P4 CURRICULUM BRIE FING 2018 20 JAN 2018 OVE RVIE W English - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

P4 CURRICULUM BRIE FING 2018 20 JAN 2018

OVE RVIE W • English Matters • Attendance • Mathematics Matters • Attire • Science Matters • Revisions & Assignments • How Parents Can Help • Administrative Matters • Safety and Security • School Programmes • Other Matters • Communicating Pupils’ • FAQ Progress • Online Feedback • Partnership with Parents

ATTE NDANCE • Punctuality – Report to school in the hall by 7.30am • Silent Reading – Mon/Tues/Wed: English story book – Thurs/Fri: Mother Tongue book (students exempted from MT may read English story book) • Medical and other leave – Medical Certificate – Parent’s letter or email

ATTIRE • School Attire – Name Tags, Black School Shoes, T-shirt/shirt tucked into shorts – PE Days – Learning Journeys • General Appearance –Boys: neat short hair –Girls: dark green and black hair accessories (Please refer to Kidz Organiser page 12-14)

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RE VISION & ASSIGNME NTS • Daily Revision (30mins-1hour per subject) • Submit assignments promptly • Neat and legible handwriting • Corrections (done in green pen / coloured pencil)

ADMINISTRATIVE MATTE RS • Collection of Forms & Payment • Submission of reply slips on date stated • Cash Payment –seal money in envelope –Label neatly on envelope: • Name, register no., class, amount, purpose

SCHOOL PROGRAMME S • Form Teacher Guidance Period (FTGP) on Mondays • Value Inculcation Programme (Connecto) on Mondays • 1-to-1 Teacher-Student-Relationship Session on Mondays • E-Learning Day (28 March) • Traffic Games (26 Feb (Mon) – 4A, 4B, 4E / 1 Mar (Thurs) – 4C, 4D, 4F, 4O) • VIA Preparation – 3, 9 July • Actual Visit to Homes (one of these days – 16-25 July) • P4 Camp (27-28 Aug Tentative)

COMMUNICATING PUPIL PROGRE SS 2018 Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Mock Tests Report Book Mock Tests Report Book Parent- Holistic Report Teacher Card Meeting

E NGLISH

Language STELLAR School-based curriculum Learning Area  Reading and • Supported Reading Explicit teaching of reading • Retelling comprehension skills Viewing  • KWL Guided Reading  • Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) Self-Selected Reading (includes school library programme)  Reading & Writing Journal (RWJ) ENGLISH Writing and • Writing Process Cycle (WPC) • Process Writing (Narrative) PROGRAMME • Text-Type Writing • 5 Traits of Good Writing Representing • Text-Type Writing • Personal Journal PRIMARY 4 • Writer’s Notebook Speaking and • Effective and purposeful • Stimulus-based conversation interaction and group discussion • Public Speaking Representing embedded in all key strategies Listening and • Listening and viewing skills for understanding and critical thinking taught through all key strategies using audio and graphic stimuli Viewing GRAMMAR Whole-Part-Whole Approach • Explicit teaching of grammar in meaningful context using STELLAR readers VOCABULARY Text-Based Approach Working with Words • STELLAR readers • Visual Vocabulary • Spelling (in context) • Text-Based Approach (children’s literature) 1/14/2018

E nglish assessments (primary 4] Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Assessment Structure for English Formative Formative and Summative Formative Summative Mock Test / Language Stimulus-based Conversation Stimulus-based Paper 4: Oral (16%) Test: Conversation a. Reading Aloud a. Vocabulary b. Stimulus-based Conversation b. Grammar Storytelling c. Comprehension Paper 4: Oral (16%) Writing Paper 3: Listening Comprehension (14%): a. Reading Aloud b. Stimulus-based Conversation Picture Matching, Note-taking & Dictation Paper 3: Listening Comprehension (14%): Paper 1: Composition (20%) Reading Comprehension Picture Matching, Note-taking & Dictation Paper 1: Composition (20%) Paper 2: Language Use & Comprehension (50%) a. Vocabulary b. Grammar c. Comprehension Paper 2: Language Use & Comprehension (50%) a. Vocabulary b. Grammar c. Comprehension (0%) (100%) (0%) (100%) 1/14/2018 35% 65%

