Announcement 29 May 2015

Dear all,

Homework for the holidays:

1) 2 sets of English papers. (Some school exam papers)
2) A set of Maths topical worksheet
3) some of them have also received the sight words list. Please do revise these sight words with your children. Sight words are important so they can learn to read better.


Thanks and enjoy the June holidays.

Do watch this video if you are free.
This is about an actual P4 grade class in Japan. The children are full of life, and we should learn/aspire to be like them. This also links back to the FTGP lesson we had in classes.



Cheers
Mdm Chan :)

Papers for SA2

Dear all,

Exam Papers for P1 --- I have downloaded them into my dropbox. Here's the link.
These are mainly papers suited for CA2 and SA2. (I.e. the second half of the year.)
This is the original website I got them from. 


Enjoy the school holidays! 

Cheers
Mdm Chan

Free camp

A free camp. Do sign up if you are free.

Error in 1 question

Dear all, 

Please note the error in the above question from McOnline. 

Correct answer should be drew.

this is from the assignment: past and present tense. 

Thanks to A's mummy who spotted this. 😄

Note: This problem has been rectified as of 2nd June, 2015,

Chinese reading tool

For those parents who need help to coach their children for chinese, there's a sale of this pen. Etutor star. There's a Popular Expo sale, 28-31 May. Do visit the booth if you want more information.

Cheers, 

Mdm Chan

Announcement for the June holidays

Dear all,

I have assigned holiday assignments (10 for Learnlogy for the June Holidays). For English, I have assigned 6 assignments during the first week of school holidays. 

Meanwhile, please note that these are not compulsory. They are just here to help you with the revision of English and Maths. 

Please enjoy your holidays too! 

Cheers
Mdm Chan

Announcement 26 May 2015

Dear all, 

Please bring back the progress report back on Thursday with the signature.

Our spelling is postponed to this Thursday. Thanks.

Regards,

Mdm Chan

Announcement 20 May 2015

Dear all,


To prepare for revision, I have posted some exercises for grammar on MC Online to help you in the revision. Do try to attempt them.


Have fun! :)


Cheers
Mdm Chan


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PS: We did the MLEA for the third big book -- The Jigaree. The title of their writing was:  How to be a good friend. Hope they had fun writing them. I am going to make copies for all the group writing they have completed to be pasted back into their MLEA books. As there is a book check for English, I'll pass back the MLEA books for your signatures on Friday.  Please sign and return these books back next Monday. With that, we have completed the writing components for English. At this moment,  I have sought help for some of you to complete your stellar handwriting books.
Lastly, please  bring back the English Files on Friday. All the grammar guides and worksheets should be filed inside.

Thanks.

Updates for today 19 May 2015

Dear all,

Good news. We have started with our third MLEA writing today.

We have watched some snippets of "Home", the latest movie that was shown about this alien invasion on Earth, and one human being managed to be a good friend with the alien. This is similar to The Jigaree which we are doing.

The class undertook efforts to spell out the ways which they can be good friends. We'll be moving to group writing in small A4 sized paper, and eventually, they will be writing in their MLEA book for their individual work.

Regards
Mdm Chan

Meeting on Wednesday

Dear all, 

Believe the meet the parents is postponed. Please call me when you are free. I can update you on your child's progress over the phone. Do pick up your child, and we can also have a short meeting to update about your child. If you have taken leave on that day, my sincere apologies for this. 

Regards

Mdm Chan

Announcement -- MC Online Revision

Dear all,

I have assigned work on MC Online for English revision.  There are 4 each for today and 4 for tomorrow. Please do try it online.

Thanks and regards,
Mdm Chan

PS: We have completed the second MLEA writing in the class today. Great work for the students. :) 

Homework 15 May 2015

The homework that the children had copied earlier this afternoon:

Grammar booklet 2 error

Pls note: 

Please take note grammar booklet 2 - please change 'was' to 'is'

Thanks and regards,

Mdm Chan

English grammar booklet 2

Homework:

Complete Pg 16-19..... These are from unit 10-- the Jigaree. They need to learn how to use ING in different situations. 

Thanks. 

English components

I'll be returning these for signing.

We did this over these 4 days. These are exam components and we have done well as a class. 

Good job for the whole class. We are only left with the last component. Please revise your English this weekend. Thanks. 

English Worksheets for signature

Dear all,

I have managed to mark these in time! Please look through and sign.

These will be a good indication of the likely paper we should be having. I hope the students have benefited from these revisions. Thanks.

I'll be doing group writing again for today. Writing actually helps to process their thoughts into coherent sentences,

Something that is the last step of learning English. First, they need to be able to read. Then, they learn how to comprehend. Writing is the end product. 

