Drama fest photos (video will be uploaded later)
Congratulations, kids! 🙂
National day celebration 2016
Semester 2 Assessment Plan
Fractions, fractions!
Reminders
1) Racial Harmony Day celebration tomorrow, 21 July. Students are encouraged to wear their ethnic costumes.
2) Composition test next week. 15 marks. 45 minutes for students to write based on four pictures. Students will be assessed on content and language.
PAL visual arts
Happy first week of term 3!
Group writing experience. To be continued next week. Focus: describing weather and weather related activities/events
Math learning experience: measuring masses of daily objects and reading weighing scales
Skill: knowing how to read the markings on the weighing scale (in grams and kilograms)
Upcoming assessments
Dear parents,
Please note that the oral test will be held next Thursday, 5 May 2016. I have given them a piece of stimulus-based conversation practice yesterday to practice at home. Do take some time to hear what they have to say. 🙂 I will be giving them another practice today. They are required to talk about their own opinions, ideas and experiences based on the topic and picture given.
There will also be English and Mother Tongue mini tests in Week 8, as stated in the letter to parents dated 18 January.
Math mini test will also be in Week 8. Topics tested are: length, two-step word problems and weak items from mini tests 1-3.
I’m attaching the letter for your reference.
Thank you! 🙂
Learning journey to National Orchid Gardens
Dear 2D,
Here are the photos taken on Monday at National Orchid Gardens! 🙂 Enjoy!
Learning Journey to the Underwater World of Singapore
Dear students,
I hope you have enjoyed yourselves today at the Underwater World. Here are some pictures we have taken at the Underwater World and some interesting information about the sea creatures we saw.
Sea dragons:
Seahorses and sea dragons are fish. Both seahorses and sea dragons are unusual and beautiful, and are vulnerable. (From http://kidcyber.com.au/tag/facts-for-kids-about-sea-dragons/)
Read more about seahorse and sea dragons by clicking on the link above! 🙂
Nurse sharks (the biggest shark in the Underwater World of Singapore):
They use their strong jaws to crush and eat shellfish and even coral, but prefer to dine on fish, shrimp, and squid. They are gray-brown and have distinctive tail fins that can be up to one-fourth their total length. Unlike most other sharks, nurses are smooth to the touch.
Nurse sharks are found in the warm, shallow waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans. They are abundant throughout their range and have no special conservation status, although the closeness of their habit to human activities is putting pressure on the species. (From http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/nurse-shark/)
Eagle Ray:
The spotted eagle ray is very distinctive with a flattened body and triangular corners to the wing-like pectoral fins (2). The snout is rounded and pointed at the tip, so that it resembles a bird’s beak. The tail is long and whip-like and bears 2 – 6 spines (3). These eagle rays possess highly attractive colouring; the uppersurface is blackish-blue with many white spots, whilst the underside is white (2). (From http://www.arkive.org/spotted-eagle-ray/aetobatus-narinari/)
White-tip reef shark:
Black tip reef shark:
Pink River Dolphin:
Up to 9 feet (2.7 meters) long and 300 pounds (136.1 kilograms), Pink River Dolphins are the largest freshwater dolphins in the world.
Sea turtles:
Turtles, tortoises, and terrapins are all turtles. The term “tortoise” is used for terrestrial turtles with high-domed shells and elephantine hindlimbs, whereas the term “terrapin” is used properly for some highly aquatic turtles (genus Malaclemys) of eastern North America, although it frequently is used in error for American box turtles in the genus Terrapene. Turtles are easily recognized and distinguished from all other vertebrates by their shells.(from http://animaliaz-life.com/turtle.html)
We also saw an otter just now. We will read more about otters tomorrow in class!
Hope everyone will have a good rest today, drink lots of water and be ready for more learning tomorrow. 😉
Learning Experience – Making word problems
Class 2D 2016 