16 Feb 2012

Dear Parents,
Today, we reviewed grammatical items like subject-verb-agreement, use of the apostrophe 's' as well as the simple present/simple past/ past participle (used after has/have) of given verbs. The use of videos and songs to reinforce this helped to instil interest in the pupils and the pupils had to give me one to two examples of the simple present/simple past/ past participle e.g. run/ran /run , before they go for recess as that was the password for recess today. We had also reviewed some life cycles of different insects and animals including that of a frog as part of the enriched vocabulary and information provided for our English Big book.

For Maths, we explored estimation, on how pupils can judge when an object's measurements can be in metres or centimetres; and we also had the pupils (working in teams) to measure objects around us such as the height of the class chairs, and the various painted fruits outsider the container classrooms, using their measuring tape, and recording them in their worksheets. Tomorrow, we will get them to measure bigger objects by combining their efforts (using addition and our class metre rule).

Things to bring for tomorrow
- Maths Coursebook 2A
- Small whiteboard, duster and marker
- A4 size blank paper - 4 sheets

Homework - Lead.com.sg vocabulary assignments as well as the Maths (Find a Pattern) Worksheets will be due tomorrow.
There will also be spelling tomorrow.

Btw, I have returned their SPELLING EXERCISE BOOK for your SIGNATURE AND PERUSAL. They have to complete all corrections, write in the content page if not written, and bring the spelling exercise book tomorrow as we have spelling tomorrow. I am training them to follow instructions with this "assignment" and am checking if they are able to bring the book back tomorrow with all corrections done and content page written and with your signature.

Thank you. Have a wonderful day!
Ow Yeong