What a pleasant surprise!

The packaging is really cute right!!

Well after school today, amidst my furious marking away, someone came to my desk. I got a little pleasant surprise!! This person spoke sooo softly that I can barely hear...."Mr Low this is for you." she said. When I opened the plastic bag, there was a beautiful box of pineapple tarts as well as a small tin of tea leaves. Wah very very touched! Thanks Ying Ying and family for the delicious looking box of pineapple tarts!! = ) heh heh but I am not going to get fat alone...gonna make your get fat with me too! Let's share it in class tomorrow!!

Yippeee I am going to Shanghai!!

Together with the Science Department, We will be bringing a group of 40 pupils for an immersion. As such I will not be in school from Wednesday of Week 10 onwards. I will be away from the 5th of March till 12th of march. However do continue to stay tune to my blog as I may post some nice beautiful pictures of Shanghai if I get a chance to oh and of course provided that they have Internet connection over there. Heh Heh and Julian is going with me....Wahahah...

Hmmmmm the pupils have cleared up all the corrections in their yellow files. Oh Yah and Ellie is spotted with a new hairstyle today!! very reggae...ooooo take a look man! Got this picture without her knowing!

More Effort Needed to Submit Work on TIMEEEEEEE!

I hope that after today's incident where so many of your did not do your work, it would be the last time i am going to get angry with your for not bringing books. I shall not mention any names since everyone can read the blog (give your some face k!!) But little steps like bringing using your diary (other than copying each others numbers) can make lessons so much easier. Remember the following alright.

1. Bring your diary everyday ( and for those from other classes please bring it during maths lessons!!)
2. Note down any homework given.
3. Please check them at an appointed time whenever you get home ( like 5p.m. before your go out and play?)

Let's make our Maths lessons a more enjoyable one alright!!! = )

A day at Macdonald's.

Heh all satisfied with the burgers in our tummy!

Can we eat our burgers now??

I can still remember very clearly the time when my teacher brought me to a restaurant to eat when I was in Primary 4 too after sacrificing a Saturday to help decorate our classroom then. Little will I know that 20 years down the road I did be doing the same thing. I still remember the excitement when I first jumped into my teacher's car and having her bring us to Plaza Singapura to eat. Back then I remember that Yamaha music center was right on the 7th floor, there was a food court next to it. One floor down was Best Denki with a posh restaurant next to the car park entrance. Well my teacher then brought me there. I sure hope that Leroy and Allister has lots of fun on Tuesday when I brought them to MacDonald's after their remedial lesson. It sure brought back a lot of memories for me.

Yesterday's Maths lesson

Hope everyone have enjoyed the video clip acted out by our "future teachers". It was sort of candid as they didn't know I took them. I thought what better way to summarise the chapter other than getting them to act it out. In this way they will be able to revise and find out what they are lacking. Well public speaking isn't really Singaporean kids' forte but I suppose it a good start. Here are same "candid" shots that I took. Enjoy! = )

Lynn taking some time off to make a pose

Jermima giving her "Lessons"

Joanne's moment of wisdom

A group discussion amongst "teachers"

Future generation Teachers!!

They are really shy who had some problems expressing themselves.

Not bad eh...All the teachers to be in the making

Today I decided to swoop roles with my class where they take the role of teachers while I for once became the "student" who asked them all sorts of questions. In this way, they are able to consolidate on what they have learnt and also to find out things which they are unsure of. Ha ha but what they didn't know is that i was secretly taking videos of them. Here are they enjoy! I will post more pictures tomorrow. = )

Singapore Science Center!!

of Coz that is not me in the picture!!

Heh as part of the teaser, I have put a picture of the Singapore Science Center. Being the P4 science level driver, it is official that we are going to have some funds made available to us to bring pupils for science related field trips. I have spoken to your Form Teacher Mrs Kor and she is in for the idea!! (Yay!! Aren't your lucky to have the maths and science drivers on such trips!! and probably your will be the only class in the level to go can! = P ) W-A-I-T !! Don't be so happy yet hor!! There is a catch to it. As your know that rewards in Singapore is always tied to performance of some sorts, this trip will be no exceptional!! ( Mr Low gives off an evil smile.) We will all go to the science center if everyone does well for SA1, else stay in school and do all the boring work....So better study hard!! = )

Starting of a new Chapter : Factors.

