I know a teacher should not be biased, but I find 3N very very easy to teach. Today was the first day I shouted at them (quite sad but inevitable). Sometimes I don't believe that they are in 3N, they seem to be on par with all of the other classes I teach!

Maybe the environment is more 'Chinese' because of HuiMin hollering Mandarin in class all the time, but I really enjoy teaching this class a lot.


I want to thank Vanessa, Xin Zhu, Lim Thong, Zhen Hao, Shernice, Fazirah, Hakim and Rizal for being so participative during my lessons. They make the class more lively by providing their opinions. Of course, I'm also grateful to the rest who listens attentively and make sure that they do their work properly. I wish you all the best for your common test :)

While jogging, I came upon this problem that many of the students face:


While I was pushing/pulling some Northlanders to jog, one of them said: "but there are still so many behind!"



Here's the problem: why do you care about people who are behind you? Why don't you look ahead instead, and look at those in front of you?



If you want to be the best, you must fight with the best. What is the point of looking at those who are not as good as you?



If I put you through PSLE again and you score 300, will you be proud of it? (can you even manage to score 300?)

If I sign you up for the "intelligent baby search" and you won it because you know what is an "apple" and the babies do not, will you be happy?


Why don't you look at the O lvl students, looking at them get 13 and 14 for their L1R5 and point at them saying that "I can do much better" instead of looking at the number who failed and say "O, at least if I fail, I'm not the only one!".


If you think like the latter, you're guranteed to fail in life.


Mindsets are things that you have the power to change. Circumstances won't, but as long as you have the right attitude, you can change how you view the circumstance and hence be a happier person.



Let's say someone gossips about you (which I must say, is inevitable in this school), you can choose to





1- make a big fuss and gossip back about her and start a blog war and tio her and eventually get into trouble yourself.








or 2- tell yourself that she's not worth the time or that she's simply jealous (which is usually the case) and let the inccident off.







or 3- approach her nicely, resolve the issue and eventually become good friends with her.



Most people will choose 1 (of course, if I ask you, you won't but in real life, you'll be unable to control yourself) and that is not a wise choice. Ask yourself: what do you gain from hurting her? You feel happy for a while (that's her retribution or spreading nasty things about me), people know you, but for the wrong reasons (eh, that girl, scary sia, anyhow will whack people, lets avoid her). Eventually, you yourself get into trouble for letting pride comsume you.


If you chose 2, you're logical, but yet full of yourself. It is what the 'smart ah-lian haters' of this generation will do. But they themselves are the new 'ah-lians'. You secretly hurt from her comments but you choose to mask it, and show only your 'brave' side. But what for? what do you gain? Pride again?


3 is the 'model' answer but most people execute it wrong. They will 'confront' the girl like an ah lian and 'resolve' the matter by screaming and shouting and eventually creating more hatred.
The 'model' way is to approach her in the dark, when no one is around, such that she cannot escape. She'll be afriad, becasue she is guilty of badmouthing you. Look stern and threatening, but start with an apology. Apologize for what you think you've done wrong, and talk to her nicely. If it goes well, not only will you lose an enemy, you'll win a friend. All that's required of you is to put down your pride for the first second to apologise. Take the first move, and all things will be in place naturally.



These 3 reactions will generate 3 different outcomes. Moreover, it's all in your hands! You can control your life.


A student from 4EC told me that 'one person cannot change anything'. Look at Lee Kuan Yew, look at Micheal Jackson, look at the person who hurt you the most....


1 person can matter a lot.

Hi

these are points that you should include in your concept maps:



Dynamics:

Free body diagram

Vector Quantity

Changes in motion

Newton

Change motion, change speed, change direction.

Friction – positive and Negative effects.
Opposes motion between 2 surfaces in contact

N2L – f = ma = fa- ff





Kinematics:


velocity = d/t speed =d/t SI Units

Area under v-t = d

Gradient of v-t = a gradient of d-t = v

A = v-u/t (SI unit)

Terminal velocity (steps to achieving)

Vector diagram (steps to drawing)

Constant acceleration of 10 ms-2 for free fall.







of course, they're more but these can start you off. Jia you ;D

1EA: went through mistakes. I HOPE THEY DO WELL (PRAY PRAY PRAY)


3EA: workbook and didn't get to finish concept map. le sigh. wanted to show off my brilliant coloring skills but cannot oh nos :( D:


3EB: remedial and total strength = 19/35 awsmfied. But the people who were there were quite pleasant to teach so it's a :D Lisa seems unhappy that she has to stay backkkkkkkkkkk. hai. no one likes me. life sucks.




k, I go slit my wrist or smth. bye bye.

A 5 year old knows more than we all do.

Life

1EA: Gave them a mock test and more than half of the class aced it. It was a pleasure to see the ‘fruit of my labour’ as I was the one who taught them these concepts. One girl came to me and said “teacher, I think I like Math a lot now” and that meant a lot to me. Even though it was not a drastic change because she was a good girl all along, I felt that my time in this school has made a difference, which is awesome to say the least.

3EA: Revised some key concepts of the dynamics and I’m not very sure if they absorbed well.. The difficult part is that I cannot collect their worksheet back to check because they’d need it to revise for their common test. The class seems to be more attentive in their new seating arrangement, a contrast to 1EA. That’s awesome because Keisha’s paying attention :D I’ll be mindful to not release the classes so late in the future. Sorry about that :/
I'm quite worried for a few key characters in class.
MeiLin, SiYu and ChuJun doesn't seem to be paying attention during my class but when I talk to them, they say that they do. It's hard for me because I want to trust them but it really appears to be that they are not listening :( maybe I'll make them carry placards to say that they're paying attention or smth.
Shereen and Agil have always been weaker in their studies and the thing is that they enjoy ahem. socializing. and often get their priorities mixed up. In the new arrangement, they're seperated and hence talk slightly less but I'm worried because they haven't absorbed much from my previous lessons :(
LingRui is perpetually sleeping, I don't really know what I can do for him...
Willem keeps missing classes and when he's in class, he's not 100% attentive as well. very very worried for him.
Karyn seems to be uninterested in the subject, but maybe it's just me :(

WeiTing nicely texted me some feedback on my lesson and I wish that everyone would do the same. I'd really appreciate it and it'd help a lot in my planning of the lessons. It's beneficial to both parties if you think about it..




Okay yes, so Common Test, boomz. I have only 1 thing to say: please be cautious of your time management. Most papers are only half an hour and you're required to do at least 10 sums I think. Segment and manage your time well. Skip if you can't do a question after 5 min, don't be stubborn.

Study hard! Till later ~