taking a breather

Hello everyone!

I'm taking a break from marking the compos. Looks like it's going to be a long night ahead!

Anyway, Nathan, you can check out the foxtrot comics online at this website: www.gocomics.com/foxtrotclassics. I'm glad you like it. I like reading Chew On It too! 

I went to Gramophone over the weekend and spotted this movie which Ms Azean lent me during the holidays last year. I've mentioned it to you in class before and I'm really excited about showing it to you after the exams! I was really inspired by it after I watched it. Please don't hurry to the nearest video store to rent it! I'm going to keep you in suspense about the title for now. :P 

Meanwhile, there was one unexpected surprise that made me very happy today. I saw Cheah Yan reading 'The Graveyard Book' in the courtyard! I hope you'd enjoy reading it! :) 

Also, did anyone read the news on Sunday Lifestyle? There was an article on the ukulele and how the music makes one feel as though he's in Hawaii. I can't wait to learn how to play it! 

Today some of you have asked some important questions about the scientific concepts of Matter. I'm glad you wrote it down because it lets me know whether you understand what I've been trying to teach. I'm going to post some of the questions in the Science forum for our class and I hope you'd try and provide some answers to help your classmates. 

One very important question in particular was about the difference between mass and volume. 

Mass

Mass is the amount of substance in an object. Mass tells us how heavy or light something is. 

Volume

Volume is the amount of space an object occupies. 

Fibonacci Numbers

I was reading the Sunday papers and made a beeline for the comics section. 

My favourite comic strip is Foxtrot (Baby Blues comes a very very close second) and today's Foxtrot comic was sooo funny!

Let me upload it here ..

We've done trying to figure out why a riddle is funny.... so let me know why this comic strip is funny. (Yes it IS funny :p) In order to understand it better though, you'd need to know Fibonacci numbers.... and that's the only clue I'm giving you! 

Good luck fellow Math geeks! 

Third Week of School

I can't believe it's already Week 3. Time really flies. 

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! :) I'm too excited about the holidays to sleep early so I thought I'd post some thoughts about this week. 

I fell sick on Tuesday and by Thursday, I had almost lost my voice. Poor 4G had to listen to my raspy voice, which broke at several points in almost every sentence I uttered. That's laryngitis for you. I caught a virus that caused my throat to become inflamed and it affected my voice box... leaving me croaking away. 

Anyway, it turned out to be not as bad because I had Joshua for my broadcaster and he did an excellent job converting everything I said into indirect speech. Here's an example:

Ms Toh (croaking pathetically): Tell the class they don't need to mark this portion and that divisible by 3 is important. If they don't have divisible by 3, it's wrong.

Joshua (confidently and clearly) : Ms Toh says we don't need to mark this portion.... etc etc. 

Imagine having to remember the long chain of stuff I say PLUS convert it to indirect speech. I shall never look at indirect speech the same way again. :p 

We also had the Use Your Hands campaign and thanks to Edwin's brainwave (bringing newspapers to school), we've now got sparkling window panes! Thanks again to everyone, for your very enthusiastic spring-cleaning and packing of cupboards and fervent wiping of tables. 

Just a few pics of that day.... :)

You can almost see their reflections off the whiteboard!

saying hello to a new beginning

Hello everyone!

Hope the first day of school went well for all of you.

Primary 5 is going to be a fun and challenging year for you, so do enjoy learning. I miss all of you already but I'm very sure you're going to have fun in your new classes. Just think, you get to go and watch the NE show! Maybe you aren't too used to the classmates in your new classes, but give it some time. You started off as strangers in the class too and look how close some of you have become.

I'm going to be teaching 4G this year, so I'd probably not be able to see you much anymore. Take care all of you.... and hope I'd see you around in school!

:)

ms toh