What We Have Learnt in Term 3 Week 6

English

1. We revised and practiced the grammar rules we learnt last week. There is a list of common words in their present and past tense on page 13 of 'The Lazy Duck Worksheet' that you can use to help the students revise and spell common words in their past tense.

Common mistakes:

Mistake 1: Pupils add '-ed' to the ends of the verbs without removing the 's'.

Present - The duck waddles every day.

Past - The duck waddlesed yesterday. (mistake)

Mistake 2: Pupils add the letter 's' or remove the letter 's' to change the verb to the past form.

Present - I go to school every day.

Past - I goes to school yesterday. (mistake)

Present - They go to school every day.

Past - They goes to school yesterday. (mistake)

Mistake 3: Pupils use the past tense after the word 'to'

I want to blew the candles. (mistake)

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2. We learnt when to answer questions in the present or past tense. Students need a lot of practice with this and they tend to answer in the present tense.

Example 1:

1. How did you come to school? *I asked them to circle the word 'did'.

I took a bus.

2. Who helped the king? *I asked them to circle the word 'helped'

The cook, queen and gardener helped the king.

Example 2:

1. How do you come to school every day? *I asked them to circle the word 'do'

I take a bus.

2. What would you like to do tomorrow?

I would like to go swimming.

Mathematics

1. We revise the concept of 'finding the difference'.

Example:

Daryl has 28 birds. Qi Hua has 19 birds. How many more birds does Daryl have?

Daryl has 28 birds. Qi Hua has 19 birds. How many fewer birds does Qi Hua have?

Please note:

(a) Regardless of whether the question is 'how many more' or 'how many fewer', they are asking for the difference and therefore we need to subtract the two quantities to find the difference.

(b) Some pupils apply this rule generally and as long as they see the word more or fewer they try to 'find the difference'. Emphasize that the question has to specifically be 'how many more' or 'how many fewer'.

Common mistake:

Daryl has 28 birds. Qi Hua has 10 more birds.

How many birds does Qi Hua have? *Highlight that the question did not ask 'how many more'

28 - 10 = 18 (mistake)

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2. Use a comparision model to solve word problems.

Tips:

a. Label the models.

b. Indicate with a question mark what you have to find.

Example 1:

Daryl has 28 birds. Qi Hua has 19 birds. How many more birds does Daryl have?

Example 2:

Daryl has 28 birds. He has 9 more birds than Qi Hua. How many birds does Qi Hua have?

Common Mistake:



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3. Pupils need to make sure they carry out their computations correctly and not make careless mistakes. Please emphasize it is important to carry our cancellation and regrouping and to indicate in their working.