Announcement for 29Jan

There is an exercise where Sun Laoshi will ask students to read the first passage.

Things learnt for Chinese:

Things to be created in the ICT lesson:

Last slide:

Learnlogy homework

Homework on Learnlogy.... please complete.

Announcement (T1W4)

T1W4:
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Return of English and Maths files
1) I am returning Maths and English Files... these are the items found inside.

Maths:
- The Math Spelling test
- Chapter 1: Numbers to 1000

English:
- Listening Comprehension (practice and actual)
- Reading Comprehension Booklet 1  (They have completed up to Worksheet 7. )
- Stellar Worksheet (Chicken Rice)

Please complete ALL corrections and sign accordingly.


Thanks and regards
Mdm Chan



Status of Maths: 
Complete Practice 1 of Subtraction within 1000.
We will continue to the remaining parts of Subtraction within 1000 next week.

English:
The Underground Dance's stellar worksheets will be completed next week.

MDPW Official Request

Dear all

Please let me know. Much appreciated if you can volunteer for this. :)

Announcement for homework today

Homework for today:

PTM 2016

Dear all,

Here's the slides for today's briefing.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ermgzwtexl6pmam/PTM_2016.pdf?dl=0


Cheers and have a good weekend.


Regards
Mdm Chan

Updates for English Presentation (Week 8)

Dear all,

Here's the link on how to conduct the presentation. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tqy8aq8h4c338tm/Teaching%20Presentation%20Skills%28P1-2%29.pdf?dl=0

Here's the link on the rubrics we will be grading them on. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kmf47xhe99ngzaw/P1%20%26%202%20%20Group%20Presentation%20Rubric%20%28Pupils%27%20Copy%20with%20annotations%29%282016%29.pdf?dl=0 

This would be done in week 8. I will be going through this in detail with the class. 

Cheers

Mdm Chan

PS: I have assigned 1 MConline English exercise today, and 2 English exercises on this Friday. 

P2 camp 1 March 2016

Dear all,

Our P2 camp date is out; 1 March 2016 (Tuesday)
Please let me know if you are keen. I need 9 parent volunteers, 3 in each group.
We will be going to Henderson Waves for the whole day from 8 am - 1 pm.
Please contact me separately through watsapp.

Cheers,
Mdm Chan

English Updates

Dear all,

We went through this in class - Bloom’s Taxonomy. We will be facilitating group discussions based on this. 

Here's the link.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m5iazr85bij8cio/P1%20%26%202%20Checklist%20for%20Reading%20Aloud%20%28Self-Assessment%29%288%20Jan%29.pdf?dl=0


This was the last Friday's group discussion document. 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1wugv9wl4l97iza/Group%20Work%20Template_Underground%20Dance.docx?dl=0

Here's the individual finished product to be pasted in their EL notebook. We will be doing this today. 
Moving on to other books, we will not be giving them this... instead they will be copying out their responses from the discussion document onto the EL notebook. 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9nccpfti84inkp8/Book%20Talk_Indiv_Underground%20Dance.docx?dl=0

Reading Ambassadors

Dear all,

Here's the link to the checklist for a Reading Ambassadors. 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m5iazr85bij8cio/P1%20%26%202%20Checklist%20for%20Reading%20Aloud%20%28Self-Assessment%29%288%20Jan%29.pdf?dl=0 

We will start off with two from the class. This will slowly be extended to the rest of the students who show potential too. 


Cheers
Mdm Chan

Status updates

End of T1W2

Maths: 

Chapter 1 has completed. 

We will proceed with chapter 2 this week.

English:

Halfway through stellar worksheets of The Chicken Rice. 

I will complete this before starting with The Underground Dance stellar worksheets.

Cheers

Mdm Chan

Chinese lesson

Chinese lesson... What are we doing in preparing for Chinese New Year. 

PAL and MDPW

PAL lesson tomorrow:

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Art materials ( please bring the same as you had done so on Tuesday.) 

I mentioned to some of them they need more newspapers. Otherwise, the tables were dirtied as some of them spilled the water onto it. Hence, please bring extra newspapers. They can too be kept in class for future use.  

For art lesson on Tuesday, we don't have much time to wash their palettes as the lesson is only an hour, please bring a plastic bag so they can wrap the dirtied one in it, and bring the clean one back to class the next day. 

All resources should be kept in class. So, they will not need to carry a heavy bag. 

Thanks. 

I'll be teaching outdoor module in July with them. We will then have the cooking session around session 4. Will also require parents volunteers for the cooking. (About 5, one per group). 

More details will be announced as we approach the dates. 

Other updates:

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There is MDPW (multi-disciplinary project work) taking place in the last week of this term. Same like last year, all lessons except Mother Tongue is frozen. 

Will need parent volunteers to come for the week. The ideal scenario is 1 group with 1 adult. All of them will be spread across the classes. They will be grouped based on the topics they will choose. This is also a good time to make more friends across the level, as we have more diversity. Only 1 group will stay with me, while the rest will be dispersed among the other P2 teachers.

