The amazing woman - Oh Siew May

The talk by our VP - Mdm Shanti. 

This is the person who is invited for the talk tomorrow for the A.M. assembly. Oh Siew May. 

Scaling Walls is the book she has written --  She has cerebral palsy. Life has thrown her with many challenges, and yet, she has never give up. 

Her facebook account is here.  

One thing I have learnt from the talk yesterday is "our life is like a mountain. some days can be tougher, some days can be easier. all we need to do is keep moving no matter what happens, and one day, we will make it to our destination. one must have a dream to keep going" 

Without dreams, life is meaningless. 

Do read more about her if you have the time. 

Cheers,

Mdm Chan 

Art Rage Drawings

Some drawings from the class:

1) Yong Ming's apple:

Sophia's water-melon:

Isaac's fruit:

Zhi Xuan's water-melon:

Clarice's water-melon:

Angel's water-melon:

Cheers,
Mdm Chan

Comments on the Composition

Dear all,

Please note that the present tense, past tense and the participle has been given out.
Soft copy:  http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/irregular%20verbs%20chart%20-%20%20alphabetical%20order.pdf 


Spelling on the past tense will be given out on selected words. 

Composition: 
10 marks is allocated for composition in the final year examination. In an effort to boost the proficiency level of writing in the class, class writing is given out every week.

4 marks on language component and 6 marks for content.

Things to note:
1) Write based on the picture. There are some who have missed out key points and they are penalised on the content.
2) Tenses should be in the past, unless it is referring to the future or the present.
3) A minimum of 3 paragraphs is required.
4) Handwriting should be neat and legible.



Feedback on the English Unit Review:
1) Synthesis - And, But, Because. These can be quite difficult for some. We will need to work on these areas.
2) Simple past and present tense.
To sing (and no other forms such as sang, sings, singing)
She sings everyday.
Last night, she sang.
There are still some who are grappling with the above sentences.  Please revise on this. This is very important for English.



Regards,
Mdm Chan

PS: Next week is the Maths test for Multiplying and Dividing by 4, 5 and 10. 
Please prepare.

National Day Songs

As National Day is drawing near, there are some URLs for those National Day songs for your viewing pleasure. 


Home (MTV version)
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This is Home: (This version was sung by one of my university's pal. He's extremely talented with the piano and violin, and he has a great voice. Check this out: http://www.box.net/shared/s2g90j68z5)  




Where I Belong
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In A heartbeat
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Unit 11 and Unit 12 Learning Objectives -- Stellar

Dear Parents,

Here's the guide for the next 2 units. 

Please remember to refer to this guide especially when you are doing the revision for English. 

The unit review will be coming after we have completed the Best Pet next week. 

Unit 11: Is the Wise Owl Wise

Vocabulary: summer, winter, autumn, spring, squirrels, badgers, foxes, stones, forest

Grammar:

Nouns: (Singular/plural) end with –s and -es

Connectors: and

Verbs: (non-action verbs) look, think, wait, begin

(irregular past), dreamt, hid, began, slept, found, kept, told, dried, shut

Adjectives: (after the verb)  He is clever.

Phrases of time sequence: in the day, at night, one summer, in the autumn

Unit 12: What Will the Weather be like today?

Vocabulary: cloudy, frost, rain, rainbow, snow, storm, sun, weather, windy, thermometer, wind/rain gauge, cockatoo, mole

Compound words: somewhere, whatever, outside

Grammar:

Pronouns: you, it, I, me, us, we

Connectors: when, or, and

Verbs: (non-action): become, begin, be, will, is, like, know

Special verb: dress up

Adjectives (from nouns): cloudy, windy, steamy, sunny, rainy, snowy, frosty, stormy, warm, dry, hot, wet, cold, cool

Nouns (uncountable): weather, rain

(irregular): skies, fish

(Regular): frog, lizard, cockatoo, mole, bee, duck

Phrases of time sequence:

Contraction: doesn’t, it’s what’s, there’s

Structure: (noun/pronoun): What / How will

(verb… noun/pronoun): say/says the bee

Punctuation: question mark and speech marks 

Flag Design - National Day

Dear parents,

the Flag design is here again! 

Pls read below for more information. As we are having digital art lessons up to Week 7 every Thursday, we'll do the drawing tomorrow. 

Pls bring these things for Art lesson tomorrow:

Colour markers, watercolour, poster colour paint, oil pastel, construction papers, etc. 

 

The Aesthetics Department is organizing an Art Competition “Loving Singapore, Our Home” to celebrate the coming National Day. During Art lessons in Wk 3 and Wk 4, pupils of your levels will work on it.

 

Objectives:

1. Pupils to have a part in creating the celebratory mood for the aesthetics of the school during the period before National Day.

2. Pupils to express their feelings for Singapore through art and drawing.

3. Pupils to reflect on our NE messages through the theme, ‘Loving Singapore, Our Home’.

 

Theme:

Loving Singapore, Our Home

 

Rules and Regulations:

1. Participants to draw and colour within the bunting. The crescent and five stars must neither be drawn nor coloured and should remain in white.

2. All submission must be done on the official A-3 template.

3. Medium of usage: Colour markers, watercolour, poster colour paint, oil pastel, construction papers, etc.

FTGP - Children full of life

FTGP lesson: 


Please watch them in sequence if you have the time.

This is something real, something which has happened in Japan for the Grade 4, which is quite unique and not to be seen elsewhere. Singapore's PERI standard and where we are heading this direction in years to come. 

