Spelling on 27 October

Spelling List on 27-Oct
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10 out of the 20 phrases will be tested on 27/Oct

1) odd tree
2) screeched loudly
3) winked at me
4) delicious clams
5) felt lonely
6) shy hermit crab
7) caught fleas
8) iron bolts
9) warm milk
10) fixed the latch
11) shivered nervously
12) fell asleep
13) rainbow fish
14) sweet nectar
15) wind gauge
16) mumbled to himself
17) hatches out
18) hot summer
19) playful monkey
20) hot and spicy

Please study the list carefully.

Picture Graphs game

Pictorial Graphs
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Try this game to test your understanding of Picture Graphs. This would be fun!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/data/interpreting_data/play.shtml

Shapes and sizes

Shapes and sizes -
Test your understanding here in this exercise.
http://www.ixl.com/math/practice/grade-2-identify-planar-and-solid-shapes

Wed Learning Journey

Welcome back to school everyone.


This Wednesday, we are heading out for a learning journey from 2 - 6 p.m.

We will be going to HPB (Health Promotion Board) (www.hpb.gov.sg)
You may want to see what this place is all about.

Happy Teacher's Day

Dear class,

Thanks for the gifts. You are the best presents which I have received for this year!

Do enjoy the holiday.

There is no school tomorrow. I do hope to see the whole class present this Thursday. :)


Regards,
Mdm Chan


PS: Please remember to bring your paper plates this Thursday. :)

Fraction and Maths

Fractions:
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Please look at this URL relating to fractions to deepen your understanding on Fractions.

http://www.kidsolr.com/math/fractions.html

Fraction Circle:
Free resource:
http://math.about.com/library/fractioncircles.pdf

Fraction Game:
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/pizza_game/index.html
This game is on pizza, and should be very interesting! :)


Fraction Practice:
http://www.ixl.com/math/practice/grade-2-halves-thirds-and-fourths
http://www.ixl.com/math/practice/grade-2-identify-the-fraction
http://www.ixl.com/math/practice/grade-2-fractions-parts-of-a-group
(more exercises available from this website)

Spelling List for last spelling of Term 3

List of Spelling words for Spelling on 31 Aug:
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1) dance gracefully
2) the narrator
3) grumpy mood
4) performed better
5) a big dinosaur
6) joyful children
7) my best friend
8) my favourite pet
9) broken branch
10) something different
11) cunning foxes
12) an interesting story
13) cold and hungry
14) golden autumn
15) warm winter coats
16) a wind gauge
17) awakened by a knock
18) checking the weather
19) raining heavily
20) hot or cold

Emma and her history lesson

As a teacher, I should never fail to be a role-model for my class.

This is an essay which I did some moments ago. The storyline is not fantastic, however, the language structure could be something you may like to look into. 



***Start of story***

                Emma could not believe what she saw in front of her. She had been sitting in the classroom for the last two hours, not thinking about anything except finishing her history exam. Then suddenly, feeling that something in her surroundings was not right, she had raised her eyes from the exam paper. The classroom had completely disappeared and she found herself in a tent of nowhere. When she stepped out from the tent, she noticed that the people were dressed in strange costume. It seemed that it was the Victorian era where they were dressed in Victorian gowns, wore bonnets and carried parasols by their side.

               How horrendous. She quickly realized that the characters which she studied in her history books came alive. As she recalled, she was studying on Shakespeare’s life in London, and she was on her way to the theater where the plays were performed.

               What came next was something she was not prepared. She had forgotten she was not dressed in the costume that people surrounding her were wearing. A moment later, these strangers were staring at her, and what she was wearing. At this moment, she realized she was wearing her school uniform consisting of a white-stripped blouse and blue pinafore and her sneakers.

               The on-lookers gave her stares which subsequently turned into fingers pointing towards her direction. They felt flabbergasted that Emma was dressed so scantily in a thin blouse which obviously came from another continent! Murmurs soon turned into loud protests and constables from were soon surrounding her. They had wanted to bring her back to the constabulary for further investigations.

                Emma saw what was coming, and she started screaming. She burst into a quick run, taking her feet as fast she could in a different direction. It was a while later, when she realized that she could no longer run. And for some reasons, her history paper came back, and she was back at the classroom.

               Was it all a dream? Yet, within that dream, the characters were simply too real to be otherwise…. She decided not to think along that line, but focused instead on completing her paper. Finally, she completed her paper and submitted it to her tutor.

                With that, she went home and related the whole tale to her mum. As her mum said, “This is a strange but completely plausible tale. It could happen when you have simply studied too much for the past few days.”

                 Ever since that day, Emma decided that the next best way to study is to take a break for every revision. 

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Have a good weekend. 

Cheers,

Mdm Chan

Wednesday - 18 August

Wednesday  18-August 2010
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Been a 2 weeks and counting since the last post.

These few weeks have been quite fast forward for the test with many tests coming.

The last test - Mother Tongue will be conducted next week.

Otherwise, we have been quite engaged for the past few weeks in completing the syllabus.


Homework for this holiday:
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1) English paper
2) Maths - graph
3) Drawing - Paper plate

Division

Division:
What is division?  This video best depicts what we are going to do the coming week. :)
1) http://khanexercises.appspot.com/video?v=MTzTqvzWzm8