Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary
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Hi ruaqt2,
It's not too early to talk about SA1. It's good to be prepared. There is no change in syllabus for Chinese. It is the new syllabus. In fact, by next semester, the child will be expected to write well, not only be able to read well. Some schools started Chinese comprehension in the written form in P1. PH did not which I felt was not very ideal because the expectation of their Chinese in P2 is a great jump compared to P1. From this forum, I realised the 'great jump' will be distinct every year.
For the MCQ Comprehension, the school will usually give a passage with characters that they could recognize from their tingxie. For smart kids who can't read chi well, they just hv to trace the passage for similar characters asked from the questions and 'hunt' for the answers in that paragraph, then choose the correct option with similar characters again. Usually will be spot-on. Haha. :lol: but do note, this technique probably applies to lower primary only.
It's a norm for PH Chinese exam to ask the child to give personal opinion for last question in written comprehension. It requires maturity to answer that question. My girl struggles with that question, not because she could not think of an answer, it's because her answers are usually too profound which end up with characters that she could not write yet. So, I have to tell her to simplify her answer with characters that had been taught. I even thought of giving her a few 'template' answers but realised she might rely on model answers and not think creatively, thus I gave up on that idea.
She was thankful that this kind of question was not tested this time round for CA, but I told her not to let off her guard cos sure to appear for SAs.
It might be alot for you to swallow now
but PH's chinese standard gets more difficult as they progress to higher levels.
One tip, don't just do recent years exam papers, the standard has been reduced in the new syllabus but PH's standard remains high. I let my dd do 2004 Chinese exam papers (the old syllabus) too.
Take it slowly first, don't overwhelm her yet. You can start practising recent years exam papers first. She will pick up and be ready for SA1.
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ruaqt,
I share the same feeling as you...without a textbook, how do we parents know how much to cover and what we have not covered. :roll: This idea of not having a textbook for English, a CORE subject is ridiculous.
For Open-ended comprehension CL, it's the latest PSLE format to ask the students for their personal opinion. I asked HOD for CL last year. Pei Hwa is QUICK to change format of their exam papers in line with MOE standard. For eg the first section, there was ε‘«εζ±ε which my son scored well in. Then it was removed and replaced by ζ±θ―ζΌι³, which is what my son is weak in.
periwinklejoy,
My son's Science notes are messy but it's his handwriting and he could read. So I don't bother. For Maths, hubby said to get Shaping Maths-Maths Builder, Challenging Problems, Problem-solving (Fabian Ng). Science wise, to get authors by Renee Chong, Mabel Cheong and Helen Lee. -
janet_lee88:
What I eventually did was to gather a list of words/grammar that was covered from the worksheets that the teacher send back for parents to review.ruaqt,
I share the same feeling as you...without a textbook, how do we parents know how much to cover and what we have not covered. :roll: This idea of not having a textbook for English, a CORE subject is ridiculous.
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Does your child's english teacher uses the word bank and grammar handbooks? Mine doesn't or at least from what I can see ie no entries at all in the books. -
janet_lee88:
Agreed.ruaqt,
I share the same feeling as you...without a textbook, how do we parents know how much to cover and what we have not covered. :roll: This idea of not having a textbook for English, a CORE subject is ridiculous.
When my boy was in P1, the sch still used MPH. At least he could revise. Now the sch uses the assessment book which is kept at sch most of the time (can count using five fingers this book is brou back home).
The FT also takes a long time to return worksheets. Hiaz. -
ruaqt2:
The two books are meant to be used till P3. Her P2 teacher uses both books and claims that by end of the year, they will complete the Word Bank. Both P1 n 2 teachers use the Grammar book. I custom-set worksheets from the Grammar book for her to practise. I'll reprint the same worksheets to practise nearer to exams. She did this set of 8 worksheets three times already so could memorise most of the collective nouns, gender, similes, prepositions, singular/plural, places, occupations.
