End of week 1

Dear all,

We have come to the end of week 1. Work hard! Here is a recap of what we have done thus far for the past 2 days.

Science

We started on our last topic of Man's impact on the environment. The impact can be both positive or negative. Impact refers to our actions and consequence or effects on the surroundings on Earth. This topic is relational to our daily lives and how we want our world to be in the future. The key messages are to reduce, reuse and recycle. From Science, we also learn about values education.

This video by Michael Jackson was what I discussed the other day about how men have played a huge role in impacting the Earth.

Concepts that we have recap about in our revision worksheets:

• WCCW (Warm water vapour condenses on the cool surface into water droplets --> CONDENSATION)
• In the circulatory system, blood that flows in goes to the lungs to the heart and all parts of the body (rich in oxygen). Blood that flows out goes from all parts of the body to the heart to the lings. (rich in carbon dioxide)
• Items that contain a material that is a conductor of electricity can allow electricity to flow through it. Example (Jelly contains water and thus it can allow electricity to flow through it)
• During hot weather, items expand. During cold weather, items contract. 
• Aluminium is not a magnetic object. 
• Cobalt, Nickel, Iron and Steel are MAGNETIC.
• Aluminium, Copper are NON-MAGNETIC. 
• But all metals are conductors of electricity. 
• Air expands faster than water. 
• Air can be compressed but solid and liquid cannot. 

Complete the graphs worksheet and the Revision worksheet 1A (MCQs) 

English

We have finished our unit 10 supplementary worksheets and the focus now is for revision papers and the PSLE booklets! Hooray!

Things to take note of:

• For facts, we use the present tense. 
• When you are doing your grammar cloze, editing for spelling and grammar and comprehension cloze, do bracket the important words and phrases to focus and narrow down your answering portions. 
• Unless (positive statement), (negative statement)
• Besides ......................, .................. also .................... (When you have two or more actions and you are using the structure 'Besides', the word 'also' must also be used. 
• For direct to indirect transformation, remember that for the word 'the', we do not change it at all. Also, you have to change past tenses to past perfect (which always have the word 'had' at the front. Example: had cleaned, had done, had thrown, had gone)

Enjoy your long weekend,
Sincerely,
Mr Nelson Ong