Term 3 Week 5 (Friday)

Assignment
1) Math Problem Sums
2) English Practice Paper
3) Revise Problem Sums

Reminder
1) Parents to sign Math File

Term 3 Week 5(Thursday)

Assignment
1) Math Problem Sums
2) English Practice Paper
3) Dictation Passage 1 and 2

Reminder
1) Parents to sign Math AB
2) Bring Math File (with problem sums fastener)
3) Mini Olympics Games Training tomorrow

Term 3 Week 5 (Wednesday)

Assignment
1) Math Problem Sums
2) English Practice Paper
3) Dictation Passage 1 and 2 on Friday

Term 3 Week 5 (Tuesday)

Assignment
1) Math AB 3.8 and 3.9
(Show your working clearly)

2) Eng AB Pg32 - Do your corrections too!
(Answer in complete sentences. Be careful of your tenses)

3) Reflection on 25-Pounder Guns
How you feel? Why we have these equipment?

4) Math Worksheet

Discussion
Today we discussed about Yasmin Ahmad, the highly acclaimed director from Malaysia who has passed away recently. She directed a few short clips for Singapore to promote family values.

Click on the youtube link below to look at the inspiring and touching clips. We have a lot to learn from the video. Please share your reflections using this blog. I would like to know how you all feel about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v66VMFBPq8E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw0s4C0g5SM&feature=related

Term 3 Week 5 (Monday)

Assignment
1) Math AB 3.7
2) Parachute Essay (4 more groups)
Please type in your title, group members' name and BC.

Reminder:
I need two more Sudoku experts to take part in a competition. Please let me know if you are interested.

Questions Of the Day:

Today, when we were discussing about percentage and interest rate, Kaelan mentioned about "simple interest" and "compound interest". Unfortunately, I did not have the time and opportunity to discuss more about them.

Question 1:
Who can tell me what does compound interest mean?

Question 2:
I put $1000 in the bank and the bank pays 4% interest annually. How much money do I have in the bank account after 3 years if the money is compounded annually?
Round off answer to the nearest dollar.
(what if the interest is compounded semi-annually?)
(Maybe i will give a small reward if someone can answer the above questions correctly)

Parachute Essay Competition

I have received the above essay from the following pupils' group.

1) Zhi Ting
2) Yi Xiong
3) Winslow
4) Ching Wei

These essays have been vetted by me and their final drafts are ready.

For the groups which have not emailed to me, please do it this weekend.

Thank you!

Term 3 Week 4 (Thursday)

Assignment
1) Math AB 3.3 to 3.6
2) Journal Writing - Any topic. Maybe you can write something that you want to tell me but do not have the chance to do it in class.
3) English AB - Worksheet 5

Reminder
1) Racial Harmony Day Celebration tomorrow. Remember to bring your ODTs.
2) Math Olympiad Training on Saturday.

Term 3 Week 4 (Wednesday)

Assignment
1) Math AB - Recall 3, 3.1 and 3.2
2) Science MCQ
3) Please revise the Problem Sums that we went through today.

Reminder
1) Please email me your "Parachute" essay to vincent_soh@hotmail.com
2) Prepare your costume for Friday
3) Pupils who have not completed the OLP assignment, please do it before Friday. Pupils who have completed, you can continue to grade your peers and pick up the good points from them.

* It's a pity that we have no opportunity to witness the solar eclipse today.

Question of the Day:
When is the next solar eclipse? (Either partial or full)
I always wonder how the astronomers "predict" the eclipse. Can someone advise us on that?

Term 3 Week 4 (Tuesday)

Assignment
1) Math Problem Sums
2) Parachute Essay (250 words). Please email me your first draft by 5pm tomorrow.

Reminder
1) Racial Harmony Day on Friday - 7.25am to 9.30am. Please wear your traditional costumes.

Math Question of the Day:

Buried underneath was a great man Diophantus. One-sixth of his life was spent in happy childhood. After one-twelfth of his life, he grew a beard. After one-seventh of his life, he got married and had a son 5 years later. However, the child only lived for half the life span of his father. After the death of his son, Diophantus lived in sadness for another 4 years before he died.
How long did Diophantus lived?
(Diophantus, 3rd century, Greece)

Term 3 Week 4 (Monday)

Assignment
1) Math Worksheet
2) English AB pg 24

Reminder
ICAS English for pupils who have registered for it (after school)

Term 3 Week 3 (Friday)

Assignment
1) English Worksheet - Complete the remaining worksheets
2) Math AB - 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6

Reminder
1) Parachute Composition - Draft copy. Will discuss on Monday again
2) Math Olympiad Training - Saturday (Bring your ODTs)

