10 Apr 14 (Thursday)

Dear children,

I'm sure all of you enjoyed the birthday party today! Thanks to many of your parents who put in the time, effort and money to organise the party for us, we got to celebrate the birthdays of the April babies with lots of scrumptious food! I hope you remembered to thank the mummies and daddies personally for the goodies they gave you too. Here's a video and some photographs taken by some of your parents:

During English lesson, we learnt to use the conjunctions "and" and "when" to join pairs of sentences. Do you remember when you need to use a comma and when you don't need to? Where should your capital letters be? 

We also discussed how to identify verbs and how to change them from present to past tense by adding "ed" behind it. We continued with the prepositions "for", "of", "off", "over" and "from" and tried to use them in sentences. Here's a quick test. What's the difference between the two sentences below?

Tammy took her hand from the hot handle.

Tammy took her hand off the hot handle.

We also went through a grammar cloze on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Do you remember what "annual" means?

We're well on our way to completing the The Chinese Opera Game booklet. When we're done with that, we'll start on the next composition. This time round, I'd like to guide you to write one paragraph at a time. We'll go slow, but we'll make each paragraph good.

Here are today's reminders:

1) Super Spellers-to-be, please remember to bring your spelling book for spelling tomorrow. Prepare your spelling book so that we can start immediately tomorrow without delay.That means that your spelling book should have:

(a) Tomorrow's date, spelling number, and the numbers 1 to 11 written on a fresh page

(b) Your parent's signature on the previous spelling test

(c) Its past corrections and re-corrections completed

(d) Its contents page updated

2) If you have not completed the Math quiz on AskNLearn, please do it. I will be checking tomorrow morning at 11 a.m..

3) Show your parents the English and Math booklets you brought back today. Ask for a signature on each of them. Bring the booklets back to show me tomorrow.

4) If you received your composition from me yesterday, please submit your corrections tomorrow.

See you tomorrow! :)