Love Spelling and Writing

It’s ironic.

How can we love Spelling?

In fact, I hated Spelling when I was in my younger days. I never love to spell. Spelling to me was a great torture!

Yet, I had no choice; I had to do well in Spelling as there would be marks counted towards Spelling in my final year of examinations.

Oh yes, I took my final year of exams 20 years ago. Surprisingly, we still have Spelling today in our school context.

So, how can we love Spelling?

First, we must understand the meaning of Spelling.

Why do you need to spell the word? How can we spell the words that we do not know?
There are strategies to get around this.

1) For example, sounding out the words help. Imagine that you are looking at that word inside your head and you are going to spell it out.

2) Look, cover, spell – look at the word, cover the word, and you start spelling it again.

3) Understand the meaning of the word and try to make an interesting story out from that word.

There could also be other strategies which could be useful too.

Now, why do we need to learn and love Spelling?

If you are someone who loves writing, you have to learn how to spell words. Otherwise, you will keep coming to your teacher on the exact spelling of those words which are not going to be very useful.

How many times can you ask your teacher before she or he gets frustrated?

Why do we need to write?

We need to write as we need to express ourselves clearly so that others can understand us.

This is the key reason for writing. Especially when we move up the ladder in upper primary, writing is going to be more important where we need to articulate and convey our thoughts clearly. That is not going to happen overnight. It takes a lot of practices and hard work before this can be achieved.

Therefore, I urge to everyone, please start loving how to SPELL your words before you be a good writer.

Regards
Mdm Chan

My school camp - BC

My school camp – BC
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One fine morning, I took my school bus and went to school. When I arrived in school, I sat down. The whole school sang the national anthem and took their pledge in the hall. After that, we went back to class and had some lessons about rules of the camp.

Then, the whole class went for recess. We were seated based on our classes and there were food already prepared for us. We assembled back at the foyer shortly after. There were two primary four seniors who followed us for the entire trip. With that, we passed by the foot of Mount Faber and continued walking to Henderson Waves.

I love the camp because it was fun especially when we explored the bridge. It was fun and tiring and we laughed along the way when we walked back to school. All of us were tired when we reached the school. However, when we saw the school bus at Bukit Purmei, we felt very happy.

And that’s the end of my story. :)

Note from Mdm Chan: The camp took place during the 2nd Friday of Term 1, everyone was supposed to walk from school to Henderson Waves for a short camp. It was very tiring but it should be an enjoyable trip where they experienced something different. Along the way, they played games and had some food over there. It was something memorable for me too.

MY sick with eye infection

Wednesday Afternoon - In the classroom . . . .

Let's start busy by writing more things over here!

Today, MY is not here in school. He is down with an eye infection that is affecting his eyesight. I can only hope and pray that he would be well enough for school tomorrow. It was yesterday when I noted that his eyes were not well.

Let's pray for his well-being and recover soon!

Meanwhile, CW has wore a new pair of spectacles. He looks kinda of cute in that specs. It would seemed that he is someone who is very adorable and obedient. Yet, to people who are familiar to him, they would know that this is not the case.

This is a cheerful, bubbly student who is always full of ideas and would never being able to keep his mouth shut. -_-

Enough said, now let's get back to work again. We would need to catch up and finish the module before Thursday. As Friday is a public holiday, there would be extra work to be done to compensate for the holiday, but this would be worth the efforts. :)

Cheers
Mdm Chan