Prosthetic Legs

In unit 2: I am Special, we read about a special child, Jade who wrote diary to share her feelings. Jade was born without legs. After many years of saving up, her parents finally have enough money to get her a pair of prosthetic legs (artificial legs) so that she can pursue her dream of being a runner!

I've found some pictures on prosthetic legs for the class:

http://www.apojax.com/images/physicians-prosthetic-leg.jpg

http://igargoyle.com/archives/legs.jpg

http://images.cnhi.zope.net/images_sizedimage_315041723/lg


The following is a video about Aimee Mullins, who is a record-breaker at the *Paralympic Games in 1996, Aimee Mullins has built a career as a model, actor and activist for women, sports and the next generation of prosthetics.
Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs Video on TED.com

*Paralympic Games: sport events for athletes with physical and visual disabilities.

ICT lessons - Blog Creation

For the past 3 weeks, 4B pupils have been learning how to create their very own blogs. They designed their own blog banners, uploaded self-made videos, learnt how to copy their favourite music from mixpod.com and many more...

I'm looking forward to visit all your blogs when they are completed!

ICT: Information Communication Technology

Conjunctions

This week, we started unit 2: I am Special!
We learnt the use of conjunctions (connectors) during our grammar lesson.
Conjunctions are linking words or connectors, which are used to join 2 or more statements to give additional information.

There are 3 types of Conjunctions learnt:
1) to show addition: and, besides, moreover, as well as...
eg. Andy enjoyed watching and playing sports.

2) to show contrast: but, however, although, even if...
eg. Sarah did not have a lot of money but she wanted to study in Britain.

3) to show choice: or, either... or, neither... nor
eg. You can have a new computer or you can continue to use the outdated model.

For more practices:
http://www.betterenglish.org.ph/Parts%20of%20Speech/Conjunctions%20discussion%20and%20interactive%20quizzes.htm

English Lessons

We have been reading several information texts for our English lessons.

We were all enchanted by the Hummingbird which beats its wings so fast (about 200 times per second!) that they make a humming sound; actually this was how hummingbirds got their name!

Check out the following link to watch a short video clip on the Hummingbird:
http://www.5min.com/Video/Hummingbird-in-Flight-1354262


We also read about the Giant Anteater which has a coat of coarse*, black hair on its body and a long tubular** snout***.

*coarse: rough
**tubular: tube-like
***snout: long nose

We were amazed by the fact that a Giant Anteater's tongue is about 2 feet long!

http://www.virginmedia.com/take5/pictures/pics-of-the-week.php?ssid=16

During today's lesson, we read about the Green Turtle. We were surprised to discover that the Green Turtle's neck cannot be hidden in its shell! Many of us tried to draw flippers to demonstrate the Green Turtle's feet. Click here to see an example of a diver's flippers:
http://www.faqs.org/photo-dict/photofiles/list/1056/1513flippers.jpg

Let's continue to read widely to discover more interesting facts about many amazing animals!

Mrs Tong

4B Class Leaders (term 1)

Dear all,

The following is the list of 4B Class Leaders for term 1:

Class Monitors: Mark and Valencia
Commanders: Gary and Sylvester
AV Monitors: Jia Jun and Rui Feng
Library Monitors: Heidi, Laraine, Xu Jing and Sheyenne
Green Monitors: River and Sock Wee
Group Leaders: Nurhizah, Jonathan, Nicholas, Desaree, John, Jason, Cassandra, Nurulain, Cleo and Jing Shun
Books Station Managers: Shi Ying and Yuhanizz
PE Monitors: Irfan and Chong Jun
Music Monitors: Kristina and Jenesis
Math Monitors: Bimei and Janice
NE/SS Monitors: Elin and Shafeeqa
Art Monitors: Siti and Kai Ting
Noticeboard Managers: Amirul and Rachel
Science Monitors: Wei Lun and Ivan
Health Monitors: Alfred and Ke Wei
Prefects: Bimei, Laraine and Sock Wee (newly appointed)

Happy working together!
Let's help one another to make 4B a better class!

with love from
Mrs Tong

Classroom Decoration

Dear boys, girls and parents of 4B

Many thanks to all of you who took time off to join me to decorate our 4B classroom on 9 Jan. Thanks to Janice, Cleo, Elin, Xu Jing (and mum), Ifan (and sister), Mark (and mum), Jing Shun (and mum), Jonathon (and dad), Chong Jun, Gary (and mum) and Ms Phang (CL teacher) for your creativity and hardwork!






Mrs Tong

Welcome!

Dear boys and girls of 4B



Welcome back to Endeavour! Welcome to a brand new academic year 2010! Welcome our new friends: Jason, Xu Jing, Desaree and Sheyenne to join class 4B. Let's gear up to learn new knowledge and have lots of fun together. I'm very eager to know all of you better and I'm sure that we will have many great learning experiences together!



with lots of love

Mrs Tong