15 September 14 (Monday)

Dear children,

We gave out the Hildan MOST Awards for last term today. These are the winners:

Sincere Hildan: Elizabeth

Responsible Hildan: Isaac

Humble Hildan: Brian

Wise Hildan: Luke

Inquiring Hildan: Zhi Zong

Congratulations to the winners! :)

Let's take these five children as good examples. May we continue to work towards being sincere, responsible, humble, and wise, and may we never stop learning!

We regrouped today and appointed our class leaders for Term 4 by applauding them as they put on their tags. Let's support them as they lead the class, just like you did for the leaders last term. :)

This is the new seating arrangement and the list of leaders for this term: 

This is the cleanliness duty schedule for our last 9 weeks together.

With your new groups in place, we are now ready to begin the competition for September! Over the next two and a half weeks, let's see which group will emerge as the Group of September. My prizes and certificates are waiting for you! :)

If you do not see your name in the list of winning groups above, it is time to work even harder with your new group members. Don't give up! The same applies to those who are looking to move on to your next prize level.

You received your LEAP Handbook during English lesson and we spent some time going through the different kinds of nouns, collective nouns, and similes in it. Keep this handbook at home for self-study; you do not need to bring it to school. Make sure you are familiar with all the items in it.

We also spent some time editing the information texts written by Genius and Nameless and looking out for the adjectives they used.

During math lesson, we started on a new topic - Volume. You learnt that the volume of a container refers to the amount of liquid it can hold. Through observing the pouring of water from one container to another and taking note of the height of the water in each of them, you learnt how different containers can contain the same amount of water. You also learnt to compare volumes of water.

This topic is a short and simple one, so we will try to conquer it as quickly as we can. After that, we will move on to our last math topic for this year - Geometry - before we begin with revision. Look forward! :)

These are today's reminders:

1) Your English and Mother Tongue Oral Examination will be held in the hall tomorrow from 1.30 p.m. onwards. The timetable will be frozen for the whole day, thus there will be no art lesson.

2) I will not be with you in the classroom tomorrow. If time allows and there are enough laptops to go around, I might request for the relief teachers to let you use a laptop in class for math after you have been tested for your Oral Examination. Bring your own headphone or earpiece if you have one.

3) Show your parents the note given to you regarding your arrival time on Friday.

4) I was very disappointed with those of you who did not hand up what you were supposed to hand up today. If there is any item you still owe me, please submit it tomorrow. Be a responsible child.

5) There is a close-up video of Natalie's guzheng performance that I have not shared. If you are interested to watch it, click here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s56yu2c7jre6e89/Guzheng1.mov?dl=0

6) Have a good rest tonight so that you will have a clear and alert mind for tomorrow's examination. Remember to say as much as you can during the SBC; don't forget your personal responses!

See you tomorrow! :)