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🐢🔎 Week 2: Friendship Detectives – Let's Investigate!

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Hello, teachers! 👋💗

We're back with Week 2 of our Project-Based Learning (PBL): How to Be a Good Friend in School!

This week, our little learners become Friendship Detectives! 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️

Their mission? To investigate three school situations, discover acts of friendship and learn how to find clues in a reading text.

Our big question this week is:

💭 How do we recognise a good friend?

🔍 What's happening in Week 2?

Pupils will explore three mini-stories featuring our favourite little turtle, Perky Piung! 🐢

📖 Case A: The Empty Seat – Welcoming a new friend.

📚 Case B: The Dropped Books – Helping a friend in need.

✏️ Case C: The Red Pencil – Sharing with a friend.

Through these stories, pupils will practise identifying the main idea, finding important details and using picture and story clues to understand unfamiliar words.

🕵️ Our Friendship Detective Mission

The lesson follows a cooperative Jigsaw Reading approach.

Case File: Recall what we discovered in Week 1.
Detective Training: Learn to use picture, word and story clues.
Meet Your Case: Each pupil receives one story.
Expert Investigation: Pupils work with friends reading the same story.
Report Back: Detectives return to their home teams and share their findings.
Friendship Discovery Wall: Discover three important friendship actions.
Final Report: Complete an individual reading challenge.

Everyone has a role, and everyone has a story to share! 🤝

🎒 Week 2 Teaching Resources

I've prepared a collection of resources to support the lesson. Feel free to download, print and adapt them for your own classroom!

🐢 1. Week 2 Lesson Notes Poster

A visual overview of the lesson objectives, detective tools and seven activities.

📖 2. Friendship Detective Story Posters

Three colourful reading posters featuring Perky Piung and the three friendship stories.

✂️ 3. Black-and-White Story Cards

All three cases in one printable A4 landscape sheet. Pupils can colour, cut and use their assigned story cards during the Jigsaw Reading activity.

📝 4. Friendship Detective Worksheet

A black-and-white multiple-choice worksheet with five clues. All pupils use the same questions, but the answer choices are shuffled so each story has its own correct answers.

🔎 5. Detective Tools

Picture clues, word clues and story clues to help pupils become more confident readers.

💚 What's the bigger picture?

Beyond reading comprehension, we want our pupils to recognise that friendship is built through small everyday actions.

A welcoming smile, a helping hand and a willingness to share can make a big difference.

And that's what our little detectives will discover this week! 🌈

Let's make learning meaningful, active and FUN!

Be kind. Be helpful. Be a good friend! 💗

🐢 Perky Piung: Pop into Learning Fun!

📌 Teacher's Note: I'll continue sharing the lesson notes, teaching materials and classroom experiences as we progress through this PBL journey. Stay tuned for Week 3!

Happy teaching, everyone! 🍎✨

English Year 3

🌈 GOOD VALUES, GREAT FRIENDS: 2026 PBL JOURNEY WITH PERKY PIUNG

Sunday, November 01, 2026

Building friendships, practising kindness and learning good values!

What makes someone a good friend? Is it sharing, helping, showing kindness or standing up for others?

These questions inspired my latest Project-Based Learning (PBL) initiative with my Year 3 pupils at SK Kesom!

Our project, "How to Be a Good Friend in School", focuses on helping pupils understand and practise positive friendship values through meaningful English language activities.

With our little friend, Perky Piung 🐢, joining the adventure, we hope to make learning more engaging, meaningful and fun!

💚 What is this PBL about?

This project connects with the Ministry of Education's Kami Benci Buli initiative.

Instead of focusing only on negative behaviours, we want pupils to discover how they can make a difference through kindness, respect, honesty, sharing, caring, helpfulness, patience, fairness, courage and gratitude.

Our ultimate goal? To nurture pupils who know what it means to be a good friend and practise these values in their everyday school lives.

🗓️ Our Four-Week Journey

Here's a little preview of what we will be doing!

Week 1: Understanding Friendship – Exploring feelings and discovering what makes a good friend.
Week 2: Discovering Kindness – Learning about positive friendship values.
Week 3: Practising Good Values – Expressing ideas through reading and writing.
Week 4: Sharing Our Friendship Message – Creating a scrapbook and presenting our learning.

⭐ WEEK 1: LET'S GET STARTED!

Our first week is all about understanding friendship!

