All About Preparing For Primary One

[RRMummy]

qms:

RRMummy:

Your DD also change CC? Why? Ours coz we relocate... so no choice..

My girl's childcare centre underwent a management change beginning of this year. So, location-wise still the same, but managed by different companies.

ic ic... she must be missing the old teachers too..

i see all other parents and kids are okay with this current CC.. .maybe for us, we get to compare now and before so it makes the situation much less ideal...

[janet88]

For 听写，the child can only remember through writing...even my son at P4 writes to remember. I get her the XL square exercise books for her to practice...can almost finish one exercise book for 2 weeks. Why must 听写 be so difficult ???

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[qms]

Janet_lee88, I can only say - you always have a choice.

[RRMummy]

janet_lee88:

For 听写，the child can only remember through writing...even my son at P4 writes to remember. I get her the XL square exercise books for her to practice...can almost finish one exercise book for 2 weeks. Why must 听写 be so difficult ???

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For my gal, the school gives CL homework twice a week. It is 1 full page (medium boxes) of writing the sentence/part of the phrase for the week's ting xie. Tuesday 2 phrases and Friday another 2 phrases. Meaning just as homework, she will have to write each of the character in a column.

On Saturday and Sunday, morning and night, we will go through the full ting xie test once or twice. One final test on Monday morning before going to CC.

So far, this works very well for us.

I agree that the list is very difficult, i would already be very happy if she can recognize those words... :lol:

The CC and more importantly my hubs believe that CL must learn to write to remember... thankfully DD1 is not resistant..

[24hr-mum]

anyone can feedback on learning pt (thomson)'s P1 headstart course, and their holiday wkshop on comprehension, cloze passage etc?

[mum0408]

Dear all,

My child is going to P1 soon in 3 mths time. I am very worried about her concentration in class.

Most of her k1-k2 teachers said that she is quite a fast learner, therefore sometimes she seems a little 'bored' in class...That worries me because P1 is definitely not as easy as Pre-school.

She is also very forgetful. She will forgets where she places her book, her bottle is always missing...etc. I’m tired of reminding her to do her spelling, ting xie every week....I wish she can be more independent.

I'm thinking to send her to one of those holiday programme which teach student how to be more responsible and concentrate in their studies.

Any recommendation? :?:

[jedamum]

mum0408:

I’m tired of reminding her to do her spelling, ting xie every week....I wish she can be more independent.

lolz. my boy is going P3 next yr and i still need to remind him to do spelling or tingxie everyweek, else he will just browse the words the day before and be contented to just get 70-80%.

[SAHM_TAN]

I would like to check with parents who send their kids to Primary 1 preparation courses? How do they value-add to what’s being taught in kindergarten or CC?


Thanks

[mrswongtuition]

SAHM_TAN:

I would like to check with parents who send their kids to Primary 1 preparation courses? How do they value-add to what's being taught in kindergarten or CC?


Thanks

What you and your child achieve out of such programs really depends on what is the focus of the program.

What are you looking for in a short course?
- Exposure to Primary school like worksheets (MCQ)?
- Gain certain knowledge/skills?
- Asses if your child needs extra help/coaching before Primary 1?

For the classes I conduct, it's more of exposure to school worksheets (understanding how does MCQ work) and identifying their weak areas so that parents can work on them before they officially start P1.

For example, I have identified some who 'breeze through' their preschool's worksheets because the teachers give answers but are not able to do similar worksheets on their own.
The cause can be due to them not knowing how to read, or them not understanding the questions (can read but no comprehension). Or both.

Then the parents can decide on a remedy action (which I will advise parents). Sometimes the child improves very quickly with daily exposure to reading and simple worksheets done at home with parents. Sometimes they need 1-to-1 attention from tutor to re-explain all the basics.

There are some who are really well-prepared and I would tell parents that there's no need for tuition yet.
However, there are some that really need some intervention ASAP, before they start to lose interest and confidence.

[24hr-mum]

my p2 girl still forgets her belongings.

for a start, u can train ur k2 kid to buy own food, carry own food, eat faster, eat wisely, count money, take down notes esp hmwk, rem to pack own sch bag, pocket $ n uniform. not just academic skills