ASAD - April

A Story A Day (ASAD)

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Our next reading is in April (late April). I was planning to have PL to read hers which she did her write up since January.

However, I am encouraging all budding writers from my class. You do not need a lot of words... (around 100 will do). Hopefully, I do have more students who are willing to come forward to write a story involving a core value around RMPS.

This is true especially for some of the girls, e.g. YW.

Yes, I think she can do it. (if she wants to.) She needs a nudge to ensure that she can try. Otherwise, she would not try. This was after my conversation with her. I realised that she needs to have more confidence in herself. :)

YW, if you are reading, please believe in yourself that you can do it.

:)

Cheers

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

Brain teaser - English

What went wrong?

Brain teaser:

What is wrong with the English written on this announcement? How can we rewrite this? I saw this around Chinese New Year while having dinner in this restaurant at TB plaza.

Relationship with Dad

I would be starting a new entry - My Dad - and would be inviting my class students to write something or draw something about their Dad. This is with relations to the URL which our school would be participating.

http://contest.dadsforlife.sg/

It was opened on 1st Apr and we are going to submit some entries for this contest...

To the rest of the class - watch out as I announce details that you need to submit a write-up in relationship with your Dad.

Cheers~

Mdm Chan

I love school by JX

Another post by JX --

Pls read one. This should be more interesting! :)

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I love SCHOOL!!!

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My favourite day is to go to school because I can learn about more things like: English, Maths, Chinese and Science. I really love to go to school.

Last year, when I was in Primary One, I was very scared of going to school because it was my first time going to school. I was worried and having this thought that nobody would want to talk to me.

At this moment, suddenly, a boy called JM came and talked to me. We had a long talk during recess and he even gave me his mobile number. Now, I have more friends than before.

Sometimes, my friends would also add me to their FB events.

Now, I am very glad that I have lots of friends.

Boy, I cannot wait to get onto P3, P4, P5 and P6 and Sec 1…. etc. Here I come!

My Favourite Day (by NS)

Thursday afternoon:

This is a very happy day as every one seems to be in good mood after knowing that there is a long weekend...

Hurray!

Written by NS of 2D: (she did not provide her name. From the handwriting and writing style, I am presuming this should be written by her. :) )

My Favourite Day –

Written by N of 2D:

My favourite day is Friday because it is nice on Friday. We can too play table-tennis right now every Friday. On this day, we would also learn English and Maths. Every Friday, it is morning session and I can visit my old K1 teacher.

On this day, my mother brings me to the playground where I can be up on the swing. I will also be able to see my friend.

After that, I will do my homework at home. I can too watch TV.

I eat my dinner after that and wait for my father to come home to have his dinner. At night, my whole family goes to sleep after that.

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A story a day

Every day, I will try to write at least 50 words per day about my daily lives. Students who are also interested to read and find out more are also strongly encouraged to write and articulate their thoughts.

To start off, here’s the stories which were told to the P1 and P2 during A-story-a-day session. These stories would also be published at the end of the year.

First story written by DK, and recited by RN.

**start of story**
Good afternoon school, I am from Primary 2D. Today, the story I am reading is about being kind and considerate to animals.

One day, on my way home from school, I heard a sound coming from behind. I went over to check and I saw a cat. It was hurt and there was blood on its leg. I brought it home and cleaned its leg. Then I applied some medicine and bandaged it.
I saw there was a name and telephone number on the tag worn on its collar. After giving some milk to the dog, I tried to call the number. A girl answered and sounded very excited when she realised that I found her cat.
Soon after, the doorbell rang and the girl came to pick up her cat.
I was happy that I had done a good deed.

**end of story**


This is the second story, written and retold by R from my class.

**start of story**


Good afternoon school, I am from Primary 2D. Today, the story I am reading is about setting targets to challenge ourselves, and never give up.

I started Kumon Mathematics in 2006. In fact, I attended a level lower than my actual age. My brother did better than I. I had to take a longer time than him to complete one level to the next level.
To do that, I set a target for myself and decided to work towards it. I wanted very much to get my bronze medal by 2008. To achieve my goal, I did extra worksheets everyday for the entire year. It was very tiring because I had to cope with my daily school work. However, I have never thought of giving up.
Sometime in June 2008, my Kumon teacher told me some happy news. She informed me that I had finally made it to the bronze medal. When I was there for the award ceremony, I was very excited. At the moment where I received the award with my hands, I was feeling very happy with myself. I was proud of my achievement and it was the same with my parents.
From that moment, I know that we should never give up and should always aim towards excellence. The road to excellence is tough but survivors will overcome all obstacles to reach their goals. This is too in line with one of our school core values – that is: Aim for excellence
- Set targets to challenge oneself
- Strive for the best in all that one does
- Take pride in one’s work


Thank you for listening and I hope we can all work towards this goal!
**end of story**



With these two stories and one more coming from PL, I hope the rest of the class can feel motivated and start writing more stories!

Cheers
Mdm Chan

My first entry

Welcome Everyone!

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This is my journal. I will promise to write more about the interesting things that is happening around me, and sharing these with my class.

If there is something worth sharing, from time to time, I would also share this too with the rest of the class.

Cheers

Mdm Chan :)