Here's the flow of our Week 1 activities:

🐢 Project Launch: Meet Perky Piung and explore a friendship story.
💭 Understanding Feelings: Discuss friendship situations and recognise how others feel.
💚 Discovering Values: Explore the values of a good friend.
🎭 Role-Play: Act out friendship situations and practise positive responses.
🎵 PBL Theme Song: Sing along and celebrate the message of friendship!

Through these activities, pupils begin to understand that being a good friend is not just about what we say, but also what we do.

📚 Resources for Teachers

Would you like to try some of these activities with your own pupils?

I'm sharing my Week 1 lesson notes and teaching resources below. Feel free to explore, adapt and use them in your classrooms!

More resources will be shared as we progress through the project!

💚 A Little Message to End With...

I hope this little PBL journey reminds our pupils that even the smallest act of kindness can make someone's day brighter.

Let's help our children become not just better learners, but better friends too!

GOOD VALUES, GREAT FRIENDS!

One little action can make a big difference. 🌈🐢

Stay tuned for our next PBL update!

English Year 5

Perky Piung’s Email Adventure: Part 7 Is Here! 💌🐢

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

English Year 5

Perky Piung’s Email Adventure: Making Email Writing (Part 6) Fun for Year 5 Learners 💌🐢

Monday, October 26, 2026

Teaching writing can be challenging, especially when our learners are still developing the confidence to express their ideas in English. Sometimes, they know what they want to say, but putting those ideas into sentences and organising them into a proper email can feel like a big task.

That is one of the reasons I created Perky Piung’s Email Adventure, a writing module designed to help Year 5 learners explore the purpose and structure of email writing through familiar topics and guided practice.

💌 A Little Adventure, One Email at a Time

Perky Piung’s Email Adventure is organised into eight units, covering a variety of topics that Year 5 learners can relate to, including towns and cities, days, wild animals, school life, food and drinks, sports and hobbies, family and friends, and holidays and travel.

Each unit contains two sections, giving learners more opportunities to practise writing emails for different purposes and audiences.

From describing a favourite wild animal to recommending a holiday destination, learners are encouraged to share information, describe experiences, express preferences and communicate their ideas in writing.

✏️ Three Tasks, Gradually Building Confidence

One of the key features of this module is its three-task approach. Rather than expecting learners to write a complete email independently from the beginning, the activities guide them through progressively more independent writing.

Task 1: Complete the Email

Learners use a word bank to complete a partially written email. This provides vocabulary support and helps them become familiar with useful sentence structures.

Task 2: Complete the Email with Your Own Ideas

Learners begin to personalise their writing by filling in the gaps with their own information and ideas. They still have a framework to follow, but they have more freedom to express themselves.

Task 3: Write Your Email

Finally, learners write their own email of approximately 30–50 words. With less scaffolding, they have the opportunity to apply what they have practised in the earlier tasks.

I hope this gradual progression will make email writing feel less intimidating and help learners develop greater independence over time.

🐢 Meet Perky Piung!

Of course, no Perky Piung resource would be complete without our little turtle friend!

Perky Piung appears throughout the module to make the learning experience more inviting. The worksheets use playful illustrations, clear writing spaces and a consistent layout to help young learners focus on the task while enjoying the adventure.

I also included Perky’s Email Check, a simple checklist that reminds learners to review important parts of their email, from greeting their friend to signing their name.

These small reminders encourage learners to take greater responsibility for checking their own work.

🎨 Designed for the Classroom

The worksheets are presented in black and white, making them practical for printing and photocopying. The illustrations are designed to remain engaging even without colour, while the three-task layout provides a consistent structure across the different sections.

My aim is to create a resource that is both visually appealing and useful for everyday classroom practice.

🌱 Still Growing, Still Learning

Creating teaching materials is always a work in progress. Every classroom brings different needs, and every group of learners reminds me that there is no single approach that works for everyone.

With Perky Piung’s Email Adventure, I hope to provide my learners with a little more guidance, a little more confidence and plenty of opportunities to practise writing for a purpose.

After all, writing is not just about filling in blanks or getting every sentence right. It is about learning to communicate our thoughts and ideas with others.

So, let's open an envelope, sharpen our pencils and begin a new writing adventure with Perky Piung! 💌

Click here to download!

Perky Piung: Pop into Learning Fun!

Happy teaching and happy writing!
Teacher Asniem 🐢💗