We have officially begin teaching and learning for English and Science. Here is a recap of what we have gone through for today.
English
We spent 2 periods focusing on the skills of answering Comprehension Open-ended questions. I hope that all of you can bear in mind the strategy taught and use it for your future work. In our pre reading thinking activity (PRTA) strategy, the focus was on looking at the questions first, highlight and think about the content through the questions. For example,
Q1. Which word in the first paragraph has the same meaning as 'raised'?
Using two headings:
What I know
There is a word with the same meaning as 'raised' in the first paragraph.
What I want to find out
What is the word?
Q5. What did the spectators expect the result of the race to be?
What I know
There is a race. The spectators have expectations of who is to win and how the race is going to be.
What I want to find out
What are the expectations of the spectators?
Q6. Explain fully how Dukar planned to beat Yeke in the race.
What I know
Dukar and Yeke are competing with each other in the race. Dukar plans to win Yeke and he has a strategy to achieve this.
What I want to Know
What is the plan of Dukar?
Just by planning and drawing these 2 headings to think about the questions, we can have an idea of how the story is. Do not be too quick to rush into reading the story first. Look at the questions. Highlight key words (tenses, how, why, what) and then draw the two headings to write down what you know from the question and what to find out. When you read the passage, you will be more focused and clearer as to what to look out for. This is a good strategy to help you answer comprehension open-ended questions. Dear parents, you might want to use this strategy to help your kids in revising and attempting comprehension open-ended. This forces you to really think and find out about the story from the questions.
Science
We have successfully tested out that leaves need light in order to photosynthesize. Iodine solution is used to test for presence of starch. Under the presence of starch, the organism will turn from brown (iodine solution's natural colour) to blue-black.
The main source of energy is the sun. Energy is defined as the ability to do work. In today's activity, we learnt that in the process of photosynthesis, light is absorbed from the sun by the leaves and the chlorophyll reacts with water, carbon dioxide and the light to photosynthesize and produce starch for the plant.
Take a look at the video as we go deeper into the topic tomorrow.
Do not forget to bring your textbooks for Science and exercise book for Science tomorrow. Rest well.
Thank You,
Sincerely,
Mr Nelson Ong
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