Highlights of Term 3, Week 2 & 3

Dear 3B,
the past two weeks were filled with interesting activities and incidents in our class- here's a quick look at what has been done!

Maths: Money
Ms Priya's Salary *shhhh*

We continued to explore the topic of money and how we go about adding and subtracting money.
We tried to figure out Ms Priya's salary and where her money goes every month! All of you were excellent accountants, providing me with accurate calculations and even sage advice - thank you!
I hope you had fun being accountants and helping me to keep track of my money. I sure enjoyed it!


Science: Magnets
The floating bed
We looked at Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars' invention : The Floating Bed and discussed about what could be causing the bed to "float".
When everyone smartly guessed "Magnets", they were then asked to wear a designer's hat and each group discussed how exactly could magnets be used to make the bed float.
I was very impressed with the detailed drawings groups came up with and the amount of thought and effort put into the discussion - keep it up guys!

Designs as to how the floating bed would work

Sharing by Designers

Some of the ideas suggested by You!

Here's some food for thought for you to think about:
1) Most of you suggested magnetic floors, magnetic ceilings and magnetic walls to control the magnetic field of the bed. Is this a wise idea? Will the bed be the ONLY object in the room affected by the field?

2) Like most adults, I usually place my phone right next to me when i sleep. If I were to do that on a magnetic bed, would there be any problems? Why?

English: Report Card Days
After the exciting "Blink-Off", we started on our next text : Report Card Days!

First, we sketched images that came to our mind when the phrase "report card" was mentioned.
We then predicted what the text would be like before reading it and discussed it!

And to follow up, you were given a task for this weekend :
An Interview with Parents/Grandparents about their Report Card Days!!

*Dear parents, this activity is just meant to be an interesting discussion for the children to know more about you and your schooling life! The pupils will share their interviews with the class - I hope you don't mind and have fun!


Surprise Visitor in the Class...
On the first day of Week 3, we found a surprise visitor in our class - a bird! Although it rammed into the light and fan, it still remained strong and unhurt.
But the shock of the collision seemed to have stunned it, so 3B decided to let it recover on top of our class cupboard until it was calm. Later during recess, Mr Amran popped by to bring the bird out of the classroom and free it - thank you Mr Amran!

Once again, it has been a great two weeks of fun and learning!

Post your thoughts about these two weeks!

Love,
Ms Priya :)

http://www.gizmag.com/go/5824/ (this article discusses the invention as well as provides us with more pictures - the one with the puppy on the bed is really cute!)

Great Start to Term 3!

Dear 3B,
welcome back to school!
This week, we had a great positive start to our term and I trust that we are going to keep this up and have a wonderful and happy time in school!

Here are the key highlights of this week:

English: The Blink-Off

We started on a new text titled the "The Blink-Off".
Here's the action replay of 3B's very own Blink-Off Challenge: The Final Round!

Maths: The GSS 2012 is here! (The Great Shopping Spree!)

This term, we are starting off with the interesting topic of Money. What better way to learn about the concepts of money than to shop and have fun while at it!

So, 3B had their Shopping Spree contest!

In their groups of 4, they competed in 5 rounds of shopping.

Each round involved a budget, a different category of products and a different place to shop.

All the pupils were very engaged in the tasks as they discussed and calculated the various possible combinations of items to buy to get the best deal possible.

Catch the action here!

Science: Mesmerising Magnets!

For our very first Science lesson, we took a look at a video by the Quirkles...The only twist was, the video was muted so that pupils could not hear from the presenters what they were doing and why they were doing it! They were also not allowed to catch a glimpse of the video title as it would have given the game away;)!

Looking at the visuals alone, pupils had to write what they observed  in their Nature Study Book (NSBs) and then based on these observations, they had to come up with questions and figure out the aim of the activity.

Here's the video link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ox3DgnH8Lw  (Colour Mixing with Magnets)

Indeed, magnets were used to create an interesting piece of art and this brought us to brainstorm some questions we had on Magnets.

And so... this questions will guide us on our exploration of Magnets this term!

Assembly Talk: Health Ed (Importance of our diet by Yeo's)



Importance of a Good Breakfast



I just love Yeo Bean - so adorable!

PE: A New Term, A New Sport...

After a term of tossing balls into baskets and a term of moving balls with sticks , we go back to the good ol' throw and catch the ball with your hands - RUGBY!

There you have it- a great start to our new term :)! 

HW:

1. Please log in to Knowledge Forum and let me know if you have any difficulties doing so ON TUESDAY!

Meanwhile, how did YOU find our Week 1 of Term 3 - post your comments and remember...

Identify yourself, read through your post once BEFORE submitting to check for any errors and do not write comments that are rude or nasty!

Have a wonderful weekend and do think about what we have done this week at home!

Love,

Ms Priya :)

The holidays are here! Time to READ!!!

Dear 3B,
it's been a week since your school holidays started. Hope you have been enjoying yourselves!
In Term 2, we watched two movies, namely, Matilda & The BFG. As we discussed, these are movie adaptations of Roald Dahl's books.

Roald Dahl is a famous children's author.
Click on the link below to know more about him and the books he wrote!
http://www.roalddahl.com/ (It's a fantastic website!)
Click on the "books and stuff" link to discover the entire reading list of wonderful stories written by him.

I hope that during the holidays, you will get a chance to read all or at least some of his awesome children's books! They are available at public libraries, so ask your parents to check if the books are available and pick them up. Enjoy reading!!!

Apart from the Roald Dahl Books...

Are you a Thrill Seeker? Brave Heart? Horror Fan? or a Jolly Joker when it comes to books?

click on the link below to answer a few questions to find out what kind of a reader you are!

http://www.pl.sg/IBMS/plRecommendations/showDocument.do?uuid=1e8d99ee-2d2c-4be7-9073-12bd462466b2

The second page will give recommended books according to the type of reader you are. Have fun trying the quiz!!!

