22 May 14 (Thursday)

Dear children,

We continued with the Chicken Food booklet today and completed many exercises. We discussed more about synonyms and prepositions before moving on to learn more about the demonstrative pronouns "this", "that", "these" and "those". Do you remember when and how to use each of them? Make some sentences with them and check with your parents! 

We also discussed different sentences using "is" and "was" and talked about the different meanings of sentences made with them. Do the two sentences in each pair below mean different things? How so?

1a) Switzerland is a beautiful country.

1b) Switzerland was a beautiful country.

2a) The Merlion is a famous Singapore icon. 

2b) The Merlion was a famous Singapore icon.

We then moved on to rearrange words to form sentences and questions. Which of the two sentences below is correct? What's wrong with the wrong one?

3a) Tom was grateful to the old lady for his help.

3b) The old lady was grateful to Tom for his help.

We tried a grammar cloze and an editing exercise too. Do you know how to spell "refrigerator" now? What about "ingredients"?

Try making more sentences with "accepted", "regretted" and "quarrelled" too. You will get better at it with more practice!  

Here are today's reminders:

1) You will be having your Conversational Chinese and Malay Language lesson tomorrow during the first two periods from 1.15 to 2.15 p.m.. Please bring your book. 

2) If you have not submitted your composition corrections, please do so tomorrow.

3) If you have not submitted your Spelling Book, please do so tomorrow.

4) You would have received your Social Studies Quiz today from Mrs Jamal. Show it to your parents and ask for a signature. Bring it back tomorrow.

5) Tomorrow is Friendship Fun Day and you will finally get to know who your Secret Pal is! Thank him or her for being such an awesome friend for the past 8 weeks! You will be participating in some fun station activities from 4.45 to 5.45 p.m. too. Look forward! :) 

See you tomorrow! :)