Here's the Present Continous Tense

One of our latest topics with P2 has been the Present Continuous Tense. As learned in class, we must use the present continuous tense when we're talking about an action which is taking place right now. The Silly Billy Band would like to explain to you what that means in a funny and quirky way...

Topics covered for 2nd Assessment

Below are the topics to be included in the 2nd assessment for each level:

Primary 1: Capital Letters and Full Stops, First sound "l, m & n", Demonstrative Pronouns, Personal Pronouns, Rearranging Sentences, First sound "s & t"
Primary 2: Ending sound "aw", Articles "a & an", Long "ee" sound, Possessive Adjectives, Short "oo" sound, Present Continuous Tense, Writing a Thank-You Note, First sound "th"
Primary 3: Review: The Full Stop, Consonant Blend "sq", Adjectives, Consonant Blend "sk & st", Writing an E-mail, Adverbs, Apostrophes

All the best...remember to make do'a!

Check out these adverbs!

Abverbs are so much fun to play around with! If you don't believe me, then try watching this video of the Football Grammar Coach...

Adjectives are used to describe

Our P3 students have been concentrating on adjectives lately. They have been getting accustomed to recognizing all sorts of different adjectives being used in a sentence.

As we all should know, adjectives are the words which help describe nouns. This fun song showcases the qualities and varieties of different adjectives...

Pre-School moments

We've started lessons with Pre-school, focusing on lots of reading. Our goal is to get the students to become independent readers as soon as possible by making them understand the importance and great benefits of reading.

The best advice I could give any parent is to encourage your children to read more and more every day, as the wealth of knowledge they will acquire from habitual reading simply can't be matched through any other means.

The power of the possessive

Possessive pronouns help us understand which things belong to whom. Primary 2 spent their period today practicing the possessive pronouns: my, your, his, her, our and their.

My: Belongs to me.
Your: Belongs to you.
His: Belongs to him.
Her: Belongs to her.
Our: Belongs to us.
Their: Belongs to them.

Here's a catchy song to help you revise them:

Boom Cheetavengers!!!

A big CONGRATULATIONS to the absolute champions of the Sports Day 2013...the Yellow Cheetavengers!!!

You boys and girls did an excellent job and we're all very proud of you!

Keep working hard and doing your best in school!!!

Pronouns, pronouns and more pronouns...

In Primary 1 we have been going through the personal pronouns and practicing them as much as possible. It is never a bad time to review such basic concepts of grammar, because of their importance in helping us gain a strong command of the English language. The following video is a very fun song intended to add some excitement into this sort of lesson. InshaAllah we'll be able to practice our pronouns in class, as well as the song, very soon!

Get ready for our English Campaign!

We have already begun our new English Campaign, with the goal of eliminating all of those common mistakes the students make in their daily speech, in order to beautify their English.

Our first step has been to decorate the classrooms with a wide array of colourful posters, which will remind the students of the correct usage of several English phrases while making their surroundings more interesting with the intricate and attractive designs employed in these posters.

Here are a few samples...enjoy them and join us on our great campaign! 

Topics Covered for First Assessment

Primary 1: First Sound "b, c & d" (pg. 4), Nouns (pg. 12), Proper & Common Nouns (pg. 13), Singular & Plural Nouns (pg. 27), First Sound "h,j & k" (pg. 34)

Primary 2: First Sound "b & p"/ Ending Sound "p" (pg. 4), "Many, a few, a little, a lot of, much & some" (pg. 15), First and Ending Sound "g & k" (pg. 25-26), Conjunctions (pg. 34-35)

Primary 3: Consonants "b,p, d and t" (pg. 4), Simple Present Tense (pg. 12), Review Comma (pg. 13-14), Consonant blends bl and pl (pg. 21), Review: The Simple Past Tense (pg. 32-33)

Revision week is on...

Little brothers and sisters, it's time to start revision week... The 1st assessment is coming soon, so we must all be ready for this important examination.

The following are the dates for the English 1st assessment P1-P3:

Primary 1: Friday, 1st March
Primary 2: Wednesday 27th February
Primary 3: Wednesday 27th February

Don't let it catch you unprepared!!!

Topics covered will be posted soon... In the meantime, we'll be going through our past lessons in class...

Dictionary time

It's time for us to start our Dictionary Campaign: My Dictionary & I! Get your dictionaries ready and let's begin preparing ourselves for the ultimate Dictionary challenge!

This video can help you get started on the basics of using a dictionary...check it out!

Conjunction Junction!

Primary 2 students...here's the song you were asking for! Keep practicing those conjunctions!

Capital Letters & Periods!

Today, in our Primary 1 class, we went over the usage of capital letters & periods.

Dear students, please always remember the two important rules that we repeated over and over again during our class today:

- Every sentence starts with a CAPITAL LETTER.

- Every sentence ends with a period.

These are very basic and very important rules that you must learn NOW. If you leave it for later, it will be TOO LATE!

Check out these videos I found about the right usage of capital letters and periods. Insha Allah, if you pay enough attention and keep practicing, you will soon master this very important lesson in proper English.

It's called a "stamp"! Not a "chop"!!!

For all of my students who finish their work on time and are able to get a "cool" apple or smiley STAMP...but still insist on calling it "CHOP"! Oh my English!!!

Resting at home...

Since we're having a day off, I decided not to give you any homework so you can all have a rest... Class with P2 yesterday was quite good...Congratulations to all of you who got the orange "Super" sun stamp...you deserved it!

As far as P3 goes...please remember to finish coloring and decorating your name calligraphy. I want to put those up as soon as possible, so that other classrooms won't be able to catch up...we're still #1 on class decorations! (At least in primary...) Let's work hard and get the award for nicest classroom this month...and next month too!!!

The greatest blog in the whole wide world is up and running!

Masha Allah! Here we are at Derrick Al-Panami's awesome blog...stick around for some of the greatest homework you've ever gotten...ever!!!

Let's live it up...and may Allah bless us all...