A parent likes to enroll his P2 boy to my writing class, but the distance and the time do not fit his child’s. Hence, we decide to go the virtual way as an alternative route of learning. For a start, the parent set a question for his child to complete, and sent over his work… Continue reading P2 Compo Writing Review/11 July 2018/Wednesday
Month: July 2018
P1-P2 English/10 July 2018/Tuesday
Our Lower Primary Writing classes work on the basis of rotating between craft writing and actual writing. Meaning, one week, the class does a craft with writing, and the other week, an actual 4 picture style of writing. This ensures we balance what we want to teach but also conforming to MOE standard. The lesson’s… Continue reading P1-P2 English/10 July 2018/Tuesday
P4 English/7 July 2018/Monday
The day’s focus was on descriptive phrases. We did a bit of teaching on descriptive phrases, and how a sample paragraph should be like for them to learn. Application time! They love flashcards and they were to describe on the picked characters they had chosen. We got them paired up differently from previous lessons, pick… Continue reading P4 English/7 July 2018/Monday
P3-P4 Science/5 July 2018/Thursday – heat & skeletal
We covered 2 topics for the day’s lesson – Heat Energy and Skeletal System. We are willing to go the distance to set up experiment equipment for our classes to have a real hands on feel on the topics learnt in schools. After undergoing some key concepts on heat, we used a similar experiment done… Continue reading P3-P4 Science/5 July 2018/Thursday – heat & skeletal
P6 Science/2 July 2018/Monday – respiratory
It was Youth Day, and why were they here?! The boys questioned themselves jokingly. We appreciated their effort to make their way to our place in the morning. It was an extra Science lesson for our P6 class. To make their efforts worthwhile, what more could be better than making them exercise early in the… Continue reading P6 Science/2 July 2018/Monday – respiratory
P4 English/2 July 2018/Monday
The P4 class moved on to writing a more formal composition close to the school requirements. Using our materials, we guided the class to brainstorm ideas first, to get the story line out. That is the most crucial objective we have in mind to teach them. The class is paired up and then went straight… Continue reading P4 English/2 July 2018/Monday
Light & Shadows
How to use shadows to teach Light Energy: Find a plain flat surface as a screen Use a smart phone portable stand Clip and secure the smart phone on the stand Switch on the flashlight option (download the app if smart phone does not have flashlight inbuilt) Adjust the size of the light shone Cut… Continue reading Light & Shadows