Dear 2 Diligence Boys and Girls,

It's finally the end of our school year. Thank you all for having been who you are. Every one of you made this class a special and memorable one. It has been a great pleasure teaching every one of you. Keep persevering and focus on improving yourself; every effort made is a step closer to success. 

All the best to our 2 Diligence boys and girls! 

*Note: Report book is to be signed and submitted on the first day of school next year if it has not been submitted today.

Stay safe and healthy this holidays and enjoy yourself. Take care!


Warmest regards,
Ms Tan Hui Lin

Sign Report Book (Submit Tomorrow, Thursday 14 November)

Our children will be receiving their report books today. Do go through it together with your child, sign and allow our children to submit it tomorrow. 

*A gentle note that there will not be any school lessons on Friday as it is the CCA-cum-Speech and Prize Giving Day.

1) Learn spelling
2) Sign spelling
3) Sign Maths Paper

1) Sign Maths Paper

Keep Items at Home

As our year is coming to an end, our children will be bringing home these following items. To keep our children's bags light, a few items will be given out everyday. Do have your child take out these items to keep at home.

Today, 5 Nov: Yellow Maths file and Doodle and Jot book

Wednesday, 6 Nov: Purple English file and 

Next Monday, 11 Nov: Stellar Handwriting book, colour pencils, whiteboard marker and duster

Next Tuesday, 12 Nov: Maths workbooks and Music book

Next Wednesday, 13 Nov: Active and Healthy Me and other items (if any)

1) Sign English Language Paper

1) Sign 2 English Papers
- Listening Comprehension
- Writing

1) Learn spelling
2) Sign spelling

Do note the change in spelling date for the following:
Spelling for spelling list 5, Mr Gumpy's Outing, will be changed from Thursday, (7 November) to Tuesday (12 November).

Marks Processing Day (Next Friday, 8 Nov)

There will be no school on this day. Our children need not report to school.

Things To Do 

1) 2 Maths worksheets: Time and Picture Graphs
2) Sign English Listening Comprehension Practice Paper
3) Show letter (Zhonghua Primary School Programme for Active Learning Presents Shining Stars 2019)


Chicken Licken Speech and Drama Performance (Thursday, 7 November)

Our children will be putting up their Speech and Drama performance, titled Chicken Licken, on Thursday, 7 November. We would like to invite you to come to school. Our children have put in much effort in their training this year and all of us would love to have you watch them perform on this special day!

Do confirm your attendance with this link by Tuesday, 29 October: http://tinyurl.com/zpsstars2019

*For each pupil, a maximum of two family members can come along. 

Please note the following arrangements for our children on this day. There will be no school on this day. 

Reporting Time: 1 p.m.

Dismissal Time: 5 p.m.

Attire: PE attire and school shoes

Things To Bring: Small bag and water bottle

Do have your child eat his or her lunch at home before coming to school.

Our children will need to practise singing these 2 songs which they have learnt in class. You may like to get your child/ward to sing to you the songs and do the actions. 

Do set aside some time everyday to practise singing these two songs at home. 

Once I Caught A Fish Alive

La…! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! Once I caught a fish alive!

6, 7, 8, 9, 10! Then I let it go again.

Why did you let it go? Because it bit my finger so!

Which finger did it bite? This little finger on my right!

La…! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! I will leave my fishing line!

6, 7, 8, 9, 10! We must go and see the King!

Let’s tell him everything because the sky’s falling in!

What do you think he’ll say? He’ll send his army right away! 

Foxy Loxy

Foxy Loxy! Foxy Loxy! He is searching all around.

He is hunting for his dinner! The meanest fox around!

Run away! He will catch you! He wants you for his lunch!

His tummy is a-rumbling and his teeth they like to crunch!

He is cheeky! He is sneaky! His jaws they like to chew!

Beware of Foxy Loxy! He will make a meal of you!

Foxy Loxy! Foxy Loxy! He is searching all around.

He is hunting for his dinner! The meanest fox around!

For children who are the narrators and be performing as main characters in this play, do practise your script as well.

