Wednesday, 25 April 2012

25 April 2012

Dear Parents,
Today, we completed our filing and the children brought home their English files. I will be collecting their files only in week 9. We did not have time to complete filing for Maths, so we will be sending the Maths files back on Monday.

Today, we also did a comprehension skills practice exercise, as well as completed some Maths practice. We then did a poster on 'Things so Singaporean' as part of the Social Studies (English) exercise. Those who did not manage to complete in class were allowed to bring it home to complete and to hand in tomorrow. We also went through self-checking for Maths Homework due to day. 

I didn't have the time to do the English practice for picture discussion today. I will continue to do so on Friday. I will officially start my Oral Assessment on Monday instead, and will take the whole week to complete, starting with registers number 1.

Things to bring tomorrow:
- 2 English books - read and ready for book review
(I've already explained how to do it today as well.)
- Foolscap Paper - 4 sheets
- A4 size blank Paper - 4 sheets

As mentioned, the children will be doing
a) English Revision Paper - full paper as a practice
b) Maths Revision Paper - full paper as a practice
c) 2 Book Reviews
in class tomorrow, while I am away for a cluster meeting.

P.S. From 8 May to 15 May, we will be shifting to a P6 classroom as the current classroom will be given to the P6 for their exams. We will be shifting back after the SA1. Most of the P2 classes will be affected, and we are one of them.

Thank you. Have a wonderful day!
Ow Yeong

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

24 April 2012

Dear Parents,
We will be reading a new book - Chicken Food today. This book will not be assessed in terms of its grammar components for the English Review paper at mid year.

We will be attempting a written exercise based on the book 'Chicken Food', and at that same time, I will be working with the rest of the children to listen to them discussing a given picture to see their readiness for their assessment on Friday.

For Maths, we will be doing corrections, and will hopefully have time also to come up with a story book with multiplication and division concepts embeded in it.

Things to bring for tomorrow:
a) Green Pen
b) Foolscap Paper - 3 sheets
c) A4 size paper - 2 sheets
d) Decorative markers and stickers - for social studies project to come up with a poster on Things Singaporean. 

Thank you.

Have  a wonderful day!
Ow Yeong

Maths Homework pages( continuation of previous update for 23 April)

Dear Parents,
Here's the pages for the homework assigned:-

Due Wednesday - Maths activity book - Pages 53 to 62.
Due Friday- Maths activity book - Pages 63 to 73.

There is NO homework this weekend.
Thank you. Have a wonderful day!
Ow Yeong

Monday, 23 April 2012

23 April 2012

Dear Parents,
Today the children copied their things to bring and homework in their pupil diary:-
Things to bring tomorrow - Green Pen, A4 size paper - 3 sheets and Maths Coursebook 2A
Homework due Wed - a) Maths Activity book 2A Part 2 - pages (I'll post tomorrow as I've left my teacher's guide in school - my apologies)
                                    b) practise for Oral in lead.com.sg (Oral Buddy)  - I have not been able to do the practice for picture discussion with the rest of the pupils. Thus I will do that tomorrow (and Wed)  and will most probably start the actual assessment on Friday, as I will be away for a cluster meeting this Thursday.



Homework due Fri - a) Maths Activity book 2A Part 2 - additional pages till end of review exercise ( except journals) - again apologies, will post actual pages tomorrow morning when I am in school.)
                                  b) 2 more leaves - which are book reviews


There will be NO homework this Friday as a number of pupils are having their Hindi and Punjabi exams this weekend.

Thank you. Have a wonderful day!

Note:
a) This Thursday during my absence, the children will be doing an English revision paper as well as a Maths revision paper, plus the reading period. Both papers will be done in the exam mode. These are full papers will be used to gauge readiness to review this half year's work. Thus nothing will be missed.
b) From 8 May to 15 May, our class will be shifting to another classroom - a P6 classroom as the P6s will be using our classroom (we are not the only ones to move. All in the containers are moving.) for their exams. Both P4 in the morning and us are all moving.  This is just an exam measure, as the room will be arranged in the exam format during this period of time.



