(Term 3 Wk 4, 20/7 - 24/7)

Hello! This is another routine posting. I'm always vexed over how I can start off a posting. Hopefully I will not repeat a greeting more than once!

Week 4. The week when we celebrated Racial Harmony Day (RHD). This year, we were honoured to have our Minister of Education, as well as other distinguished guests to join us in the celebration. That day, we reinforced the underlying importance of having different races in Singapore living in harmony. We must continue to put in our best to ensure and maintain peaceful interaction among all people in this precious island of ours.

We also viewed the introduction video of the sitcom 'Under One Roof' (one of my personal favourite!) where we could see how people mingle in a neighbourhood. Of course, the follow-up activity of (modified) Hang-Man was to add some form of excitement to the day. Nevertheless, everyone took the challenge and competed with one another. Well, the prize was to enable the 'columns' to pick up their food for recess in a particular order. I could say that for the sake of the food, you guys truly put in your best.

The box was slightly bigger than a standard size table in the classroom. Everyone was neither excited nor emotionless towards the content of the box. "It's just some bread", "The box is so light, what food can it hold?". These were some queries/expectations for the food delivered to our class. Just when we thought the box contained the only food we were going to have, Syafiqah surprised everyone by preparing macaroni for the class. Wow, the effort to prepare the food for the class was simply great and appreciated. I must take this opportunity to again thank Syafiqah and her mum to contributing macaroni to everyone. THANK YOU! Everyone had only praises for the food. (While some showed their appreciation by taking a second helping!)




Alright, back to business. Prelim Listening Comprehension is coming up next. Do your very best. Treat it as the actual PSLE. Lack of motivation? Well, refer to the best wishes board in class. Everyone has been blessed by... well, everyone in the class! LC requires lots of concentration so make sure you listen closely and get the right answers!

Work for weekend.

1. EL - Practice Paper 13
2. MA - Read up Pie Chart (TB)
3. SCI - Read up Man & his Environment

Revise, rest. Manage your time, take care of your health.
Always look on the bright side of life.
You hold the key to your own future.

Don't forget to smile! :>

I'm stuck with the usual greetings. How else should I start a posting? Can't think of any idea so shall begin with the usual. I guess I'm facing mental block.

HELLO. Guess everyone is fine over the weekend.

Nothing in particular for Week 3. The usual routine of work, work and WORK! Haha. There was perhaps the height and weight measurement taking exercise. The growth in some of you was simply awesome. Very soon, I will be dethroned as the tallest person in the class! (let's hope I can hold on to this crown till the end of the year. :>)

Oh yes, coming up in Week 4. Early dismissal on Monday at 12p.m. On Tuesday, we celebrate Racial Harmony Day 2009. Yup, this is your very last RH Day celebration in ADMPS. You must always remember the purpose of RH Day celebration - celebrating the unique Singapore racial mixes living harmoniously together. Wow, we do are proud of interacting, learning and playing together pretty well. Everyone has a part to play but it's the ability to do it so well that bond us so well together. Looking forward to Tuesday.

Almost forgot about the subject title. Well, the longest solar eclipse of this century will happen on the 22 July 2009. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passing between the Sun and Earth, thus blocking the view of the Sun from us. During the solar eclipse, the sky will turn dark even in the bright morning. However, in Singapore, due to our geographical location, we will only experience partial darkness during 8.41 a.m to 9.44 a.m, where the peak period of darkness happening at 9.11 a.m. (quoted from Reader Digest) Well well, we will probably in the classroom having our lesson. :> Don't worry if we can't catch it. The media will probably reports it the very next day through newspaper, news in TV, over the Internet.

So much for this week's posting. Work to be done? Yes there is.

1) EL - Practice Practice Paper 12

2) MA - Volume Practice 1
3) Bring along the Adaptation WS on Monday

Rest well people. See you tomorrow! :>

(Term 3 Wk 2, 6/7 - 10/7)

How fortunate are you? How comfortable your life is now? Ponder over these questions and you may say that your life is burdened with lots of school/home/tuition work. Furthermore, you have to take the PSLE in very near future. Yes, you do have a hectic lifestyle that you have to manage. However, there are people out there who are really less fortunate than you ~ insufficient food to fill their stomach, never try bubble tea before, do not have proper clothes to wear, can't afford entertainment like TV, Computer gaming etc etc ... ... and worse still, do not have the opportunity to be educated (no schooling). These are true AND sad.

We always heard that there are always someone out there better than us, regardless what is being compared. This will tell us no to be carried away when we achieve something and continue to strive to be better. On the other hand, we can tell ourselves that there are people out there who are less fortunate than us. This will remind us to appreciate what we have (family, values, friends, materialistic items, etc).

If we can offer our hand (to help them), we should always show our care to these people, in every way we can (big or small ways). After hearing some sharing by two of your classmates, we learnt that helping others must come from the heart. Yes, we may pity those needy people but we must be sensitive to them too. If they reject our help, we shall leave it as that. At the very least, we must not bad-mouth/tease them. Do keep this in mind.

Week 2 has zoomed past quickly as usual. There are only revision, revision and revision running in our heads. Nevertheless, laughters have never leave us and that help to lighten the atmosphere in our 'Work-a-holic' classroom. (hmm... i guess we can come up with a book if we can gather all the jokes we have said in the classroom this year... )

Work to do? Check it out...

1) EL - Practice Paper 11 (difficult vocabulary? use dictionary!)

2) MA - Fraction paper (completing the last 3, or 4 questions...)

3) SCI - Adaptation Readup (TB - self study)

Cheerios and Bye. See you on Monday! :>

Welcome back to school everyone!

Wow, term 3 has started pretty fast. You are now in the final lap of your P6 year. I'm almost running out of content for this class blog... Not exactly though, I feel that there is always something there for me to tell you. As for this posting, I've thought of the gist...

Have you ever encounter moments when things just don't seem to go the way you want them to be? I'm sure you do, no matter in the past, present or future. You get irritated, frustrated or even confused why certain things are done in the particular way. No matter how important or trivial the problem can be, you complain, grumble and behave in manners that you usually don't. What's exactly is the problem?

Fear not, everyone faces such experience every now and then in life. We can't tell when the difficult times are... we can't run away from them if they fall onto us... what can we do?

So now comes the title of this posting. Always look on the bright side of life! Yes, you live your own life and you choose how you want it to be. You must be optimistic! There are always two sides to a coin. If you don't like one side of the coin, you can choose to look at the other side. Example, you can complain and grumble about all the school work, it will not do you any good, in fact, you become a grumpy person and you don't feel happy. Why don't you look at the school work from another perspective - the better perspective. Do your very best in all the school work given. They will help you prepare for PSLE --> score to the secondary school you want to go --> your future.

In short, look at things/matters/situations positively! I know it's not easy but you must do it. It's the best way to handle all matters. Always look on the bright side! :>

Woo.... i sound like nagging again with this lengthy post. Well, look on the bright side, the expiry date for my nagging is Nov 2009. Afterwhich, you are free from it! (hahha... sad but true)

Alright, back to business. Although school has started, lessons have been disrupted - everyone stays in the form for all subjects, except MT lessons. Nevertheless, you embark on your revisions. We don't waste time now. We use time wisely. It's only a few months left. Furthermore, you get a holiday on coming Monday. I've given you work to do (form class 6RS - see below). For those in the banded class of 6RS (MA & SCI), continue with your own reivison. You can see me during school hours if you need clarification. Revise well!

1. EL - Practice Paper 9

2. MA - Reinforcement Paper 1

3. Journal - Why must I be optimistic?

Hmmm.... rest well everyone. Take care of your health as well.