2013 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[JohnYeo]

ammonite:

ngl2010:

BeContented, icy_mama and ammonite,


Thanks for the input. I spoke to DS about it and he agreed that he will be unhappy if he is in the Arts teacher's shoe. So, he said he will gather his classmates and persuade the Arts teacher to allow them to revise for PSLE during that 2 periods and in exchange they will spend one whole day doing Arts for the Arts teacher after PSLE. I am so relieved now

I think I will use this method in the future. I will ask him to think how to make everybody have a win win situation and have discussions with relevant parties to achieve his objective

:rahrah: Way to go, mama! And way to go, ngl's boy!

True about art being stressful to some. Whenever my nephew has art homework, the entire family is stressed. In the end, they borrowed a simple drawing instruction book for preschoolers from me.

I remembered my cousin once brought back an art homework and she couldn't do it. End up her father and mother drew and colored for her. Whole family was stressed out then.

hi ammonite, you're a pre-school teacher?

[sharonkhoo]

ammonite:

True about art being stressful to some. Whenever my nephew has art homework, the entire family is stressed. In the end, they borrowed a simple drawing instruction book for preschoolers from me.

I guess my family was very 'don't-care'. I was totally hopeless at art, and my parents (one a teacher, one a lecturer) just shrugged their shoulders and didn't help. My teachers used to beg me to 'try to pass'. My kids are better than I am, and they know that no matter how hard they may find any art homework, there's no point asking either parent! My attitude is that if the teacher doesn't like the output, then the teacher has to help, not me. Luckily, they seem to cope better than I did.

[lego]

Good Luck to all P6s for the listening comprehension exam tomorrow and the written papers next week and the week after!

It's the final lap, 加油 everyone！ :rahrah: :rahrah:

[Fresco]

Listening Compre may be a breeze for most students but still, do be very careful when choosing the right answer especially for some trick questions. What’s worse is the choice of answers can be pretty close. That’s what happened for last year’s PSLE paper. Quite a number of my DS’s classmates had varied answers for one particular question in both the English and Chinese LCs.


Do listen very carefully and be discerning in tackling the answer choices given. Best of luck to all on your LC.

[Greener]

Thank you PSLEguru for sharing and all others with so much advises.


My daughter seems relax but I am trying to stay calm.

All the best tomorrow kids.

[Peace Charlie]

Hope remedial lessons end today so that kids can have a good rest before the war starts… my girl has been staying up late completing assignments given by her tearchers.

[JohnYeo]

I have a question. When is the last day of school before PSLE?

[lexis]

Next wednesday.

[clay569]

JohnYeo:

Art can be therapeutic in a way and can help reduce some stress and tension.


Talking about helping students to reduce stress, just curious, any parent is planning outdoor activity or any form of RnR for your DC even though PSLE written papers are coming next week?

Yep but impromptu. Whenever he feels he needs it, he'll ask to go run, swim or even draw.

The thing is he really really dislikes art. But starting fr prelims prep, he just suddenly took to drawing at the end of each day to destress after we had a chat about various destressing methods. He tried and got hooked....and I had to try to 'unhook' him as it just wasn't the right time to devote 1.5hr to a new hobby! :nailbite:

[JohnYeo]

lexis:

Next wednesday.

Thanks Lexis.