Ow Yeong

Friday, 20 April 2012

20 April 2012

Dear Parents,
Today, the children will be given their Learning Journey consent form.
In class, we had Spelling (unseen and from the spelling of numbers from zero to one thousand in words). Next week's spelling will be from the same category.

We also had a comprehension exercise ( looking for main ideas in given paragraphs) which we would complete next week.

For Maths, we will have Mental Sums and filing for the Maths Brain Gym file (which I have purchased for the children ). This is due to the fact that many of our Brain gym activities are project based and will not be suitable to be placed in the exercise book. We will do more in the exercise books in Semester 2.

Things to bring on Monday :
a) Green Pen
b) Foolscap paper- 3 sheets
c) A4 size blank paper - 3 sheets
d) Coloured markers and decoration for the 'Brain Gym' file
e) Pointers for self evaluation for scrapbook   ( this self evaluation via write up and checklist, plus peer evaluation, plus teacher evaluation will be bundled up together to complete the scrapbook. I will be giving them 3 plastic pockets to place these evaluations.)

Thanks.
Have a wonderful day!

Ow Yeong

Thursday, 19 April 2012

19 April 2012

Dear Parents,

Today, we had another Graphic Stimulus assessment, with the questions not printed but read out by me.
We then had Show-and-Tell on our cupcake experience. (For the only absentee in class,  I will do this with him on his return for both activities.) The children were shown the powerpoint slides of their own pictures and then presented on it. They did a great job!

We ran out of time for review and filing etc so we will do so tomorrow.

As for Maths, we had mental sums ( 10 written sums), and we have also gone through the Mass Practical paper. This was returned ( plus the Journal writing rubrics feedback) in a plastic pocket.

For the Mass Practical paper, this is the class statistics -

Band1 >=85 24
Band2 >=70<85 5
Band3 >=50<70 1
Band4 <50 0
VR 0
Average 95.33
Highest 100.00
Lowest 60.00


For Journal writing , we have selected one of the pieces to assess. The piece selected was "My favourite play area in the school". No marks are awarded, only a checklist with comments.

Things to bring for tomorrow:
a) Hole puncher
b) Stapler
c) Green pen
d) Spelling ex book with your signature and corrections done
e) Plastic pocket with Mass Practical paper plus Journal writing rubrics feedback ( with your signature)

P.S. The journal was returned so that you can take a look at the piece of journal I had selected to comment on. Please also help to initial on the last exercise so that I know you have seen. The children will be using their journals on Monday so I am not collecting it tomorrow.


P.P.S. a) I have explained to 5 pupils today on how to do the synonyms booklet.
          b) I will issue the Learning Journey consent form tomorrow. Currently we only have 3 Parents volunteering as facilitators for the Learning Journey. Interested parents, please do let Mrs Singh know. Same arrangement as before. It will be f.o.c, and parent volunteers will be tasked to lead a group of 3 to 5 children.

Thank you. Have a wonderful day!
Ow Yeong

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

18 April 2012

Dear Parents,
Today I have assessed about 7 children and have advised them on their picture discussion performance. We also did English and Maths Filing today. However, there was no time to do Show-and-Tell for the cupcake decoration experience today so we will do so tomorrow.

18 April 2012
Homework due Friday (20 April)
1.        English – 2  leaves for book review indicating title , author, what is nice about book and reviewed by (your name).  Size of leaves about a third of an A4 size paper.
2.        Maths – To memorise the 4 times and 5 times tables

Homework due Monday (23 April)
-          English – My book of Synonyms ( for composition writing purposes)  - I have explained this at length in class. Please do ask your child to ask me again if they are in doubt.
-          Maths – Maths Worksheets (stapled)

Things to bring on Thursday 19 April
-          Stapler
-          Hole Puncher
-          Green pen
-          Maths Coursebook 2A
Thanks. Have a wonderful day!

Ow Yeong