2013 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[lim72]

I think its wonderful to celebrate Children’s day after PSLE instead of during the exam.

[ngl2010]

Thank you. My memory must have failed me. I thought all celebration day (Teacher's Day, Children's Day, etc) is half day :oops:

[Suz855]

ngl2010:

Thank you. My memory must have failed me. I thought all celebration day (Teacher's Day, Children's Day, etc) is half day :oops:

The new system, teachers' day n children Day celebration both will always be Thursday, Friday is officially declare as school holiday, r n r for both teachers n children.

Instead of 1 day break(1/2 n 1/2) they get 2 days off and another 1 day of celebration

[sharonkhoo]

Jennifer:

Reading EL storybooks helps in scoring in CONTENT but might not help in scoring for LANGUAGE, except being exposed to more vocabulary.


Up to now, ah boy has not mastered the usage of conjunctions in his writing. Style is monotonous = uninteresting. Worse if the structure is mainly dialogue style. Not enough is focused on the feelings, actions, settings.

Older authors are better in descriptions of surroundings, feelings, actions. But I think this young generation will find such boring - not action packed.

So, must select books very carefully.

I have noticed (reading the fiction my kids' read) that modern writing for younger readers seems to be high on dialogue and low on narration. That may be OK when there is no word and time limit, but under exam conditions, I find that the story will be very 'thin'. I finally made it a rule for my daughter that she could not use more than a few lines of dialogue at a time, and that there had to be narrative passages in between to give background, description etc.

For vocab and language use, if the family is mainly English-speaking, you can try throwing lots of different words into everyday speech. In my family, we play a lot with different ways of saying things, synonyms, idioms etc, so my kids usually find that they have already encountered most things they read in class. Have an easy-to-lookup dictionary handy, or be prepared to be a walking/talking dictionary for your kids - it really does help. The downside is that my kids' Chinese is poor, but since mine is too, my speaking more Chinese won't help them.

[ngl2010]

Suz855:

ngl2010:

Thank you. My memory must have failed me. I thought all celebration day (Teacher's Day, Children's Day, etc) is half day :oops:

The new system, teachers' day n children Day celebration both will always be Thursday, Friday is officially declare as school holiday, r n r for both teachers n children.

Instead of 1 day break(1/2 n 1/2) they get 2 days off and another 1 day of celebration

Thank you. I didn't it has been changed. Do you know when they changed it? I'm just curious because the last Teacher's Day celebration was still half day although the day after that was a holiday for the children.

[ngl2010]

slmkhoo:

Jennifer:

Reading EL storybooks helps in scoring in CONTENT but might not help in scoring for LANGUAGE, except being exposed to more vocabulary.


Up to now, ah boy has not mastered the usage of conjunctions in his writing. Style is monotonous = uninteresting. Worse if the structure is mainly dialogue style. Not enough is focused on the feelings, actions, settings.

Older authors are better in descriptions of surroundings, feelings, actions. But I think this young generation will find such boring - not action packed.

So, must select books very carefully.

I have noticed (reading the fiction my kids' read) that modern writing for younger readers seems to be high on dialogue and low on narration. That may be OK when there is no word and time limit, but under exam conditions, I find that the story will be very 'thin'. I finally made it a rule for my daughter that she could not use more than a few lines of dialogue at a time, and that there had to be narrative passages in between to give background, description etc.

For vocab and language use, if the family is mainly English-speaking, you can try throwing lots of different words into everyday speech. In my family, we play a lot with different ways of saying things, synonyms, idioms etc, so my kids usually find that they have already encountered most things they read in class. Have an easy-to-lookup dictionary handy, or be prepared to be a walking/talking dictionary for your kids - it really does help. The downside is that my kids' Chinese is poor, but since mine is too, my speaking more Chinese won't help them.

Agree for English language. For Chinese picture compo, must put in dialogues to make the pictures alive. Of course must put in a lot of good phrases including cheng yu and su yu.

[Triple Js]

my DDs only had tuition for both Maths & Sci. as for both languages, they pick up thru reading. DD1 makes use of phrases from her reading for her compo... but not DD2... :faint:

one read with interest :boogie: , while theo ther one just read blindly.. :slapshead:
so DD1's tasks now is to impart her writing skills for DD2 to inherit. i'll have to wait after DD2 got her SA2 results to see how much she has inheritted from DD1. :evil:

[ilovelaksa]

Triple Js:

so DD1's tasks now is to impart her writing skills for DD2 to inherit. :evil:

Hi, your dds are rather like mine. How does your dd1 impart her writing skills to dd2?
My dd1 has volunteered to tutor her siblings post-PSLE. My nb has oso approached her to teach her P1 girl in English. Trying to give her some ideas on how to go about doing these.
TIA.

[Triple Js]

ilovelaksa:

Triple Js:

so DD1's tasks now is to impart her writing skills for DD2 to inherit. :evil:

Hi, your dds are rather like mine. How does your dd1 impart her writing skills to dd2?
My dd1 has volunteered to tutor her siblings post-PSLE. My nb has oso approached her to teach her P1 girl in English. Trying to give her some ideas on how to go about doing these.
TIA.

DD1 hasn't really started working on it yet... as i allow her to enjoy her last children day celebration for these 2 days.
but what she briefly mentioned was to highlight those good phrases she picked up and how it should be used.
shall wait and see... :evil:

[Triple Js]

by the way, any suggestions what kind of program/activities/workshop we can sign up for DD to attend during this period? :scratchhead: i;m from the west side..

need to plan something for her to spend quality time, else will end up rotting until sch starts.. :lightrod: