Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Confusing this/ these that/those

One very confusing grammar item for kids:

This /  That
These / Those

We spent time in class going through this... but not everyone understood.  Please spend some time to ensure this is understood.


Cheers

English Revision

Announcement:

There is an English Unit Review next week. We conducted the Maths unit review yesterday as we had to go out for the Learning Journey today.


I have marked the Maths Unit Review. Results were not very good with the higher order sums which some of them may not have understood what the questions were asking. Nevertheless, let's move onto the English quiz next week.

Topics: Unit 1 to Unit 6
We have finished up to Unit 5, to Town. We are halfway through Unit 6. Please kindly go through the file with your child given yesterday.

Things to know:
Grammar
Vocabulary
These 2 aspects would be important at this stage. Please focus on understanding on the meaning of the words... even during the normal Spelling, they should learn and understand what is the meaning of those words/phrases and how they can be applicable in other sentences.

E.g. vintage car. The vintage came out 2 years ago in the Unit Review... but in another context. This time, it is testing them with the knowledge that vintage refers to something old, antique. This is just an example but please do revise the vocabulary and clarify any doubts arising from these items.

Cheers,
Mdm Chan

PAL - Visual Arts starts tomorrow

Dear all,

Things to bring for PAL tomorrow: 
1) Drawing paper
2) Oil pastel / Crayons  / colour pencils

Some of them already have it in the class. We will bring it to the PAL room tomorrow morning. For those who do not have these in the class, please kindly have them with you tomorrow.


Cheers and enjoy visual arts! :) 


Regards
Mdm Chan

Monday, February 25, 2013

Announcement

Dear all,
I broke my phone's glass panel this afternoon.

Any questions, please kindly email me or contact the school office to leave me a message.

I should be getting a replacement phone during this weekend.

Thanks and regards,
Mdm Chan

Friday, February 22, 2013

Announcements on Friday

Announcements:

1) PAL lessons:

They have completed the Music module consisting of 7 lessons. Next week, they will start on another module. Pls kindly ask them to come in P.E. attire on Thursday.


2) Long hair:
Some of the boys are spotted with slightly long hair. Please kindly take them for a hair cut. Thanks.


3) Recess:
Recess ends at 11.00 a.m. The pupils need to be up in the hall by 11 a.m. and they should start walking from 10.55 a.m. Everyone needs to have a story book. Please bring a story book to read while waiting for the teacher to come.


4) Chinese: Yan Yan Shuo Shuo (There is a guideline worksheet issued on this Yan Yan Shuo Shuo given on Thursday. Please check and acknowledge.)


5) English: We are on track as we have completed Unit 5: To Town. We have started reading the 6th book: Smarty Pants today. We should complete Smarty Pants learning sheets early next week. The test in Week 9 will consist of 6 books including the last book Smarty Pants.





Cheers,
Mdm Chan

Happy Happy CNY

Happy Happy CNY:
Her's the link for this CNY song we sang in early February.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y150S2vivFo


Cheers
Mdm Chan

Homework on 22 Feb

Dear all,

We have completed Addition within 10. Pls complete the remaining pages for Chapter 3 workbook over the weekend.

Note: there is a test next week on maths.
Chapters: numbers to 10 and number bonds.

Cheers,
Mdm Chan

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

PAL Music Lesson

PAL Lesson Music:
These are 3 groups where they managed to perform. :) Enjoy the performance... they had fun with the musical instruments... 

Blue Group:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYDLR9haKwE 


Purple Group: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gQ-n-qX3Tc




Green Group: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3bqrwSVNS4



Learning Journey

Peranakan Museum:
http://www.peranakanmuseum.sg/home/home.asp 

Pls take a look at what we will be looking at. :) 

Friday, February 15, 2013

Homework for Friday 15 February

Homework for today:

1) Handwriting for Spelling 4
2) Handwriting for Spelling 5

Only selected ones are given this supplementary exercise to help them with their Spelling.

Thanks and enjoy the weekend. :)

Cheers,
Mdm Chan

Announcements

Donation cards: 
Cross or circle the amount which you wish to donate. Both options are acceptable. :)
Deadline to hand-in: 25 Feb


Things learnt yesterday:
The Red Rose:
- Revision of a/an
Stellar WS: we completed pg 2 to 9.

From the guide which was given at the beginning of the term:
Please look through and this is the summary of things learnt.

Unit 3: Walking Through the Jungle:

Vocabulary: snake, tiger, monkey, elephant, lion, crocodile, tea
High frequency words: could, over, there, through, what
Grammar:
Article: a, an
Verbs: has, have
Pronouns: it, me
Question word: what
Word Identifications:
Blends, sn, ch, wh in what
Comprehension: Answer MCQ and open-ended questions

Unit 4: The Red Rose
Vocabulary: rose, cat, caterpillar, bird, garden, red
High frequency words: see, a, back, home, gone
Grammar:
Prenouns: it, me
Articles: a, the
Present tense: infinitive “to” followed by verbs (go, fly, play, ski, swing, fall)
Pronouns: he, she, it
Punctuation: comma, speech marks
Phrases of time sequence:
Word Identifications:
Consonants: h, s, g as in gate
Comprehension: Answer MCQ and open-ended questions



Cheers,
Mdm Chan

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Announcements for today and h/w

LJ -- 27 February 2013
Would need 2 parents volunteer. Pls let your child know to me that you are interested in joining us.

