Science Practice Paper for Monday

Dear children,

The link below has the answers to the Science Practice Paper which we will be going over in detail on Monday during the four and a half periods we will be having together. If, over this weekend, you have some time left after revising your Mother Tongue materials and other Science materials, please look at this:

https://goo.gl/tNnjR3

All the best for your revision! :)

29 October 2015 (Thursday)

Dear children,

Please refer to these two solutions as instructed. Click on the pictures to zoom in.

The solutions to the other questions in the same paper can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwQurZ8oADp7bmlzMzUtbUljbTQ/view?usp=sharing

All the best for tomorrow's paper! :)

9 October 2015 (Friday)

Dear children,

I hope you had an enjoyable Children's Day today! :)

These are the 19 Super Spellers who scored full marks for the final spelling test of the year. They earned 2 ice-cream sticks each for their groups.

Super Spellers
Enrui from Elementine
Jing Min from Eagle
Chloe Lee, Hayley, Jonathan and Yu Zhi from Crystal
Ethan from Bugatti
Chloe Chiang, Giselle, Isaac and Kaedee from Friendship
Joshua, Keagan and Marc from Pros
Genevieve, Matthew and Samir from Masterchef
Sarah and Shaan from Winners

Notice that all 4 members of Crystal and Friendship are Super Spellers this time round! Great job, Crystal and Friendship! For their combined excellence, Crystal and Friendship earned 3 bonus ice-cream sticks.

We did pretty well this time round as a class, though many of you missed the perfect score by one word.  Click on this chart to take a look:

As promised at the start of this term, children who score full marks for all 3 spelling tests this term will be awarded with 25 ice-cream sticks each. I call these children the Ultimate Spellers. We have 1 Ultimate Speller in our class. He is:

Shaan from Winners

Check out the "Scores Update" section on the left to see how well your group is doing.

As promised yesterday, I'm sharing with you some photographs of Giselle's Roselle plant and Huda's caterpillars:

Giselle's Roselle Plant. 
Is your plant growing well too? :)

 Huda's caterpillars. 
Can you spot them? 
Which stage(s) are they at?

Over this weekend, as you prepare for Monday's Composition Examination, you might want to take a look at the good compositions that a few of your friends have sent me. They can be found at this Dropbox link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sf52tuex2s3tjrt/AADhXIKz0OTQc9AHgiiuLz-2a?dl=0

If you are one of those who I have asked to send me your composition but have yet to do so, please e-mail me soon so that your classmates can learn from you. I am supposed to have received more.

I will upload a sample composition into this folder tomorrow when I have the time to write one. 

All the best for Monday! :) See you on 26 October!

8 October 2015 (Thursday)

Beloved children, 

We began our day together cheering for Kaedee when she went up to collect her prize for the "Every Drop Counts!" Poster Contest. Ranjiv received a consolation prize for the same contest too. Well done, Kaedee and Ranjiv! We are very proud of you! :)

You received your first Children's Day gifts for this year from Mr Vai and me before we had our final spelling test for this year. I then tied up some loose ends and gave out some work to you before you left for your Music lesson. As of today, our syllabus for English, Maths and Science has been fully completed. It will be time for you to work on past year Practice Papers next week, once your SA2 Composition Examination on Monday is over.

I hope you enjoyed the wonderful Children's Day celebration we had in school. We had so much food and drinks from the generous parents who contributed to the class party today. Ethan's parents also gave out goodie bags to you. How blessed are you, P3/5!

Below are some pictures from the party. I did not manage to take any photographs of the hall programme, so you will have to rely only on your memory to remember those fun times. ;)

Goodie bags from Ethan's parents

A photograph of me with Mrs Wong's ex-PE teacher :)

One more class photograph to add to our collection :)

Before I forget, I would like to mention the names of children who have perfectly completed exercises in the green Length, Mass & Volume booklet. They have each been awarded with 2 ice-cream sticks for each time their names are mentioned below:

