Malay Studies Department: Report of Language Day Activities (Upper Primary)Dated: 31st November 2011Venue: Year 4, 5 and 6 classroomsTime: 8.30 am to 9.30 am & 12.00 pm to 1.00 pm (presentation)

Objective of activities: Draw pictures to represent given idiomatic expressions. Recall the idiomatic expressions which match the pictures

drawn. Correctly, clearly and confidently pronounce the lyrics of a

given song while singing it to own tune.

Year 4, 5 and 6 students were separated into house teams and put into 4 different rooms. Two activities were conducted simultaneously in all the rooms.

1. Pictionary: Students were put into pairs. One to draw an idiomatic expression of his own choice and the other to guess the expression drawn. Each successful pair will get 2 house points.

2. Sing me a song: Working in pairs, students read a given lyric of a song, understand its content and put it into a suitable tune. At the end oh half hour, every pair presentedthe song with correct, clear pronunciation to be awarded 2 house points.

Results:The house with the highest total of points collected from both activities was declared winner:1st- Green House, 2nd- Yellow House, 3rd- Blue and 4th- Red House.

At 12.00 pm to 1.00 pm , during the Language Day Presentation, four Year 6 students were selected to present the poem they themselves wrote. They were: Cheryl Ong, Leong Jo Yie, Ler Ann Jie and Tara Ramesh.

On the whole, the Malay students of Upper Primary had performed each of these activities with passion and were highly competitivein attempting to achieve the highest cumulative points for their respective houses. More importantly, the students had an enjoyable time and generally learnt the importance of effective time management during the preparation of their tasks.

Prepared by:Ms Mala(Malay Language teacher UP)12/12/2011

Malay Studies Department: Report of Language Day Activities (Secondary)Dated: 31st November 2011Venue: Interact RoomTime: 9.00 am to 10.30 am

Objective of activities: Recall knowledge (vocabulary, idiomatic expressions,

proverbs), skill (logical thinking in solving puzzles)and concepts (multiple meaning of words and phrases – theusual and metaphorical meaning) learned and apply to different competitive activities.

Three activities were held in the Secondary School.

1. Pictionary: Each house sent 2 participants from UpperSecondary (years 9 and 10). The objective of the activity was todraw pictures to represent idiomatic expressions for the partnerto guess and explain the meaning. The team earned 2 house pointsfor the correct idiomatic expression and another 2 for themeaning. 2 rounds were played.

2. Puzzles: Each house sent 3 participants from year 11. A puzzlewas picked by one member and the team had to solve the puzzlewithin 1 minute. 2 rounds were played.

3. Gramble: Each house sent 3 candidates from years 7, 8 and 9.The team was to form a word with at least 4 letters of the 10letters shown. In each round, only the house which was thefastest and second fastest was allowed to give their word. Thepoints earned were given based on the number of letters used tospell the word. 2 bonus points were given for correct translationof the word and another 2 for correct synonyms. 4 rounds wereplayed.

The result was as follows:PICTIONARY :

ROUND 1HOUSE RED GREEN YELLOW BLUECORRECT PROVERB (2 POINTS)

0 2 0 0

CORRECT MEANING (2 POINTS)

2 0 2 2

TOTAL 2 2 2 2

ROUND 2HOUSE RED GREEN YELLOW BLUECORRECT PROVERB (2 POINTS)

2 2 0 0

CORRECT MEANING (2 POINTS)

2 2 2 2

TOTAL 4 4 2 2

PUZZLESHOUSE RED YELLOW BLUE GREENROUND 1 (2) 2 2 0 0+2ROUND 2 (2) 2 2+2 0 2TOTAL 4 6 0 4

GRAMBLEROUND 1HOUSE RED YELLOW GREEN BLUEPRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING

4 4

TRANSLATION (2) 2 2SYNONYMS (2) 2 2TOTAL 8 8ROUND 2HOUSE RED YELLOW GREEN BLUEPRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING

5 4

TRANSLATION (2) 2 2SYNONYMS (2) - -TOTAL 7 6ROUND 3HOUSE RED YELLOW GREEN BLUEPRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING

5 5

TRANSLATION (2) 2 2SYNONYMS (2) 2 -TOTAL 9 7

ROUND 4HOUSE RED YELLOW GREEN BLUEPRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING

4 6

TRANSLATION (2) 2 2SYNONYMS (2) - -TOTAL 6 8

TOTAL SCORE AND POSITIONRED BLUE YELLOW GREEN33 31 15 101st 2nd 3rd 4th

Evaluation:

1. House captains fully cooperated by selecting suitableparticipants for each event. Students were very well behavedthroughout the hour and a half in spite of being seated on thefloor in a very packed room. They were very attentive henceeverything went very smoothly.

2. A great thank you must be recorded for Miss Siti Zaleha andMiss Kumari for their willingness to act as last minutes judges.It is very disappointing that En. Zulkifly who was to be thejudge, was absent on the day. It is also a great disappointmentthat he had not made any contribution to the Language Day. He wasassigned to arrange for years 5 and 6 activities while Ms. Malawas supposed to organize for years 3 and 4. No activity wasorganized and in his absence, Ms. Mala had to take care of allUpper Primary activities.

Prepared by: Puan Zanariah Head of Malay Studies.

12/12/2011

LOWER PRIMARY CULTURAL APPRECIATION CELEBRATIONS(in lieu of Language Day held at the Upper Primary and Secondary School)

Date: Wednesday, 30th November 2011Time: 2.00 – 3.30pmVenue: School Basketball courtCostumes: Traditional costumes or National outfit orbrightly coloured clothes.

Objective: To encourage children to continuetraditional performances so as to preserve own culturalheritage and learn to appreciate beauty of differentcultures.

Year Group Performing Costume Early Years Hari Raya Festival –

Malay dance Malay

Reception Deepavali Festival – Hindi dance

Indian

Year 1 Christmas Festival – Christmas songs: “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” & “Santa

Green, white and red clothes and any Christmas accessories (hat

Claus is coming to town”.

etc)

Year 2 Chinese New Year Festival – New Year song “Gong-Xi, Gong-Xi”

Chinese costume orred top.

More than two hundred parents attended the stage show. Everybody agreed that the Cultural Appreciation Celebrations Day was a superb learning and entertainingexperience.

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Prepared by:

Ms. ChanMandarin and Malay TeacherLower Primary.12/12/2011