Homework For Today

1) Maths Workbook: Pg 85-96 and all corrections

2) Learn spelling
3) Sign spelling

Revise 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times tables 

We will be having a multiplication times tables quiz on next Monday, 21 October. There will be 30 questions on 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times tables. 

1) Learn spelling
2) Maths Workbook: Do all corrections
3) Sign
- Spelling
- Maths Workbook Page 75

Learn spelling

There will be spelling on next Friday, 18 October. 

- Learn spelling

- Sign spelling

Homework (For PSLE Week)

Our children need not report to school from Next Monday to Thursday as it will be the PSLE marking week. Do refer to the letter which our children have been given today for the homework which they will need to complete. 

Our children will need to do the following homework:

1) 4 Practice Papers 
- 1 English Composition Writing on A Being Helpful
- 1 English Language Practice Paper
- 1 Maths Practice Paper
- Maths Worksheet: More Word Problems
*1 additional English Composition Writing on An Outing (Optional - for additional practice at home)

2) SLS Homework 

Website link: https://vle.learning.moe.edu.sg
Login ID: WWWWWXXXXY 
(WWWWW is the first 5 letters of child's full name, XXXXY is the last 4 digits and the alphabet of BC or refer to the SLS card given out to our children today.) 
Password: _________ 
(At the start of this year, our children have reset their password. Do refer to their notes pages of our child's diary to see if they have written their password. If our child is not able to recall the password, do give a call to our school helpline desk at 6283 5413, starting next Monday 14 October, to request for a password reset.)

3) Read Storybooks

Today's Homework (Bring it tomorrow)

MLEA book
1) Complete corrections for all MLEA writings and show to parents to check.

Bring Maths Game Sets (Tomorrow, 8 October)
For children who have received the Maths game set before last month, do remember to hand in tomorrow if you have not done so today.


Important Assessment Papers To Take Note Of
Do take note of the following:

English and Maths Assessment
(Week of 7 Oct to 8 Nov)
1) Oral (Read Aloud and Stimulus-based Conversation) 

(Next Week)
1) Picture Composition Writing

(Week of 28 Oct to 1 Nov)
1) Listening Comprehension (Read Aloud and Stimulus-based Conversation) 

2) Language Use Paper (Grammar, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Visual Text Comprehension, Word Order) 

3) Maths Test with tested topics on

- Whole Numbers

- Shapes, Solid Figures and Patterns

- Time

- Picture Graphs

Children's Day Celebration (This Thursday, 4 October)

We will be celebrating our Children's Day on this Thursday. 

Information for our children:
Theme: Bond, Food and Fun and Best Friends Forever (BFF)
Reporting and Dismissal Time: 7.25 a.m. and 1.45 p.m. (as per usual)
Attire: Sleeved shirt with pants/skirt or dress 
Things To Bring: Small bag with water bottle, storybook, pencil case and school library books to return tomorrow.

*Our children may also choose to dress themselves up to the theme of Best Friends Forever, and examples are clothes containing pictures or quote(s) on friendship or dressed in a similar colour or design with good friends. 

Sign
1) English Worksheet: Owl Babies
2) Maths Workbook Pg 53

1) Learn spelling
2) Sign spelling

1) Learn spelling
2) English Worksheet: A World Of Tools
- Do corrections (if any) 
- Sign

Sign Spelling List

Each of the children has been given the spelling list for this term today. Do sign and allow your child/ward to keep it in his/her file. We will start our first spelling on this Thursday, 19 September. Do guide that your child/ward in learning his/her spelling at home.


*A gentle note that our P1 to P5 children need not report to school on the following days.
1) This Friday, 20 Sep: PSLE Listening Comprehension 
2) Monday - Thursday, 14 - 17 Oct: PSLE marking days

Dear Children, Parents and Guardians,

A big thank you to all of you for your effort in celebrating Teachers' Day for your teachers today. Your teachers appreciate it much! Do have a good holiday and hope that you have enjoyed today's activities and celebration together with your teachers. 

A great job to our class for having won the termly SCORE award! Continue to keep our classroom clean, show orderliness whenever we assemble in hall, parade square or concourse, and read more books as a form of discipline for ourselves and not just for the award. 

