Recycling Competition "Clean and Green Carnival" at Tampines Tree Garden on 9th Nov

Dear 4B,

Congratulations to the team of 4B comprising of Neha, Zulaikha, Amirah and Hairini. They have came in 2nd for the school category and won $50 dollars vouchers. Here are some photos taken at the events.

Warmest regards

Mr Colin

4B reward Charts

NDP performance

Hi 4B,

Enjoy some of the memories~

Warmest regards

Mr Colin Lu

Be Yourself Day 2008~

Dear 4B,

Here are the photos we took on that day ^_^

Warmest regards

Mr Colin

Website on tessellation and symmetry

Dear 4B,

Here are some website on tessellation and symmetry. Please visit them and give me your feedback in this thread.

http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/activities/year3/symmetry/shape_game.asp
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000511.shtml
http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/whattess.html

Warmest regards
Mr Colin Lu

Our Science Exploria lesson

Dear 4B,

Here are some of the photos we took when we made our "microwave oven" today in the Science Exploria.

Warmest regards

Mr Colin Lu

Our NDP 2008's memories

Dear 4B,

What do you think of our class performance?

Warmest regards

Mr Colin Lu

Dear 4B, here we go~

MOE Racial Harmony Online Quiz

The NE Branch has invited all primary school students to participate in the MOE Racial Harmony Online Quiz at the MOE Racial Harmony website.

Students are required to answer 40 multiple-choice questions.
The top 20 scorers stand to win attractive prizes.
Do take part in the online quiz to learn more about the various traditions and cultures in Singapore.
The closing date is 12 September. To access the quiz, please log on to http://sam11.moe.gov.sg/racialharmony/games/rh2008games/game.html

Warmest regards
Mr Colin

Describe one custom or practice of another race (other than your own) that you find interesting. Explain why.

Dear 4B,

Each of you will post an interesting blog entry based on the assigned topic.

Pleas indicate you full name at the end of every post.

Please do not post any undesirable comments or use any foul language.

3 winners will be selected from each level.

Entries will be judged based on content and language.

All posting to be completed by 11th August 2008

Happy posting~

Warmest regards
Mr Colin

Station masters

Dear Station masters,

Please follow the following instructions.
1) Go to http://www.rainforestmaths.com/
2) Click on level F Grade/year5
3) Click on the topic "Decimal" (somewhere at the right hand side, below fractions
4) Click on multiplying decimals and try out the questions.
How many questions can you answer correctly in 5 mins?
5) Click on dividing decimals and try out the questions. How many questions can you answer correctly in 5 mins?

Next. Go to this websitehttp://www.gamequarium.com/decimals.html
1) Try the games there.
Tell me your feedback.
I will give you more detailed instructionstommorow morning

Warmest regards
Mr Colin

Groupings for the Camp

Dear 4B,

Take note that your groupings is in the one in bold and above your names.
Have a great time at the adventure camp. You should look back at these 3 days with fond memories in years to come.

Sportsmanship
1) Amirah
2) Jamie
3) Jet
Endurance
4) Anis
5) Shriya
6) Azrin
Respect
7) Amelia
8) Qianlin
9) Harith
Peace
10) Hanna
11) Joey
12) Jeremy
Dream
13) Harini
14) Emlyn
15) Praveen
Pride
16) Melissa
17) Geraldine
18) Rusydi
Loyalty
19) Zhiwei
20) Sin nie
21) Ivan
Professionalism
22) Megan
23) Stella
Leadership
24) Neha
25) Jia ying Strength
26) Jingwen
27) Zulaikha
Team Spirit
28) Asyiqin
29) Zi yang
Achievement
30) Huda
31) Vinod
Friendship
32) Sheri
33) Ishmael
Honesty
34) Evangel
35) Jason
Self-belief
36) Sze Khee
37) Jordon
Equality
38) Raihanah
39) Lester

Warmest regards
Mr Colin

Do you know?

Dear 4B,

Do you know that..

1) Vitamin B Complex helps maintain a healthy digestive and nervous system. It aids growth

and foetal development.

2) Vitamin D and Calcium helpts maintain strong teeth and bones.

3) Iron helps maintain healthy blood.

4) Zinc is needed for growth and development.

5) Beta-Carotene helps maintain a healthy immune system. It is converted into Vitamin A as

and when the body requires it.

6) Vitamin A helps to maintain healthy skin and eyes.

7) Vitamin E helps maintain a healthy body and immune system.

8) Vitamin C helps maintain healthy skin, gums, bones. It assists the body's absorption of

iron. It is needed to be taken regularly as it stores are easily depleted.

