All About Preparing For Primary One

[sleepy]

janet_lee88:

These 5 months are not just for learning how to write Chinese name...whole lot more than that.


I plan to give her a good foundation for K2 - Maths/English/Chinese.
Have to stretch her a little more esp in Term 4.

My dd2 is still very much in honeymoon mood. I told her P1 is merely 5 months away.

Alas, 5 months is like a decade to her. She thought she has plenty of time to idle

[janet88]

To a child in kindy, if you tell him/her about P1. It’s like ‘what’s that ?’

I forbid my son to brainwash my daughter. Even when I coach her in her work, I try not to exert pressure on her. Primary school is a long way to go. Let her enjoy a little more until Term 4 when I teach her what is time-table, remind her about self-help skills and telling the time.

Anyway, the first few months in P1 will be sort of a honeymoon for them.

[i3mum]

Does anyone know of any good English enrichment classes/ centres for P1 onwards?

[RRMummy]

tankee:

RRMummy:

Hi Hi.. I forgot to update this thread. I saw MOE website this morning.

I got in without balloting! :celebrate: :celebrate: :celebrate:

hmmm ... have I congratulated you? :?

anyway, no harm doing it twice.

:congrats: :celebrate:

:lol: I also forgot.. so no harm thanking you twice..

:thankyou:

[RRMummy]

tankee:

jedamum:

[quote=\"tankee\"]take it easy, there is 5 more months to practise.

i lack this foresight and chose to give my ds2 a name that has so many strokes.. :stupid:

oh dear ! :shock:

My DS's name is easy to write, we planned ahead fearing that he would be punished to write his name 100 times by some teacher some day. :oops:[/quote]we too tankee..

[RRMummy]

buds:

I recall once i had an SOS request to coach a K2
boy to read in September, some time after school
hols. I realized upon assessment that he doesn't
even know his ABCs! :shock:

:shock: Oh dear... that must have been super stressful for the you and the poor kiddo..

But I suppose with your intervention it was a success story. :celebrate:

[janet88]

There is standardization in primary school as principals have to follow guidelines set by MOE. However, this is not the case for kindergartens.


Some kindys give kids 2 lines of spelling in K2. Childcare can give 2-3 lines for Chinese spelling. My daughter’s spelling list for Chinese is inconsistent. Last week she had to remember 8 characters (4 pairs of ci yu). Last night I was just asking hubby his opinion, should children enjoy K2 or push to learn and prepare for P1 ???

Primary schools are doing away with CA/SA, shouldn’t kindergartens/childcare allow the children to enjoy childhood ?

[MMM]

RRMummy:

tankee:

[quote=\"jedamum\"]
i lack this foresight and chose to give my ds2 a name that has so many strokes.. :stupid:

oh dear ! :shock:

My DS's name is easy to write, we planned ahead fearing that he would be punished to write his name 100 times by some teacher some day. :oops:

we too tankee.. :D[/quote]In our case... just the sirname is already a BIG challenge. (15 strokes). They only focus on their name and pick up the sirname subsequently. Wonder how my hubby and sils survived that.

[janet88]

Fortunately, the surname is easy to write. 孔.

Names not difficult either…no excuse not to know.

[Mrsbongz]

LOL, my son's going P1 next yr n this is my first time reading this thread.. I guess this mommy is quite laid back too..


My son's childcare started giving them spelling and ting xie this year.. about 10words for eng n 3pairs of words for chinese.. My son used to cry a lot when learning spelling, but now I've learnt to teach him when he isn't so tired.. not after I finish work in the night :oops: .. He is less fearful now..

But I told the teachers in school that I only want him to try.. as long as he tried his best, I'm satisfied.. and I do not want them to pressure or stress him out over the score.. They r only in K2, no need to make life so stressed for them.. the teacher was shocked.. haha.. but I still want my son to remember his childhood fondly..