1) Sign 3 English Papers
- Listening Comprehension Paper
- Grammar, Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension Paper
- Spelling Paper


Ms Tan

1) Sign Maths test paper

Homework for Today

1) Maths Workbook - Page 53: Colour the shapes

Annual Health Screening (Tuesday, 24 September)

Our children will be going for a health screening on 24 September, after the September Holidays. A letter and pamphlet have been given to our children today, do refer to them.

Things To Do for the Weekend

Doodle and Jot: 

1) Visual Vocabulary (Tools)

- Word

- Word Class

- Meaning

- Draw

- Sentence: Form a sentence on the word "Tools"

- Word Web: Create a word web on the types of construction tools

2) Sign previous work entries

1) Learn 60 spelling words for tomorrow's spelling quiz 
2) Sign 
- spelling
- Maths Worksheet: Money
* A gentle reminder that there will be a Maths Test tomorrow. 

Things To Do
1) Maths Topical Worksheet: Fractions
2) Maths Workbook: All corrections
3) Sign Maths Workbook Pg 1

Important Assessment Papers To Take Note Of
Do take note of the following:

English
1) Grammar, Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension Paper (Next week)

2) Listening Comprehension (Next week)

3) Spelling Quiz (This Friday, 30 Aug)
- Revise the list of 60 spelling words  

Maths
Maths Topical Test (This Friday, 30 Aug)
- Tested topics are
1) Volume
2) Fractions
3) Money
4) Word Problems (Including 2-part and 2-step word problems)

Spelling Quiz (Friday, 30 Aug)
There will be a spelling quiz on this Friday. 10 words will be chosen from the 60 words in spelling lists 1-6 in this term's spelling list. Our children will need to revise the 60 spelling words.


Order Class Photos (Next Mon - Tue, 2nd-3rd Sep)

Our children have received the order form for our class photos. If you would like to order, please fill in the order form, put in this form with the exact cash amount or cheque into the envelope and seal it. Allow our child to bring the envelope on next Monday and Tuesday to submit at the canteen during recess. 

You may view the photos here: http://www.momento-pictures.com/samples/zhps2019

1) Sign spelling
2) Learn spelling

1) Sign
- Spelling paper
- Maths Workbook Pg 37
2) Learn spelling
3) Maths Workbook: All corrections

Bring Maths Game Sets (Tomorrow, 20 August)
For children who have received the Maths game set before last month, do remember to hand in tomorrow if you have not done so today.

Change of Spelling Date

Do note the following change: 

Spelling for 16 August will be changed to Next Tuesday, 20 Aug. 

PSLE Oral Examination For P6 Pupils (Thursday-Friday, 15-16 Aug)

A gentle note for parents and guardians that for the next two days, it will be the PSLE oral examination for our P6 children. Our P1-P5 children need not report to school on these two days. Do have a good rest at home. I will see all of our children back in school on Next Monday.

Homework

Riddle: What Superhero Am I?

1) Write
Using sentence starters, write 4 to 5 sentences to create a riddle on a superhero.

2) Revise Your Sentences

 1) The sentences make sense.

 2) Every sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark

 3) Spelling and punctuation marks

3) Draw
Draw and Write the Name of Superhero

Things To Do
1) Sign English Worksheet: Is The Wise Owl Wise? 
2) Is The Wise Owl Wise Worksheet: Complete corrections, if any
  
National Day Celebration (Thursday, 8 August)

We will be celebrating our National Day on this Thursday and we would like to welcome all of you to join us in this celebration together. Each child may bring up to 2 attendees. 

Information for our children:
Reporting Time: 7.25 a.m. (as per usual)
Dismissal Time: 9.45 a.m. 
Attire: Red and white clothes 
*Our child may wear his/her PE attire if he/she does not have any red or white clothes.
Things To Bring: Water bottle, storybook

We have done a class riddle today on leopard.

Our Class Animal Riddle on Leopard

Things To Do Today
1) Based on the animal which you have selected together with your group, find out information about it. You will work together in groups and use sentence starters to create a riddle on the selected animal tomorrow.