28 October 14 (Tuesday)

Dear children,

We received the "Yes We CAN" award again for this semester because the school thinks we have one of the cleanest, most attractive and neatest classrooms in P2. Keep up the good work, P2/2 JOY! :)

I want to specially commend Elijah, Joel and Jonathan for faithfully arranging all the furniture neatly every evening before dismissal. They did this out of their own initiative. If you have not realised, these three boys have been doing this for many months whether or not the rest of you did your part. I have been watching. 

You completed an art quiz today before starting to work on the laptops in small groups. Judging by the smiles on your faces, I am sure you enjoyed the online Learning Centre activities that Ms Kasthuree and Ms Rohani planned for you! You would have played some interesting games with your teammates to improve on your knowledge of subject-verb agreement and your typing skills. You would also have listened to a story and completed a maze with an alligator in it.

I was extremely impressed with the way you speedily formed your own groups of two and three without noise and without leaving anybody out. I was at first doubtful that you could do all that within my time limit and without my instructions, but your monitor, Jonathan, had so much faith in all of you that he was willing to risk his Early Recess Pass, his Laptop Access Pass and ten of his recesses. For your freedom to choose your own groups, he was willing to risk what he had. With your cooperation, he proved me wrong. I am very glad that I was wrong. :)

Here are some photographs and a video I took of you today as you went about the activities:

These are today's reminders:

1) Please bring along your art materials again tomorrow. We will spend time working on an art piece if I am not yet allowed to go through the examination papers with you. If you are participating in the "Moove Media Hails Young Kids" art competition but have not started work, you may spend the art periods tomorrow working on it. That means you will have to bring whatever materials you think you will need. I will buy the A2 paper for you.

2) More donations came in today from the families of Brian, Zhi Zong, Natalie, Ezra, Elizabeth and Lea. If you intend to donate too but have not brought the items to me, you have three more days left to do that.

Have a good rest. See you tomorrow! :)