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Building a strong foundation in Primary 1 will help your child to manage key changes this school year. Increasing your child’s confidence in using the language will help in communication, interaction and learning. Find out more.
Content and Language Mastery
Students will learn basic grammar rules and thematic vocabulary that will help them to build a strong foundation in the language. These include:
• parts of speech (such as pronouns, superlative adjectives, etc.)
• tenses
• idioms and synonyms
Skills and Techniques
Students refine their skills in the following key areas:
• Speaking
Students will develop their own personal opinions and gain confidence in public speaking.
• Reading and writing
Students will learn to identify main ideas and key details of texts, as well as learn answering techniques.
Students will be taught how to write a story with logical sequence of events based on a series of pictures.
Learn basic writing techniques such as five senses description and dialogue to make descriptions more vivid.
Exposure to a variety of text types such as poems and posters.
For more on TLL’s approach to honing writing skills, click here.
Contextualised Learning
Students will be introduced to a wide variety of themes that will help them to contextualise their learning in the real world and raise their social awareness. Key themes include:
• technology and science
• captivating cities
• sport and entertainment
Learning mathematical concepts and arithmetic skills should be fun and help your child to cultivate a love for math. Through lesson materials, hands-on activities and performance tasks, your child will also acquire useful life skills such as telling time and counting money. Find out more.
Content Mastery
• Students will master foundational concepts in Number Sense, Four operations, Ordinal Numbers, Money, Length, Time, 2D Shapes, Patterns and Picture Graphs.
• Students will solve word problems on Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Ordinal Numbers and Money.
Skills and Techniques
• Students will present word problems pictorially by drawing part-whole and comparison models.
• Students will apply heuristics including Make A List, Find A Pattern and Restate the Problem in problem solving.
• Students will use informal units of measurement to order object based on length and ordinal position.
• Students will develop critical thinking skills through topical challenging problems and Math Olympiad handouts.
Applied Learning
• Students will use manipulatives such as counting cubes and pan balances to carry out performance tasks in class.
• Students will revise concepts through role-play, classroom games and takeaways.
• Students will appreciate the real-life application of Math through arts, crafts and presentations such as presenting the designed architecture based on the concept of length.
We regularly conduct fun and enriching holiday programs for students of all ages. Find out more!
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