Mr Low falls Sick....

Hello everyone...how was the PBT test today? Did your find the paper easy? Hopefully everyone can do much better this time round. So sorry that I had to miss out all the action in school these 2 days as I am down with fever and stomach flu. But nonetheless my heart is with your! Just make sure your don't give me a heart attach when I marked your papers hor....heh heh these are some photos I secretly took of your during the mock test. Sorry I didn't have the time to post it up! Enjoy everyone! = )

Hmmm this is easy (oops is jason by the way)

Ellie can't believe her eyes and her jaws starts to drop!

Ethan and Wei Ern in their moments of concentration

Sean: This is easy!

Yi Xuan: I can do it.... I can do it!!

Attention to all Parents on PBT

Hope everyone is very familiar with the word PBT by now. Hopefully every parent was able to have a good sleep last night. = p

So sorry for not being able to update the blog as frequent this week. Well I would like to give everyone a summary in case you are wondering how your child had fared based on his grades as well as how he/she fared as compared to his/her peers.

Basically the class did not do well with almost half the class scoring 30 marks or less. For the first time, pupils this year have to sit this problem based task as such they are not really comfortable with the questions. Instead of the usual "one answer only" problems, pupils now have to give all the POSSIBLE answers and as such they tend to overlook.

For most pupils, you will observe that they did not do well in the areas where they are asked to list possible answers like the arrangement of chair and table combination, as well as questions asking them for their opinion like which is a better deal 10 or 11 chairs.

This is very common amongst pupils at this level. So fret not! I am sure they will do better in this coming test on Friday.

As the schedule is very tight for me due to the upcoming Shanghai trip. This Friday's paper may only be returned to pupils when school reopen. As for those parents who wishes to view the paper, I am afraid this can be done only when school reopens. I am sorry for any inconveniences caused.

To have your cake and eat it!

I must really share with everyone about this cute little pupil of mine in 4C, Lynn. On Wed, she sneaked up to me while everyone was not noticing and passed me this little note and sneaked back to her seat looking at me cheekly.

I forgot all about the note until I got back to the staff room. I opened up the note and that was what was written inside! Heh heh try to bribe me with a tub of ice cream!! Oh well, Lynn you shall work hard and score high marks and OF COURSE I will eat your ice cream too!! Wahaha....

Amendments to the date of PBT

Hello Everyone, I am so sorry but the date of the actual PBT is on the 29th of Feb, next Fri and NOT 1st of March. I overlooked on the fact that there are 29 days in Feb this year! Oops!

Dear Parents,
Please kindly take note that the official test for the problem based task would be conducted on 1st of March. The actual test would be 1 hour and 45 minutes long. There will be a mock test some time this week and pupils will be allowed to bring the mock test paper back home. As I will be bringing pupils to Shanghai from the 5th till the 11th, I can only show the paper to those who wants to see when I am back. Any parents who are concern with the progress of your child and would like me to give you a call or meet in person, please feel free to email me. Thank you.

Best Rgds,
Mr Low

Macdonalds for the girls and Jian Ling performs!

Hi everyone, so sorry for not being able to post as frequently as I could. Pretty tied up with the overseas shanghai trip at the moment and other matters.

Well, last thursday was the girls turn to go macdonalds. With the company of a female teacher, we went to macdonalds!! Ha ha girls sure can get chatty to eh... bombarding me with so many questions that I didn't know how to answer. So all I could do was smile. Oooo by the way, my most sincere apologies to Gemima. I spelt her name wrongly all this while without realising it.

Lynn and Eugenia

Gemima and Wei Ling (heh looks like that is some burger left in Wei Ling's mouth!)

Oh and during last friday, Jian Ling forget to get his assignment completed. So we decided to "Punish" him. I heard that he could juggle real well but oh well he is so humble that he simply refuse to show me. Heh and here was my chance. I pretended to get angry and told him that he had to stay back to complete his work if he didn't juggle. Finally he agreed! Wah WE ARE ALL SO AMAZED! Three cheers to Jian Ling! It's always good to get the class excited after a long week.

Disclaimer: This was done 5 minutes before lessons ended. There wasn't any disruption to work!

Problem Based Task Test in Week 9.

Dear Parents,

I would like to inform every that there will be a problem based task coming up in week 9. It would coincide with the upper primary CA (P5 & 6). The grades of this test will not be considered in the report card but just as a gauge of pupils' progress where problems based tasks is concern.

We will do a practice paper with pupils in week 8. ( the questions are from last year's test). For this coming test in week 9, pupils will not be allowed to bring the paper home but instead a copy of the rubrics which requires parents' signature will be given. The reason being that we might want to re-generate or modify the questions again. However if parents do wish to see the paper, please feel free to make an appointment with me. I would like to inform parents that they are only allowed to see the paper.

Please reinforce the following ideas which I have shared with the pupils in class.
1) Pupils are to do question by question as the questions are related to one another. E.g. they cannot do part C without getting the answer in part B.
2) There will be questions whereby there are more than one answers.
3) Unlike normal questions, problem based tasked usually has questions bounded by a few constrains. As such pupils have to consider ALL constrains carefully

Please feel free to clarify any doubts with me. Thank you.

Back to School After 4 long Days of Holidays... = (

Wah after 4 days of lovely holidays...I am sooooo not ready for school. Not when it's celebrations but oh well I sure miss everyone....As promised I didn't forget about the surprise which I will reveal at the end of the blog. The Lion Troope came today and they performed. Look at how intriqued everyone is. Some candid shots taken while they were watching the lion dance.

The Lion Dance

Stephanie's New Year Clothes is really lovely!

Look at how engrossed Angel is!!

It's really nice to see so many pupils taking part in Hui Chun at one shot.

Lynn and her "unique" eyes

Charles and his Hui chun

Gemima Eugenia and ME (revealed at last!)

Lastly Mrs Anne Kor and myself would like to wish everyone a very Happy Lunar New Year. I had a hard time getting her to take this photo alright because she is really photo shy.

Happy New Year everyone

As promised, I hope everyone is happy with the little something that your have received. I would like to wish everyone in my class and their family a very happy and prosperous New Year and may all good things come everyone's way.

Everytime get sweets also soooo happy!

I wonder what the reaction will be if I were to give homework for New Year. = p

I will be asking a mysterious person to post for a New Year Photo real soon. It's really hard to get her to post for pictures. I guess she is just camera shy! Ooops did I mention the person is a her?!?!

Happpy New Year everyone!

Okie okie I know that everyone wants to rest and PLAY over the weekend. Why not explore some Maths websites that are interactive and some of them have games in them as well? Well these are some of the websites that were shared amongest teachers during our level meeting. I find that some of your are weak in your multiplication or are not so farmilar with the multiplication table so why not spend a little time over the weekend to brush it up? = )

http://www.mathsisfun.com/games/index.html

http://www.coolmath.com/

http://www.funbrain.com/

http://wildaboutmath.com/2007/11/11/impress-your-friends-with-mental-math-tricks/

http://multiplication.com/

http://www.syvum.com/teasers/

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/mmath/mmath_knack.html

http://www.dositey.com/muldiv/mul1regss.htm

http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm

http://www.multiplication.com/flashgames/quickflash/flash/index.html

Have fun everyone! = )