26 September 14 (Friday)

Dear children,

During English lesson today, we had some practice on using direct speech to start compositions before we discussed and worked on a composition about a group of boys who went catching fish in a canal. We also looked at what Luke and Raeann wrote for the previous composition about the lost kitten and discussed their stories so that we could learn from the strengths and weaknesses of their writing. 

During math lesson, we went through some corrections and you worked on correcting your mistakes in your Money booklets and Geometry booklets. 

We have got twenty Super Spellers for today's spelling! They are:

Amelie, Lea and Seth from Slugterra

Brian and Dawn from Amazon

Janine and Zhi Zong from Minecraft

Luke, Risa and Shineta from Universe

Ashley from Jewel

Ezra, Raeann, Richelle and Wei Xiang from Cloudburst

Thaneeisha and Zane from Diamond

Joel, Natalie and Sheena from Autumn

Each of these children earned 3 ice-cream sticks for his or her group. In addition, because all 4 members of Cloudburst are Super Spellers, I have awarded 4 bonus ice-cream sticks to Cloudburst. The ice-cream sticks update for this week is shown below.

Universe is leading so far! Will Universe still lead after the Math Practice Examination on Tuesday? Or will another group work very hard over the next few days to surpass them and clinch the Group of September award? You will decide! :)

These are the reminders for today:

1) Most of you would have received your marked composition. Submit your corrections next Wednesday. I suggest working on your composition corrections only on next Tuesday. Use this weekend to focus on math revision; there are a lot of topics to review. Plan carefully how you would want to spend the little time that you have.

2) Lea, Zane, Isaac, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Zhi Zong and Ashley, your compositions are still with me. I will be meeting you individually on Monday or Tuesday to discuss your writing with you so that you can improve.

3) You will be going on the Malay Cultural Learning Journey on Monday. Please take note of the following details which I have told you:

Meeting Time: 8.30 a.m. 

Meeting Place: Tampines West Community Centre Hall (2nd floor)

Attire: PE Attire

Things to bring: Pencil case and colour pencils in your school bag (Your bags will be placed in a room at Tampines West CC for safekeeping as you participate in the Learning Journey.)

Refreshments will be provided by Tampines West Community Centre during the Learning Journey. You may bring your own food if you think the refreshments provided may not be suitable for you.

If your parents and/or siblings are coming along for the Learning Journey too, they will have to bid you goodbye at the end of the Learning Journey at about 12 noon. You will then hop onto a school bus that will take you back to school for a quick lunch before you go for lessons.

4) Do you still have corrections, re-corrections or incomplete work for the following booklets that you need to work on and submit on Monday?

-Geometry Part A (Blue)

-Geometry Part B (Green)

-Geometry Part C (Yellow)

-Money Part A (Blue)

If you do, visit this blog after 7 p.m. on Saturday to look at some of my solutions. I will be putting them up here. This is to help you with your revision over this weekend so that you can be ready for Tuesday's Math Practice Examination.

Have a fruitful weekend. I hope to be well enough on Monday to go with you on your Learning Journey. If you believe in God, please pray for Him to help me recover from my sickness soon so that I can be with you on Monday. Thank you.

See you soon. :)