Hi Guys!!!!

Hi everyone!!! I hope you are doing fine. I read Yu Ting's email. You seem to be having a great time with Mr Chua. I'm glad that you guys are behaving well and not giving him any trouble. I'm doing fine. Doing lots of reading. I miss you guys!!!! Remember, I want to hear good news from the teachers at Yumin about all of you, yah!

Love you,
M Sri

Pirates & Treasures

Oh yeeeee...you little kiddies.

Off your beds and down to mischief I see.

My treasures, my precious treasures, you seek.

With your horrid guns and eye-glasses, too weak.

You may look and you may dig.

With my maps, you may seek.

But don't you think that you will ever feel

These treasures of mine, in your hands, you WIMPS!!!

Hehehehehhe....OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!!, I say!

So anyway, we had a little role-playing with the treasure maps they drew. With little surprises like eye-patches, rifles and pirate hats thrown in. Thought it was a rather fun English lesson.

Dragon Kiln

Our Acrostic Poems!!!

Sunny, sunny, sunny day
Under the hot sun during the day
Never will be cold in the day.


Dean is my friend
Everyone likes him
Anyone who meets him
Never will scold him.

Synthesis Rules! (who, that, which)

Hi guys! Just a little note in case some of you did not have enough time to copy the rules that we discussed and learned about today.

These rules are particularly for combining sentences using the conjunctions who, which and that. Remember: 'who' is used to refer to people only.

Rule 1:
Find the common noun in both sentences (i.e. find the noun that is repeated).

Rule 2:
Make the noun that you have identified in Rule 1 the Subject of your combined sentence. You should thus start the combined sentence with this noun followed by the conjunction given.

Common Noun + that/who/which + phrase 1 + phrase 2

Rule 3:
In some cases, one of the phrase identifies the Subject. In this case, this identifying phrase should be written first.

Common Noun + that/who/which + identifying phrase + phrase 2


That's it! Do remember these rules during your exams!!!!

Reading Quiz Instructions

Hi guys! Do rememeber to borrow at least one Star Reader books from the special shelf in the library and complete the Reading Quiz on it. Here are the instructions:

1. Log on to http://ren.learncraft.net/yumin
2. Log in with your
username: (bc number)
password: password
3. Click 'Take A Quiz'
4. Click 'Take A Rading Practice Quiz'
5. Type the title of your book
6. Click the title shown in the list
7. Complete the quiz

You may log on with your home computer and go to the school's lab to complete your quiz. Have fun! Hope your results will improve!

Adventures In Space

Hi guys! I'm sure you find the current unit that we are learning for English especially interesting. But since none of us work at NASA and are not quite able to imagine what outer space is like, I have included a list of movies about adventures in space that you may like toi watch. This will help you to visualise and imagine what is out there in that huge, unknown area we call Outer Space.

Do take note that these movies are fictitious and parts of the story line have been made up by the movie writers....but at least you get to imagine what Earth and Mars look like from space.

Movie List:

Mission To Mars

Apollo 13 (Based on a real incident)

Stargate

Star Trek

Here's the ending of Mision To Mars that Elroy found (with the real dialogue)

Thanks, Elroy!

And here's a documentary on Apollo 13. Watch this to find out what really happened to the space shuttle...

(There are 5 videos altogether)

A lot more videos about Science and Space can be found here.