Q&A Study Notes (PSLE VERSION)
This is one of our founder’s Science materials, a project she wanted to do for her own students, after seeing the struggle for them to do well in the open-ended section, through the different batches each year. We give credit to the various sources taken from print and/or media. However, the breaking down of the questions into titles, topics, key words and tips are solely from our founder. This is a good revision for students who self-study, or tutors/parents using this Study Notes as a guide. A more comprehensive guide is enclosed in this Q&A Study Notes. MORE INFO: FOREWORD…
P3-P4 English Writing Resource
Target group: Mid Level Primary Writing Objectives: This book is packed with many skills and strategies to help students write more confidently. Basically for this level, building vocabulary words is necessary to help them inject in their writing for greater flow. On a similar vein with the our Kindy writing and Lower Primary writing classes, we alternate with a proper writing composition. Feel free to WA us @ 91287376 for further details. Cost: $15 (existing students)
K1-K2 English Writing Bundle
For K1/K2, we hold weekly lessons of a craft-related topic and spin a short story around the craft. For example, if the topic is on time, they may do a DIY watch and write about the watch in our Writing Book. For the next lesson, we will teach them how to write a story compatible in Primary One. We slowly phase our students to integrate into primary school, again, to allow them time to get used to the MOE system. These packs of 10 are available for purchase, depending on stock. Do drop us a what’s app message @ 91287376…
DICES Checklist Guidebook (PSLE Revision)
This DICES Checklist Guidebook is created by our founder, after seeing how her students struggle to retain key concepts in their learning. As there are many Science key words to remember, memorize and understand, this book gives rise to meet the needs of her students, and many benefited from her book through the years. This book is suitable for Primary 3 right up to Primary 6. With eye catching pictures linked to key points, there is no reason not to use this book for your children’s revision. We grouped the topics into 5 main titles: Diversity, Interactions, Cycles, Energy, Systems,…
Mind Mapping Science (PSLE Revision)
Mind mapping is a useful learning tool for those who are visual learners. Colourful illustrations accompanied with key texts help students learn better, and remember better. This Mind Mapping Science book is created by our founder, who has through the years, realized another effective way to learn is through mind mapping. She has since compiled and put together a whole series of topics from Primary 3 right up to Primary 6. Each mind map is titled according to its topic and whether it is under Lower Block or Upper Block for easy revision. Greetings! Mind Mapping Science is intended…
P1-P2 English Writing Bundle
This level is a step up from Kindy class. Our lessons are still focused on writing with hands on activities. At this age, children’s minds are still developing, and we aim to instill as much fun and writing elements at the same time, aiding them to think and link as they write. Please whats app us @ 91287376 for further enquiries on how to use our resources at home for your children. You may purchase these packs of craft, inclusive of our writing materials. visit https://sowingseedz.com/2018/06/27/p1-p2-english-2018/ for a sample lesson. Cost: $15 for existing students
Free Teaching Resource: 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 out templates on pieces of paper Templates can be taken from clip art or hand drawn. (for this, our P6 boys drew and cut out the shapes on their own) Ensure the shapes are clear (like a figure of a lion, monkey, shark, etc)…
Free Teaching Resource: Q&A Study Notes – Diversity (PSLE Version)
How To Use Q&A Study Notes: Read the question Highlight key words Identify Qn topic Brainstorm key answers in mind Jot them down beside Write down full answers with the key words Double check again Refer to TIPS in the Teaching Resource above How We Use: For our teaching methods, first, we make sure our students highlight key words as they are reading the questions. This helps them focus on what is needed. (NOTE: for highlighting, it is not inclusive of using highlighters only. Other coloured markers or even different coloured pens work fine. This makes no excuse for them…
Free Teaching Resource: Q&A Study Notes – Interactions (PSLE Version)
How To Use Q&A Study Notes: Read the question Highlight key words Identify Qn topic Brainstorm key answers in mind Jot them down beside Write down full answers with the key words Double check again Refer to TIPS in the Teaching Resource above How We Use: For our teaching methods, first, we make sure our students highlight key words as they are reading the questions. This helps them focus on what is needed. (NOTE: for highlighting, it is not inclusive of using highlighters only. Other coloured markers or even different coloured pens work fine. This makes no excuse for them…
Free Teaching Resource: Q&A Study Notes – Cycles (PSLE Version)
How To Use Q&A Study Notes: Read the question Highlight key words Identify Qn topic Brainstorm key answers in mind Jot them down beside Write down full answers with the key words Double check again Refer to TIPS in the Teaching Resource above How We Use: For our teaching methods, first, we make sure our students highlight key words as they are reading the questions. This helps them focus on what is needed. (NOTE: for highlighting, it is not inclusive of using highlighters only. Other coloured markers or even different coloured pens work fine. This makes no excuse for them…