Good News!!
Three of our classmates have done well in The National Mathematical Olympiad of Singapore competition organised by NUS High. They have qualified and invited for the special round.
Congratulations to Hazique, Boon Hong and Hanchen!
Wish them all the best for the next round!!!
http://oas.highsch.nus.edu.sg/NMOS/


Question of the Day (Repeated):
A group of gardeners went to cut the grass of 2 plots of land. The larger plot of land was twice the area of the smaller plot. After working on the bigger plot of land for half a day, one half of the gardeners went to work in the smaller plot of land. The rest stayed on the bigger plot and finished cutting the grass in the evening. However, by evening, an area of grass remained uncut in the smaller plot of land. One gardener then took one day to complete the job of cutting the area of uncut grass in the smaller plot of land.
How many gardeners were there?

(Leo Tolstoy, 19th century, Russia)

Term 3 Week 3 (Thursday)

Assignment
1) Journal Writing
a) SGEM
b) Reflection On Your Learning

2) English Worksheet - Up to Comprehension 9A

3) Spelling Corrections (Parent's Signature)



Reminder
1) PE lesson tomorrow
2) Mini Olympics Training 3.30pm to 5pm

Term 3 Week 3 (Wednesday)

Assignment
1) Composition - Final Draft
2) Math AB - 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3
3) Idioms Spelling - 3rd and 4th page

Reminder
1) Mini Olympics Training - Friday 3.30pm to 5pm

Term 3 Week 3 (Tuesday)

Assignment
1) Math AB Recall 2
2) English Worksheet. Up to Vocabulary 9B
3) OLP Assignment. You have to evaluate at least your partner's recording. Must be done by Friday
4) Idioms Spelling on Thursday

Reminder
1) Game Monitor tomorrow

National Orange Ribbon

http://orangeribbon.onepeople.sg/2009

Term 3 Week 3 (Monday)

Assignment
1) Math Problem Sums
2) SGEM - Public Speaking. I have some attractive prizes to give along. Pupils with interesting speeches which can capture the listeners attention will win the prizes!!

Reminder
1) Supplementary Lessons Consent Form
2) Guitar Lesson tomorrow. Please do not forget your notes.

Term 3 Week 2 (Friday)

Assignment
1) Math Problem Sums
2) Situational Writing Corrections
3) Spelling Corrections

Reminder / Week 3 (The Week Ahead)
1) Monday - Supplementary Lesson (Science) will commence
2) Monday - SGEM
3) Mini Olympics Practice on Friday 3pm - 4.30pm.
4) Idioms Spelling (Part II) on Thursday

Question Of the Day:
What is a communist country?
Which is a communist country? China or South Korea?
Can you name a few communist countries?

Term 3 Week 2 (Thursday)

Assignment
1) Math Worksheet on Decimals
2) English AB Pg 11 and 12

Question of the Day:
Which is the main political party in China?
China is also called PRC. What does PRC stand for? What does it mean?

Term 3 Week 2 (Wednesday)

Assignment
1) Composition - 2nd Draft
2) Math AB 1.9 and 1.10
3) Friday - Spelling on the Idioms (1st and 2nd Page)

Reminder
1) Australian Mathematics Competition 1pm to 3.30pm (AVA Room)

Term 3 Week 2 (Tuesday)

Assignment
1) Picture Composition - 1st draft
Please make use of the phrases and vocabulary words that I shared with you with morning.

2) Situational Writing - 2nd Draft
Make the amendments and I look forward to a perfect writing tomorrow.

3) Math AB 1.8

4) Consent form for Game Monitors for tomorrow. (12.40pm to 1.25pm)

*Kaelan and Hanchen,
Please email me your composition. I would like to consider to put it in Zero-In Magazine.

Question Of The Day:
Can you share a few quotations/sayings/adages that we can use for our compositions?
Normally, our compositions have these topics like fire, robbery, traffic accident, burglary, drowning, etc.
Maybe I can start the ball rolling first.
"fire is a good servant but a bad master"
"low crime does not mean no crime"
"crime does not pay"
"it is better to give than to receive"

Term 3 Week 1 (Wednesday)

Assignment
1) Math AB 1.4 and 1.5
2) English Worksheet (Up to Grammar Cloze)

Reminder
1) P1 Registration Form
2) Travel Declaration Form (Must be submitted latest by Friday)

Question of the Day:
1) How many countries are there in United Kingdom? Have you heard of these countries before? What have you learnt?

(I have 15 emails in my hotmail address now. I am still waiting for the other 22 pupils to send me an acknowlegdement email.)