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The whole class was extremely enthusiastic and almost all the children came in reali wonderful costumes - traditional, snow white, knights, air stewardess, dancers, soccer players and many more! They are soOOooOOoo adorable! I love them to bits!Click here for photos! ======================================================= Awards Galore! [Certificates given out on the last day of Term 2 - 25th May]I would like to congratulate our Class Star Pupils of April!They are, in no particular order of merit,Stacey HongWong Chong JinJovyn TohStacey has been a steady worker and has shown that she can be trusted with responsibilities.Chong Jin has always been a well-behaved boy who has a trusting nature. He shares willingly and puts in effort in all of his work. Keep it up, Chong Jin! Jovyn has improved tremendously in both English and Maths. Her responsibility towards her work is commendable. Maintain the wonderful job, Jovyn!(Jovyn absent on that day)=======================================================I would also like to congratulate our Class Star Pupils of May!They are, in no particular order of merit,Tay Teck HongS YasothaiAtalya FooTeck Hong has been a consistent worker and had achieved excellent results. His detemined spirit and responsible nature is definitely worth learning from.Yasothai has proven herself to be responsible in her work and has shown vast improvement in her subjects! Keep working hard, Yasothai!Atalya has shown maturity in the way she manages her school work. She can also be trusted with responsibilities.=======================================================Our Maths Masterminds!Both Shaun and Teck Hong had scored full marks for the SA1 Mathematics Exam =)Well done, boys!'Extra Effort' Award! These children have attained this award as they have put in extra effort for either English, Mathematics or Handwriting.Keep it up!Your efforts have paid off =)Children who have done well in the SA1 Exams!They have all attained the'Keep the Progress' Award!Maintain the high standards you have achieved!Stacey, Shaun & Darren have attained the'Looking Good' Award this term for their excellent handwriting.Good job!Naomi, Jeryl and Jovyn have attained the'Working Hard' Award for improving in BOTH English and Mathematics.The results are evident in their SA1 Exams.I'm proud of you!(Jovyn absent on that day)Spelling Achievers for Term 2!Congratulations to our 3 Spelling Kings - Dao An, Jaedon & Kenneth and our one and only Spelling Queen - Tamilyn!aaaaaaaaaaaa ALL ARE ACHIEVERS!Class Party We had a class party on the last day of school too! The children brought a shocking amount of snacks! Really surprised me there.View the video below to see the yummies we had enjoyed! Meet the Parents Session 2 [26th May 2006]The Meet the Parents session last Friday went on smoothly. I am glad to have met up with more parents as compared to the first session in March. I hope that parents have benefitted from the session as much as I did. The children have had a better understanding of the school and class system and have all settled in their new environment by this term. Their behaviour have all improved. I'm really proud of their progress since the start of the year. =)Lastly, I just want to wish all children and parents to have a terrific, blessed and rested holiday! Children, I'll see you when school reopens on 26th June, Monday! Posted by Miss April Chew @ [11:58 PM] 0 comments Tuesday, May 23, 2006 Happy Birthday Darren! We have another birthday boy today! Happy Birthday, Darren! Instead of the usual creamy cake, Darren shared a box of birthday butter cookies with the class. It was a refreshing change indeed!Many thanks to Mrs Tan for the well-wrapped gifts for the children and for coming down to oversee the celebration during recess =)Click here for photos!*The children were in costumes as it was 'Be Yourself Day' on that day too! Photos of that event will be up in the next blog entry! Posted by Miss April Chew @ [10:43 PM] 0 comments Monday, May 22, 2006 Happy Birthday Dao An! Happy Birthday, Dao An! Hope you enjoyed yourself today. We celebrated Dao An's birthday in the canteen today with a huge, delicious cake and lots of other yummy snacks! Thank you to Mrs Lim who organized this wonderful party ;) Also thanks to Dao An's auntie who helped out. Click here for photos! Posted by Miss April Chew @ [11:47 PM] 0 comments What is in the Garden? In view of the current English unit, 'What is in the Garden?', I took the children to our school's eco-garden for some experiential learning last Wednesday. The children were free to draw pictures of what they saw there. It was quite a good learning experience. The children got to see the unfortunate sight of plastic bottles and tidbit wrappers strewn in the pond and around the garden, which helped me in educating them on the importance of not littering our environment. Civic-minded Shaun even suggested taking a picture of the sight and showing it to the police! We also got to see a real frog hopping into the pond! The children were really excited at that juncture. I have captured all these in 2 videos and some photos. Click here for the photos. The videos are as below. Enjoy! Posted by Miss April Chew @ [11:31 PM] 0 comments Tuesday, May 16, 2006 Some events on the last week of Term 2! Dear