2015 PSLE Discussion and Strategies

[sharonkhoo]

buds:

Each day, before the child eats lunch or showers (whichever they do first in your home)… Have this practice of declaring. Yes, like those white card days when entering JB..

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Don't do it for them. Don't you go digging in that muck for these stuff.
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Doing this will help them (and perhaps you too) to plan how the day will map out. Depending on the amount of workload given for the day. Depending on the mommy-assignments you have planned as reinforcement.

Finally, give your child a choice of an outdoor activity to look forward to after all that is done.
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At the end of the day, just a gentle reminder to pack all things in order for the following day. This is the final call to check any other outstanding work hidden inside his bag.

This is pretty much exactly what I used to do when my daughter was in P1. I slowly reduced the no. of 'calls' until, by upper Pr, it was basically one 'public service announcement' a day. Persevere, and they do build up the habit over time.

[mwchua]

Maybe I am a more "heartless" mum, homework is considered as routine and if she happens to conveniently "forget" some homework, she has to bear the consequence. Now that they are in upper primary, I think this is the bare minimum a P5 should have in terms of discipline.


That said, nowadays I always end up having to "help" with some CME or Social Studies work, by printing out coloured pictures or photos.

My sheepie going for vaccination this week in school, hopefully no adverse reaction as it’s just before Chinese New Year.

Any of your kid going for jab also?

[janet88]

when son was in primary school, hubby would help him with art homework so that son has time to complete core subject…not anymore now that he is in sec school.


these 2 weeks, teachers are going easy before cny…but try not to let kids go lax or he/she will suffer after the cny long weekend.

[jennyksl]

my boy will be having the jab today… just told me last evening.

[bb_ mom]

I thought vaccination in P6? Nothing from school about jab.

[Snowbaby]

bb_ mom:

Crumpled up worksheets is not the only problem. His handwriting is horrible too. Sometime, I have to erase his work and make him re-write cos I can't decipher them. And I keep reminding him, if the teacher can't read his handwriting, he'll get zero.

Crumpled worksheets is still fine to me cos it is already a norm from ds. My ds does have worksheets which are half eaten up (half being torn away). I asked \"how are you going to do ur work with just half worksheet?\". Coupled with his horrible handwritting which a \"6\" can be a \"0\", a \"2\" can be \"z\", a \"a\" can be a \"u\" and many many more!!! :faint:

[Snowbaby]

buds:

ponyo, your DD is so cute with the amnesia trick she tried to pull on you. It's an original.


Snowbaby, :hugs:…
I do not have solutions. But I may have suggestions you may wanna consider.

Have the child take out all notes that requires your attention..
Have the child take out all forms that require your signature..
Have the child declare and stack neatly all the homework for the day..

If the child has a homework notebook or pupil diary that has the homework input for the day, take that out as well for that is the checklist of things to do for the day.

Don't do it for them. Don't you go digging in that muck for these stuff. Either they declare all that, or don't eat. :evil:

Finally, give your child a choice of an outdoor activity to look forward to after all that is done. I believe in letting em' kids sweat it out whenever they can balance their time well. Study hard, play hard. If it is raining, let the child choose an indoor activity instead. If work is done exceptionally well, validate his efforts and give extra lurve and attention. Acknowledge how pleased you are that he did his day's routine pretty good and that you are proud of him. On the days that he doesn't, remind him those days that he did good. Reinforce the good to get to the good-er. This, i realized when i whined how disappointing DD2's efforts were, the next day or days, can be even more jialat. But when i highlight the days she did do really well, she'd be beaming to replicate those days.

At the end of the day, just a gentle reminder to pack all things in order for the following day. This is the final call to check any other outstanding work hidden inside his bag. :

Ds will only take out the hw or forms when I asked for them and this has to be reminded everyday. (I have been repeating these for years!). The same to keep his sch shoes, hang up his sch uniforms, etc...have to be reminded everyday. He can say that he dun mind skipping his meals if I forbid him to eat. :faint: He can go without lunch the whole day! As I don't check his bag anymore, so there tends to be worksheets and hw embedded deep within the mountains of books. Now dh makes him pours out his things from his bag every nights, lay them on the floor and go thru them one by one according to his sch timetable before packing them into his bag! :scared:

[sharonkhoo]

Snowbaby:

Ds will only take out the hw or forms when I asked for them and this has to be reminded everyday. (I have been repeating these for years!). The same to keep his sch shoes, hang up his sch uniforms, etc...have to be reminded everyday. He can say that he dun mind skipping his meals if I forbid him to eat. :faint: He can go without lunch the whole day! As I don't check his bag anymore, so there tends to be worksheets and hw embedded deep within the mountains of books. Now dh makes him pours out his things from his bag every nights, lay them on the floor and go thru them one by one according to his sch timetable before packing them into his bag! :scared:

When I find myself getting so repetitive, I make lists. At one stage, in early Pr school, we had a 'getting up in the morning' list, a 'before leaving the house for school' list, a 'getting ready to do homework' list, a 'packing for school' list, a 'get ready for bed' list ... you get the idea! I would write these on big sheets of paper and post them wherever they were needed - in the bedroom, living room, front door etc. Then during the day, I would just say 'read the xxx list'! After a while (years?), they become internalised.

[buds]

slmkhoo:

This is pretty much exactly what I used to do when my daughter was in P1. I slowly reduced the no. of 'calls' until, by upper Pr, it was basically one 'public service announcement' a day. Persevere, and they do build up the habit over time.

Yup, it IS indeed a habit now since we started that early as well. Like you, I also have an open plastic folder for them to file in loose worksheets.

I don't have problems with homework completion cos DD2 is quite auto. Her work is pretty neat too, so I have no major problems with her on these. I am very anal about neat work n handwriting though. That's like basic expectation. To do work once n do it well. She needs the occasional glare n :rant: from me but most times she gives me the least problems/worries. :love: For anything undeclared or forgotten, she faces the music alone in front of everyone in class. Good thing is, in our case, teachers and parents are partners in dealing with issues like this.

I was just trying to suggest to Snowbaby if she hasn't started somewhere she can start now while the year is just beginning especially with one kind teacher like the one her DS has. :scared: But it seems that she has exhausted all means n ways with both teacher and sonny!

[buds]

All topics to be tested and exam schedule have been given earlier on last week. DD2's school as with other years, does not do CA. Only SA.