These holidays, it will be good if you can also catch 10minutes of the Channel 5 or Channel NewsAsia news as well as read maybe one newspaper article a week. Such habits help us to expand our vocab and also listen to good ways of reading a passage (useful for oral). Not only that, it expands our general knowledge!

As an endnote,
do use the "Notes" section in your Pupil Handbook to write down all the titles of the books you've read and enjoyed. It will be fun to share when school reopens!

Enjoy the holidays!!!

Love,
Ms Priya :)

Let's show love, care and concern :)

Dear parents,

today all our 3B pupils received a booklet of 10 tickets!
This fundraising effort is part of our Community Involvement Programme (CIP) for our P3 students.
The tickets are meant to be sold to raise funds for a good cause and the organisation that we will be helping is the AIN Society.

If you are interested to know more about the organisation, here's the link:

http://www.ainsociety.org.sg/

Each ticket a student sells, contributes $2 to the building of a cancer centre for women and children with cancer.

The students have been briefed not to approach strangers to sell the tickets. Family and friends who buy the ticket get a chance to participate in the lucky draw that will be held on 1 Sep 2012 at the AIN Society's office.

As with all goodwill efforts, there is no compulsion. Students are encouraged to sell as many tickets as they can. However, there is no set target (ie minimum number of tickets to be sold). Any contribution is welcome.

Our pupils seem to be really enthusiastic for the cause and requested for more booklets.
However, I don't wish to issue out extra booklets for the sake of it and in the end the onus falls on parents to be the ones raising funds(or paying it out of their own pockets) just so to complete the booklets.

Hence, if your child wishes to contribute more and you are also fine with it, please sms me so that I know that you are fine with another booklet being issued.

Booklets issued out on : 17 May 2012 ( 38 pupils have signed to acknowledge that they have received the booklet)

Time period to sell tickets: From today(17/5/2012) till the end of June holidays

Collection of Booklets (SOLD & UNSOLD) & Money by Miss Priya:
TERM 3 WEEK 1 ( 1st day of school onwards)
(Parents, I seek your cooperation in ensuring that the child does not bring money next week (Term 2 Week 10). It's easier to collect all the money and booklets and consolidate them if they all bring it in during the same time period.)


No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

Thank you in advance for your contribution and effort 3B pupils and parents!


Ms Priya :)
 

Week 6 (EL File Contents)

Hi everyone,
those of you who have your worksheets, kindly arrange them according to the following order:

Note: Content #9, #14, #18 & #23 are with me.  Content #24 is your homework for the weekend.

Ms Priya :)

Week 6 Updates

Dear 3B,
most of you have completed your oral today - WELL DONE!

I do need your cooperation in something though - please do not discuss anything about the passage or the picture with any Endeavour students, be it your classmates or friends from other classes - thank you!

I apologise for the hurried end to the week today - our oral was at the end of the day, and I did not have time to conclude on a good note!

Anyway,

• Science
• Your Nature Study Book (NSB) has been returned to you for revision. I'll be giving you the notes for the chapter on "Plants" next week for you to include in your NSB.
• Your activity books will be returned to you on Monday.

• Maths
• Revise your Daily Book and the chapters we have covered from Term 1 till now.
• PRACTISE YOUR TIME TABLES!!!!! Some of you are still getting mixed up with the tables! Remember the way we learnt our time tables - do it with your parents or siblings...Just choose an action and start reciting your timetables with that action..(e.g. clap your hands and start 6 TIMES 7 EQUALS TO 42...and so on!)

• English
• Your composition files have been returned to you. If I have circled any of the content numbers, it either means that that particular piece of work is missing from your file or you have not completed your corrections, so kindly do the necessary. Please fill in the DATES for your compositions as well.
• As for your worksheets file, thank you for helping me with the contents page. You will be given a copy of the contents page on Monday. Meanwhile, you can arrange the worksheets in your file in the following order( sorry due to some technical errors I cannot seem to post it- will do so on Sunday ):

                    

• We will be completing the final portion of our last chapter for the exams on Monday. So, kindly bring your workbook portion on "Solving Word Problems 2".

Meanwhile, please use the notes given to revise for your various Science topics and feel free to add on to the notes - it's for YOUR USE - so USE IT WELL!

Love,
Ms Priya :)

SA1 EL

Dear 3B,
Sorry for the delay in the post!
Here's the details for SA1 EL exam:

Component	Sub-components	Marks	When?	Remarks
Oral (10m)	Reading	5m	Week 6 (27 April 2012, Friday)	Pupils will be using the Oral Buddy to record their reading and picture discussion.
	Picture Discussion	10m
Listening Comprehension (15m)	Picture Matching	4m	Week 7	There will be NO SPELLING for SA1 component.
	Note-taking	6m
	Dictation	5m
Paper 1 (Writing) (20m)	Composition	20m	Week 7
Paper 2 (Language) (50m)	Section A: Vocabulary MCQ	6m	Week 8 (8 May 2012)	The exam will follow the format of the topical quizzes set except that there will be: ·         more questions for Sections A to E ·         Comprehension MCQ.
	Section B: Grammar MCQ	8m
	Section C: Grammar Cloze	8m
	Section D: Vocabulary Cloze	8m
	Section E: Comprehension (MCQ)	10m
	Section F: Comprehension (Open-Ended)	10m
(Marks will be converted to 100 %)

As for your Chinese Language, Mrs Foo will be informing you about the format next week.
Your CL Oral will be on Tuesday (24 April 2012)

Love,
Ms Priya