A Friendly Visit from C.A. Yao Dao Primary School

Hi boys and girls of 4 Challenge,

Here is the link to a short video of you and the children from C.A. Yao Dao Primary School when they visited Admiralty Primary School.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T1cuHUrZYU

I was unable to upload the video directly here on our blog. My humble apologies. :)

I will get more pictures from Ms Hazlin and upload as soon as possible.

We managed to exchange our contact details with the students from Hong Kong and are hoping to keep in touch with them, via e-mail or even snail mail. Some of them gave us their handphone numbers but we need to check with our parents before sending them an SMS! :)

Regards,

Mr Fadzeel

Writing a Letter with the help of Our Gingerbread Man

Hi boys and girls...

Today we covered writing a letter to a friend who is overseas. We wanted to invite our friend over to Singapore and visit a place that we find interesting.

But before we wrote the letter, we had some time to explore a brochure on the place of interest and we discovered new things about certain places in Singapore. Here are a few internet links about some Places of Interest right here in Singapore. It's amazing that there is so many places which have many interesting features on our small little island! :)

• The Esplanade - http://www.esplanade.com/index.jsp
• The Duck & Hippo Tours - http://www.ducktours.com.sg/
• Little India - http://www.littleindia.com.sg/
• The Malay Heritage Centre - http://www.malayheritage.org.sg/
• The Chinatown Heritage Centre - http://www.chinatownheritage.com.sg/aboutchc.htm
• Singapore Science Centre - http://www.science.edu.sg/ssc/index.jsp
• Singapore Zoological Gardens - http://www.zoo.com.sg/
• Jurong Bird Park - http://www.birdpark.com.sg/
• Orchard Road - http://www.orchardroad.org/
• Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve - http://www.sbwr.org.sg/
• Singapore Botanic Gardens - http://www.sbg.org.sg/
• and many more...

After we had gotten familiar with a particular place of interest, we worked with our Gingerbread Man (Mind Map Template) and he helped us organize our thoughts. He can actually help us in our future writing as well. Here is a picture of him...

After that we wrote a friendly letter using the content that we have consolidated from the brochures that were given to us.

There is a specific format for a friendly letter and this can be seen below...



We hope that these will help you in writing a letter to your friend overseas and entice him/her to visit Singapore soon! :D

Ms Goh & Mr Fadzeel

Making a Collage

Hi boys & girls...

A few days ago, we learnt how to make a collage. We also focused on a new topic, which is on Feelings. We listened to a few songs and managed to draw the feelings that these songs were trying to portray. These include feelings of sadness, anger, fear, excitement and even happiness.

Then we went further and discussed how colours also effect the mood of a character or a cartoon or even a movie or picture. You can find idioms using colours from this website (http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_idioms/id-c.htm). An example of an idiom that uses colour would be green with envy which means someone who is full of envy or very jealous.

Here is a video of some of us in action while we were doing up our collage. Some of our collages are still under construction. Once they're done, I'll put the pictures up online.

Enjoy!

Ms Goh & Mr Fadzeel

Writing an Address on a Postcard

Hi boys and girls of 4 Challenge!

Remember our postcard writing activity that we did recently? We learnt when to use capital letters and also the proper format of writing our addresses if we were to send postcards to our friends! After looking through the postcards that you have submitted, I'm sure you had fun while getting your friend's address! Now you're all set to send your friends postcards, letters or even an invitation to celebrate your birthday party! :D

Do remember the proper format and your capitalisation rules! ;-)

Here's the format:

To: (Your friend's name),
(Blk Number), (Street Name),
(Unit Number),
Singapore (Postal Code)


For example:

To: Bernard the Polar Bear
Blk 123, Admiralty Road,
#01-10,
Singapore 730123.


Here's a compilation of the postcards that you have written.
Enjoy!

