31 July 14 (Thursday)

Dear children,

It was a fruitful day of learning today. We read "Is the Wise Owl Wise?" together and got started on some vocabulary and grammar exercises in your booklet.

We discussed some words we learnt from the book, such as "summer", "autumn", "winter", "spring" and "badgers", and talked a little about the four seasons. We also discussed about hibernation, migration, Jurong Bird Park, monorails and enclosures before practising the use of time sequence phrases such as "in the day", "one summer" and "at night".

You would also have learnt about how some plural forms of words can be made by adding 's' and 'es' at the end, while others are not so straightforward. For example, the plural form of "fox" is "foxes", but the plural form of "ox" is not "oxes". What is it? What about the plural form of "foot"? :)

We also practised joining two sentences using the connector "and". How would you join the following two sentences into one sentence with "and"?

Ezra is going to New Zealand for a holiday. 

Joel is going to New Zealand for a holiday.

Here are today's reminders:

1) I'll be attending a course tomorrow and will not be meeting you. There will be relief teachers going into the class to conduct spelling and tell you what to do for art.

2) Prepare your spelling book for tomorrow so that you can start the spelling immediately without delay. Your corrections should have been completed and your contents page updated.

3) Bring the following materials for art tomorrow:

-Drawing paper

-Crayons

-Poster paint

-Paintbrushes

-2B Pencil and eraser

-Palette

-Cup (to contain water)

-Old newspapers (for laying on the table)

-Apron (to protect your uniform)

-Rag (for drying your brushes and cleaning up)

4) If you have corrections for your English and Math booklets to submit, or parent's signature to show me, do so on Monday.

See you on Monday! :)