Actual dates of MDPW: March 7-11. 

Please let me know in advance if u can join us. It's a great chance to bond with your children too! Also, as they are in their groups of friends, (the people they like to work with now), it's also a good chance to bond with your child's best friends during this week. 

From past experience, you need not be there for the entire week. If u are able to commit about 3 days, that would already be great. 

There will be a celebration of projects happening on the last day of school, March 11. 

All parents are most welcomed to come and join in what they have completed and done. 

The only criteria is the adult must be able to understand English. 

Will update if I have more information after next week. Meanwhile, if you are keen, pls do block out those dates as specified. 

Date for briefing: 17 February 2016 (evening time, about 6 pm. Timing to be finalized later.)

Regards

Mdm Chan

Chinese spelling timetable

Spelling lists for Chinese

Updates for English

Here's the list of things to be covered for English for term 1. Will distribute this out once we have the hard copies. 

Unit 1: The Underground Dance

Unit 2: Chicken Rice

Unit 3: Bubble Trouble

Unit 4: A Butterfly is born

Spelling List for this whole term.

It will commence next Tuesday, 19 January.

Spelling 2: 26 January

Spelling 3: 2/February 

Spelling 4: 10 February 2016

Spelling 5: 16 February 

Spelling 6: 23 February 

Spelling 7: 1 March 

Spelling 8: after school holidays term 2 week 1. 23 March

Last week of term 1 is MDPW week. All lessons except Mother tongue are frozen. 

Cheers 

Mdm Chan 

Comparing numbers to 1000

Comparing numbers to 1000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jaD-9CWy1M
Please watch this clip for more explanation.


Cheers
Mdm Chan

Announcement on 8 January 2016

1) please bring $4 and the Edusave form on Monday.

2) PTM on 23 January Saturday, do confirm via SNAPP if you are coming.

3) January notifications are out, pls read them. 

4) to those who have ipad, you may want to explore this app: instagrok. We are embarking on this app to learn about expanding our vocabulary. 

5) learnlogy: you may still login using your existing accounts. The teachers' accounts are still being processed. Will update once I am able to access.

Meanwhile, do start collecting more stars. This time round, the award of pins may come earlier than last year's November. 

6) Mc Online: I have assigned some grammar homework over this weekend for revision. 

Default password for mconline is now:

mconline1 (instead of mconline, this will be changed every 90 days)

7) time table will start this Monday. Please bring the books based on the time table given. I'll be giving the hard copy end of next week after we have tried it out for the first week. 

8) Maths spelling this Monday. Please see previous announcement. 

9) art file: we will need the A3 two button file next week for our first art lesson. There will be grading on their art work moving on for all art work. Please bring one on Wednesday, along with these art materials and supplies;

1) drawing block (a3)

2) Colour pencils

3) oil pastels 

4) poster Colours

5) paint brushes (preferably in 3 different sizes, Small, medium and large. There are numbers on the brushes 

Small: is anything from number 1 to 3

medium: 4-10

Larger: greater than 10.

If you already have your own set and they are not the same as specified, it is alright. 

6) palette

7) small container

8) apron or an old tee-shirt 

9) newspapers 

10) a small plastic bag (to put those small  containers for washing at home.)

Do labelled them and place them in the classroom's cupboard.

10) Please bring along an exercise book for Mental Sums on Monday. We will be doing the Maths spelling in this book. 

Have a blessed weekend everyone. 

It has been great seeing them this week. 

Regards,

Mdm Chan

Things learnt for Chinese

Announcements 7 January

Announcement for today:

1) SBC lessons: It will start next Friday. There is a total of 7 lessons. (7 hours). More details on what we will be learning to be published once I have them.

2) LC booklet: Please bring your LC Booklet 1 tomorrow. There are still 2 missing copies.

3) Bullying: We covered lessons on bullying, and they have taken a pledge on anti-bullying. Here's the link to the video we have watched today.  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvhIdB_8WXE)
Bullying on brainpopjr: https://jr.brainpop.com/health/relationships/bullying/

4) For Chinese, please complete up to page 10 of the chinese handwriting booklet.

Thanks and regards
Mdm Chan

Maths Spelling numbers 1 to 99

Actual spelling list this coming Monday, 11 January 2016

I'll be distributing this list tomorrow to them. 

Thanks and regards
Mdm Chan

Things learnt for Chinese

Maths vocabulary numbers to 1000

Maths vocabulary to be tested next week for spelling:

1) hundred

2) thousand 

3) one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ren

4) eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen

5) twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety

Thanks.

Regards,

Mdm Chan

Things learnt on 4 January

Things learned today:

Maths: 

Work to be completed today: 

Most of them have already completed in class. 

MWB: mini whiteboard 

Deadline for stellar handwriting: next Monday 11 Jan.

Thanks and regards 

Mdm Chan