all,Please take note of the following events for next week.1. Be Yourself Day (23 May 2006, Tuesday)The school will be celebrating 'Be Yourself Day' next Tuesday during the first two periods. Children will be allowed to come to school dressed up in an occupation or character. For example, a chef, a nurse, Minnie Mouse etc. However, the challenge is to use RECYCLED MATERIALS in their costumes. Some examples of such materials include buttons, cans, bottles and cardboard. Any material can be used as long as they are recycled materials. [Note that now, there is no need for costumes to be made of recycled materials]This is a fund-raising project organized by S'pore Press Holding as part of their community involvement to raise funds for The President's Challenge. The money collected will be given to 'President's Challenge' for 47 charities.If children are participating, they are to donate a small sum of $2 and come dressed up next Tuesday. If your child does not want to participate but wants to donate, please do so too! I'll be collecting the donations from tomorrow onwards.Proceedings for 'Be Yourself Day' Show1) Form teachers will select 2 best dressed pupils from their class.2) Students from each level will walk across the stage.3) Judges will select top student per level.4) Winner will get $25 Times book voucher.2. Meet-the-Parents session (26 May 2006, Friday)Note that there will be NO school for the children on this day.Please be punctual and try to keep to the 15 minutes allocated to you.The schedule is attached below for your referral.TimeChildParent730 - 745NaomiLaura Lim745 - 800YasothaiSanthana Bose800 - 815PadmarupahMdm Kasturi815 - 830Jeryl Angeline Cheong830 - 845JaedonTan Lip Teng845 - 900StaceyOw Mui Cheng900 - 915VerleneValarie Teo915 - 930KennethElvi Poon930 - 945Chong JinSim Lan Hong945 - 1000PriscillaSoh Sim Charn1000 - 1015Dao AnLim Kar Yee1015 - 1030VanessaJocelyn Novita1030 - 1045JovynSerene1045 - 1100------------------------1100 - 1115MatthewRachel Lim1115 - 1130DarrenConnie Teo1130 - 1145Jeong Soo &Jeong HeeJung Yu Jin &Veronica1145 - 1200------------------------1200 - 1215LexannGan Shan Shan1215 - 1230Teck HongRani1230 - 1245------------------------1245 - 1300AmandaMrs Lai1300 - 1315VigneshSujatha1315 - 1330HanselMr & Mrs Kwok1330 - 1345AtalyaJasmine Lee1345 - 1400TamilynLin Lixia1400 - 1415Yih ShangFoo Hoe Ying1415 - 1430Isabel SherinaNot coming: Ginette, Shaun Posted by Miss April Chew @ [11:09 PM] 0 comments Sunday, May 14, 2006 Happy Mother's Day!!! Dear parents, especially all Mothers!HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!!!Click on the video clips below to see what the children have been up to on Friday![Note that the clips may take some time to load, depending on server speed]Making Mother's Day Cards...Mother's Day Messages... Posted by Miss April Chew @ [8:23 AM] 0 comments Wednesday, May 10, 2006 Phew! Exams are over! YIPPEE!!! Dear all,The exams are over! I can tell that all the Couragers have done their very best and I'm proud of them all. I have gone through the English and Maths papers with the children today so that they are aware of their errors. On the whole, I am pleased with the results that they have obtained, especially from those pupils who have improved tremendously. You I'm know who you are ;) From their wide toothy grins and cheers today, I'm sure the children are happy with their results too!Keep up the fantastic achievements, children! Posted by Miss April Chew @ [10:17 PM] 0 comments Friday, May 05, 2006 Exam Fever & Jeong Soo's Birthday! Dear parents,I've gone through both ENGLISH & MATHS Practice Papers 2006 with the children today. PLEASE go through these papers with them again, taking note of their mistakes. Many of their mistakes are due to carelessness [missing out on answering a question, not able to spell accurately etc], and it is very sad that they are losing precious marks because of that! I hope this will NOT happen during the actual exams!Below is a list of common mistakes that was made in the Practice Papers 2006. Please take note if your child has made that mistake so that you could help in reminding him/her not to repeat it!!! I've gone through the answers and reminded them, but being young children, they need LOTS of reminding and drilling! ENGLISH PRACTICE PAPER 2006For English, I would just like to focus on two components:1) Rewriting sentences using the correction punctuations[Take note of the following points]Capital letter for names and at the start of the sentenceCommas to separate parts of a sentence [when there are 2 or more things]Full stop for end of sentenceUse question mark if the sentence is a question 2) Joining sentences using 'and'[Take note of the following points] Get children to note the words that are repeated in each sentenceFor eg: James likes running. James likes swimming.Note that 'James likes' is repeated in both sentences. Many children tend to write 'James likes running and James likes swimming'.Hence, remind your child NOT to write 'James likes' twice as it is redundant.The correct answer is 'James likes running and swimming'. MATHEMATICS PRACTICE PAPER 2006Qn 6) Circling 4 roostersProblems: - Almost half of the class circled only 2 roosters or they circled the 4th rooster in both rows. [I don't understand why!!!]Remediation: Please guide children in reading