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This week saw many activities. The biggest event was the Loy Krathong celebration in our school. In this event, the work actually started right after the Halloween celebration. The person nominated to chair the Loy Krathing project was Katya. Katya and all the students planned this project with very little interferences from the school. This project was another project “By Students For Students”. They finally settled to have the Loy Krathong to be celebrated over 3 days so that they will have more time to immerse themselves into Thai culture. They created their own Krathong and Khun June baked some cake Krathongs. The second day they used their break time to have a Thai cooking class where they learnt how to make corn with coconut milk. On the third day, they use their break time to learn some Thai cultural dance. Overall the project was a huge success. The students are learning from so many angles when they do these kind of projects. They take responsibility and ownership. These are our future leaders. You can read more about our Loy Krathong celebration write up by Katya.
Right after the Loy Krathong, the students started to prepare the birthday celebration of Chandra. They use their art class time and and their lunch breaks to prepare for this celebration. Each student prepared a birthday card for Chandra. We used part of our School Assembly time for this celebration. Chandra’s mom brought a nice home made cake, donuts and Khun June baked some cup cakes. Kalavati performed a solo dance and again Kalavati and Rajpal sang a song, “Count on me”. Before Chandra cut his cake, he gave a moving speech, that move his mother to have tears of joy! The kids from Primary and Nursery sang a loud birthday song and finally they enjoyed the food.
Our next “By Student For Student” activity will be the Christmas celebration. Parents are welcome to give suggestions. I will discuss this during our School Assembly and see how is the response from the students and the level of participation they want for this celebration.
English Upper
Students this week finalized their unit on verb tenses. They learned about future perfect and future perfect continuous. They made the comment that the tenses were very similar to each other, including the context. The students had no trouble at all this week identifying the context to these tenses. They did a final practice review before their big test coming up on Monday. As long as they have their notes, they will do just fine on the test!
English Lower
The students this week also finished finalizing their unit on verb tenses. They learned about future perfect and future continuous. I think out of all the tenses, they had the easiest time with these two as nothing really changed for each of the subjects, only the verb itself and once they knew how to properly change it, they could easily do them all. They will also be having their final test on Monday.
Chess Champion Of The Week
The chess game quality is improving and this week we saw a new champion. Kalavati won the Chess Champion title of the week. Kalavati has been making steady progress and her game quality has improved tremendously.Well done!
The great big news, the school has decided that construction of the new school will begin shortly. The land in Ao Nang has been cleared. The architect and his team are busy drawing up the plans. We already had 6 meetings with them. They are so excited to be working on our new school. We will keep you posted of the construction as it moves along. The students are so excited they they will have their own football field, badminton court and a lot of out door space. With a lot of your support and prayers, our wishes will come true soon.
