27 August 2007 - A VIsit to our School Eco-garden

We had a fun mini excursion to our School Ecograden. Over at this garden, we explored the life cycles of animals such as frogs, butterflies and fishes. We were also delighted to see a butterfly feeding on the nectar on the flowers. Over at the garden, my pupils could see what a sucker (young plant of a banana tree) is. They were glad to know that besides reproduction by seeds, some plants such as pineapples and bananas grow from suckers. :)

27 August - Demonstration of Paper Recycling by Mdm Lee

We had a demonstration of paper recycling in the Science Lab by Mdm Lee. 3-Caring and 3-Integrity pupils were surprised to know that used paper could actually be recycled and made into something useful. Some brillant suggestions given by the students were bookmark, Teachers' Day Card and post-cards. 3-Caring would be making their own recycled paper in September. :)

27 August 2007 - Identifying Adjectives from 2 Book Reviews

During our English lessons, I taught my pupils the structure of a book review. After that, we played a game. I grouped my pupils into 2 small groups. Each group had to examine a book review (in their textbook). They had to find as many adjectives as they could from their book review. The group with the most adjectives became the winner. :)

24 Aug - Using drama to learn about photosynthesis

On our science lesson, we had a drama where pupils role-played "plant", "water", "carbon dioxide", "oxygen"
, and "sunlight". The other pupils read the script of the drama. My pupils enjoyed themselves a lot and we had a lot of fun. Dramatisation is certainly an effective and visual way to learn Science. It builds up the confidence of the pupils and also inject fun and excitement in learning. I could improve on this drama but just choosing a few pupils to read the scripts while the rest could watch the performance with leisure. :)

As closure, as my pupils have learned about carbon dioxide and oxygen, I gave them a challenge to find out what the 4 main gases in the air are.

23 August 2007 - English Supplementary (Picture comprehension, identifying past continuous tense and past tense from the passage)

During my English supplementary class with 4-Respect, I had improvised a normal comprehension passage with another aspect of grammar. As some of my pupils from PRC need more guidance in their vocabulary, I did a pictorial comprehension with them. Hence, they were able to visualise the story in the comprehension passage. After my pupils had completed the comprehension questions, I told them to pick out past continuous tenses and past tenses from the passage. From this activity, my pupils are able to identify what past continuous tenses and past tenses are. :)

23 August 2007 - Learning about History of Chinatown using the Internet

During our Social Studies lesson, we had found how the names of some streets in Chinatown come about. An interesting website we had visited was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_Singapore. My pupils were surprised to know that Sago Street got its name because in the 1840s, there were a number of sago factories located there. Hence, IT is definitely a useful tool in learning about the history of Singapore. :)

21 August - Group Activity during Science Lessons

On 21 August, we had a group activity during our Science lesson. The class was divided into small groups of 4 or 5. I displayed many flash-cards on the whiteboard for my pupils to select the appropriate ones for the activity in the workbook. To enable those pupils at the back of the class to see the texts on the flash cards, I had decided to use the visualiser. My pupils had a lot of fun today. :)