the instructions!Qn 9) Writing the number '12' in words Problems: Children are unable to spell! This is unacceptable as I've given them many quizzes on spelling the numbers 1 - 20! Spelling is important in Maths too! Some wrote their answer as '13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20'. They probably assumed that they are supposed to list down numbers.Remediation: Please guide children in reading the instructions & to learn their spelling of numbers! Losing 2 marks just like that is really a pity.Qn 10) Arranging numbers from greatest to smallestProblems: Children did not read the instructions and went to SPELL out the numbers. Some arranged from smallest to greatest.Remediation: Please remind children the importance of reading the instructions, especially when it is UNDERLINED and BOLD! Also, reinforce the meaning of 'greatest'.Qn 14 & 15) Making a family of 2 number sentencesProblems: Children choose any number they wish, some numbers NOT even given! Numbers given are 17, 5, 9 and 8. Children are to identify 3 numbers that can form 2 number sentences, one on addition and another on subtraction. Many of them gave the sentence '9 - 8 = 1'. This is incorrect as there is NO number '1' given! A 'family' of number sentences also means that if you identified '8, 9 and 17' to form a sentence '8 + 9 = 17', you have to use these same 3 numbers to form another sentence!Remediation: More practice on number bonds so that children are able to identify the 3 numbers accurately!Qn 26) Identify and colour the shapes of the same size as the one given Problems: Children only coloured ONE square [usually the 4th one]. This is because it looks exactly the same as the one given. However, there are 2 more squares that are of the same size! They are the 1st and 3rd squares, except that they are tilted.Remediation: Please guide children in reading the instructions and help them see that the tilted squares are of the same size as the one given. The full 2 marks can only be awarded if 3 squares are coloured.Qn 29 - 33) A question on 'Ordinal Numbers'Problems: Children just look from left to right, assuming that 1st Fairy = Fairy E. They did not realize that the fairies are having a race and that the fairy nearest to the Finishing Line is considered 1st. [1st Fairy = Fairy A] Hence, many got qn 29 and 30 wrong. Also, some are unable to differentiate their 'LEFT' from 'RIGHT', hence getting qn 32 and 33 wrong. Another problem is that children are unable to write '3rd' and '5th', hence their answers are 'Fairy D is 3 from the left' and 'Fairy F is 5 from the right'. This is incorrect. They must write '3rd' and '5th'.Remediation: Guide children on where their 'left' and 'right' is! Also guide them to write '1st', '2nd' etc whenever the question is asking them for POSITION.I think that's about all! I hope I have addressed and clarified the problems that parents surfaced up to me about the difficulties their child has faced.Points to take note for the exams [Remind child!]Write down NAME, INDEX NUMBER and CLASS on exam paperDo NOT leave any BLANKS. Try every single question. Make intelligent guesses if you do not know the answer.TIME is precious! Move on to the next question if you are stuck on a particular question. Do the questions you are confident in and then return back to the questions that you were stuck at. READ INSTRUCTIONS. Many children do not read instructions and hence, they lose marks. [They circle instead of colour, tick instead of cross out, start from smallest number instead of greatest etc]After completing the paper, always CHECK! [Check that you have done ALL questions and check your answers to see if they make sense!]Hope this blog entry helps!All the best to all my dear 'Couragers'!!!In the midst of preparing for the exams, we will still find time to have a good time and celebrate another Courager's birthday! Happy Birthday to you, Jeong Soo!Thank you to Jeong Soo's Mom & Guardian in organizing this early birthday celebration for him! ;) The children & I thank you for the lovely goodie bags!Click here for photos! Posted by Miss April Chew @ [11:33 PM] 0 comments ddddd Miss April Contact teachers 1C timetable 1C seating Spelling Lists Calendar of eventsaaaaa ============ || Archives || January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 Online Payday Loans PHOTOS! Click links below!(Most recent on top) Touch Typing lessons! Vignesh's Birthday! Jovyn's Birthday! Amanda's Birthday! Hansel's, Jeryl's & Kenneth's Birthday! Chong Jin's Birthday! Shaun's Birthday! Children's Day! John & Jeong Hee's Birthday! Tamilyn's Birthday! National Day! Esplanade! Zoo! EL Show Time! Padma's Birthday! Be Yourself Day! Darren's Birthday! Dao An's Birthday! At the Eco-garden Jeong Soo's Birthday! Kids Kampong! Atalya's Birthday! Teck Hong's Birthday! Classroom Environment Sports Day Drinking milk Lexann's Birthday! Art-Making Bldgs Art-Plasticine fun Subtraction Game 1st Library period Immunisation Total Defence Day! Health Zone! Chinese New Year! 1st Gym![09/01/06] Recess with P5 Buddies! 1st Day of School! Orientation [26/12/05]
Stacey has been a steady worker and has shown that she can be trusted with responsibilities.Chong Jin has always been a well-behaved boy who has a trusting nature. He shares willingly and puts in effort in all of his work. Keep it up, Chong Jin!
