Welcome back and happy 2016!

Dear darlings,

I'm happy to see you all back again, this time a year older and wiser. I see that most of you are settling down nicely in your new class and am both glad and comforted. Please take care and remember the friendships that we share in 2H 2015. All the best to you and may you achieve greater things in life!

I'll be closing this blog by the end of this week so that we can all move on. By the way, I'm taking a P2 class again this year, see you around in school!


Sincerely,
Mrs Soh

December Holiday Homework

Dear children,

The school has prepared some work for you this holiday to keep your 'mind engine' going.

English
(in AsknLearn)

• 10 Grammar Quizzes on subject verb agreement & tenses
• 10 Vocabulary Quizzes
• 10 Punctuation quizzes

Holiday reading: At least 5 books per week

Maths
(in Koobits)

10 questions weekly, 5 short questions and 5 problem questions on:

• Fraction
• Multiplication
• Division 

All in all, hope you enjoy your holidays!

Sincerely,

Mrs Soh

Class party!

Dear children,

Hope you had enjoyed yourselves! Most of you told me you were so full after that. I'm glad you had your fill!

Today marks the last day of school for this year. Regardless which class you're in, I hope we can all continue to keep in touch. Love you all! Muacks! :)

Sincerely,

Mrs Soh

Clarification on APEX classes

Dear children,

3E and 3F is not what we called first or second class. Going to 3A, 3B, 3C or 3D doesn't mean that the class is lousy either. 

Basically, the school is trying to put the pupils who are good in the specific subjects together so that they are able to move on faster as a class and be stretched further in the subject they are already good at. 

For the other 4 classes, it's a well-balanced class with a good mix of children of average performance. There are good students too who could have made it to the APEX but missed the cut by a little. 

Ultimately, there is no difference in syllabus or books between APEX and normal class. In fact the only difference is that they could have a little more homework to do. Other than that it's the same. And pupils in APEX class will not stay there all the way to P6. Some pupils may be swapped out depending on their performance and the teachers' advice.

And being in an APEX class doesn't give you any additional privilege in school for anything. 

So I hope there be no negative comparison among you. I hope everyone will continue to strive and improve. In fact, some of the top PSLE pupils I've known do not come from APEX classes, so anyone can do well if you put your heart to it! All the best for next year!

Love,

Mrs Soh 

Class allocation for 2016

Dear children,

Remember to ask your parents to sign your report books that are issued today. An overview of our class performance:

• 5 of us made it into 3F (Language APEX)
• 8 of us made it into 3E (Maths APEX)
• 16 of us are moving up to 3B

Special mention of pupils who are receiving awards during the prize-giving ceremony:

1st in class & 6th in level- Rayyan

Best in Maths - Jovan

Good Progress & Best Progress Award - Sarifuldin 

(from 4-6 marks in past English TR results to a whooping 27 in SA2 English!)

Congratulations to all prize winners! :)

Proud of all of you,

Mrs Soh

E-learning details

Dear children,

You have 2 e-learning assignments today:

English

1) 13 November Assessment given by school 

Mathematics

2) Log into Koobits.com to complete Math Assessment given by school

See you on Monday!

Sincerely,
Mrs Soh

Wellympics winners!

Dear children,

Although I wasn't been able to be with you for your games, but I'm so proud of you! Out of the 3 teams, 2 managed to clinch the gold and silver award! Great job everyone! For the team that didn't win, it's ok, I'm sure you all had fun. See you all soon!

Vote for Wellington!

Go to http://milkforlife.marigold.com.sg and vote! 

You can vote 5 times a day on multiple devices (hand phone, laptop etc.)http://milkforlife.marigold.com.sg

Revision notes for EL

Dear children,

Some notes for your revision! (Parents please go through with your child.)

Section A: Vocabulary MCQ (5 x 1 mark)
Revise the words in your spelling list.
Underline key words that help you get to the answer.

Section B: Grammar MCQ (5 x 1 mark)
Underline key words that give clues to:
1) the tense
2) subject verb agreement (singular or plural)

Section C: Grammar Cloze (8 x 1 mark)
Draw arrows and link ideas to your answer.
Look out for:
1) the tense used in the story (check the sentence before and after)
2) special words like 'to', modal verbs 'can', 'will', 'could'... where we use the base verb form after them. (e.g. can dance, will sing, he likes to swim)
3) verb groups: did not see, does not want
4) subject verb agreement (singular or plural)
5) gender: male or female (e.g. Mr Raju ordered tea for himself)

Section D: Editing (5 x 1 mark)
1) Spelling error: Say out the letter sounds that you see. Read the sentence to get the meaning. Write the correct word.
2) Punctuation error: Check if it's a speech. Look out for words like 'asked' - ?, 'shouted' - !
Look out for capital letters that indicate the start of the sentence. Be careful though, some of the capital letters are proper nouns or names. Do not get confused by it.

Section E: Word Order (3 x 1 mark)
1) Order the words and write the number on top to make sure you don't leave out any word.
2) Check for names. The first letter has to be a capital letter.
3) Check for punctuation. If it is a question, you must put a question mark. If not, check if it's a full stop or an exclamation mark.

Section F: Joining of Sentences (2 x 2 marks)
1) Put a bracket on repeated words or phrases in the two sentences. Do not repeat the same words.
2) Check if the name is repeated twice. Use a pronoun (he, she, it, they...) to replace the second one.
3) Check for the order of events. Read and think, which happened first? E.g, Does a rainbow appear before the rain?

Section G: Comprehension (10 marks)
1) Read the True and False questions carefully. Underline the people and places and check the story carefully to see if it fits.
2) Use the process of elimination if needed. Cross out all the answers that you know are definitely wrong to try to get to the answer.
3) Check for tenses in the open-ended question. Many of you keep forgetting! Do not start your answer with 'Because..' , most of you are not able to write a complete sentence and you will get -1 for it. Answer to the point, there's no need to repeat the question.
4) Do not lift and copy the exact sentence from the passage. Make some minor changes and twerk it to fit the answer. 


Hope these help! Please feel free to ask me if you have more questions over the weekend. Take care!


All the best,
Mrs Soh

Updated: LJ to Philatelic Museum (29 Oct)

Dear children, 

Some updates about the day's plan:

1. We are going to have our recess break from 9 am - 9.30 am. Food is not allowed at the museum so we cannot bring any food with us.

2. You have to bring your MT materials as you will still have your MT lessons. We will leave the MT textbooks/workbooks in class after our recess break. The classroom will be locked.

List of things to bring in your small bag:
1. MT books
2. Story book for silent reading period
3. Pencil case
4. Clipboard
5. Water bottle
6. Money/food for recess

3. If you are bringing extra cash to buy souvenirs, please guard it carefully. The teachers will not be responsible for looking after your wallet.

I found the list of items on sale on their official website, so you may want to take a look if you are keen to purchase something from there: http://spm.org.sg/shop/stampfolios 

Parents, if you are allowing your child to buy something from there, please brief them on how you would like them to spend his/her money.

4. Thursday is our school uniform day for our class, so we will continue to wear that. 

Hope this makes it clearer now!

Sincerely,
Mrs Soh