Children full of life: (Part 1 of 5) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=armP8TfS9Is

Homework and test announcement

Friday:
Homework for the weekend:

1) Reading Comprehension booklet -- Complete up to Worksheet 7
2) Maths 2B WB -- Complete up to Revision 4
3) Spelling for next Thursday: The Best Pet (the first spelling)

4) Test: Next week: Maths --> Multiplying and Dividing by 2 and 3



Notifications: This has been given out. Please read.
There is a workshop for MS Office. Do sign up if you feel that you need help for MS Office.

Things learnt: 
Past tense of these words:
is --> was
are --> were
have --> had
has --> had
read/cut --> read/cut
swim --> swam
These will be tested for next week's spelling again. 


Week 3 -- Maths ( we will proceed to do Time)
English -- The Best Pet (things to note: the conjunctions by joining 2 sentences. This is important, as they need to know how to do synthesis (i.e. sentence construction.)


Any questions, please let me know.


Cheers and have a good weekend.
Mdm Chan

MDPW lesson objectives

MDPW:

Key Concepts to be taught: 


1) learn how to launch and save MS PowerPoint 2010 presentation
2) Add slide, slide background, and slide transition
3) Insert WordArt, ClipArt and AutoShapes
4) Insert TextBox, and change font properties
5) Apply animation, animation timing and custom timing
6) Create an e-portfolio for this MDPW and upload the end-product
7) Peer assessment
8) Cyberwellness -- Handle appropriate content, recognise and abide to copyright regulations. Protect private information. 


Things taught during 1 period of MDPW today: 

1) Launch and open PowerPoint.
2) Concepts of ribbons was explained.

File / Home / Insert / Design/ etc... 


3) Went through in detailed "Home" ribbon
Sub-ribbon (Slides)
- New Slide ( How to add new slide) -- or shortcut key -- Ctrl-M
- Layout
- Reset (meaning everything is being reset to 0) 


Sub-ribbon (Font)
- Bold (Ctrl - B )
- Italic (Ctrl - I )
- Underline (Ctrl - U )


Sub-ribbon (Paragraph)
Applicable when text is being entered, similar to writing words in Paragraph
- How they can rotate their text into 90 degrees, or tilt their headings.


Sub-ribbon (SHAPES)
- They were tasked to draw at least 3 shapes, and colours had to be changed.

Ribbon "INSERT"
Sub-ribbon (Text) -- WordArt
- They were tasked to do 1 WordArt and changing the colours/fill etc...

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Sub-ribbon ()
Save MS PowerPoint
(Ctrl - S )

Save as (Function key [F12])

Hope this helps.

Please try to revise this with your child, if possible.

Thanks/regards
Mdm Chan


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MDPW Lesson 2: 

Things covered:
Transition Ribbon

and Animation ribbon

(As hands-on was not provided, only explanations were given. This will be revised and time will be given to do in the lab next Thursday.)

Watermelon from Art Rage

The watermelon from today's digital art class...

The apple _ Lesson 2

English - Unit 9 and Unit 10 term 3

Unit 9:  The Ant and the Grasshopper:

Vocab: ant, bee, butterfly, fall (autumn), grasshopper, insects, narrator, summer, winter, zest

Grammar:
Quantifier: so much, whole, all, lots
Compound words:

Verbs as used in a play: narrator in the past tense, characters in the present tense

Modal verbs: must
Contractions: it’s, don’t isn’t, there’s I’d, we’ll what’s
Prepositions: for, from, to with, in,
Adjectives: good, better and best
Phrases of time sequence: all summer along

High frequency words: always, around, came, every, live, long, much, no, soon, there, whole, work



Unit 10: The best pet


Dragon, giraffe, rat, dinosaur, spider, fish, fleas, flies, mosquitoes, robbers

Grammar: “the” as in “the best”
Quantifier: no, all, another, every
Pronouns: she, her, they, their, them, we, our you, it, its, I

Singular, Plural: tooth, teeth, fly, flies, mosquito, mosquitoes
Compound words: classroom, something
Conjunctions: and, because, but
Verbs: taught, thought, left, got, ate, put, read, caught
Modal verbs: would, should, could
Contractions: it’s /its, can’t,  I’ve
Prepositions: in, to, with, on off, out of,
Adjectives: big, sharp, hungry, best, long, soft, warm
Phrases on time sequence: e.g. on Monday
Structure: What if?
Punctuation: full stop after an abbreviation

High frequency words: days of the week, always, because, best, every fun, half, school, thought, work

** Please refer to this list, when you are revising for the unit review. This should be the reference list. Thanks.**  

Status: Things completed in the class for the past week

Things done in the class:

1) Mind-mapping: We have mind-mapped on Open-ended comprehension. Summarizing on key points using mind-map to capture key points in the comprehension.

2) Adverbs: by adding '-ly'. What are adverbs?

3) Conjunctions: to be covered (but this is very important):  AND, BECAUSE, BUT

English unit review will be coming soon: topics to be covered:

1) The Ant and the Grasshopper\
2) The Best Pet

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Maths:
1) Heuristics skills ==>
Guess and check, listing by systematic manner

2) Problem sums (PSLE booklet)

3) Completed the chapter on Multiplication 4, 5 and 10.






Regards,
Mdm Chan

What is Storybird

What is Storybird?

Please refer to this URL on what Storybird is all about:
http://1armps.blogspot.sg/2012/05/creating-story-using-storybird.html

Thanks,
Mdm Chan

Congrats to some pupils who have done a fantastic job in creating stories in Storybird. :)

Announcement on Wednesday

Things to bring on Thursday:

1)  P1 PAL files (please bring this if you still have them)
2)  Art work done previously with Mdm Marianna earlier this year


Thanks,
Mdm Chan