P4 Composition: A Regret As students move on from their SA1 Oral to their SA1 Paper 1, please keep the following in mind. (1) The theme Read your theme carefully and study the pictures. Make sure that you use the Read more…
P5 Composition : How to score for Paper 1 and model on Trusting Someone As many students move on from their Oral SA1 to their Paper 1, here are a few tips to help you in your writing. (1) Study Read more…
P6 Composition: Achieving a goal As many students move on from their Oral SA1 to their Paper 1, here are a few tips to help you in your writing. (1) Study the theme and pictures carefully before you plan Make Read more…
P3/P4 Composition- Phrases to describe happiness and excitement In our P3 class this month, Teacher Suba has been teaching the students how to use phrases to describe emotions in their compositions. The students were given a list of phrases to Read more…
P4 Stimulus-based conversation In the last 6 weeks of testing my P4s, I feel that many have grown out of their one sentence responses to being able to express opinions and recount personal experiences. From my experience, I have also Read more…
P5 Stimulus-based conversation Many students will be having their SA1 Oral this week and the next two weeks. Today I will post three SBC that I did with my P4-P6 students during our oral testing revision over the past 6 Read more…
P5 Stimulus-based conversation (SBC) : Practice themes As the P5 students in Thinking Factory continue on their oral practice, many of them have come to realise that unlike in P4, when the total was out of 16 marks, getting a Read more…
P5/P6 English Oral – Crimes Thank you to everyone who joined us for our March holidays workshop. It was a pleasure meeting everyone new and seeing ‘old’ faces again. We have been hard at work in our regular P3-P6 classes, Read more…
Change of timing for P3 class Hi everyone. Just an update that our P3 class is now on Fridays 3.30-5pm. For more information, please contact me at thinkingf09@gmail.com
PSLE Composition – An Unusual Incident Using the theme correctly is important in composition writing. It is easy for even good writers to lose track of the theme even a little and marks can be subtracted. During the planning stage Read more…
P4 Composition – Being Considerate We wrapped up Term 2 at Thinking Factory at the end of February. I have gotten to know my students better as all the students in this P4 class are new. Though, 4 of them Read more…
P3 Composition – At The Beach The P3 class has just completed a term at Thinking Factory and I have been reviewing the positive progress that they have made. Writing compositions (along with Paper 2 components) is a weekly practice Read more…
We are hard at work preparing for the upcoming CA1 for the P6 classes. However, I have also started preparing for the start of Oral testing for my P6s. At Thinking Factory, this usually begins at the start of March Read more…
How to improve in English Grammar in Primary 5 & 6 As the Chinese New Year holidays draw to a close and students return to school, preparation for the CA1 for most of my P6s and some of my P5s Read more…
Creating Vocabulary lists for students can be a great way to build on a students understanding of new and complex words. This is especially important as vocabulary in tests and examinations get more challenging. As my students get busier with Read more…
Tips on P5/P6 Comprehension Cloze Passages Comprehension Cloze passages are probably one of the most problematic parts of the English Booklet B of Paper 2. Many times a student is unaware of what to fill in the blank. For a Read more…
Even though I remind my students to read the newspapers often, I, myself, am always on the lookout for interesting news articles that can help my upper primary students handle Stimulus-based conversation better. Bringing up some facts during a conversation Read more…
Primary 3 English Tuition For a number of years, Thinking Factory had mainly classes for Primary 5 and Primary 6 students. This was due to time constraints as my focus would be on the PSLE year for my P6 students. Read more…
Primary 6 English Tuition – Composition – An Unwelcomed Guest The school year has begun and I hope that everyone had a restful and good holiday! I would like to thank everyone who took some time out of their holidays Read more…
Now that PSLE is done and dusted, students are moving on to the next phase of their education. Secondary education. It brings with it the promise of growth and yet can seem intimidating to many. There are new subjects to Read more…