Our New Class Blog

Dear parents and pupils,
   We are having a new class blog this year.
It is http://esps2p6.blogspot.com/  .
Hope you will bookmark that page from now on.

Cheers,
  Mrs Lee :)

Holiday Assignments

Dear 1F,
   I hope all of you are enjoying your holidays.
Please find some time to do the following assignments as well, if you get too bored at home. :)

www.lead.com.sg
English : Test 1 and Test 2
Mathematics : Revision 2 and Revision 3

Take care and spend the rest of the holidays wisely!
Remember to pick up more books!

Best regards,
  Mrs Lee

Our Progress : Term 4 Week 4 to 6

Dear all,
   It has been a very busy schedule for me and I could not update the blog earlier.
Here's the update.

English
Big Book : The Enormous Watermelon

Vocabulary :
bare, enormous, juicy, kitchen, watermelon

Word Identification :
initial consonant /j/
vowels /ee/

High frequency words :
grow, little, pull(ed), call(ed)

Grammar :
conjunction - but, so
verbs - grow / grew , go / went , pull / pulled , call / called
adjectives - big, juicy , sweet
structure : They (verbed) but they could not (verb).

Mathematics

We have completed Numbers to 100. Pupils have learnt to :
- compare numbers within 100, using greater than, greatest, smaller than and smallest
- find number pattern and fill in the missing number
- add and subtract with and without renaming
- solve word problems

We have completed 2 performance tasks on Multiplication and Division as well.

Lower Primary Games Day

Phonic Songs: y, x, ch, sh, th

Song of /y/ : (Tune:Apples and Bananas)
I like to eat, eat, eat
yogurt and bananas.
I like to eat, eat, eat
yogurt and bananas.
I like to eat, eat, eat
yogurt and bananas
/y/-/y/-/y/-/y/-/y/!
Action: Pretend to eat yogurt from a spoon.

Song of /x/ : (Tune: Skip to My Lou)
/ks/-/ks/! Take an x-ray.
/ks/-/ks/! Take an x-ray.
/ks/-/ks/! Take an x-ray
-x-ray of my hand!
Action: Pretend to take an x-ray with an x-ray camera.

Song of /ch/ : (Tune: Merrily We Roll Along)
Trains are chugging
up the hill.
/ch/-/ch/-/ch/,
/ch/-/ch/-/ch/.
Trains are chugging
up the hill.
/ch/-/ch/-/ch/
choo, choo!
Action: Move your arms at your sides, as if you are a train.

Song of /sh/ : (Tune: Where, Oh Where, has My Little Dog Gone?)
Hush! Hush! Hush!
Don't make a sound.
Be as quiet
as you can be.
The baby's asleep
and I'm tired out.
Sh! /sh/-/sh/-/sh/-/sh/!
Action : Put your finger on the lip

Song of /th/ : (Tune: Did You Ever See a Lassie?)
Did you ever hear
a rude clown
make this sound
and that sound?
Did you ever hear
a rude clown
say /th/-/th/,/th/-/th/?
Action: Pretend to be a rude clown and stick out your tongue a little for th (as in this), and further for th (as in thumb)

Phonic Songs : z, w, ng, v, oo

Song of /z/ : (Tune: Did You Ever See a Lassie?)
Did you ever hear
a bee buzz,
a bee buzz,
a bee buzz?
Did you ever hear
a bee buzz,
"/zzz/!" , like this?
Action: Put your arms out at your sides and flap them like a bee

Song of /w/ :  (Tune: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands)
I see the clouds moving,
/w/-/w/-/w/.
I see the kites flying,
/w/-/w/-/w/.
I see the tress bending,
/w/-/w/-/w/.
The wind is blowing strong!
Action: Blow onto your open hand, as if you are the wind.

Song of /ng/ : (Tune: If You're Happy and You Know It)
If you're strong and you know it,
say "/ng!"
If you're strong and you know it,
say "/ng!"
If you're strong and you know it,
and you really want to show it...
If you're strong and you know it,
say "/ng!"
Action: Imagine you are a weightlifter, and pretend to lift a heavy weight above your head

Song of /v/ : (Tune: Go In and Out the Windows)
Drive Vic's van
round the village
Drive Vic's van
round the village
Drive Vic's van
round the village
-/v/-/v/-/v/-/v/-/v/!
Action: Pretend to be drivng along in a van

Song of /oo/ : (Tune: Go In and Out the Windows)
Who wants to
be a cuckoo?
Who wants to
be a cuckoo?
Who wants to
be a cuckoo?
/oo/-/oo/,/oo/-/oo/,/oo/-/oo/!
Action: Move your head back and forth, like the cuckoo in a cuckoo clock

Our Progress : Term 4 Week 1 to Week 3

English

We have completed the Big Book Lazy Duck.

Vocabulary:
days of the week, beetles, bugs, hoes, farmers, farmyard, goats, sheep, hens, cows, weeds, thistles, lucky, busy

Grammar:
-  conjunction : and
- past tense verbs : waddles, prowled, scratched, scraped
- contractions : There's , He's , It's
- preposition : around, in , over, behind, beside, in front of , on
- structure : On _______(day of the week), the _____(noun) ______(past tense verb) ______.

Phonic :
 - scr and tch

Jolly Phonics :
We have completed up to Group 6 sounds.
Will post the lyrics in a separate post.

Writing :
We have done our class writing : Taking Care of a Horse and our group writing : My Pet.
Individual writing will be done next week.

Mathematics

We have completed Multiplication, Division and Time.

Multiplication :
The pupils have learnt to identify the number of groups and the number of items  in each group.
They know that multiplication is also repeated addition. This helps them to find the total.
It will be good if they start memorising times tables.

Division :
The pupils have learnt 2 ways of division.
1st : dividing by number of groups
2nd : dividing by number of items in each group

Time :
The pupils have learnt to identify the hour hand and minute hand.
They are able to tell the time using the terms  o'clock and half past.