CVC Puzzles Short Vowel O

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  3 Types of readers in children Whether you are a parent or teacher, working with children and helping them learn to read is rewarding. I had the opportunity to teach 6 year olds this past year and I have observed that there are three types of students: strong readers, emerging readers and weak readers. Strong readers  have good phonemic awareness and are excellent decoders. (Please refer to my introduction to phonemic awareness and decoding words) Emerging readers  are on the way and are expanding their knowledge of phonics sounds and applying it to decode familiar and unfamiliar words. Weak readers  need frequent prompts for segmenting and blending the sounds together. In severe cases, they may even struggle to remember letters and consonant sounds. HOW DOES THE BRAIN PROCESS WORDS? ·           Through Phonological awareness (i.e learning the sounds of words) and orthography (spelling of words). Skilled readers were able to process the word by seeing the letters “chair” faster compa
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An Inquiry into Food: Local Produce

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Hello again! I want to share with you about our current inquiry for term 1. My kindergarten uses the inquiry approach which is the IB-International Baccalaureate. What is IB? To sum it up, it encourages children to be learners who take a proactive role; teachers no longer spoon-feed them information but rather encourage them to ask questions and take the initiative to find out answers to share in class. This curricular aims to develop its learners to be knowledgeable, caring and have a balanced world view.


Central idea:
Knowing the ingredients in food and food preparation methods help us to make informed choices.

Lines of inquiry:

  • Sources of food and how they are produced;
  • Food labels help us understand what go into our bodies;
  • Consequences of food choices;
  • Different ways of preserving food;
  • Different ways of preserving and cooking food


An inquiry usually lasts for one term (i.e 10 weeks). I like to use the Kath Murdoch inquiry cycle, which begins with Tuning In & Finding Out.

We started learning about:

1. Sources of food and how they are produced

To help my class learn about this, I showed them videos on local produce. Here in Singapore, we grow vegetables, have fish farms and produce eggs (just to name a few). However, these only supply a fraction of our country's food demand. Most of our food is still imported by neighbouring countries like Malaysia etc.

I also did a worksheet for children to draw and write the foods that are grown locally.






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