Homework on 28 March

Homework assigned for today:

Social Studies: Pg 8
Enjoy the holidays! :)

Cheers
Mdm Chan

How to improve your listening skills

Improving your listening skills for children: 

1) Pay attention -- you'll hear more and learn more.
2) Listen for specific direction -- you'll know what to do.
3) Listen for the MAIN idea.
4) Listen for key words -- first, second, third, fourth...etc... before / after
5) Listen for the tone (sad, happy, loud, soft) -- you'll get the real meaning of the message
6) Take notes or make drawing -- you'll remember things longer with a picture.
7) Think about what you have heard -- you'll understand better.
8) Picture what you hear -- have a mental picture of what you have heard. You'll see things clearer.

Improving your listening skills for parents: 

1) Be a good listening model by showing interest in and responding to your child's contribution. Need to show genuine interests, and children are always smart to sniff out when the adults are pretending to be interested.
2) Talk about topics of mutual interest and encourage your child to listen and respond.
3) Involve your child in adult conversation when appropriate. These experiences will provide a range of language styles, ideas and vocabulary for them to admire and learn from.
4) Teach your child how to use the telephone and note down messages.
5) Play games which provide enjoyment and teach listening / social skills e.g. taking turns, following directions, explaining rules and strategies.
6) Provide opportunities for your child to speak and listen for a variety of purposes, e.g. telling jokes and riddles, listening to rules and instructions, describing and remembering details or recounting an experience.
7) Make use of taped stories with read-along books. (These can be found from NLB.) This is an useful activity which links reading to listening in an enjoyable way.

These are adapted from the listening comprehension booklet, which we have purchased for LC. The author, Zenda Lau, is an experienced teacher.
We have done 5 LC exercises today, and I thought it would be meaningful to share the tips given in the book, and hopefully, we can get them to improve on their listening skills.

It is also interesting to note for the MOE new syllabus 2010, they are focusing more in the oral component. That is, there is decreasing emphasis on pen and paper components, and LC is usually an area which we can strive to get almost full marks to help them pull up their grades.


“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” 
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Cheers,
Mdm Chan

Maths lesson -- Shapes

Things learnt for Mathematics: 
Shapes:

They need to know and understand the following:

- Identify and name the four basic shapes (circle, square, triangle and rectangle)
- Describe and classify shapes
- Make / complete patterns with 2-D cutouts according to one or two of the following attributes: shape, size, colour
- Make / complete patterns with 3-D models: cube, cuboid (rectangular block), cone, cylinder

We have covered the 4 2-D shapes today. They are:
Circle
Square
 Triangle
Rectangle

Please learn how to spell these 4 words. It will be tested in Mental sums.

Thanks/regards,
Mdm Chan

Vales in action -- 21st century learning

This is the video watched during assembly:

Things learnt from the assembly:
Collaborative, teamwork.  :)


Enjoy watching it again.

Cheers
Mdm Chan

Announcement

Dear all,

Spelling will start next Friday since we are going to start reading the Big book today.

Homework assigned yesterday:
1) Stellar Handwriting book: Pg 15, 17 and 19 (due next Monday 1/April)

English Grammar Games

English grammar games:

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/viper/viper.html

http://www.worksheetsplus.com/Christmas/HolidaySVgame.html

http://www.gotkidsgames.com/sv/sv.html


The games for English can be quite interesting.
Here's the main site:
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ 

Mathematics games

Maths Addition game:
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/alien/alien.html

Maths Subtraction game:
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/mission/mission.html

Character Development Workshop

What they have learnt from leadership Character Development Workshop:


A leader is:

C -- Confident (give it a try) 

If you won't try, you won't know if you can succeed. It's okay to make mistakes. 2nd thing: Learn from the mistakes. 

After several tries, we should give it a try, and we should improve ourselves. 

An example: Walts Disney: a person/leader who didn't give up. One of the characters which he created in his early age, before Mickey Mouse. 
Something to share about his failures and how he picked himself up from his failures:
http://www.successstories.co.in/failure-flames-inspiration-success-story-of-walt-disney/ 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4twUUA7IviM 

Never Give up. 

The activity: Stacking of cards 

A -- They played a game of cooperative learning. From the game, some of them were given 1 token, some were given 2 tokens, a few of them were given 3 or 4 tokens. Some of them could not buy things....
What is the lesson learnt?

Some of them gave away their tokens to their classmates. That's what a leader supposed to do. :)


R --Responsibility -- staying true to the task. Completing it to the end. :)
E -- Exemplary
To set a good example. To be a good leader, we need to set a good example in our conduct (behaviour).
-- Listen Carefully to all instructions/rules said by teachers.
--Obey immediately. Do it now, don't wait!

--Set an example in our speech.
Use polite words and be polite:

Excuse Me,
Thank You,
You are welcome.


The story of Mambo, the Penguin (from Happy Feet)
They lived in Antarctica, a place where humans do not live over there.
Mambo was selected as he managed to follow his parents to the ocean. He followed the instructions which were:

"Do not stop until we have arrived at the lake." 

Cheers,
Mdm Chan

Announcements

Announcements:

Thank you to all who have submitted the Job attachment programme. Can see it on the children's faces that they had fun while working during the school holidays. :)

Jog-a-walk: this is not compulsory. It is the RMPS's family day and you are most welcomed to join us on that day.

Cheers,
Mdm Chan

PAL -- things to bring this week and next week

Things to bring for PAL Visual Arts this week and next week:
1) Poster colours
2) Palette
3) Rag
4) Apron / old t-shirt (to wear it so that they will not get dirtied by the poster colours)
5) Oil pastel
6) Newspaper
7) Paint brushes (thin / thick)

Cheers,
Mdm Chan