English file

Dear children,

Please remember to bring a yellow file to school tomorrow. You'll need it to file in your English worksheets.

Paper cranes

Dear children,

I will collect your paper cranes tomorrow. Please remember to bring them to school.

Please do not waste any of the orange papers. If you have some leftovers or have not finished folding the cranes, please bring them to school and return to me. I can always get your friends to fold them and submit them to the teacher-in-charge tomorrow.

1 piece of paper is equivalent to 100 g of rice. These are very precious papers.

Racial Harmony Day

We celebrated Racial Harmony Day last week, and our children came to school all decked in their ethnic costumes.

The girls

The boys

And the quieter ones in class ... (with the exception of our chatty Zafranshah)

The children in the hall watching a drama 'The Three Neighbours' by The Paper Monkey

Chicken Little

The group has done well for our Readers' Theatre last Thursday, especially in the volume department.

Regina made a mask while Sabrina created a pair of wings using cotton and paper. The wings look fluffy and feathery from afar. Very creative I thought!

My Dream for Singapore

This year's theme for our National Day is Come Together, Reaching Out, Reaching Up'.

Our school would like all classes to log into My Dream for Singapore to pen down their dreams for Singapore. Each class will submit at least one entry per day and this will go on till 31st July 2009.

Today, I've assigned 5 children (Register No. 1 to 5) to go to the website to submit their entries.

Do remember what you've submitted as I will be asking you what your dreams for Singapore are the next day. :)

'Rice that Binds' Project

Our school is embarking on a project ‘Rice that Binds, Cranes @ North West’.

The objectives are to:

• provide rice to the needy residents
• encourage spontaneous volunteerism
• encourage residents to help one another
• promote cohesion among the residents

SongHe Rice agrees to donate 100 grammes of rice for every paper crane folded.

We aim to fold 630,000 paper cranes for 63,000 kilogrammes of rice.

The beneficiaries of this Project are:

1. Public assistance and special grants recipients who:
– Mostly stay in rental flat;
– Are elderly or permanently unfit to work; and
– Receive no support from children.

2. Needy residents assessed by the Advisers who:
– Meet the respective Advisers for financial help;
– Have no food at home to feed family; and
– Have no other source of food to feed family.

3. Various VWOs
–Elderly Nursing Home and Disabled Care Centre.

The children are given 25 pieces of papers each. However, I hadn't the time to teach them today. I will conduct a lesson on how to fold a paper crane on Monday, 27 July 2009.

It's a very meaningful project. Please give your support to your children.

Human anatomy

Today, I showed the class a human torso model.

The children were as excited as could be to see the organs in three dimensional form.