Exercises on Mass

Chufang and Jing Min from Eagle

Yu Zhi from Crystal

Ethan, Ranjiv and Sujith from Bugatti

Giselle and Kaedee from Friendship

Avery, Joshua and Keagan from Pros

Samir from Masterchef

Theophilus from Winners

Exercise on Volume

Chufang, Jing Min and Yu Qi from Eagle

Jonathan and Chloe Lee from Crystal

Ranjiv from Bugatti

Joshua and Keagan from Pros

Genevieve from Masterchef

Olivia from Cotton

Richelle and Sarah from Winners

Hoi Yung and Rowena from Interact

I will be writing another update tomorrow evening to: 

- announce the Super Spellers for today's spelling test

- give you a Dropbox link where you can read good compositions written by your classmates, as well as a sample composition written by me

- share a picture of Giselle's Roselle plant

- share some pictures of Huda's caterpillars

Check back tomorrow evening after 5 p.m.! 

Have an enjoyable Children's Day! :)

7 October 2015 (Wednesday)

Dear children,

I am still busy marking and will not be writing an update today.

Remember to check your handbook and prepare for your spelling test tomorrow.

See you.

6 October 2015 (Tuesday)

Dear children,

I will not be writing an update today as I am busy marking your compositions, which I plan to return tomorrow. You have heard from me how long it takes to mark 40 compositions. I hope you are taking the comments given to you seriously each time you work on your corrections.

As always, don't forget to check your handbook. 

Remember to prepare for the final spelling test to be conducted on this Thursday too.

Have a pleasant evening with your family. See you tomorrow.

5 October 2015 (Monday)

Dear children,

Last Friday, we gave out prizes to the Group of September -- Winners! Richelle, Sarah, Shaan and Theophilus have worked very hard in their studies and their behaviour in the past few weeks and truly deserve to win the award. Well done, Winners! :)

Sarah and Theophilus have joined the ranks to become new Level 1 winners, each earning 5 pieces of stationery as their prizes. Richelle, now a Level 2 winner, earned her coloured pens, wax crayons and scissors. Shaan, still leading in the race, moved up to win his Level 5 prize -- a 100-piece Jellybeans Impossipuzzle that will help him continue sharpening his mind and building his perseverance.

These are the 20 Super Spellers who earned 2 ice-cream sticks each for their groups for last Friday's spelling test:

Chufang from Eagle

Yu Zhi from Crystal

Christian, Ethan, Ranjiv and Sujith from Bugatti

Chloe Chiang from Friendship

Avery, Marc and Keagan from Pros

Genevieve, Matthew and Samir from Masterchef

Jia Ning and Shineta from Cotton

Richelle, Sarah and Shaan from Winners

Lai Ye and Rowena from Interact

Notice that all 4 Bugatti members are Super Spellers this time round! For their combined excellence, Bugatti earned 3 bonus ice-cream sticks. Awesome work, Bugatti! :)

As a class, we did far better this time round as compared to the previous spelling test. Have a look at this chart:

(Click on the picture to zoom in.)

You spent this morning working on your composition corrections before we got started on our final English unit -- "Houses In Singapore". Through watching a short video clip about Chinatown in the 1960s and reading an information text, you learnt about the different kinds of houses in past and present Singapore. You picked up vocabulary such as "shophouses", "government", "victims", "standpipe", "kampong" and "attap leaves". For many of you, your favourite picture was that of the standpipe in the information text. Share with your parents why. :)

Later on in the day, you heard from me the requirements of the Science Practical Test which will be conducted next Friday (16 October). You can prepare yourself by going through all the Science Activity Books as well as the Science experiment worksheets we completed throughout this year.

Thereafter, we continued with: 

1) a vocabulary exercise about Changi ferry area and Pulau Ubin, 

2) a sentence rewriting exercise which required you to use adjectives to describe nouns

3) an exercise requiring you to edit verb tenses (from past to present or vice versa) in a passage

4) a Whole Text Study practice that helped you to differentiate main ideas from details in a passage

Over the next three days, I will spend my remaining time with you completing the syllabus before moving on to do as much revision as we can before I leave. I want to do as much as I can with you to prepare you for your upcoming examination papers in Week 7. Next week, I will hand you over to the relief teacher when I am away for reservist training.

Time is precious. I hope you will keep your full focus during lessons.

As always, don't forget to check your handbook.

Have a restful evening. See you tomorrow! :)