Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

MDPW Materials and Things to read up/ Prepare before the actual day


MDPW -- Culture -- 9 July to 13 July 2018

Some Useful Websites
On Singapore Culture (google on Singapore Culture)

== What is Singapore???? ====
IN a heartbeat (showcasing the kampong, olden days of Singapore, army, ) == https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIgoiKKa9_E
Our Singapore -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-docVbsuMFU (Dick Lee’s version – showcasing the history)
Because it’s Singapore (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI_dTDxTf7w)

Powerpoint slides   (for reference)

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Updates for this week T1W10

Updates on 9 March:


1) Shapes (please complete Page 86, using the stickers which they have brought home.)
This is due in Term 2, when school reopens.
**we are not completing the Performance Task in this chapter.**


2) Fun with Maths (This booklet is for parent-child bonding over the school holidays.) More details, please refer to the other blog post for this.


3) Maths Unit Review 1 Corrections have been completed. The paper will be given out in Term 2, week 1. There is 0 percentage for this unit review. However, this will be a good gauge of how your child has been doing for the first 2 chapters.


4) Pick-and-tell assessment rubrics has been completed. This was done during this week, where students were told to pick an item and talk about the item they selected.  Rubrics will be given out in Term 2.


5) English File -- this file is due for checking, and will be returned in Term 2.
Please note the filing of the worksheets as follows:

LHS (left hand side): Other worksheets apart from Stellar Unit worksheets
RHS (right hand side): Stellar Unit worksheets

Outstanding corrections are marked using the post-it pad. Please complete them when you receive the files back in Term 2.


6) Math File -- this file is due for checking, and will be returned in Term 2.
Please note the filing of the worksheets as follows:

LHS (left hand side): Maths Workbook 1A. Till date, we have filed up to Review 2.
RHS (right hand side): Other worksheets apart from Maths Workbook 1A.
**Please note that worksheet 4C, 4D and 5(Shapes) have not been filed in yet.
Please complete the corrections when you receive the file in Term 2.

Outstanding corrections are marked using the post-it pad. Please complete them when you receive the files back in Term 2.


7) Scheme of Work for Maths in Term 2:

We will be following the following topics in this order:
1) Chp 6 -- ordinal numbers
2) Chp 7 -Numbers up to 20
3) Chp 8 - Addition and Subtraction within 20
4) Chp 9 - Length
We will complete the last topic on Length before we end off in Term 2. 


8) MDPW: (Multi Disciplinary Project Work) -
This will commence in Week 4. We would only have project work during that week for 4 days.
Friday is Good Friday.
The topic is on Pets. (e.g. caring for pets)
More details will be given out shortly in Term 2.
Do note that students will be given access to laptops, and they need to learn how to LOGIN using their userid.

Userid:  T10****** (their birth cert)
Password: Rmps2@17

They will also be using MS Word to type in their findings.
Also, they may need to use Google Chrome to research on this topic.
You may also want to go to the library during the school holidays to research for books on pets.


9) Spelling -- No Spelling during the first week of Term 2. It will start in Week 2, Monday, Term 2.


Have a great holiday.

Best regards
Mdm Chan


Friday, February 24, 2017

Games available in the library

Games in the library:

These are available in the library where they can play during recess.

1. Apples to Apples Junior (noun and adjective game)

2. Word on the Street (letter game)

3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cheese Touch Board Game (involves the use of intuition)

4. Scrabble Junior (involves reading and spelling)

5. Zobmondo (involves the use of questioning techniques)

6. Education Trivia Card Game - Professor Noggin's Wildlife Safari (An educational card games about nature, science, animals, birds, reptiles, history, and geography)

7. Educational Insights Magnetic Sight words and sentence builders (Reinforce sight words in context)
8. Learning Resources Pop for Sight Words Game (involves recognition and reading of sight words -improves fluency as children pick word cards from the popcorn box, and keep all the words they can read correctly)

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

English Term 2 things to be covered

Term 2 Things to be covered for English for the following 4 books.
You will also receive the hard copies come in Term 2.
Fyi, first.

These information are important, so you will know what are the grammar items to be covered, vocabulary things that you will need to know.

Unit 5: The Hungry Giant

Vocabulary
beehive, bees, bommy-knocker, bread, butter, giant, honey, hungry

Grammar
Uncountable nouns: bread, butter, honey
Contractions: that’s, I’ll
Conjunction: or, so

Word Identification
Initial consonants: g as /j/
Vowels: /ow/ in Ow!, /ee/ in bees
High frequency words: some, or, so, with



Unit 6: The Crocodile Tea


Vocabulary
ants, anteater, baboon, bug, crocodile, hippo, lizard, pie, zebra

Grammar
Punctuation: speech marks
Pronouns: your, we

Comprehension
Answer MCQ and open-ended questions

Word Identification
Initial consonant: /n/ (nine)
Vowels: ee in bees, sweet, tea (revision), i in hive, fine
High frequency words: again, come, door
Rhyming words with numbers


Unit 7: The Giant's Ice Cream


Vocabulary
breakfast, lunch, dinner, purple, ice cream, doorway, party, stuck

Grammar
Contractions: you’re, I’m
Adjectives
Punctuation: hyphen when a two word noun becomes an adjective
‘ice cream’ and ‘ice-cream cone’

Comprehension
Answer open-ended questions

Word Identification
Initial consonants: st (revision)
Vowels: ice, ate, no
Rhyming words: cat/that, stuff/tough



Unit 8: My River

Vocabulary
eel, fish, turtle, water beetle, salamander, dragonfly, crayfish, muskrat

Grammar
Contractions: it’s
Determiner: my, our
Pronouns: mine, everyone

Word Identification
Blends: /gr/, /dr/
High frequency words: whose, where, this, live, too, all

Computer Lesson on 22 February (important)

15 February updates:


www.typingclub.com
This is the website they used for today's touchtyping class. FYI, if you are keen to continue the lesson from here.



For next week computer lesson, they need to prepare a short story about 5 sentences. They will be learning how to type within the MS Word.

Title: My Favourite Fruit.


Sample:

My favourite fruit is the water-melon.
It is sweet and juicy. It contains Vitamin C.
My mother always buy it for me.
It is a healthy fruit.
I love it very much. 






Cheers,
Mdm Chan

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Starfall

During lessons yesterday, I have shown the class the beginning sounds of some of the letters. 
The website is: www.starfall.com
Please do go in and explore.

Thanks and regards,
Mdm Chan 

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Scholastic Pro Reading Programme

Dear all,
Please log in to Scholastic Pro using this link:

Userid and password: I have sent the details to the parents' watsapp chat group.
Please change your password as soon as possible.
Here are a few useful links:
  1. Quick start user guide in PDF format if you need them, Quick Start Guide.
  2. There is an customer support portal, https://scholastic-learning-zone.custhelp.com/ where you can find FAQ, online help and Scholastic contacts.

I have assigned 3 books for our class to read. You are encouraged to read more books on top on what have been assigned. It is not necessary to finish reading 3 books all at the same time. Please do familiarize yourself with this website. 
Happy reading, everyone.
Regards
Mdm Chan