Where have you been all my life?

Dear Kiddos,

I know this might be too easy for you but it's a good mental drill opportunity. Just imagine how much fun it would have been to learn times tables using this than to rote learn. Looks like fun and it IS fun!! Click HERE for some academic games

I hope you enjoy it!

Ms B

Journalistic Writing

Dear Kiddos,

Here is the PPT we looked at today - shall be revisiting again super soon.



Happy Reading,
Ms B

Electricity Revision

Dear Kiddos,

Here are the series of sites you can use to revise Electricity.


Site ONE
For this one, focus mainly on the components, changing circuits and diagrams.

Site TWO
Try the activity 1 and 2 for this site.

Site THREE
Pretty much everything under 'Find Out About...'

Site FOUR 
This one is talking about the dimness and brightness of the globes.

These are for FORCES

Site Force One 
Simple explanation

Sit Force Two 
Fabulous examples of forces you may see around your house.
Simple animation and explanation to help you understand the forces in action.


Site Force Three
Ultra simple website on Forces.

Hope these help!!

Ms B

Photosynthesis

Dear Kiddos,

If you are musical or music lover or just sanely creative - here are some of the cool songs for you on The Amazing PHOTOSYNTHESIS!!

Enjoy!!

Photosynthesis Rap 

Photosynthesis Song 

And for your revision pleasure, here are the clips and resources for next week's test.. :)

The Life Cycle of a plant 

The parts of a flower

The parts of a plant


Happy Studying!

Ms B

Explanation

Dear Kiddos,

Here is the review table for Explanation Text.

Activity1: How would you explain the life cycle of a plant?? 

Activity2: What is your ultimate dream? Explain. 

Activity3: What is your favourite number or word and explain its significance. 

Responses below... :-) 

Plants

Basic parts of plant, flower and their functions.

   

  

Click >>HERE<< 

Instructional Text

A set of instructions tell you how to do or make something. 

Some of the examples where you will find instructions are:-

- recipes

- driving directions

- game manual

- sports rules

- advertisements (some)

etc.. 

Activity:

Write a set of instructions to turn a teacher into a frog. Eh hem.... 

Publish it below... Come on.. . I dare you.... hehehhehe 

Non Chronological Report

Key Features of Non Chronological Reports
Purpose: to describe the characteristics of something e.g. “Birds”, “Ancient Greece” Example: an extract from a general encyclopedia
Text Structure ·        Introductory information about what is to be described: who, what, when, where? (overall classification) ·        Non-chronological organisation ·        Description organised according to categories or information ·        Skeleton framework – a spidergram	Language features ·        Present tense (except historical reports) ·        Usually general nouns and pronouns (not particular people or things) ·        Third person writing ·        Factual writing, often involving technical words and phrases.
Common forms of non chronological reports ·        Information leaflet ·        School-project file ·        Encyclopedia entry ·        Magazine article ·        Non-fiction book ·        letter

Activity: Have a go at identifying ALL THE FEATURES of the text below.

Literacy Revision 1

Genre: Playscript

Layout:

• At the start of each scene, the setting is described. 
• Stage Directions are written in parenthesis 
• Speaker/actor is listed on the left of the page
• List of characters in the play is listed in the beginning of the script. 
• The list of characters is called the cast. 
• The words spoken by the character are called dialogues.

Language Features

• Stage directions are always written PRESENT TENSE and in IMPERATIVE verbs (instructional or commanding verbs). 
• ellipsis (...) is often used to show the character is thinking or stuttering. 
• These dialogues do not need speech marks. They do still require punctuations. 

Sample Script

http://www.halfnoteproductions.com/downloads/script-sample.pdf

Activity: 

See if you can identify the layout and language features of the playscript in the document above.