The document introduces Class 1 Gallantry and provides information about its students and classroom roles. It includes tips for homework, reading, and the daily classroom routine and procedures. It describes some classroom activities like Big Book reading, word walls, and Show and Tell. The document also introduces the STELLAR program which encourages reading development through strategies like shared book reading, rewriting stories, and direct instruction in language skills.

1. Introducing the class of 1 Gallantry

2. Blue group – Fahmy, Nicholas, Angela, Collister, Suraia

3. Red group – Qi Hong, Geena, Nicole, Ahmad, Tristan

4. Green group – Vanessa, Zhi Kai, Wen Ling, Arsyad, Nadhrah

5. Yellow group – Wan Yan, Guo Kai, Sameer, Fitri, Gwendolyn

6. Grey group – Russell, Hilman, Sabrina, Chelsea

7. White group – Shamirza, Justin, Klemens, Farhanah, Pei Yan

8. Class monitors : Gwendolyn & Hilman

9. Group Leaders – Arsyad, Klemens, Wan Yan, Chelsea, Geena, Fahmy

10. Assistant Group Leaders – Vanessa, Suraia, Russell, Fitri, Farhanah, Ahmad

11. PE Monitors – Guo Kai, Collister, Qi Hong, Nadhrah, Shamirza, Sabrina (not in pic)

12. Queue Monitors : Wen Ling & Russell

13. Board Monitors : Zhi Kai & Nicole

14. Classroom Monitors : Sameer & Justin

15. IT Monitors : Tristan & Angela

16. Books monitors : Nicholas & Pei Yan

17. Homework tips Ensure you are relaxed before you sit with your child to help with the homework. Understand your child’s learning style. Set a regular homework schedule and ensure that the homework area has as little distractions as possible

18. Homework tips Try different angles or methods of explaining if your child is confused. Allow your child to stretch or leave his/her place after every 30 minutes. Have your child discover his/her own mistakes before supplying the correct answer.

19. Reading tips Keep a wide variety of reading material including different types of books – ‘easy’ books, picture books, reference books, comic books, magazines, etc. Search out books your child will like. Allow your child to make choices.

20. Reading tips Show you value reading. Look at the kind of vocabulary, not just the number of words in the book. Take your child to storytelling sessions and read to your child as often as possible. Ask simple questions to assess your child’s understanding of the story.

21. Daily class/school routine and procedures Punctuality Reporting time: 11.45 am Dismissal time: (Mon–Thur): 6.00 pm (Fri): 5.30 pm Procedures for visitors – obtain visitor pass from the General Office Absence from school – MC or letter

22. Daily class/school routine and procedures Purchase of books/materials Class time-table Homework procedures Filing of assignments (weekly) Endorsement of assignments by parents (termly) Updating of particulars

23. Some activities during our class time Big Book reading

24. Some activities during our class time Our Word Wall

25. Some activities during our class time Chinese Ethnic Trail group work

26. Some activities during our class time Show and Tell – choral reading

27. Some activities during our class time Show and Tell – choral reading

28. Some activities during our class time Show and Tell – choral reading

29. STELLAR Strategies for English Language Learning And Reading The programme is all about encouraging a love for reading while learning other important language skills in the process. There is nothing like a good book: it may be old-fashioned but it is the best way to get children interested in a language.

30. STELLAR The Shared Book Approach allows the teacher to ask open-ended questions to encourage critical thinking in the students. The Modified Language Experience Approach (MLEA) allows children to work in groups and individually to rewrite stories in their own words.

31. STELLAR They also have direct and explicit instruction in grammar, vocabulary and language structures. Teachers are given specific guidelines to suggest ways of teaching language forms and structures, grammar, vocabulary, spelling and punctuation.

32. Thank you for your time