7 Jan 2014 (Tuesday)

Dear children,

I hope it's been a good day for you at school! :)

Although we didn't have much time for Art today because we had to fetch your buddies for early recess, I was glad to see the effort that many of you put in in drawing your buddies. I like how all of you were concentrating and putting in effort to draw your best. Here are a few interesting ones:

Thanks to Ezra, Lea and Elizabeth who helped me during recess, we managed to finish labelling our pigeonholes. This is how it looks now. Use it wisely! Remember, no heavy items are allowed on it.

Here's our group points system for the year. As you can see from the picture, Gold is leading the class so far with 5 ice-cream sticks. Keep up the good behaviour, Gold! The rest of the groups are not far behind too. We'll see which group gets more ice-cream sticks tomorrow! ;)

I hope you enjoyed the big book "Bubble Trouble". Many of you were able to make good predictions and guesses even before I flipped the page. Keep it up! But remember -- raise your hand and wait for me to call on you before you speak. That's one of our class rules, right?

Math lesson started with more revision of your P1 work, but it seems like quite a few of you can't remember how to group 2-digit numbers in different combinations of tens and ones. If you know that you are not very good with this, ask your parents to revise with you.

What are the different ways we can group 67 into tens and ones?

67 = 6 tens 7 ones
67 = 5 tens 17 ones
67 = 4 tens 27 ones
67 = 3 tens 37 ones
67 = 2 tens 47 ones
67 = 1 ten 57 ones

What about 84? 43? If you are not sure, check with your parents! You'll need to be good at this before we move on to more challenging math.

You'll be using base-ten sets like these for tomorrow's math activity. Are you looking forward? :)

Have a blessed evening ahead with your family!