Maths - Rounding Off

Please try this website to master the skills of rounding off. Skip the decimal questions if you can't do.

Rounding off

Oscar Pistorius

Oscar Pistorius, DBK amputee, 400 m second time in Roma Golden League (46' 90").

Oscar Pistorius deemed ineligible for Beijing 2008 Olympics

Tidy city? It's all down to cleaners

HOW BIZARRE'I don't understand. They have dustbins at home. Why must they throw things out of their window?' 
MADAM HERIATI MOHD ISA, a cleaner

Straits Times ( 20/1/2008) By Jamie Ee & Samantha Eng

SINGAPORE is clean but not because of the habits of its people.

In the wee hours of two mornings, The Sunday Times trawled five precincts and saw them at their ugliest before the cleaners got started.

A used sanitary pad had been pitched out of the window of an HDB flat in Circuit Road. So, too, had a soiled baby diaper at a neighbouring block.

The stench from puddles of vomit and urine clouded lift lobbies and staircases, while cigarette butts, used tissue paper, cotton buds - and even tufts of hair - were strewn across the void decks.

The area directly beneath kitchen windows was the dirtiest. Plastic bags, apple cores, orange peel, broken eggshells: All these and more had been chucked out of the windows at night.
The cleaning brigade clears up the mess in time for the harsh light of day.

Cleaner Heriati Mohd Isa, who sweeps two blocks in Hougang Avenue 8, is especially annoyed but thinks nothing can be done.

'I don't understand. They have dustbins at home. Why must they throw things out of their window?' said the exasperated 55-year-old as she swept the void deck.

Despite the ongoing keep-clean efforts of town councils, cleaners told The Sunday Times that housing estates are anything but.

They are resigned to it.

Use the following questions below to hep you to write your reflection on this newspaper article.

1) Why do you think people litter?
2) Do you like to live in a dirty country? Why?
3) Do we have students littering in school?

4) How can we stop litter bugs in school?

Do your reflection for the next journal entry and hand it in on 28 th January.

Information Report On Termites

Hi 4 Lv,


You are to work in your group of 4. Please do the following:

• This is the scenario :

Many local homes in the vicinity have been intruded by termites and homeowners need to know more about them in order to take the necessary precautions.

• You are to play the role of reporters who have been tasked to write a short information report on termites to inform the community of the problem.
• Download the file from the PBWiki. I have created a page in the PBWiki for your group to work together and type the information report on Termites. Use the points you have typed in the file to help you to complete the information report.
• I have assigned you to work in pairs .The pair that writes on "Appearance " and "Termite family" will complete your portion for the group. Please do the same for the other pair working on , "Habitat of Termites" and "Food Of Termites".
• Please help to edit your group's work.
• Refer to Pg 14-15 of your PALS textbooks for the format of imformation report.
• Every one has to help one another.

Fantastic Animals

This is a video on termites found in a house under renovation.









1.
a) What do you know about termites?
b) Do you have any personal experience?

2. Please visit these websites before our lesson on writing an imformation report.


http://www.pestworldforkids.org/termites.html - General information about termites

http://www.askforkids.com/fr?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.labyrinth.net.au%2F%7Edewart%2Fwhatr.htm&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.askforkids.com%2Fweb%3Fq%3Dtermites%26dm%3Dlang%26page%3D1&q=termites&o=0&s=k&dm=lang&qt=0 - Appearance of termites

http://www.pestworldforkids.org/lesson_termites_anatomy.html - Appearance of termites

http://www.pestworldforkids.org/termite_life_cycle.pdf - Life Cycle

http://www.pestworldforkids.org/lesson_termites_factsheet.html - Food