Our Lower Primary students love the crafts for this week, and they were very excited to talk about the animals given to them. Getting them to talk is one step to writing well. Ideas are needed for writing, and if a student knows how and what to write, the flow of a writing piece is… Continue reading P1-2 English Class 1 / 16 July 2019 / Tuesday / Pop Up Animal Craft Writing
Month: July 2019
k2-p2 English / 15 July 2019 / Monday / Pop Up Animal Craft Writing
We pride ourselves that we are able to see a marked improvement in our students’ confidence in writing. Writing is a painstaking effort and we do encourage parents to start their children to love writing from young. Play with the 5 senses and you will not go wrong. Using crafts, we teach our students to… Continue reading k2-p2 English / 15 July 2019 / Monday / Pop Up Animal Craft Writing
P3-4 Science / 11 July 2019 / Thursday / Periscope
Light and reflection. We explored how light reflects off shiny surfaces, especially on mirrors. We did an experiment on making a simple DIY periscope. By getting our students engaged using manipulatives, they are learning to apply what they have learnt from pen and paper to working with their hands. LIKE: https://www.facebook.com/sowingseedz/
P1 English / 7 July 2019 / Monday / Butterfly Craft Writing
We love to view the different end results of our students’ work from the same raw materials. It is so fascinating to see what our students can come up with. For our Lower Primary class, we gave them the same materials and they were able to design their templates so creatively. For the stories, we… Continue reading P1 English / 7 July 2019 / Monday / Butterfly Craft Writing
P6 Science / 10 July 2019 / Wednesday / Oily Feathers
Man & The Environment. What Man has done to improve lives, has also caused destruction inadvertently. For the last lesson topic for our P6, we explored how oil spills affect the lives of living things, in particular, birds. Our P6s took turns to touch a clean feather, poured oil into the basin to demonstrate an… Continue reading P6 Science / 10 July 2019 / Wednesday / Oily Feathers
P5 Science / 10 July 2019 / Wednesday / Simple Circuit
Our second P5 class also saw themselves learning Electricity. We love to see that our students’ reactions with the same learning tools. They always give us surprises and react differently too. This class is more inquisitive, and really took the opportunity to ask, ask, ask! LIKE: https://www.facebook.com/sowingseedz/
P5 Science / 9 July 2019 / Tuesday / Simple Circuit
Our students’ schools seem to be slow to teach any new topics yet, so we take it upon ourselves to decide the topic to teach for the week. Simple circuit. We covered some notes on Electricity and got right on to getting our P5s to form a complete closed circuit. We recapped some important notes… Continue reading P5 Science / 9 July 2019 / Tuesday / Simple Circuit
K2 English / 1 July 2019 / Monday / Spin Top Craft
Our K2s turn to complete a craft and writing. The model for our K2s are the same, but at a muted level. We believe in giving our K2 students a little gentle nudge as a head start to prepare for Primary One. As they are still at the stage of writing, we give them more… Continue reading K2 English / 1 July 2019 / Monday / Spin Top Craft
P5 English / 1 July 2019 / Monday / News Article Writing
We decided our P5s are ready to handle newspaper articles and this was their first attempt. Still very raw and rough in their work, but we could see their hard work and efforts put into it. It was already very commendable. They were not used to flip the papers, but we encouraged them and explained… Continue reading P5 English / 1 July 2019 / Monday / News Article Writing