11 Apr 14 (Friday)

Dear children,

After spelling today, we discussed the traits that make a good friend and you wrote on a body cut-out some adjectives to describe good friends. I saw words like "faithful", "loyal", "responsible", "polite", "helpful" and "kind" on your beautifully coloured pieces. I hope we can all work towards being all of that to our friends. Let us always ask ourselves: Am I being a good friend to my friend?

We also went through the section on phonics in the "The Chinese Opera Game" booklet and finished it up. We'll focus on composition for English in the first few days of next week.   

We started on a new math unit today and learnt to draw models for word problems on multiplication. These models are not very different from the part-whole models and comparison models we learnt for addition and subtraction.

Click on the picture below and look at the two questions. Think about the steps you would take to draw their models. Use the different colours to help you. You can share the steps with your parents. When would you draw the first kind, and when the second kind?

Although this topic is not tested in the Math Test on 25 April, knowing how to draw these models may help you answer word problems that you were previously not able to answer.

Here's the ice-cream sticks update for this week:

Seashell is leading so far. Will Seashell be the Group of April? We'll find out in two weeks' time! ;) In the meantime, I look forward to the other 7 groups catching up with them!

I'll be putting up "P2/2 Math Practice Quiz 6 (Units 3 & 4)" on AskNLearn by Sunday evening at 5 p.m. to help you further prepare for the upcoming test. You'll have until Tuesday night to work on that.

If you have time this weekend and want to do some work, log on to KooBits and try some questions. Focus on mastering skills. I'll put up a short video later to show you what I mean. 

Have an enjoyable weekend with your family! :)


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Update on Saturday at 11 p.m.:

1) I have uploaded Math Quiz 6 on AskNLearn. You may start on it early if you want to.

2) Here's the promised video. KooBits's target for each of you is to pass 29 skills by the end of April, but so far only 5 of you have hit the target. Work hard! :)

3) We've got only 12 Super Spellers this time:

Joshua from Lego

Raeann from Gold

Seth and Brian from Avatar

Vanessa and Joel from iPad

Risa and Wei Xiang from Ice

Phoebe from Disney

Jenna and Natalie from Seashell

Elijah from Legend

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