9) Antioxidant nutrients helps to protect your body against potentially harmful "free radicals"

source: Centrum

Warmest regards

Mr Lu

Congrats to all the 4B pupils (the 7 wonders) who were selected to go to Perth. Get for us good memories for youselves over there~

Congratulations~

A drawing Mr Lu did

Dear 4B,

Is this nice?

Warmest regards

Mr Colin Lu

When Life Gets Tough

Dear 4B,

How do you survive when life gets tough?

How do you hang on when you are grieving, lonely or broke?

You can only tackle your problems as you would climb a mountain...

If you go rock climbing - you get stuck on a ledge - you suddenly focus on the present moment!

You forget about the future. All your effort goes into your next step. Then your next step. Inch by inch.

Eventually you claw your way out.

The same strategy works for everyday life.

When things seem desperate, you fix your focus on the present moment.

You tackle one problem at a time. You take a step. You get a little confidence... and take another step, and another.

Eventualy you find that the worst is over.

If you were to worry about
a) everything you need to do in the next month, or
b) everything that could go wrong in the next year,
you could go nuts!

But you can handle one day at a time.

And whenever 24 hours is too tough, bite off five minutes at a time.

In a nutshell

All you can do is give your BEST effort until bedtime.
Let tommorow take care of itself.

taken from the book"Happiness Now"

Warmest regards
Mr Lu

Congrats 4B for winning the Clean and Green classroom award~

Admin 24th June 2008

Dear 4B,

1) Remember to go for your learning style profiling on 2th July 12.30 - 2.00 pm

2) There will be no remedial this week. Remedials will start next Thursday from
1.30pm - 3.00pm for the same remedial group pupils until further notice.

3) Please complete your holiday homework. Raihanah,Jingwen and Emlyn, you have not
completed 'Burst with Confidence' Math.

4) I will be giving you the consent form for the Adventure Camp tommorow, Please
complete and submit to me on Thursday

Warmest regards
Mr Lu

DE4 topics

Dear 4B,

DE 4 will be on the fourth week,the week of your adventure camp. Do get a headstart by revising in advance. Topics are

English : Unit 11
Newspaper report
Participles
'Each other' and 'one another'
Name of qualities
The suffix-ly
My newspaper report
Editing checklist
Giving comments

Math : Decimals (tenths and hundredths)
Area and Perimeter

Science : Heat Energy (until Pg 31 of textbook on Energy)
System ( Plant system parts and functions P3)
( Digestive System )

Warmest regards
Mr Lu

English File checking

English file checking will be done on the first week of term3.
The following pupils have not submitted their English files. They are
1) Jet
2) Huda
3) Ziyang
4) Rusydi
5) Ryan

Please bring your English files on Monday. Make sure all corrections and worksheets are filed including your examination papers. Submit to me once we reach the classroom.

The rest of the class, there are still missing worksheets. Please locate them, do the corrections and bring along on Monday as well. Jamie deserved a round of applause for being the girl that has best file. Keep it up Jamie.

Please remember to bring along all 4A and 4B books on the first day. Please remind you partners too as the onus is on you to show your friendship.

Warmest regards
Mr Lu

Tracking of Holiday homework

Dear 4B,

How was your holidays? Good I hope. Most of you would have completed your holidays homework by now except a few disappointing pupils. I am just going to release one of the quiz results. Please complete your homework. Every choice has consequences. Please remember to bring your Spring champ medals and wear it on the first day too. Please bring all the Eng/Math/Sci worksheets, practice papers that you have left at home. Especially those whom parents I have called up. You know who you are so please pull up your socks.

Multiple Choice Quiz Module Usage: Multiple Choice Quiz Science Heat
Students (School: East Spring Primary School Class: 4B)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 VINOD
2 HARINI
3 HARITH
4 NEHA
5 JING WEN
6 SHERI
7 RAIHANAH
8 EMLYN
9 ZULAIKHA

Warmest regards
Mr Lu

Composition File Checking

Dear 4B,

I have checked through your compositions and tally your stars.

The following pupils did not submit your composition files
1) Rusydi
2) Ziyang
3) Harini
4) Jet
5) Harith

The following pupils have missing compositions
1) Azrin Compo 4
2) Vinod Compo 5,6
3) Emlyn 5,6
4) Praveen 6
5) Jordon 3
6) Ryan SA1
7) Raihanah 6

Compo 1 : Muddy footprints
Compo 2: Water bombs
Compo 3: Black-out in Restaurant
Compo 4: Wedding in the garden
Compo 5: Escape from PE
Compo6 : Do not play by the road.
SA1

Please go and find your missing files and compos by end of holidays. Those who could not locate it or have lost it will re-do the respective files or compositions. If you see your friends name being mentioned, do inform them. Thanks.

The rest of you who have "please correct and return" or " ", please complete your corrections and submit back to me as there will be a school based file checking.