Free Teaching Resource: Q&A Study Notes – Energy (PSLE Version)
How To Use Q&A Study Notes: Read the question Highlight key words Identify Qn topic Brainstorm key answers in mind Jot them down beside Write down full answers with the key words Double check again Refer to TIPS in the Teaching Resource above How We Use: For our teaching methods, first, we make sure our students highlight key words as they are reading the questions. This helps them focus on what is needed. (NOTE: for highlighting, it is not inclusive of using highlighters only. Other coloured markers or even different coloured pens work fine. This makes no excuse for them…
Free Teaching Resource: Q&A Study Notes – Systems (PSLE Version)
How To Use Q&A Study Notes: Read the question Highlight key words Identify Qn topic Brainstorm key answers in mind Jot them down beside Write down full answers with the key words Double check again Refer to TIPS in the Teaching Resource above How We Use: For our teaching methods, first, we make sure our students highlight key words as they are reading the questions. This helps them focus on what is needed. (NOTE: for highlighting, it is not inclusive of using highlighters only. Other coloured markers or even different coloured pens work fine. This makes no excuse for them…
Free Teaching Resource: Step By Step To Answer OEQs
We were going through some skills and drills for our Science lesson. One of our teaching methods is to ‘dissect’ the question into a few parts for our students to see visually. The question shows a diagram of the life cycle of a mosquito. The question that follows is “Which part of the life cycle of the mosquito is difficult to kill and why.” With that, we teach our students to identify the key words in the questions. Next, we walk through the key answers with our students, and getting them to jot down in a form of a flow…
Free Teaching Resource – English D.A.R.T For Compo Writing (Descriptive Phrases)
We came up with our D.A.R.T strategies after witnessing batches of our P6 students struggling to add suitable descriptive phrases in their composition writing. This easy to remember tactics are not new, and we are sure there are many dedicated teachers whose strategies are similar to ours, but it is the reinforcement and the consistency from the students’ efforts, that make the difference. What we did is to pull our years of teaching experiences together into an easy to remember mnemonic for our students to practice on. We will start off with our first strategy, D – Descriptive Phrases. We…
D.A.R.T & T.A.S.E.R English Resource Book (PSLE Version)
Introducing our DART & TASER English Resource Book (PSLE Version). This power packed Resource Book covers Oral (Reading & Situational Based Conversation/SBC), Composition Writing and Comprehension Open-Ended. We included a BONUS section at the end of the book too. This book was compiled after years of experience from our founder, and as Rome is not built within a day, this book is beneficial to walk your child through the valleys of technicalities and into the streams of success! We used these exact methods for our English June Holiday Programme 2018 effortlessly. Oral Tips: A full detailed explanation on how to…
Free Teaching Resource – English D.A.R.T For Compo Writing (Descriptive Phrases)
Learning starts young, and young we do, at Sowing Seedz, especially for writing. There are many layers to master the craft, just like peeling an onion by layers. The process is tear jerking (chemicals given off that makes one tear when an onion is peeled), but the outcome is sweet (onion turns sweet when heated up and cooked). We prefer to start our students to be masters of deception description, before moving on to the more complex layers of writing, which flows nicely when they come to Upper Level (P5-P6). For this Free Teaching Resource, we like to share on…
Free Teaching Resource – PSLE English Oral Tips
The new PSLE – SBC (Stimulus Based Conversation) section is much easier than the old format, and there is more engagement between the examiners and the students. However, our students do not see it that way. They find it intimidating to face 2 straight-faced examiners that they are unfamiliar with for the short 5-8 minutes of their lives. “It seems like eternity”, one of our P6s whined. “We feel judged,” another quipped. We understand their fears, and with the past experiences we had, we tried to encourage them to be less fearful and to build their confidence up. For our…
Free Teaching Resource – English D.A.R.T For Compo Writing (Adopt/Adapt Ideas)
Exactly the news article we needed! Coincided with one of our teaching materials in our DART & TASER English Guide Book (PSLE Version). A crashed car. A cockroach. What a story! We had to cut out the article and share with our students. Seeing is believing. A picture indeed paints a thousand words. An adult can talk till the cows come home and yet sometimes not get ingrained into a child’s mind. Once a child is shown a visual, he/she is able to think and link. Hence, we like using news articles to teach students how to write creatively, yet…
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Science Scrapbook