What I eventually did was to gather a list of words/grammar that was covered from the worksheets that the teacher send back for parents to review.janet_lee88:
ruaqt,
I share the same feeling as you...without a textbook, how do we parents know how much to cover and what we have not covered. :roll: This idea of not having a textbook for English, a CORE subject is ridiculous.
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Does your child's english teacher uses the word bank and grammar handbooks? Mine doesn't or at least from what I can see ie no entries at all in the books. -
E3:
Oh I see. When I asked my daughter if the teacher cover any of the topic she said no. :roll:
The two books are meant to be used till P3. Her P2 teacher uses both books and claims that by end of the year, they will complete the Word Bank. Both P1 n 2 teachers use the Grammar book. I custom-set worksheets from the Grammar book for her to practise. I'll reprint the same worksheets to practise nearer to exams. She did this set of 8 worksheets three times already so could memorise most of the collective nouns, gender, similes, prepositions, singular/plural, places, occupations. -
Hi Mummies,
My daughter is in K2, but kiasu mummy here wants to find out more about no EL textbook in advance.
My son came back with a letter informing us that the bookshop and uniform vendor will be replaced by Pacific. I suspected the present vendor will not survive because of the inefficiency during year end sale of books. -
janet_lee88:
My son came back with a letter informing us that the bookshop and uniform vendor will be replaced by Pacific. I suspected the present vendor will not survive because of the inefficiency during year end sale of books.
To be fair, we cant blame the bookshop vendor. Many times, its suppliers are the ones screwing up. -
I went to Popular last night to take a look at the EL My Pals Are Here.
Saw the Grammar Handbook for P1 & 2, but it isn't a textbook because there are exercises inside and costs $21 :shock: Then there is this workbook for Grammar, Vocab, Comprehension.
My son's CA1 results are poor...he came back yesterday and cried in the room. Now waiting to see the papers to see what went wrong. He told me the papers were tough. I didn't scream at him because I feel he's under lots of pressure. -
janet_lee88:
A little consolation, Janet. Exams is a form of assessment so it's ok to make mistakes but what's most important is to learn from the mistakes and not commit it again. Tell your boy not to give up but persevere on. You are right not to reprimand him further. I believe he has tried his best.
My son's CA1 results are poor...he came back yesterday and cried in the room. Now waiting to see the papers to see what went wrong. He told me the papers were tough. I didn't scream at him because I feel he's under lots of pressure.
I was a little upset with my dd's math paper because there were errors in the paper. It was in the midst of the exams when a student realised there were printing errors in the options for TWO questions in the MCQ. Two option (2) were printed, no option (3). (It's a MS Word auto-number alignment problem, not 'smart' enough to order the number properly.)
My girl was too engrossed working out the answers that she didn't realise the printing error. When the teacher informed the class, she had already done that question and written down the wrong option number which was reflecting the correct answer value. Although she changed the erroneous questions, she didn't change the option she wrote down in the bracket to reflect the right option. I knew she has got the value of the answer correct because she came back to share that question with me after math exam. However, during that time she didn't realise she did not change the option number from (2) to (3).
Thankfully, the answer for the other problematic MCQ question was not affected by the changes to the options as the correct answer was not either of the changed options.
Firstly, I was upset because why didn't the setter or vetters realise the errors before printing. Secondly, shouldn't the teacher inform the kids BEFORE the start of the exams? Given the fact that the kids were working their minds out on the questions, it would be so distracting to ask them to make changes to exam questions in the midst of the exam.
On the other hand, I told my daughter that it's also her fault not to check more carefully. What to do? She has to learn the hard way. She claimed that she had checked thoroughly after her exams. I guess she was more focused on the actual value of her answer when she checked her work and not on the option that she had written down. Sigh...no choice....so many things to take note of during exams. In this case, cannot even give her the benefit of doubt cos her teacher did ask them to make the changes to the questions. :roll:
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