Jovyn has improved tremendously in both English and Maths. Her responsibility towards her work is commendable. Maintain the wonderful job, Jovyn!(Jovyn absent on that day)=======================================================
I would also like to congratulate our Class Star Pupils of May!They are, in no particular order of merit,
Class Party We had a class party on the last day of school too! The children brought a shocking amount of snacks! Really surprised me there.View the video below to see the yummies we had enjoyed! Meet the Parents Session 2 [26th May 2006]The Meet the Parents session last Friday went on smoothly. I am glad to have met up with more parents as compared to the first session in March. I hope that parents have benefitted from the session as much as I did. The children have had a better understanding of the school and class system and have all settled in their new environment by this term. Their behaviour have all improved. I'm really proud of their progress since the start of the year. =)Lastly, I just want to wish all children and parents to have a terrific, blessed and rested holiday! Children, I'll see you when school reopens on 26th June, Monday!
Time
Child
Parent
730 - 745
Naomi
Laura Lim
1145 - 1200
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ENGLISH PRACTICE PAPER 2006For English, I would just like to focus on two components:
1) Rewriting sentences using the correction punctuations[Take note of the following points]
2) Joining sentences using 'and'[Take note of the following points]
Qn 9) Writing the number '12' in words Problems: Children are unable to spell! This is unacceptable as I've given them many quizzes on spelling the numbers 1 - 20! Spelling is important in Maths too! Some wrote their answer as '13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20'. They probably assumed that they are supposed to list down numbers.Remediation: Please guide children in reading the instructions & to learn their spelling of numbers! Losing 2 marks just like that is really a pity.Qn 10) Arranging numbers from greatest to smallestProblems: Children did not read the instructions and went to SPELL out the numbers. Some arranged from smallest to greatest.Remediation: Please remind children the importance of reading the instructions, especially when it is UNDERLINED and BOLD! Also, reinforce the meaning of 'greatest'.Qn 14 & 15) Making a family of 2 number sentencesProblems: Children choose any number they wish, some numbers NOT even given! Numbers given are 17, 5, 9 and 8. Children are to identify 3 numbers that can form 2 number sentences, one on addition and another on subtraction. Many of them gave the sentence '9 - 8 = 1'. This is incorrect as there is NO number '1' given! A 'family' of number sentences also means that if you identified '8, 9 and 17' to form a sentence '8 + 9 = 17', you have to use these same 3 numbers to form another sentence!Remediation: More practice on number bonds so that children are able to identify the 3 numbers accurately!Qn 26) Identify and colour the shapes of the same size as the one given Problems: Children only coloured ONE square [usually the 4th one]. This is because it looks exactly the same as the one given. However, there are 2 more squares that are of the same size! They are the 1st and 3rd squares, except that they are tilted.Remediation: Please guide children in reading the instructions and help them see that the tilted squares are of the same size as the one given. The full 2 marks can only be awarded if 3 squares are coloured.Qn 29 - 33) A question on 'Ordinal Numbers'Problems: Children just look from left to right, assuming that 1st Fairy = Fairy E. They did not realize that the fairies are having a race and that the fairy nearest to the Finishing Line is considered 1st. [1st Fairy = Fairy A] Hence, many got qn 29 and 30 wrong. Also, some are unable to differentiate their 'LEFT' from 'RIGHT', hence getting qn 32 and 33 wrong. Another problem is that children are unable to write '3rd' and '5th', hence their answers are 'Fairy D is 3 from the left' and 'Fairy F is 5 from the right'. This is incorrect. They must write '3rd' and '5th'.Remediation: Guide children on where their 'left' and 'right' is! Also guide them to write '1st', '2nd' etc whenever the question is asking them for POSITION.
I think that's about all! I hope I have addressed and clarified the problems that parents surfaced up to me about the difficulties their child has faced.Points to take note for the exams [Remind child!]