Homework        Date: 28 September 2007, Friday

Homework        Date: 25 September 2007, Tuesday

 

 

 

 

Homework        Date: 21 September 2007, Friday

Primary 2 Grace’s Music Lesson

Lyrics for the song, Peanut Butter Sandwich

 http://www.ilovewavs.com/ForKids/KidsEveryDay.htm

 

Peanut butter sandwich made with jam
One for me and one for David Amran
Peanut butter sandwich made with jam
Stick, stick, stick, stick, stick

I can think of wiches good and bad
But the best wich that I ever had was
A peanut butter sandwich made with jam
Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum

 

Peanut butter sandwich made with jam
One for me and one for David Amran
Peanut butter sandwich made with jam
Stick, stick, stick, stick, stick
Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum

GRPS is inviting all pupils and parents to join in the school in celebrating mid-autumn mooncake festival organised by the Mother Tongue Languages Department for a good cause.

 

Date: 21 September 2007, Friday

Time: 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.

 

Please come along with your family to take part in the lantern-making competition, pomelo peeling compeition, go on the lantern trail, watch our pupils perform, buy mooncakes (hala mooncakes) and lanterns at special prices.

 

The school canteen will be selling both Chinese and Muslim food to cater to our Muslim pupils and parents breaking fast. More importantly, all your purchases will go for a good cause - the Touching Hearts @ GRPS fund-raising for the 3 orphanages in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam where our pupils will be going in October. They are Centre of Rehabilitation for Malnourished Children and Supports for Handicapped Children, Go Vap Centre Cultivate Sponsor of Children and Dieu Giac Pagoda - Orphanage Home.

 

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The Mid-Autumn Festival ( 中秋节 ) also known as the Moon Festival , Mooncake Festival , or the August Moon Festival ) is a popular Chinese celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to China's Zhou Dynasty ( 周朝 ) .

The Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar, a date that parallels the Autumn Equinox of the solar calendar. At this time, the moon is at its fullest and brightest, marking an ideal time to celebrate the abundance of the summer's harvest. The traditional food of this festival is the moon cake ( 月饼 ) , of which there are many different varieties.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the two most important holidays in the Chinese calendar (the other being the Chinese Lunar New Year), and is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes together. Brightly lit lanterns are often carried around by children. Together with the celebration, there appear some special customs in different parts of the country, such as burning incense, planting Mid-Autumn trees, lighting lanterns on towers, and fire dragon dances.

The custom of worshipping the moon for both the Han and minority nationalities, can be traced as far back as the ancient Xia ( 夏 ) , and Shang Dynasties ( 商朝 ) . In the Zhou Dynasty (1066 BCE-221 BCE), the people celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival to worship the moon.

 The practice became very prevalent in the Tang Dynasty ( 唐朝 ) that people enjoyed and worshipped the full moon. In the Southern Song Dynasty ( 宋朝 ) , however, people started making round moon cakes, as gifts to their relatives in expression of their best wishes of family reunion. At night, they came out to watch the full moon to celebrate the festival. Since the Ming ( 明朝 ) , and Qing Dynasties ( 清朝 ) , the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebration has become unprecedentedly popular.

Typically, China traditional festivals often connect with several fantastic legends, also including the Moon Festival. While Westerners may talk about the "man in the moon", the Chinese talk about the "woman on the moon". The story of Chang E ( 嫦娥 ) , and her flight to the moon, is familiar to every Chinese, and a favourite subject of poets. Unlike many lunar deities in other cultures who personify the moon, Chang'e only lives on the moon. Tradition places Hou Yi ( 后羿 ) and Chang'e around 2170 BC, in the reign of the legendary Emperor Yao, shortly after that of Huang Di.

 

Homework        Date: 18 September 2007, Tuesday

Homework        Date: 17 September 2007, Monday

Some websites for making lanterns:

 

 

Homework        Date: 14 September 2007, Friday

Homework        Date: 13 September 2007, Thursday  

Celine's September Holiday

 

2^nd September 2007 was a sunny morning. My sister, my cousins, Tiffany, Yi Zhen, my uncle, my aunt, and I went ice skating at Fuji Ice Palace. It was a long journey. We were bored and started to sing silly songs.

 

When we reached our destination, I was so excited that I started to jump around. At Fuji Ice Palace, we borrowed pairs of shoes to skate on the ice. I was the first to get the shoe, and I started skating on the ice, I was very nervous because it was my first time doing ice skating.

After skating, we went to Jurong Point for lunch. It was a wonderful meal. After lunch, we went shopping at Popular Book Store. My sister bought a book. Then, we went to Golden Village to watch Ratatouille, a cartoon movie. We bought popcorns, sweet and drinks.  We enjoyed the movie very much.

 

We went to McDonald to have ice cream after the movie. We were tired, and we went to my aunt’s house to have dinner and play computer games. I went home immediately to rest after all the playing.

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On 5^th September, it was my sister birthday. I went to my grandma’s house to celebrate her birthday. We had a wonderful dinner and cake cutting celebration for her. We ate the cake happily and it was delicious.

 

I enjoyed my holiday very much but it is time to study now, as the school term started.

 

Written by Celine Chua, Primary 2 Grace