Spelling 4 resumes tomorrow.

H/W for today:
1) Anti-theft poster: Stop Shoplifting (due during art period next Monday)


Cheers
Mdm Chan


Wednesday, February 13, 2013

February Notifications and important announcements

Feb notifications is out.

Key things to note:
1) Meet the parents session: Pls complete the form if you are interested to meet. It's on 2nd Mar 2013, Saturday.
2) Consent form for the Learning Journey.
3) Walk a jog cards. This has been issued out today. Pls check and kindly return back to me on 25 February Monday.
4) Unit Review for Maths and English. The circular is here.

Maths: Chp 1 and 2

English: Up to Unit 6. I will be starting Unit 4 The Red Rose tomorrow.
We'll aspire to finish the remaining 3 units by Week 8.




Cheers,
Mdm Chan

Friday, February 8, 2013

Kindness


This was one of the videos watched today... About kindness.

Pls reflect what Kindness is all about.


Kindness  (something to ponder about).

Happy June Holidays. :)

H/w for 9 February

Dear all,

Happy Chinese New Year.

H/w for the day:
Dan the flying man: Pg 10 and corrections.


Thanks and regards,
Mdm Chan

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Preposition

Preposition:
What is a preposition:
A word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she arrived after dinner,” “what did you do it for?” from Dictionary.com 


Preposition for in, on, at
http://www.eslgold.com/grammar/in_on_at.html
http://www.learning-english-online.net/areas/grammar/parts-of-speech-and-sentence-structure/prepositions/location/

Quiz for preposition:
http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/location_prepositions_1.htm
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=597



Preposition by location:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDvaryY8M4
The above link was shown in the class. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfExXGMX2JM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byszemY8Pl8&gl=SG&hl=en-GB

Quiz for a/an

Quiz: http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/cg-a_an.html
For a/ an


Another place to read a/an:
http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/an_or_a.htm

Things taught today

Things taught yesterday and today:

A/ An:

A ==> for consonants
A pen, a boy, a fish

An ==> for vowels (a,e,i,o,u)
An apple, an elephant, an ice cream, an onion, an umbrella


Nouns:
They are naming words, anything that has a name.
boy, girl, pencil, apple, banana


Verb:
Action words: anything that has actions.
E.g, run, sing, write, read


Maths: review 1
consolidate Chp 1 and 2

Monday, February 4, 2013

I-read books

I-read books:


Everyone in the class has been issued with an i-read book. Please read the i-read book, and exchange with another classmate every Tuesday. By the end of Term 1, there is a book review needed for 3 books, so please remember and write down the title of the books which you have read.

Do not lose this i-read book, or you may be asked to pay back with another book back to the library.


Happy reading!!!


Cheers,
Mdm Chan

H/w for today

Dear all,



H/w for today:

1) HE booklet -- Read Pg 5 and 6. Complete pg 7 and 8.
2) English Handwriting exercise -- only for those who didn't score full marks for English Spelling on Friday
3) English Spelling corrections

Friday, February 1, 2013

PAL updates

PAL lesson 4: Music

Things learnt and recapped:

1) forte and piano (f and p)
2) usage of the instruments correctly, e.g. the bells and scraper
3) SEL values -- such as being gracious, team work, one voice, listen attentively.
SEL stands for social-emotional learning
4) working in groups and singing and performing songs.

Things to be covered:
Time signature
Pulsation of clapping of rhythm

This is 1 of the group's performance during lesson 3. This is without the musical instruments, which we can see how they can progress after a while with the usage of musical instruments. :)
Link to see them.



Cheers,
MC






Maths Language 2

Maths Language:

7 is smaller than _______.
Many of the students are still having difficulties in seeing that 7 is smaller than 8.
They would be writing that 7 is smaller than 6, which is actually the other way.
They can see that 7 is greater than 6.


Cheers,
MC

CNY Songs

Chinese new year songs which we are learning to sing next Friday:

Gong xi gong xi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8xurIQuU0Q


he xin nian:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ3pcjtXKgo

Attire from Monday to Friday

Dear all,
In case if you have questions....
School uniform: Monday and Friday
P.E. attire: Tuesday to Thursday (There is PAL lesson on Thursday, and some modules such as outdoor needs them to be in  P.E attire)

Cheers,
MC

E-music link

E-Music lesson:
Rain rain go away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3v0rJqyCTM

Another link with different tune /rhythm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAYZo8a8AHg

Pls google for rain rain go away on youtube to listen to the different types of the music.... :)

The different instruments will produce different sounds.

Cheers
MC

February Notifications

The February notifications should be out. This is the link to the notifications.

http://www.radinmaspri.moe.edu.sg/cos/o.x?c=/wbn/pagetree&func=view&rid=1131974

Spelling 3 words

Words for next Spelling:

1) I am
2) you are
3) blue sea
4) the flying man
5) many trees
6) high mountains
7) pretty flowers
8) tall crane

H/w Friday 1st February

h/w for today:

1) Stellar handwriting: Pg 11

2) Unit 2: Dan the flying man -- Pg 11-12

3) Maths WS 2A


4) File check: Maths => Pls sign on the Contents Page.


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Reminder: Pls come in school uniform on Monday for photo-taking.