U8: Pie Charts

Key Learning Points:

• A complete pie chart represents one (1) whole of the data being measured.
  
• It can also mean 100% of the data which it is measuring on.
  
• Like a circle, the complete pie chart will have 360 deg angles in the centre.
  
• Thus the size of a pie chart slice can be measured by its angle. For example: A 90 degree angle of a slice of pie chart would mean 90/360 = 1/4 (1 quarter).
  
• Read the questions carefully. They may be asking for actual data figures, fractions, percentages or even ratios.

U7: Characteristics of the Environment

Key Learning Points:

• The environment is made up of all the living and non-living things around us that affect our lives.


• We need to study the characteristics of the environment because it affects the survival of organisms.


• The 7 characteristics are "S.O.F.T. L.A.W.":

Soil

Other organisms

Food

Temperature

Light

Air

Water

• "W.A.L.T.S." are physical characteristics.

• We can use devices such as dataloggers to capture / record data regarding physical characteristics.

U4: Industries in Singapore

I know it was quite a rush during the last period trying to cover this heavy topic. Just to briefly summarise again:

• After gaining independence, Singapore was facing a high unemployment rate (too many people but too few jobs to go around).
• This led to people getting poor, not having enough food and lots of other social problems.
• The solution would be to create jobs by setting up industries and factories.
• However to attract investors to come and set up factories, Singapore needed to promote itself as a suitable place to them.
• First step would be to prepare the place (build roads, set up electrical and water systems etc)
• Next, it would be to try and advertise/promote the country globally so as to attract investors.
• The various industries include tourism (think about tourists), financial (think about banks) and Biomedical Science (think about scientists, researchers and engineers).
• All these help Singapore to "Earn Money" for everyone.

A Terrible F1 Accident

Will we be seeing more of this when Formula 1 (F1) comes to Singapore on 28th Sep? :o

Photo Taking Session + IPP

6 Excellence!

Don't forget about tomorrow's class photo taking session. Do have a good sleep tonight and if you have not had your haircut yet, please do so soon.

For this coming Thursday, we'll be having our IPP exercise! Yes, time to 'sweat' it out in making our classroom dark and air tight!

Homework / Tasks for T2W4

Tasks for this weekend of T2W4:

• English Journal (Fri to Mon)
• English News Article Comprehension (2 pages)
• Math Revision Test (Section A only)
• Science Worksheets 1 & 2

Don't forget to study for the upcoming TESTS:

• Tuesday: Science Spelling (Characteristics of the Environment)
• Wednesday: English Spelling (All pages)

Circles and friends

The first person to give me the correct lyrics of this song shall earn 50 points for his/her group!