A FORMAL LETTER

In Semester 1 Worksheet 22, the pupils for the Advanced Writing classes were asked to write a formal letter.

As I want to focus on the format of a formal letter, I will not reproduce the whole question in this post. Instead, I'll just give the main points that need to be mentioned in the letter and move on from there because the focus of this post is to highlight the format of a formal letter and the tone that should be used in the PSLE.

A Composition A Week

This week, we'll be offering two compositions for Primary 3 and Primary 4.


The stories are based on the following pictures.

Spelling Lists for Semester 1 Week 24

Tip of the week


Many people like to say/write the following:

Adrian and his friends played ball at the void deck.


That is actually not quite correct.


The correct sentence should be:

Adrian and his friends played with a ball at the void deck.


I think it's because people get mixed up about the game and the toy.


We play a game. Examples:

• Karen played tennis in the morning.
• Lily played badminton yesterday.
• Oliver plays football once a week.

But we play with a toy. Examples:

• Jack is playing with his toy train set.
• Leonard is playing with his Lego blocks.
• Ahmad is playing with a ball.

So take note of the distinction between a game and a toy and how we treat them differently in our sentences!

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Book Review: PICTURE PERFECT

Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult

Picture Perfect is a story about Cassie Barret as she struggles to deal with the pain of domestic abuse.

The story starts off with Cassie, amnesiac and wandering around a grave. She is found by Will, a police officer, and taken to safety - after which her husband, Alex Rivers, one of the most famous of Hollywood’s actors, returns to reclaim her. The story then proceeds to describe Cassie’s gradual recovery of her memory - how she and Alex met, how they fell in love and got married, and, eventually, the reason why she ran away: to avoid the domestic abuse being inflicted upon her.

No Spelling for Semester 1 Week 23

Dear pupils,


As most of you, actually, it's more like, all of you will be having your mid-year examinations in this coming week, hence there will be NO spelling for Semester 1 Week 23.



Work hard for the examinations.

And all the best! :)




Best wishes,
Learning Partners

TRICKY GRAMMAR!

Many pupils in Singapore will be taking their mid-year examinations the following week.


Although we have gone through the revision with pupils in class already, I know that some would not remember all the various questions that we have covered. Thus I would like to use this post to serve as a reminder to the pupils some of the grammatical items we have gone through in class.

1. What is the difference between 'a number' and 'the number'?

Book Review - CUDDLE THE CUTEST KITTEN: SCHOOL OF SPELLS

Cuddle the Cutest Kitten: School of Spells by Hayley Daze

I'm Cuddle, the cutest kitten. Do you agree?

Cuddle the Cutest Kitten is a series of books about a magical talking kitten’s adventures with her two human friends, Grace and Olivia. The series is a cross between the Harry Potter series and Enid Blyton’s books, describing how Cuddle and the girls get entangled in various adventures and how they help the characters they meet during these adventures, with a dash of magic.

In School of Spells, Cuddles and the girls are transported to a school of magic, Miss Rosamund’s School for Magical Creatures (hence the Harry Potter reference). This school is meant for fairies, elves, gnomes and other magical creatures.

In the school, the trio comes across a painfully shy unicorn, Cosmo. The unicorn, being so shy, has no friends and is very sad and lonely. To make matters worse, he is always getting picked on by a mean troll, Mossfly. Cosmo ends up skipping classes most of the time because he feels he is not good enough to learn.