Tuesday 27 October 2015

Science SA2 2013 Booklet B suggested answers

Dear 3B,

Click HERE for the suggested answers.

Do complete your corrections at home first and read it through once. I will explain the questions that you still don't understand on this coming Thursday, 29 October.

Study hard and all the best for your SA2!


Love,
Ms Yeo

Monday 24 August 2015

Science: Topical Quiz Practice Paper


Dear 3B children, 

I will go through Question 10 in detail in class. Please look through the answers for Q 1- 9 and do your corrections. I will go through Q4, 8 and 9 too, for this Thursday Science lesson as these are common mistakes made by your classmates.

Should you not understand other questions as well, do speak up in class and let me know too. I will certainly go through them.










Science: Answers/Corrections for Activity Sheet 7





Sunday 22 March 2015

Classifying Leaves

Dear 3B,

A recap on the group activity on "Classifying Leaves"...

The children were told to each bring a number of leaves to school without knowing what they were going to do with them.

The next Science lesson, they were told to come into their groups and pool their collected leaves together. Kudos to those who remembered and hence facilitating the group work much easier!

They were tasked to classify these leaves in any way they like, keeping in mind what kind of characteristics are they comparing and hence grouping. They were to draw a classification diagram and paste their leaves on a vanguard sheet in 20 minutes.



Team members hard at work
 Pictures of completed and incompleted classification diagram:










I hope that 3B pupils will be even better team players by communicating effectively and working out their differences. After all, we are all continuously learning from one another. Knowledge-building, remember?

The next lesson, we reviewed some groups' diagrams and we realised that they are other ways of classifying leaves, other than common characteristics like color, shape and size. We explored other characteristics like edges (e.g. smooth/entire, toothed/jagged), simple and compound leaves as well as pattern of veins (network and parallel).

I hope from these group sharing by your classmates, you are armed with more knowledge of classification.

Here's a snapshot of Iona's AA project - Classifying leaves.
Notice how she didn't just classify by colour and size only.
There are always more ways to classify the same items.

Good job again!



Monday 16 March 2015

Science Learning Journey to Singapore Science Centre

Dear 3B,

Here are some overdued pictures for your Science Learning Journey to find out more about Insects Mystery!

Excited to go on their first Science LJ!
Break time
In awe of being in a Science laboratory
Paying close attention to what the trainer is saying

Diligently writing down notes
It's time for some hands-on!
3B children in general are really BRAVE! (:


Little scientists at work, observing!

I hope this LJ has been an enriching experience for all of you boys and girls.
Keep the enthusiasm burning, and we will learn more about Insects in the next term! 

Sunday 15 March 2015

Classification: Sort-it-Out!

Dear children,

Here are some pictures to help you recap what we have learnt for Term 1:

January: Sort-it-Out! Activity

Each group was given an envelope containing different pictures of things. They are tasked to classify them into groups, by comparing their similarities and differences.

Here are the pictures sorting done by different groups. Can you still recognize your group's work? 
I'm sorry that I can't seem to rotate the pictures here, so you might need to save the pictures and rotate them for an easier view.










Can you tell how the other groups had sorted out their pictures?
What characteristics did they base on?
If there's another way to classify your pictures, how would you do it?
Draw out a classification diagram in your Nature Study Book (different from what your group had done).

If you really can't remember which of the pictures above is your group's work, you can choose any group's sorted out picture, figure out how did they classify them and choose another way to classify them.

Have fun!

Thursday 12 February 2015

Welcome 3B_2015!

Dear Children,

Happy New Year!I guess we had an amazing start for this year. I'm glad we managed to set our class rules and decided our targets for this year. I hope we will continue to work towards those targets and remind ourselves to work together at all times.

I'm delighted that all of you have started to communicate with one another and are slowly trying to gel as a class. Keep the spirit going! I would like to put across some pointers for you to take note and work on during your free time at home.

Firstly, I would like to you learn how to pack your own bag. Ofcourse,mummy or daddy can assist you to check that you have packed the right things. But you need to learn how to pack on your own. Secondly, I would like to see all of you borrowing books from our library and also from National library to read. Reading can help you achieve great things in future. Last but not least is for you to try and be consistent in your school and home work. Always ask questions when in doubt. Never fear to fail. We all learn through mistakes. So let's try our best to keep things going. I wish you all the best and hope we can soar to greater heights.


Best Regards,

Ms Pavithra.