EXPLICIT TEACHING OF READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS Through the use of authentic children’s • literature & STELLAR readers Comprehension Skills & Strategies • Inferring/Summarising – Surface & Deep Annotation – Supported Reading – KWL – Retelling – Reading & Writing Journal (RWJ) • Connect pupils’ thoughts and ideas in – response to reading through simple writing tasks relating to text read 1/14/2018

TEACHING OF 5 TRAITS OF GOOD WRITING  5 (+1)* Traits of Good Writing (Steve Peha) ◦ Ideas ◦ Organisation ◦ Word Choice ◦ Sentence Fluency ◦ Convention ◦ Voice* 1/14/2018

WRITE R’S NOTE BOOK Encourage students to • develop their repertoire of materials for individual writing based on given topics Encourage students to • write extensively to activate schema before their actual individual writing based on given topics https://www.pinterest.com/deb040473/cafe-writers- notebook/?lp=true 1/14/2018

WORKING WITH WORDS: Visual Vocabulary • Learning about a new word through: authentic setting, context or – reading understanding the – characteristic(s) of the word making inference about the – meaning of the word using contextual clues visual representation – expansion activities to learn – more about the word or other words associated with it 1/14/2018

SOME TIPS FOR PARE NTS  Encourage your child to read books and other materials related to his/her interests or hobbies.  Have your child read game instructions, recipe directions, comic books, catalogues, toy advertisements and children’s magazines.  Make sure he/she is reading at his/her level – something too difficult frustrates the child whereas something too easy does not challenge him/her.  Set aside time for your child to read every day – at least 20 minutes/day.  Encourage your child to talk about the book that he/she has just read. 1/14/2018

USE FUL WE BSITE S  http:/ / dictionary.cambridge.org/ dictionary/ english/  http:/ / www.oxforddictionaries.com/  http:/ / www.bbc.co.uk/ worldservice/ learningenglish/  http:/ / www.ttms.org - Steve Peha’s Writing Strategies  http:/ / www.stellarliteracy.sg  http:/ / www.moe.gov.sg/ education/ syllabuses/ languages-and- literature/ files/ english-primary-secondary-express-normal- academic.pdf 1/14/2018

MATHE MATICS

MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMME • A rigorous instructional programme equips the students with a strong foundation in concepts, skills, thinking process and metacognition. • Hands-on and experiential learning i A balanced assessment system gathers information about students’ learning process so that feedback can be given to the students to help them to improve and teaching approaches can be reviewed and enhanced.

RIGHT Strategy for Math Problem Solving R ead and underline Have I read and understood the problem? Circle the numbers, Underline the keywords & Bracket the Goal of the Question (CUB) I nformation gathering Have I gathered all the information? G oal of the question What am I looking for? H idden information Have I formed the correct relationships with the given information? T ry it out Have I used the correct strategy? To check the Reasonableness of answers Tick Operations and Transfer errors (ROT)

Instructional Programmes Math HP programme (Maths Olympiad-P4 to P6 & E2K-P4 & P5) • – Math Olympiad and E2K training are the key vehicle to stretch the thinking of the HP students – To provide opportunities for the HP students to be stretched in their thinking capacity and to participate in higher-order thinking activities such as external competitions and carnivals. • Improving Confidence and Achievement in Numeracy (ICAN) – ICAN is an MOE programme to raise confidence and improve Maths achievement of low progress learners

School based activities Level Events P4 IPW (DIY Maths Games)

topics Semester 1 Semester 2 P4 • Numbers to 100 000 • Fractions • Factors and Multiples • Addition and Subtraction of Fractions • Multiplication and Division of • Decimals Whole Numbers • Four Operations of Decimals • Whole Numbers: Word • Word Problems on Decimals Problems • Area and Perimeter • Angles • Time • Squares and Rectangles • Symmetry • Tables and Line Graphs

P4 Assessment Structure 2018 Overall Weighting (100%) SA1 (35%) SA2 (65%) Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Level Component Component Marks Component Marks Component Marks Allocation Allocation Allocation P4 Mock Test Written 100 Mock test Open-ended (0%) Written 100 marks (0%) Paper marks (0%) task Paper (65%) (35%) formative

Files File Item Dark Blue File Topical Worksheets & Practice Paper Light Blue File Problem Sums Worksheets Yellow/Orange File Maths Workbook/Homework Book(if detached) ANNOTATED MARKING Acronym Description CE Calculation error FS Final S tatement for word problem MS Missing steps S F S implest form tandard units (cm, m, km, cm 2 , m 2 , $, g, kg …) S U S TE Transfer error

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