This latest material was produced by our founder after she noted that many of our students have the habit of jotting their work in drips and drabs, be it loose sheets of paper or exercise books. Somehow, their notes will mysteriously appear and disappear over the lessons attended, making note taking and learning not being consistent. We quickly did a simple cover page layout and our DICES topics with sub topics, including blank pieces for our students to jot and condense all their work on one book. These pieces of paper can be slot into each topic, building up their…
Free Teaching Resource – English D.A.R.T For Compo Writing (Realistic Story Plot)
A common complaint we hear from our students and parents, is a lack of story ideas. It is indeed hard to build up their love for reading when PSLE is nearing. A shorter way to boost their contents is via newspaper articles. Aside that, we like to reinforce that reading is a daily habit, and it is crucial to start from young, to develop healthy reading habits. That said, we find forcing our tweens to read tons of novels is ineffective at this stage. We move forward, and instill good reading habits in the form of news articles. This will…
Free Teaching Resource: Mindmapping Science (PSLE Revision)
Never underestimate a student when he/she takes ownership of his/her learning. Mindmapping is a powerful tool to condense and collate important notes for revision. Encourage your child to start mapping out their Science notes as part of their PSLE Science Revision. =) Below is our reflection of why we decide to share with our P6 Science students our Mindmapping Science materials. We were having lesson as usual when one of our P6 Science girls, C, vented her frustration over her lack of content knowledge, which led her to answer most of her questions incorrectly. This is somewhat true, as without…
Free Teaching Resource: DICES Checklist Guide (PSLE Revision)
A good time to revise for PSLE Science is using a solid teaching material and learn effectively from there. The image attached is extracted from one of our teaching materials – DICES Checklist Guide (PSLE Revision). This is a follow up on our previous post on C and our P6 Science students. From our years of experience, we assumed the crunch is to tackle and attempt as many exam practice papers and charge full steam ahead. However, our Achilles’ heel is when we failed to even notice who the ally and enemy is. From our previous post, we wrote how C…
Free Teaching Resource – English D.A.R.T For Compo Writing (Twist In Story Plot)
Following up on our DART series on Composition Writing, we like to prick our students’ brains, to come up with more creative endings, and to break away from the usual ‘happy endings’ or ‘moral of the story’. Whilst used wisely, a student is able to garner high marks. However, for the average Joes and Janes, we come up with an alternative to help them score, the “twisty” way. Introducing our last strategy, Twist in ending, we encourage our students to think of ways to end the stories, which link back to the exposure of reading news articles for realistic ideas…
Science Lesson Notes (Singapore Primary Science Syllabus)
Our Science Notes – Singapore Primary Science Syllabus (168 pages) is meant to support your child’s learning in primary school. We classified the Science topics into DICES – Diversity, Interactions, Cycles, Energy, Systems for easy revision. The topics are from Primary 3 right up to Primary 6. These compilation of notes are comprehensive, but not exhaustive. We encourage your child to add in more notes as she/he progresses on his/her own. Please note that the clipart images are taken from various sources in the Internet, and the lesson notes are adapted and included from various sources too. Sample Pages from…
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Partial Compo Crafting Chronicles
Dear parents, We thank you for purchasing our Partial Compo Crafting Chronicles. We see the need to guide our students add in more descriptive phrases, and so, we have compiled and compacted our research throughout the years. This resource is crafted according to the themes normally asked and tested over the examination period. While your child may not lack in ideas, he/she may be clueless in describing aptly in their story plots. Thus, this book comes in handy to address the very problem your child is facing. While this Partial Compo Crafting Chronicles is comprehensive, it is not exhaustive and…
GROW Your Writing Skills!
Foreword Our GROW Your Writing Skills guidebook aims to help our students address their weaknesses in writing. This manual also provides our students with relevant creative phrases to use in writing. There are practice exercises to explain how the descriptive phrases are used. Deliberate efforts are put in to make learning and writing an enjoyable experience. We want to encourage our students that it is possible to write exciting compositions, with the right techniques and easy to learn expressions! It takes time to see the results, just like a seed sown to become a plant. Be determined to keep applying…
Mastering Comprehension Open-Ended
Foreword Our Mastering Comprehension Open-Ended guidebook provides: – Systematic step-by-step training on vital skills needed for answering comprehension questions – Training on how to understand passages and to infer information from contexts. -Inference questions are playing an increasingly important part in language examination. – A rich and varied content to enrich the pupils’ experiential background as well as promote class/group discussions. – Graded exercises for training and testing purposes. Our aim is for our students to benefit greatly from the notes and practices given so they will be better prepared for the examination and beyond. From the desk of Shirleen…
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