PSLE Oral Mini Tips: TIP 1: Big Picture We always teach our students to identify what the pictures are about. Observe the pictures given, then scale backwards to think of the BIG PICTURE(topics). For example, the picture shows a person doing an activity. The activity is rock climbing. Think further and you should be able… Continue reading SBC Oral Tip 1
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P1-2 English Class 2 / 16 July 2019 / Tuesday / Pop Up Animal Craft Writing
Roarrrr! We knew we picked the right crafts for this class when we saw their responses after announcing what they were going to do. This class is an all boys class, and what more in common, is their love for dinosaurs! They could really rattle on the different names and species, which put us pretty… Continue reading P1-2 English Class 2 / 16 July 2019 / Tuesday / Pop Up Animal Craft Writing
P1-2 English Class 1 / 16 July 2019 / Tuesday / Pop Up Animal Craft Writing
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
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
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
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
P6 English / 1 July 2019 / Monday / Compre OE
Using news articles, we got our students to work on their Compre OE skills. We gave them a role play –Â to be setters and set questions and answers for one another to try. We gave them 3 questions –Â one direct question, one inferential question and one true/false question. After which, they mixed around… Continue reading P6 English / 1 July 2019 / Monday / Compre OE
P1-2 English / 14 June 2019 / Friday / Story Crafting
Solving puzzles help a child’s mind to develop in multiple dimensions. Doing brain exercises regularly improves a child’s memory too. We under estimated their time to complete the puzzles. They took faster than we thought! And they enjoyed the simple activity. After they had completed the puzzle, and identified the theme, we went ahead to… Continue reading P1-2 English / 14 June 2019 / Friday / Story Crafting