26 August 2015 (Wednesday)

Dear children,

We started the day by finishing up the short topic of Time. You learnt to solve some word problems involving time by drawing timelines. In each of those word problems, you were asked to find 1 of 3 things: starting time, ending time, or time interval (i.e. how long something/someone took). I am glad to note that all of you have shown good mastery of the skills to solve those word problems. I hope you can apply the skills well in the 3 questions assigned to you for homework today.

In case some of you are interested, here is the Time Monsters website that we visited earlier this week: http://timemonsters.com/

Later in the day, we continued going through the Science paper. 

Then, you received your Maths Test. 

The highest score in our class is 40 out of 40 marks. 

The class average score is 33 marks. 

The lowest score is 22 marks.

These are the 18 children who earned ice-cream sticks for their groups for their good performance in the Maths Test:

10 sticks

Ranjiv (40 marks) from Detectives

Shaan (40 marks) from Robotics

9 sticks

Avery (39 marks) and Rowena (39 marks) from Kindness

Kaedee (39 marks) from Stars

Christian (39 marks) from Robotics

Marc (39 marks) from Stampy

8 sticks

Sujith (38 marks) from Kindness

Lai Ye (38 marks) from Wise 

Richelle (37 marks) from Growtopia

Matthew (37 marks) from Robotics
Alden (37 marks) from Lego

Isaac (37 marks) from Minions

7 sticks

Ethan (36 marks) from Minions

Thaneeisha (36 marks) from Stampy

Chloe Lee (35 marks) from Stars

Jing Min (35 marks) and Chufang (35 marks) from Detectives

I am very proud of these children who worked very hard and checked their work carefully to make sure they did the best they could.

From the list above, I was extremely impressed by Ranjiv and Shaan, who achieved perfect scores, as well as Lai Ye, Christian, Rowena and Thaneeisha. The 4 of them from the Maths remedial/enrichment class have proven with their tremendous improvement that with hard work, a lot is possible! :)

Remember to refer to your handbook and act on what you have noted down. I hope by now, this has become a habit for you. This habit will serve you well for life.

You would know that I am not feeling well today. I hope to get better by tomorrow so that I can be in school and go through your English paper with you. If I do not turn up tomorrow, we might only be able to do so next Monday (Friday will have to be spent on your GEP Screening Tests). Please pray for me if you believe in God. Thank you. :)

Have a restful evening with your family.