Mindy and Grace at the background
Sherman, Yi Xuan and Bruno

We have now successfully concluded with the chapter on rounding up and estimation and moving on to a new one: Factors. As everyone will have know by now. Our Maths class is a banded class and while waiting for the Chinese teacher to leave the class, I made my camera worked a little harder and took some candid shots. The boys sure can interact well with the camera! And oh well there is Mindy too... ha ha guess she must had a really bad day, because when I asked her what time it was then, she replied "1.30pm" (Geez can't wait to go home already) + )

4C's Form Teacher: Mrs Anne Kor!!

It's not easy trying to capture her in such a pose alright!!

I must say this is one rare "candid" shot of Mrs Anne Kor. Look how youthful she becomes after teaching 4C. Ooops I forgot to introduce her. She is actually the Form Teacher of 4c and she teaches them English and Science. She is really an experienced teacher (but that does not imply that she is old !! ) Let's try to and catch her unaware and capture more shots of her. I am not sure if she has given everyone her email address but if not she can be contacted at (anne_kor@moe.edu.sg) Meanwhile Study hard everyone and Play hard too!! = )

Guess the number of cookies!!

I find that pupils are pretty good when it comes to rounding off for figures but sorta weak when it comes to estimate. Having worked with P4 kids before, I find that it is because they are not able to relate the size of the object to the size of the container that contains the objects. As such they tend to over or under estimate.

So I brought a jar of cookies today to the class and asked the class to estimate the number cookies. The rules were pretty simple
1) No shaking of my cookie jar
2) No stealing of cookies from my jar.

After the pupils had estimated the number of cookies, we counted them together. Well no prizes for the right guess on where are the cookies right now!!

Yeah in my pupils' stomach. = (

Sighz only managed to eat 3 pieces....

Sir Stamford Raffles look alike Competition.

Well I thought Why not to make Social Studies lessons more interesting. We had a friendly competition in search of the most look alike pose for Sir Stamford Raffles from our class and GUESS WHAT! We got the girls to take part too!! It was really fun!! I will let the pictures say for itself. Oh...and I include a candid pose as well! I must say that the girls are really sporting about things and Lynn really interacts well with the camera. (oooo and we found out a little secret about her too...heh heh her house has lots of ice cream!! Yummy!!)

Sooo who is the real Sir Stamford Raffles!

Hmmm What are they doing??

Who Says only Guys can pose as Stamford Raffles!! See We can do it just as well! = p

We have our Imaginary Machine guns too! So don't mess around with us! Lynn (2nd from left)

Raffles Hotel in 1961

I forgot to add that I am also the Social Studies teacher of 4c as well as currently we are studying the history of Singapore so I thought why not a short clip of the Raffles Hotel in 1961!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl1XQ2ipBJU

Did you notice the man standing in the middle of the traffic junction and the uniform of traffic police back then?

Remember the 3 Rules!!

Aiyo!!! I really had a hard time marking your class activity books. I find that quite a few of your have made careless mistakes. Okie We shall have a revision lesson tomorrow!! Remember the 3 rules in doing rounding up of numbers?? Okie let's do a recap once again.

Step 1 : Check what the question is asking for. (e.g. are they asking for rounding up to the nearest tens/hundreds/thousands?)

Step 2 : Look at the DIGIT next to the place value of the question. ( if question ask for hundreds you look at the tens, if they ask for tens you look at the ones). If its 5 or more , we round up, if not we round down.

Step 3 : If the question wants us to round off to the nearest hundred, the tens and ones become 0, if they want us to round off to the nearest tens then the ones become 0.

Okie? Cool everyone? = )

Welcome to the class of 4C

Hi everyone, I am Mr Low, the maths teacher for the banded maths group of 4M3. I have listed my block as 4c because most of the pupils in the group comes from 4C. I can be contacted at (low_kiah_wee@moe.edu.sg) For a start I would like to show you the reaction from my class whenever I step into class.

I figured that I am not so interesting after all

But oh well Luckily the reaction changes whenever the lesson starts.

I have got a pretty interesting class to teach this year I suppose. Also they are really photogenic and they very much wanted to be on the first post in the new class blog. They are really excited it....So pardon me if they look a little out of sorts.

This is Bowen

Lynn just need to see clearly so sorry for the fright.

They sure are excited.

Com'on Ewen and Yi Xuan!! I am not that bad right!

Wait a moment something stuck in my nose