Regards,

Ms Goh & Mr Fadzeel

Short Message Service (SMS)

Recently, we learnt about the Short Message Service (SMS). The words used by many people would be shortened and more acronyms, abbreviations and contractions would also be sent through the SMS. This is because we want to restrict ourselves to the 160-characters limit within one SMS. For some handphones, it is possible to exceed the 160-characters limit, but, it would then spill over into another SMS and we would be charged for sending the additional SMS as well.

However so, in our composition writing, we must never use the shortened forms of words such as:

• "tat" to represent "that"
• "coz" to represent "because"
• "4" to represent "for"
• "tmr" to represent "tomorrow"
• "l8r" to represent "later"

This is because only a few people will understand these shortened forms and may be misinterpreted by others.

Below is a short video of the Short Message Services that we tried sending to our friends. We had to write a poem for a friend. Enjoy!

Ms Goh & Mr Fadzeel

Designing a Scientific Investigation

Hi 4CH!

I've finally managed to upload more photos of you in action. Here's a short video clip of a recent Science Experiment that you carried out. And you came up with the instructions too! Well done everybody!

Enjoy!

Ms Goh & Mr Fadzeel

Visit to Singapore Science Centre - Human Systems

Hi 4CH!

Here are some photographs that we took when we were at the Singapore Science Centre, looking through the Human Systems Exhibition... Enjoy!

p/s: Please be patient and allow the video to completely load so that you will have an uninterrupted view of the video.
[ Remember what p/s means...? :P ]

Regards,

Ms Goh & Mr Fadzeel

The Jacket by Andrew Clements

Hi 4CH!

I'm very sorry but there seems to be an error with the webpage link that I've shared with you for the book excerpts from Andrew Clement's "The Jacket". Please follow the link below for a powerpoint slideshow that I've made based on the 2 chapters that I had highlighted in class.

After you have watched any of the videos, click on the "Back" button to get back to our blogspot!

Chapter 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fy7zVHQZTs
Chapter 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADy658b0oTw


Regards,
Mr Fadzeel

The Jacket by Andrew Clements

Dear 4CH,

I'm very sorry but there seems to be a problem with the link that I've given you in class. I will try and make Chapter 1 and 2 into a e-book which you would be able to access soon! Do keep a lookout for it! :)

Web Attack!

Don't worry, we're not under attack from aliens from other planets!!! Today, for english, we actually learnt more about Concept Maps, Mind Maps and Word Webs!

Do you remember what the differences between a Concept Map and a Word Web is?

Just recall your Science lesson and you will remember that the lines that link the points together with the main points will have words written on them. This is to enable you and also someone else to read and understand your concept map easily!

And for Word Webs, they can be used to help you structure your English composition writing so that you can stay focused on the topic and not go out-of-point. This will also help you in generating really fantastic ideas which will have a nice flow as you write your composition. Don't worry about not having enough time to write your composition. Once you are used to writing out a Word Web, writing your actual composition will be a breeze!

I have yet to scan the photos of today's group work and put it online. I will try and do it A.S.A.P. :)

Mr Fadzeel

Interesting Science Website

Hi 4CH!

Yesterday, we had a hands-on activity for Science. We had to classify materials that were given to us under 2 headings - Magnetic materials and Non-magnetic materials. We had lots of fun experiementing with the magnets and seeing how the materials interacted with the magnets!

But when handling the magnet(s) we must always be extra careful. Here are some tips to ensure that your magnets are in their optimum condition.

• Never hit or drop your magnets
• Never heat your magnets

By doing the above actions, it cause the tiny magnetized bits inside (the magnets) to lose allignment and cause the magnet to lose strength

Sadly, we didn't take any photos for this activity... :(
However, you may want to have a look at this website for some interesting activities... Have Fun!

http://www.sciberdiver.edu.sg/default.asp - You can try out the activities there, especially for P4 Interactions on Magnets. There is also a very interesting video of how to separate iron from waste!

Ms Goh & Mr Fadzeel

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