head 19 squares above or a ladder that starts in a square bigger than 115 and will move the player 11 squares further.

Once all the snakes and ladders were drawn, they had to build a dice and four playing pieces.

It was a fun and challenging project which they finished about a week ago. We invited Year 1A to play with us. Students were very proud to show off their work.

There were many different kinds of butterflies and strange creepy crawling insects for the students to observe. What a g

reat day !!!!

Students wore traditional Thai dress and they looked wonderful.

It was a beautiful, sunny, HOT day but everyone did a wonderful job!