24 Jan 2014 (Friday)

Dear children,

I had a good time meeting some of your parents yesterday. I enjoyed listening to and speaking with them. Together, we are going to help you grow and glow. I hope you will put in your best effort to help us help you! :)

I'm really looking forward to marking your spelling books so that I can see how many of you had put in your best effort to become a Super Speller this time round.

We spent our time together yesterday focusing on a four-picture composition writing. We discussed about the characters, the setting, the problem and the resolution given in the four pictures. We also talked about some phrases and words we could use to write our story so that our readers would be interested in it.

After our class discussion, we began writing our own compositions. Some of you were not too confident yet, so I allowed you to work with a partner. Don't worry too much now if you think you are not a good writer yet. You will surely get better and better if you try your best each time you write!

Some were still not used to leaving a line between each line of your writing, while others forgot the two-fingers spacing before beginning a new paragraph. Anything new will surely be difficult for us. But remember: it is only going to get easier as you practise more.

Most of you managed to complete only two or three paragraphs yesterday. It is understandable that you took quite a bit of time since you are new to writing four-picture compositions. Don't worry. You will finish it up on Monday. You are not a fast writer yet, but you will be one soon.

As promised, here are your ice-cream stick scores for Week 1 to Week 3 of January:

Sapphire is leading by quite a bit so far. Will Sapphire win the Group of the Month prize for January? Or will another group do its best over the next four days to win the prize instead?

Have a good weekend ahead with your family! :)