.::Primary 1A Class Bulletin Blog::.

Dear All,

1A had their choral reading assessment where they read one of the STELLAR Big Books as a group to their classmates. Before the assessment, pupils were showed how to maintain eye contact with the audience, read clearly with good pace and appropriate pitch. They were told to read with expression and some body movements. I believe this being their first time, some appeared nervous. In overall, I am still glad that my pupils put in the effort to try and even smile as they read and I told them we will definitely have more of reading together as a group to encourage teamwork and cooperation as well as confidence.

Just for your information, I have given out a Poetry in Motion worksheet to my pupils. There are a total of 3 poems for pupils to practise reading aloud at home. They will be assessed to read only one of the poems in class in week 7. The assessment will be similar to choral reading except that this will be done individually.

Other updates in week 6 would be the interesting assembly talk on Dental Care by our school dental therapist. Pupils are now more conscious about their teeth and why they need to look after their teeth well. We continued with our Digital Art lesson on Friday where pupils used the Microsoft PowerPoint shape tools to create pictures.

During FTGP, we tackled on the issue of Making Friends. This is actually a common issue or I would say a challenge for some of our pupils. At times, our children are not aware that their actions and things they do and say can affect others. So we had a discussion and I have to act out some of the appropriate behaviours in dealing with their peers. I hope they learnt that by being nasty is never going to be the way to make friends. For the shy ones, it is always good to buddy them up. I welcome pair work activities like what we had during our Social Studies - Finding out your friend's favourites. Ms Salina somehow became one of their frends too. So 1A you better know my favourites, yah!

We played a simple Grammar game on Singular and Plural where pupils take turns to write the answer on the board. Parents can also try this game at home too, make it fun for your child but at the same time you are able to assess him or her on this grammar component. I let my pupils bring home the Grammar Book for them to read and revise 'Singular and Plural'. I will be going through more of this slowly in class.

In Week 7, I will be doing/continuing on:

Running Reading Record
Poetry in Motion (informal poetry reading)
Reading Hairy Bear
Math: Subtraction within 10

Looking forward to see you all!

::Week 6 Updates::
Sunday, February 12, 2012

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::Week 6 Updates:: Sunday, February 12, 2012

An entry was written at 12:08 PM

::Week 6 Updates::
Sunday, February 12, 2012

An entry was written at 12:08 PM