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International Literacy Day

Systemwide IT Manager — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 03:39:16 +0000

September 8th was International Literacy Day, a UNESCO designated day to celebrate and promote the importance of literacy in our world. The On Nut Primary School organized a wide variety of activities to raise our students’ awareness of the role literacy plays in our lives. Students from across grades 1 to 5 collaborated in a variety of ways. Grades 1 and 2 worked together to write book reviews after reading a favorite book together, forging new friendships along the way. Classes 3A and 3B engaged in a variety of reading stations outside their classrooms that included pair reading, reading theater, round robin read alouds, reading with a teacher, and independent silent reading. Classes 4A and 4B formed partnerships across the classes and read in pairs a favorite book of their choosing in the library. Grade 5 designed new book covers for their favorite books and played literacy themed games on the playground. All students had the opportunity to buy new books to add to their collections during the two-day Farmfunbook sale held in the school. It was a very productive day for primary school literacy!

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Grade 5 Field Trip

Systemwide IT Manager — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 01:39:29 +0000

Grade 5 Field Trip

On October 17th, 2019, the Grade 5 class took a field trip to the National Science Museum in Pathum Thani. On this trip we were able to visit 2 out of the 3 buildings; the Science Building and the Information Technology Building.

Grade 5 had already completed a unit on ecosystems and biodiversity, and had moved on to studying different forms of energy. Therefore, we saw many examples of lesson material we had encountered in the classroom throughout the Science building. There were numerous different hands-on activities and demonstrations that allowed students to interact with science in action. Some relevant experiments involved electrical energy, light and sound, which we have been covering in class. These experiments helped students complete their scavenger-hunt style worksheets they were given at the start of the day.

The highlight of this trip was the Information Technology building. There were so many fun experiences there, like Virtual Reality goggles, virtual pizza making, kinetic sand combined with VR technology, and drivers ed in a model car. However, the real favorite was the Clay Car Race. Students were able to design race cars out of clay and a computer would scan these race cars and create virtual versions of them. The students were then able to watch these cars race, and the winner was the car that was designed most aerodynamically. The students enjoyed this activity so much because they were able to create something with their hands and immediately have it replicated and tested on the virtual race track. Though not exactly in line with our current unit, I think this provided an excellent and enjoyable learning experience.

Overall, the students seemed to really enjoy their experience at the National Science Museum!

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Wells On Nut Primary Halloween activities

Systemwide IT Manager — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 03:48:52 +0000

Celebrating Halloween

The children in the primary school at Wells On Nut had a blast October 31st celebrating Halloween. Along with dressing up in their favorite costumes, students had the chance to go trick-or-treating around the school, however the highlight of the day was certainly the amazing haunted house the Wells PTO parents and the Wells librarians set up in the library. The PTO and librarians really went above and beyond to provide students with a special Halloween experience. The haunted house was just the right balance of fun and creepy to give students a real chance to get into the Halloween spirit.

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The third grade field trip

Systemwide IT Manager — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:46:56 +0000

Grade 3 Forest in the City Field Trip

The third grade field trip was on Tuesday October 15th. We went to PTT Forest in the City near Suvarnabhumi airport. Approximately 50 students, two teachers and 4 parents joined for the excursion.

The day started from the school taking four busses to the destination. When we reached the destination, we were met my two guides, who showed us around the venue and the explained a number of things to the children. The guides spoke about local flora and how they were, and in some cases, still are used by the local people for various remedies or for general consumption.

We were taken to two different forests. One was densely forested and the other a lot less so. The students noticed that the thicker vegetation was much cooler than the sparse forest and we discussed why they thought this might be.

The guides also brought us on a tree top walk and explained how the area was landfill prior to being a forest with over 200 different native species of trees. They also showed us different leaves, insects and birds we could see along the walk.

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