Another round of water cycles, another round of observing how the Water Cycles work. We got our materials ready and it was always lovely to watch our students’ faces lit up when they hear “experiment”. From the simple hands on, our students are able to observe in details how the water cycle works, from evaporation… Continue reading P5 Science / 9 Jan 2019 Wed / Water Cycles
Month: January 2019
P6 Science / 16 Jan 2019 Wed / Respiration & Photosynthesis
When one of our P6 girls entered the class, we went “whoa!!!!” when we saw her seed bean. It was beautifully grown! Hers was the most successful among the rest, including ours. We had to throw our rotten seed bean away. Who says Science teachers have green fingers? Heh… The shoot that sprouted and the… Continue reading P6 Science / 16 Jan 2019 Wed / Respiration & Photosynthesis
P5 Science / 16 Jan 2019 Wed / Water Cycles
Another round of water cycle experiment. We can never emphasize how important hands on are to learning Science concepts. Although the experiments are simple, the learning is not. Processes like evaporation and condensation for example, are still quite abstract for them to grasp. Hence, we always make it a point to recap important learning check… Continue reading P5 Science / 16 Jan 2019 Wed / Water Cycles
P6 English / 14 Jan 2019 Monday / Compre OE Skills
For our P6 English class, we did a round of Comprehension Open Ended skills with them. Frankly, we can come up with many fanciful names, techniques and skills, which most school teachers are also teaching. However, we believe that what sets a student apart to master the art of answering, is his/her attitude, how much… Continue reading P6 English / 14 Jan 2019 Monday / Compre OE Skills
P6 Science / 9 Jan 2019 Wednesday / Energy & Respiration
As our P6 girls are starting on Energy and Respiration, the sowing of seeds last week was timely. JE’s seed was the most successful one, as hers has the shoot growing out successfully. We used this to teach on the energy and respiration in plants. LIKE: https://www.facebook.com/sowingseedz/
P1-P2 English / 8 Jan 2019 Tuesday
Same day but a different class. Teaching English can be versatile. Each class and each child is unique, and we pace our classes accordingly. For this class, it is a combination of P1 and P2, but this is possible to still teach. Nothing still changes, as we are still using a craft to teach procedural… Continue reading P1-P2 English / 8 Jan 2019 Tuesday
P1 English / 8 Jan 2019 Tuesday
Our first lesson for our P1 English class. As this was his first lesson, we paced the lesson slower, but still got him to spin a story for us to edit. We also did a simple DIY birthday craft. It was too fun that it slipped our minds to capture their written work. Watch out… Continue reading P1 English / 8 Jan 2019 Tuesday
P6 English / 7 Jan 2019 Monday / News Article Writing
We like to use newspaper articles as part of our lesson delivery. With that, our students get to learn all aspects of the language – grammar, vocab, spelling and more! Using a sample from our past student’s work, our new P6 class got down to work to choose a news article and complete their work.… Continue reading P6 English / 7 Jan 2019 Monday / News Article Writing
P3-4 Science / 3 Jan Thursday 2019 / Living & Non Living Things
Some parents ask if it is effective to have different levels in the same class. We say it is possible, but only for P3 and P4. We consider this as the Lower Block, and now schools have the free hand in deciding which topics to teach. For example, some schools teach Magnets in P3 and… Continue reading P3-4 Science / 3 Jan Thursday 2019 / Living & Non Living Things