T- tense
Sp- spellings, corrections to be done 3 times
underlined or phrase errors, correct the whole sentence
multiple underlined or phrase errors, re-correct the whole essay.
Please write the title on the content page and your corrections neatly and last but not least, do let your parent sign the content page.

Warmest regards
Mr Lu

HEAT

A. Introduction

1. Heat is a form of energy.

2. Heat cannot be seen but can be felt.

B. Sources of Heat

1. The Sun is our main source of heat.

2. All living things on Earth need heat to survive.

3. Our Sources of heat are from:

(a) The Earth
(b) Electricity
(c) Chemical reactions
(d) Fiction
(e) Nuclear energy

4. When a volcano erupts, some of the heat beneath the ground escapes to the Earth's surface.

5. A geyser is a spring that spurts up hot water with a great force from time to time.

6. Heat energy that comes from the ground is known as geothermal energy.

7. Man uses geothermal energy to produce electricity.

8. Chemical reactions like oxidation, combustion and decomposition produce heat.

9. Decomposition happens when a substanec breaks down into two or more simpler substances.

10. Combustion happens when a fuel reacts with the oxygen in the air giving off heat and light.

11. Fiction is produced when one object or surface rubs against another.

12. Electricity can be passed through certain metals and other materials to produce heat.

Fight Climate Change Part 4

Switch off the air conditioner, turn on the fan! You can save about $50 in just one month*. An air conditioner takes up the bulk of your energy bill. A fan only uses less than 1/10th of the electricity used by an air conditioner.

Fight Climate Change (Part 3)

How you can fight climate change!

Use electricity wisely and you can reduce Co2 emissions drastically! Besides, with today's energy effiicient technologies, conserving energy is a breeze.

Better yet, you will pay less on your electricity bills! On the following pages are some tips that can help you reduce at least 10% of your household's electicity consumption.

Fight Climate Change (Part 2)

Why is our climate changing?

All of us are responsible for this! Every time we switch on an electrical appliance, we contribute to climate change. That is because in Singapore, electricity is generated mainly by burning fossil fuels, which produces carbon dioxide of CO2. Excess CO2 in the air traps more heat from the sun, causing climate change.

The more electricity we use, the more CO2 is released into the atmosphere.

Fight Climate Change (Part 1)

Use less, Getting more.

Conserving energy does not mean changing your lifestyle drastically. You do not need to read under moonlight or take cold showers just to save electricity. Instead, energy conservation today is all about energy efficiency: doing the same things with just a fraction of the energy. It is about doing more with less. Find out how you can conserve energy in the next few post and why it pays to be energy efficient.

How Climate Change Affects Us.

Climate change is not only a problem for polar bears. Every Singaporean should be concerned. Here is what we might face:

Rise in sea level.
Hotter days and nights.
Higher food prices due to climate change in countries we import food from.
Change of weather patterns, such as more frequent heavy rainfall.
Resurgence and spread of infectious diseases.

Source: NEA (an Energy Efficient Singapore programme)

June Holiday Homework

Dear 4B,

Please remember to do your holiday homework. Do not give me any excuses when we come back on the first day of school as you know I would really get very upset with you. ^_^. okay? You can also take the chance to complete the rest of the lead.com activities as it is a great resource place to get a head start or simply for revision purposes.

You have one month to do it so I wish you happy holidays~

Please do not depend merely on the holiday homework. Do your own revision and study ahead whenever you can. It is reasonable to expect that you spend at least 2 hours a day to gain more knowledge through revision or reading up on next term work~ All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work might make Jack a dumb boy.

Please complete the homework latest by Monday 30th June 2008


Warmest regards
Mr Lu ^_^

Active Process Skills Mathematic

Dear 4B,

For those who have signed up for the course, please take note of your groupings. Please be reminded to turn up on 16/6, 18/6, 19/6, (9.00am - 1.00pm) . For 20/6, the timing will be 9.00am -12pm. Venue will be East Spring Primary School ( Classrooms). Please refer to the handout given to you for additional details.

Group 1
1) Shriya
2) Jet
3) Amelia
4) Jordon
5) Geraldine
6) Amirah

Group 2
1) Azrin
2) Lester
3) Neha
4) Megan
5) Stella

Group 3
1) Raihanah
2) Sin nie
3) Huda

Group 4
1) Melissa

Warmest regards
Mr Lu

EMS questions area

Dear 4B,

You can post your questions here (under comments) and I will try to answer you once I can. Do ask questions that is in the P4 syllabus as priority will be given to them~

Warmest regards
Colin

IT lesson Week 9 and 10

Dear 4B,

Our IT lesson 4/5 will take place on Thursday 0830-930 (Storyboarding) for week 9 and 1000- 1130 on Tuesday (Storyboarding) for week 10. Do get your outstanding homework ready and submit to the IT trainer on the respective day.

