Separate list for Week 7 and 8 Spelling

Dear Parents,
I had wanted the whole extra spelling list (just given) for the children to organise and also to keep as a reference when writing. Thus the words were not separated. Linus' mum emailed me the separate list - all separated into Week 7 and 8. Thanks! I'm attaching it here for your reference, in case your child needs to confirm which words are to be tested in Week 7 and which in Week 8. By the way, I will only test 10 words in Week 7 and 10 words in Week 8. The extra words are for their use in writing. Thanks.

List of frequently misspelt words for spelling for the next 2 weeks (Week 7 and 8)

Week 7

A       address       advice         advise

B       believe

D       deceive

F       finally  

G      grammar

H      happily       hoarse

J       jealous

L       leisure           likely       lovely          luxury

P       piece

Q      quizzes

R       realize          really         receive  

S       safety          several        similar    

T       though          through

U       until                     usually  

V       villain

W      weird           whether     which  

Week 8

A       accidentally         advertisement      appearance   

B       barbecue               beginning    

C       conscientious       courteous  

D       disappoint           disastrous  

E       embarrass             especially                      extremely  

F       familiar                fascinating  

G      generally              guidance

H      handkerchief        humorous  

I        immediately        information  

K      knowledge

M      medicine             millionaire            mischievous        

mysterious

N       neighbour            nuisance

O      occasionally        occurred  

P       pleasant                principal               principle  

Q      questionnaire  

R       restaurant

S       surprise                suspicious  

T       themselves           therefore             thorough              tomorrow  

V       valuable      

W      wherever  

 Thanks:) Have a wonderful weekend!

Ow Yeong

P.S. For the last 2 periods of Maths yesterday, we had completed Maths journals and also completed the Maths Activity Book 2A part 2. Only 2 children could not complete and they had to bring home as homework. The rest had already handed in.

27 April 2012

Dear Parents,
Today, we had Spelling ( for words in numbers), and we also had reviewed and understood the list of words ( for Spelling for Week 7 and 8 - misspelt words) given to them. I am copying these words below for your info, but I have already printed a copy for them. For those who are in school, they have received today. For those who are absent, they will get it on Monday. But in case you need to know earlier, the list of words are copied below. I have informed the children that I will test 10 words from the list ( those words with 7 or fewer than 7 letters to be tested in Week 7, and those longer words (longer than 7 letters) to be tested in Week 8). This will give them more time to learn these words, which will be useful in composition writing.

Things to bring will be the same as that for today - Green pen, foolscap paper and A4 size blank paper.
As stated earlier, there is NO homework issued today. A number of our class pupils are having their Hindi or Punjabi tests/ exams this weekend.

Thank you. Have a wonderful day!
Ow Yeong
The spelling list (for week 7 and 8) is attached below:

List of frequently misspelt words for spelling for the next 2 weeks (Week 7 and 8)

A   accidentally     address   advertisement   advice   advise     appearance   

B    barbecue    beginning   believe  

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C    conscientious    courteous  

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D   deceive   disappoint   disastrous  

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E    embarrass    especially     extremely  

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F    familiar   fascinating   finally  

G   generally    grammar    guidance

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H   handkerchief   happily    hoarse   humorous  

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I    immediately    information  

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J   jealous

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K   knowledge

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L    leisure    likely    lovely   luxury

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M   medicine    millionaire    mischievous    mysterious

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N   neighbour    nuisance

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O    occasionally   occurred  

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P    piece    pleasant   principal   principle  

Q   questionnaire   quizzes

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R   realize   really    receive   restaurant  

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S    safety    several   similar     surprise     suspicious  

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T    themselves    therefore   thorough   though   through   tomorrow  

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U     until   usually  

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V    valuable    villain  

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W   weird   wherever   whether   which  

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

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

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

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