Cheers and enjoy your weekend. 

Mdm Chan

Announcement for 14 May 2015

Things due for next week: 

1) Revise English (unit 1-10) over the weekend. 

2) Complete corrections for grammar booklet 1. (Term 1)

3) Bring workbook 1B for Maths.

4) Bring Listening comprehension booklet 2.

Thanks and regards

Mdm Chan

Story telling time with NLB

After the story telling, some of them managed to answer some questions and received a token for their participation. :) 

Story telling with NLB librarian. :) 

They enjoyed themselves at the story telling time. 

The story is also available at Bukit MerG NLB: Sam and Dave dig a hole. 

Cheers, 

Mdm Chan

Important updates last week

Apologies, this post was wrongly posted to my previous blog: It was supposed to be communicated on Thursday, 7 May

Dear all

Important updates for this week.

1) Please revise reading for English this weekend. It's very important that he or she knows at least the sight words.

2) McOnline assignments have been posted for 1a2. Please complete them when you are free.... they are not compulsory. I have assigned about 5 every few days. You can take your time to do them when you are free.
It is also appreciated if you can spend some time to go through some assignments everyday for revision.

NB:   I will be returning Unit 9 and 10 for revision early next week. It will be crucial to revise these 2 units  next weekend. 


3) Please bring the English and Maths file next week for filing.

4) Reading Interest Profile

Please do complete Pg 1-5 of the booklet. After that, get them to count their answers and fill in the boxes on  Pg 6.  If possible, pls explain and bring them to the NLB to search/borrow books based on their interest. (Pg8)
Finally, get them to write their name, class and profile on the bookmark at the back of the booklet. 

Do explain the use of a bookmark.

Things that have been completed in class for these past few days:

MLEA

Modified Learning Experiential experience. 

Based on the experience (e.g. the sandwich making and ice-cream party), they have been writing in groups. I have been correcting them and asking them for re-writing again. However, there are still quite a fair bit of transfer errors. These are errors that occur when they are copying from one draft to another draft. However, this is just the middle of the year. On the whole, I am very heartened by the efforts taken by the class in their writing. 

I will be returning to some of the students the draft and asking them to rewrite at home today. The rewriting was not done properly when I was marking the next draft. 

Please return the draft on this coming Monday 11 May 2015. 

Thanks/regards

Mdm Chan

English Dolch List

100 common words:

Dolch List --> the most common words which your child should have known by this age.

Pls refer to this post: http://1armps.blogspot.sg/2011/03/dolch-list-of-words.html

Thanks/regards
Mdm Chan

Subtraction within 20

Mathematics; Subtraction within 20

1) http://www.1hrmps.blogspot.sg/2013/10/introduction-of-khan-academy-for.html --> If you are interested to learn from Khan academy, a place where they can learn, and do more work over here. You need a google account to get started.


2) http://www.1hrmps.blogspot.sg/2013/07/maths-subtraction-online-link.html ==> Very important, we have seen how the regrouping and renaming is done pictorially in this website.

http://www.1hrmps.blogspot.sg/search/label/Mathematics -->
http://www.1armps.blogspot.sg/search/label/Mathematics
if you would like to refer to previous blog posts on Mathematics in my previous blog.



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New Resources: (From Matholia)
1) Subtract by counting back:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fh4KOxsdos

2) Subtract from 10 first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=42&v=rZls1_CD-FE


How we did it in the class lesson:

1) Counting back using fingers

2) Using the PV(Place value) chart with concrete manipulatives. (http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/grade_g_1.html)

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Maths Language: regroup, rename, make 10, counting on, counting back, altogether, take away, subtracting


PS: We'll continue with the pair /groupwork for the concrete manipulatives tomorrow morning.

Thanks.

Regards
Mdm Chan

Homework 10 May 2015

Dear all,

Homework for today:

1) Maths Workbook up to Page 140.
2) English grammar booklet 2 (for those with corrections, and they need to complete up to Page 13. Some of them have already returned them to me.)

4) Please bring a mini whiteboard for classes and a marker. Do label your name on your marker.


Thanks
Mdm Chan

Revise mother tongue

Please study your mother tongue and revise your work this weekend. 

Thanks,

Mdm Chan

Maths homework for today

Dear all, 

We didn't have enough time in class. We have not even started with the playing of manipulatives for making 10. 

Nevertheless, I will ask you to complete this for homework today. Pg 127-132. Pls return on Monday. 

Thanks and regards,

Mdm Chan

Summary of today's lesson for addition within 20.

Point 1 is the most important point.