Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

[Funx3]

periwinklejoy:

Funx3:

[quote=\"periwinklejoy\"]
Btw Jennifer, I heard alot of parents saying fr P4 to P5 is a huge jump. Why is that so? How badly wld one do in their p5 CA1?

Errrrr ....
10 Marks or More Drop in Marks?
But Almost EveryOne Suffers the Same Fate ....
So Overall Class Position Remains Almost the Same ....

tks! Ha u made my day. Ok, I wil encourage her that as long as position is stil d same most likely she is stil consistent. :)[/quote]You R Welcome, Glad this tiny observation helps to relieve your anxiety.
Yeah, It's Less Stressful to look on the Bright Side. Then School Life is Still Bearable, Right?
:celebrate: :celebrate:

[dyh]

Funx3:

dyh:

[quote=\"E3\"]
Sigh. I hope his dignity is still intact. Many kids will do wrongly if the instructions is not clear. What IJJ mentioned earlier didn't sound like tessellations to me as well.

So did they do batik painting today? I wonder how he teaches them?

I conducted a \"batik painting\" with my P5 class before. We folded serviettes or kitchen napkins as many times as we can. It can also be folded into any odd shapes. Then we dip the different corners of a folded napkin into different diluted poster colours. The corners will absorb the paint to parts of the napkin. Then we leave them to dry. When we opened up the napkin (very gently) and voila!! A beautiful piece of batik art.

For those P3 children who went for the JB trip last yr, they would have learnt about batik painting. My son brought one batik painting back that day...

Oh So Sweet of Him.
Did He Buy it For You?
:lol: :lol:[/quote]No, everyone got to draw one batik painting with some professional assistance, and bring it home. Not sure how much is really his own work but at least they got the experience lor.

[Funx3]

Jennifer:

Funx3:

[quote=\"Jennifer\"]
According to my boy, Mr. Chin also flashed some correct masterpieces completed by some pupils.

Mmmmmmmm ....
If We look from another View Point ....

May Be He's Trying to Show by example what's Right and What is Not, and Not specifically picking on any students' work?

Parents, Notice from your posts that there are a number of students Doing Similar Mistakes in their Master pieces ....

But May Be this Mr Chin could put in a disclaimer B4 flashing the Incorrectly Done Art Work, like saying many of the students did not do it correctly and submit Art work similar to this ....
Then it will Not Be = \"Public Shaming\"?
:roll: :roll:

Agreed. That's why I wld like to hear from the HOD exactly what happened during the lesson. My P4 boy was unable to tell me more as he has learnt the skill of hearing only the good stuff. The moment Mr Chin criticised his work, his ears switched off.

My elder boy had a Dec hols assignment: to come up with a poster on the author of The Animal Farm. His was the 1st to be presented in class, followed by another classmate. The teacher then called for a pause and used these two posters to explain to the class what was correctly done, what's not. This teacher explicitly told my boy and his classmate that his remarks are directed at the posters, not the persons who prepared the posters. This is acceptable to me.[/quote]Great Mind Think Alike! :hi5:

Learning by Examples, And A picture speaks a thousand Words.
But Always Highlight Ahead so it won't break our Little Ones Morale or .... :heartbroken:
:celebrate: :celebrate:

[janet88]

Hi Funx3,

I got the book ‘Challenging Maths Problems Made Easy’ yesterday and to my horror :!: it doesn’t look like English to me…more like Greek…feeling really stupid. I just don’t understand why primary school is this tough now.

[Funx3]

dyh:

Funx3:

[quote=\"dyh\"]For those P3 children who went for the JB trip last yr, they would have learnt about batik painting. My son brought one batik painting back that day...

Oh So Sweet of Him.
Did He Buy it For You?
:lol: :lol:

No, everyone got to draw one batik painting with some professional assistance, and bring it home. Not sure how much is really his own work but at least they got the experience lor.[/quote]Oh U must Be So Proud of his Work ....
Got Hang up or Frame up or Not?
Then Can Sit Back and Admire His Effort ....
:lol: :lol:

[dyh]

Happy Mama:

S6169:

Always heard that P3 to P4 is a jump, P4 to P5 is a bigger jump. In P5, almost a PSLE standerd. What does these mean? Jump as in the suject or exam difficulties or the marking standerd.

I find Pri 2 to Pri 3 already a very big jump and DD has a hard time coping with all the homework.

I think every year's jump is about the same from P1 to P4.

[periwinklejoy]

Funx3:

periwinklejoy:

[quote=\"Funx3\"]
Errrrr ....
10 Marks or More Drop in Marks?
But Almost EveryOne Suffers the Same Fate ....
So Overall Class Position Remains Almost the Same ....

tks! Ha u made my day. Ok, I wil encourage her that as long as position is stil d same most likely she is stil consistent.

You R Welcome, Glad this tiny observation helps to relieve your anxiety.
Yeah, It's Less Stressful to look on the Bright Side. Then School Life is Still
Bearable, Right?
:celebrate: :celebrate:[/quote]Yup u r right! We had d whole of Sunday off to play. May not b d best arrangement but we gather it's impt to relax as weekdays r rather tiring for d kids, with the long hours in school.
My dd had bn good last nite, did some copying of Chinese words n phrases n sentence making. N slept early. So I'm happy. Dis pm wld b science revision as it's a subject dat thorough reading is crucial for basic info n attemptg of papers is impt for the non textbook qs. I look 4wd to revising science with her as she is happiest with dis subj.

[Funx3]

janet_lee88:

Hi Funx3,

I got the book 'Challenging Maths Problems Made Easy' yesterday and to my horror :!: it doesn't look like English to me...more like Greek..feeling really stupid. I just don't understand why primary school is this tough now.

Ha Ha ....
Welcome to the Club!

This Mummy Here is Still Scratching Her Head at Times .... :?
Great to Learn ALL the New Techniques on Modelling together with your kids!
But ....
If U Don't want to Appear Stupid to your ds, Maybe U want to spend some time while he's away in school to read thru First ....

Anyway, There R always examples on how to solve the problems before U embark on the Questions. Follow the Sample and U won't Go Wrong ....

Errrrrrrr ....
The Problem Now Both My Gal and I Faced is ....
With So Many Examples shown, We Forgot How to solve them in P6 Now!
And We Will Say to Each Other, \"Oh We Solve this Type of Q Before, But How we Solve it Last Time, Mummy (Or Mei Mei, That's What We Called Her at Home), Can U Remember?\"

[dyh]

Funx3:

dyh:

[quote=\"Funx3\"]
Oh So Sweet of Him.
Did He Buy it For You?
:lol: :lol:

No, everyone got to draw one batik painting with some professional assistance, and bring it home. Not sure how much is really his own work but at least they got the experience lor.

Oh U must Be So Proud of his Work ....
Got Hang up or Frame up or Not?
Then Can Sit Back and Admire His Effort ....
:lol: :lol:[/quote]Yeah, it is put up.

[dyh]

janet_lee88:

Hi Funx3,

I got the book 'Challenging Maths Problems Made Easy' yesterday and to my horror :!: it doesn't look like English to me...more like Greek..feeling really stupid. I just don't understand why primary school is this tough now.

The other day my son was telling me they just learnt \"cross multiply\" in MA. I was like \"so early?\" becos I vividly remember I learnt it only in sec 1.

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