Warmest regards
Mr Lu

Results of deserving pupils who should be going to Perth if they pass the interview.Part 1

Dear 4B,

This isn't easy for me to decide as you should know by now . Out of forty of you, I can only choose 3-4... If I had the choice, I would have love to see all of you experiencing Perth. It is a very nice place and I enjoyed myself on my educational trip as a pupil. Back then, I was just as excited as all of you, hoping to be selected.

I guess that's life, someone would be happy while others, disappointed. Do cheer up if you are not selected and look forward to your P4 adventure camp where everyone will get to go.

Please work hard in your daily work and do well for you SA2. (worth 60%) especially for those who have not done well (79 marks or lesser). Remember, I want all of you to remain as a class. One for all and all for one!~ Please revise very hard and study ahead during the June holidays in order to catch up with the rest of the class. You can bring a horse to the water but you cannot force it to drink. Help me help you.

Finally, I will like to congratulate the following four pupils who have proven to be deserving pupils for the trip. Believe me, it was really a close competition and a extremely difficult decision to make. Let's give them a round of applause. I want the four of you to work extra hard as you would be missing one week of lesson so do not break our hearts. In return, you would be getting an enriching experience that would stay for the rest of your life. Trust me, I still remember my Perth trip fondly. Good luck for your second round~ Out of the 32 from the 8 classes, only 24 will get to go eventually, hence do your best for the interview the four of you~ Do your best for the remaining broken hearts...

Happy Mothers' Day!

Dear 4B,

Mother's Day is a day honoring mothers, celebrated on various days in many places around the world. It complements Father's Day, the celebration honoring fathers.

Different countries celebrate Mother's Day on various days of the year because the day has a number of different origins.
One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of Greek gods. This festival was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March (15 March) to 18 March.
The ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day.
In some countries Mother's Day began not as a celebration for individual mothers but rather for Christians.

You can find out more details from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day

So...have you wished your mummy and gave a hug yet?

Warmest regards
Mr Lu ^^-

How to make lucky stars?

Dear 4B,

Visit the website below to make your own lucky stars. The legend has it that making 1000 stars and giving it to your loved ones will show how much they are appreciated by you. Did I mention that your wish will come true too?

http://www.opane.com/luckystar.html

You can also make a lot of other interesting origami from this website ( eg french fries)

http://www.origami-resource-center.com/easy-origami.html

Have fun~

Warmest regards

Mr Lu ^_^

Sudoku Challenge~

Dear 4B,

I will be choosing some of you to take part in Sudoku challenge this coming Monday. It isn't a hard game. In fact, it is quite fun and challenging. Do visit the link below for those who do not know how to play. For those of you who know how to play, challenge yourself by playing a game or two at the website. Have fun ^_^.

http://www.sudoku.com/howtoplay.html

Sudoku doesn't require any special math skills or calculations. It is a simple and fun game of logic -- all that's needed is brains and concentration.
There is really only one rule to Sudoku: Fill in the game board so that the numbers 1 through 9 occur exactly once in each row, column, and 3x3 box. The numbers can appear in any order and diagonals are not considered. Your initial game board will consist of several numbers that are already placed. Those numbers cannot be changed. Your goal is to fill in the empty squares following the simple rule above.
Many of the games available on Sudoku.com feature unique twists on Sudoku basics. Experiment with the different Sudoku games and discover these exciting variations!

Old Folks' Home Visit on 12th May 2008

Dear 4B,

Those of you who will be going to the Old Folks' Home Visit on the 12th May. Please remember to bring along your writing materials and a clipboards as we will be doing some simple activities. Do remember to show your kindness by bringing your donations. Please also put on your best behaviours as you will be going in your school uniform. You may bring your camera to take beautiful memories. Lastly, do have lots of fun.

Reminder
Meeting place : Hall
Meeting Time : 1.30-1.40 pm
Time end : 5pm (estimated time of arrival)

Warmest regards
Mr Lu

Who should get to go to Perth?

Hi class, Who wants to go to Perth, Australia and who do you think is a deserving girl or boy?

Dear 4B,

All the best for your SA1 2008! Work hard~ ^_^

Warmest regards
Mr Lu

Does race matter when choosing friends?

Dear 4B,

In conjunction with Total Defence Day (15th February), the English department is organising Blogging enrichment weeks for P2-P6 pupils.

Pupils have a total of four weeks to blog on a given Total Defence topic and best entries will win prizes. Participation is compulsory for all classes as it counts as regular curriculum content (as detailed in the EL workplans for this year).

Deadline for all postings to be completed is 22nd February 2008.

Warmest regards
Mr Colin Lu