[T1W4] English

Dear parents,

Thank you to the parents who attended the briefing on Friday. I hope you have learnt more about the scope covered for each subject.

Like I have mentioned earlier in the year, my plans for P3A is to maximise their learning and to nurture them to be independent learners. As such, we have started the use of the "English Self-study notebook" where they can take down notes on their own for easy reference.

Updates for English:

1) STELLAR

We have started on the big book "The Wolf's Story" where the familiar story of the three little pigs is written in the perspective of the wolf. This book aims to teach pupils to look at things from different perspective, and demonstrates how misunderstanding can occur when different people interpret an event differently. It is a fun book where other characters gave their testimonies of what the wolf actually did!


2) Spelling / Dictation

A gentle reminder that spelling and dictation is conducted every Wednesday. In the event that your child is not around when spelling/dictation is conducted, I will do the make-up spelling/dictation during the Friday lesson.

Spelling feedback:

• Look carefully at the numbered boxes and write the words in the correct space provided.
• For the fill-in-the-blanks questions, pupils have to understand the meaning of each vocabulary word to select the right word. Also, read each question carefully to find clues in context.

Dictation feedback:

• The P3 English teachers have decided to do without a grade for dictation. We will be marking dictation based on the number of correct completed sentences.
• As long as there is one mistake (spelling/punctuation/grammar), your child would need to write out the full sentence as correction.
• Reminder to pupils to bring their foolscap paper for dictation, and to leave a line in between their writing so that they have sufficient space should they need to insert missing words.
• Several pupils got mixed up between the homonyms "when"(indicates time) and "went"(indicates action & past tense of 'go'). It is advisable that they should know the difference in its pronunciation and meaning.

3) Topical Test

Please note that your child will be having his/her English topical test on Tuesday, 2 Feb.

They will be tested on Tenses and Subject-Verb Agreement.

We have done revision for SVA in class using the Grammar Workout book. I will return the books to pupils for revision on Monday. Please remind your child to bring the book back for lesson on Wednesday.

Also, your child would have written their notes on SVA in their self-study notebook.

Below is taken from Qi Zhen's notebook (very neat work!):

4) Grammar

We have also discussed about demonstrative pronouns (This, These, Those, That) and their uses based on here or there, and singular or plural nouns.

The pupils also learnt about Affixes (Prefixes and suffixes) as parts added to a word to change its word class and/or meaning. They worked with their 3 o'clock buddies on Friday to look closely at the suffix -ful which gives the meaning of filled with or full of. After a 10 minutes working time, each pair shared a word with the class and we have compiled an incredible list of words!

You may like to continue this activity at home to encourage your child to include more words into his/her list.

I will be uploading more pictures of notes taken from the pupils' notebook this week, together with a few resources for your child to learn at home.

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Ms Cindy Chan