All About Primary One Readiness & Preparatory Courses

[tankee]

Not to worry about buying food in canteen as most school practise buddy-system for orientation period where an older boy or girl will guide your child how to queue and buy food.


And you can also help by encouraging your child to go pay for things over the counter when you go shopping for the next 6 mths.

Concept of money, paying & getting change, etc are also taught in Pri 1.

[Funz]

I too am of the opinion that this P1 prep class thing is not necessary. Time and money is covered in most if not all K2 curriculum. However, to get the hang of telling time and handling money, it takes practice. So the best prep class you can give your kid will be to give them the opportunity to do that in their daily activities.


Save up that money. It will come in handy as you will realise that you need to replace a lot of their stuff, lost/broken water bottles, misplaced books, etc :stupid:

[blur mother]

Hi all, thks! I shall ignore this preparatory class then. Hai…, it’s so ‘siong’ to b a parent nowadays

[KoalaMummy]

blur mother:

Hi all, thks! I shall ignore this preparatory class then. Hai...,, it's so 'siong' to b a parent nowadays

i totally agree with you. and this is a good forum to share and learn too... :lovesite:

[timtim]

Hi,


My son going to P1 next yr. He is attending phonics (Read in a week), P1 prep for math/eng & chinese (han yu pinyin) classes now in addition to his K2 (PCF). I do so becuase he’s not so good with English (esp. spoken). Reason being he’s look after by a nanny who speaks only chinese (even the chinese also not very accurate…). Think he also lacks confidence in expressing himself using english and doesn’t know how to apply what he learnt - grammar, vocab etc. But he has no problem in spelling and remembering most common words, or read from story books. I have tried my best to teach and speak to him but results not good. I am really tired out. Does anyone has more effective ways in improving spoken english for kid? Thanks very much for any help.

The chinese class is bcos PCF doesn’t teach Han Yu Pinyin and i thought better expose him to that instead of wait till P1. I heard it’s a cramp course in P1 whereby they expect the poor kid to master the HYPY in 3 months. Is it true?

[timtim]

timtim:

Hi,


My son going to P1 next yr. He is attending phonics (Read in a week), P1 prep for math/eng & chinese (han yu pinyin) classes now in addition to his K2 (PCF). I do so becuase he's not so good with English (esp. spoken). Reason being he's look after by a nanny who speaks only chinese (even the chinese also not very accurate...). Think he also lacks confidence in expressing himself using english and doesn't know how to apply what he learnt - grammar, vocab etc. But he has no problem in spelling and remembering most common words, or read from story books. I have tried my best to teach and speak to him but results not good. I am really tired out. Does anyone has more effective ways in improving spoken english for kid? Thanks very much for any help.

The chinese class is bcos PCF doesn't teach Han Yu Pinyin and i thought better expose him to that instead of wait till P1. I heard it's a cramp course in P1 whereby they expect the poor kid to master the HYPY in 3 months. Is it true?

Oh, to add on, actually I'm more worried if he can cope in P1. Whether he can interact effectively and communicate clearly with his teachers and peers. Scared teachers will grade him poorly as they can't understand him. He's also a bit shy in speaking to people so that may affect impression. He's actually very active and outspoken (not so gd lah). I scared he fared poorly in oral assessment.... Tks!

[blur mother]

Hi Tim Tim, I understand your concern. I am also afraid that my daughter cannot express herself well as she used to be taken care day and night by a nanny too who cannot speak good English and Chinese. Thus, whenever she is with me, I try to communicate with her as much as possible in good English in an adult manner. No baby talk. Btw, I heard that if ur chd is learning phonics and hanyu pinyin concurrently, it might confuse them. Is that so?

[jocelyn]

timtim:

Hi,


My son going to P1 next yr. He is attending phonics (Read in a week), P1 prep for math/eng & chinese (han yu pinyin) classes now in addition to his K2 (PCF). I do so becuase he's not so good with English (esp. spoken). Reason being he's look after by a nanny who speaks only chinese (even the chinese also not very accurate...). Think he also lacks confidence in expressing himself using english and doesn't know how to apply what he learnt - grammar, vocab etc. But he has no problem in spelling and remembering most common words, or read from story books. I have tried my best to teach and speak to him but results not good. I am really tired out. Does anyone has more effective ways in improving spoken english for kid? Thanks very much for any help.

The chinese class is bcos PCF doesn't teach Han Yu Pinyin and i thought better expose him to that instead of wait till P1. I heard it's a cramp course in P1 whereby they expect the poor kid to master the HYPY in 3 months. Is it true?

May I know how's your son progress for READ IN A WEEK? thinking of registrating my child there as well... going P1 next year....

[Monster Mummy]

Hi,


I think that it is not really because to my opinion, phonics is to assist the children in decoding the word and read. While Hanyupinyin is about the similarity but it is assist children who is weak in chinese able to read from the hanyupinyin.

Yet, it is would be best for children to know how to read the chinese character as well else they wil tendency to read hanyupinyin then to understand the chinese character.

[timtim]

Ya, that's what I am doing now, try to talk to him in English whenever I can and expect him to reply to me in english and correct/help him if he has problem expressing or said wrongly. But somehow, it's difficult for him to change to speak properly or in proper sentence, he continue to speak his own way. I thought children learns fast, so I don't understand why he didn't pick up good english speaking in his kindergarten (thru communicating with teachers or classmates).


Learning phonics and HYPY does confuse him a bit, sometime he pronounce english words using HYPY style, so funny and he can pronounce a chinese work using phonics which can be wrong. But HYPY also helps him in reading chinese char new to him as he's quite good in HYPY now. Also easier for me to teach him HYPY. In anyway, students are expected to learn HYPY in P1 in a very short time, so expose to them earlier will prepare them better. Actually there's are a lot of similarity between phonics and HYPY. Besides HYPY, I also teach him chinese chars almost everyday and making him to write everyday on common chinese words.

blur mother:

Hi Tim Tim, I understand your concern. I am also afraid that my daughter cannot express herself well as she used to be taken care day and night by a nanny too who cannot speak good English and Chinese. Thus, whenever she is with me, I try to communicate with her as much as possible in good English in an adult manner. No baby talk. Btw, I heard that if ur chd is learning phonics and hanyu pinyin concurrently, it might confuse them. Is that so?