31 Oct 2012

Dear Parents,

Today, I have briefed the children on what to expect for the next two days - they would be doing their Social Studies Project, as well as a 6cm by 6cm size note ( any shape) for Mr Ng.

For the SS project - the children are doing a scrapbook (materials can be brought from home but work to be done in class during my lessons) on Festivals in Singapore. They would plan their cover page, content page , and choose their own Festivals (at least 2) and research at home. They would bring their pictures (printed or cutouts) and relevant information to make their scrapbook in class. They could include - What is the Festival's name, who celebrate it, how do they celebrate, what do they eat during the celebrations and any other information related to the festival.

For the note to Mr Ng, who is leaving our school, they can write anything they want to say to him and include their name. We are compiling for the class,and for the level to pass to him.

They have two days to complete the scrapbook.

Things to bring for 1 and 2 Nov:
Colouring materials, A4 size blank paper - coloured ( at least 6 sheets), Materials for Social Studies Project , Scissors, 15-cm ruler

Things to bring on 6 Nov
: 2 English Story books that your child has not read, A4 size blank paper - white ( 4 sheets) , colouring materials

P.S. Tomorrow, the children would receive their English and Maths SA2 papers back for your signature. Please sign and return via your child on Friday. We will return the papers once again to you together with the report book.

Please note: There is NO school on 5 Nov. It is Admin day. Thank you.
Have a wonderful day!
Ow Yeong

30 Oct 2012

Dear Parents,

From today onwards, we are resuming normal timetable as usual.

For Maths, we would be going through and reviewing the Maths SA2 paper.  Highest - 100% , Lowest 18% , Average - 78%.  ( 11 out of 30 had above 90 marks.)

After that, we would be doing another aspect of our English project - Poem writing.

The children would be briefed on their Social Studies enrichment project tomorrow. They would do it in class on Thursday and Friday, when I would be away from school for two days on a conference.

Thank you. Have a wonderful day!
Ow Yeong

29 Oct 2012

Dear Parents,
Today the children had their MT SA2 for those who are taking the paper.

After that, we would be having the following activities
- doing a reflection survey
- reviewing and checking of English SA2 Paper 2 (Highest 53.5/55, Lowest 17/55, Average 42.5/55 ) , Listening Compre (Highest 10/10, lowest 8/10)  and Oral feedback (marks are NOT released for this component, but feedback is which 'band' is given.)
(All these papers will be collected back and only released much later.)

- giving out of class photos for those who ordered
- continuation of Maths project ( if there is time).


Tomorrow, we will review the Maths paper.

Thank you.
Have a wonderful day!

Ow Yeong

25 Oct 2012

Dear Parents,
Today for English, we had a movie Review on the movie - Bambi, while the pupils were called to do the online end-of-the year school's pupil survey one at a time.  This is the second type of contribution for a newsletter. ( First was writing a news article - in this case a 'twisted' one based on another version of a well-known nursery rhyme or story, now a movie review.) We would continue to learn other types next week. At the end of the English lesson, the class listened to an audio story.

For Maths, we had the second part of our project - drawing up the table with the same research question, and then interviewing each other in the class for the data. Next week, we would continue the project.  I am moving the children one step at a time for this project.

P.S. We would be going through the SA2 main papers sometime next week, after all absentees had taken the paper on Monday.

Note: We are still using the venue we are using these 2 days as our classroom on Monday. It is also an airconditioned classroom - but not a container. It is a special room for MT, but we are 'loaning' it  and 'shifting' those who usually use the room somewhere else for the time being.

Thank you. Have a wonderful day and a long weekend break! I will see your child in school again next Monday.
Selamat Hari Raya Haji ( to our Muslim parents)!
Ow Yeong

24 Oct (2nd post)

Dear Parents,

For Maths today, we had the children coming up with a simple research question, and also to do a sampling by finding out the possible categories for their research by asking a small group of friends. They would be continuing this Maths project in bite-sized parts.

Btw, I have one parent volunteering to help me organise thus far. Any more takers?

Thank you.
Have a wonderful day!
Ow Yeong

24 Oct 2012

Dear Parents,
Today, we watched news story with a twist (a few videos) and the children created their news stories. We intend to compile them for the newsletter project.

For Maths later, we would be starting on a project which trains the children to do a simple survey and simple report, based on data 'generated'.

Note: There are still absentees in the level who had missed their EL and Maths SA2 papers, as such we could not go through the SA2 papers as yet.

P.S. Thanks to Mrs Singh, who had helped me blog the Health Alert. I was marking the SA2 papers with the level teachers and could not access the blog earlier, and thus had messaged Mrs Singh to help post the info. Fyi please.

Thank you.Have a wonderful day!
Ow Yeong

Health Alert!

For your attention----A chicken pox case has been reported in P4 and 2E. The class (2F)  will be shifting to a new classroom.

Kind regards,
Mrs Singh