Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

[Happy Mama]

E3:

Happy Mama:

She says he corrected her artwork and told her where and how she could improve it.

I did not see the \"corrected\" works by him until the last piece. I guess he decided to exhibit his skills for the last homework. He went thru each child's work individually. We shall see how it goes for the future art lessons.

Maybe he heard about the feedback about him through KSP (since many teachers and even P reads this thread) and realised he has to pay more attention to the kids, hence decided to change his approach.

[Happy Mama]

E3:

I am pretty upset with teacher's last minute rush this week. It's only left with a few more days to CA1, yet they were assigned more than 10 pages of Math homework from their activity books and MPAH for the past two days. They just started doing Chap 2 for MPAH yesterday. Teacher told the class she will be assigning more homework this week. Is this the meaning of \"onz\"?


FT was absent for almost a week some time back yet the relief teacher didn't assign any homework that week. Although I made full use of the time to revise then, there is never enough.

It's already almost end of the week. Math activity books questions are too simple to ensure good grades for exams, yet she had to do them this week, which left us little time for revision. At first I thought I was the only one thinking that so much time was wasted on rushing the homework, but I received an sms from another parent from the same class telling me so too. I guess for a good class, they should simply get the Math activity book questions out of the way asap so that they will be time for other higher-order or challenging revision. I guess dd's last year's FT has risen my expectations.

You are not alone and I can totally understand your frustrations...

DD has pages and pages of homework to do, and sometimes she will be doing homework till midnight, and with only 6 hours of sleep, the cycle continues the next day.

Yesterday DD proudly announced that her class has started learning about Plants. :slapshead: My reply \"Oh, great. Finally...\" Thank goodness, I have already coached her on Plants, so I didn't quite bother when she started on the topics in school. Can you imagine kids who didn't have much coaching or enrichment, they would have a hard time catching up with the syllabus especially when about 30-40% of the CA1 questions would be on Plants.

I guess teachers these days really do not have much time to complete their syllabus.

[Happy Mama]

Funx3:

Agreed. IJJ, My Gal, just like your dd, Does ALL her Revision Plan herself, Very Little Interference from Mummy since Young. Only Seek Help when Got Problems.

You all are so lucky.

Mine (thank goodness) is very independent when it comes to homework. She will automatically do all her homework on her own and only consults me when in doubt... and I do not check her homework at all.

BUT when homework is done, that's where she tends to slack by playing or watching tv, only recently, she's starting to love reading... I've got to nag at her to do her assessments and after doing 1 or 2 pages, she says she's tired and wants a break.

I wonder what I should do to make her sit still for at least 1 hour to concentrate on her studies.

[janet88]

Happy Mama:

Funx3:

Agreed. IJJ, My Gal, just like your dd, Does ALL her Revision Plan herself, Very Little Interference from Mummy since Young. Only Seek Help when Got Problems.

You all are so lucky.
Mine (thank goodness) is very independent when it comes to homework. She will automatically do all her homework on her own and only consults me when in doubt... and I do not check her homework at all.

That's the difference between girls and some boys who are mature.
My daughter in P1 will automatically take out her work while son is still playing.
For my son, I've hands-off his homework since P4...if he doesn't get them done, he is the one facing teacher. If there are mistakes, his teacher will know and correct him.

[Funx3]

janet_lee88:

Hi Funx3,

Supplementary lessons should not have continued this week for P5...trying to breathe normally and go easy on myself. This week should be NO homework to allow kids to revise. Maths teacher told class to do 10 problem sums from activity book but parents to mark as she has no time. I told son to do what he can as I need his attention for Science last night.

As I walked him to school just now, he told me whole class flunked Eng mock paper. Teacher told them vocab, synthesis & comprehension OE pulled them down. I'll just do what I can these few days.

My Gal Told Me Her EL T Was Really Angry with the Whole Class for Getting Bet 50+ to 70+ for the Mock Paper Last Week.

Always Optimistic, She Told Me, \" I Compare My Marks With the Classmate Sitting In Front, Behind, On My Left and On My Right ....
And .... I Got Higher Marks than ALL of Them! So I Should Be Alright ....\"
Ha Ha ....


She's Fortunate (Or Unfortunate?) that These Kids R Scoring 50+ range .... (She's Always Getting an In-Bet' Kind of Score .... Yeah She's in the 60+ Range!)

Anyway T is Expecting 80+ to 90+ for the Class ....
In that Sense, I Guess the Whole Class Flunk in her Eyes! :roll: :roll:

Guess She'll Have More Work On Her Hand, since according to My Gal, their Class has Been a Pretty Happy-Go-Lucky since Way Back in P3 ....
:roll: :roll:

[Happy Mama]

janet_lee88:

If there are mistakes, his teacher will know and correct him.

My views too... Yes, she's ok in terms of homework.. the only thing that irritates me is her inability to be driven to study and do revision.

[Mum1113]

Funx3:

And When I Enquire if She Heard This Mummy Shouting and Rooting For Her, \" No-lah, Can't Hear You. I only Hear the Music and Look At the Judge ONLY ....\"

So Siao Mummy Here is Shouting Herself Hoarse for Nothing .... :roll: :roll:

Your dd is very dear at heart, and cute :love:

[Happy Mama]

Funx3:

Always Optimistic, She Told Me, \" I Compare My Marks With the Classmate Sitting In Front, Behind, On My Left and On My Right ....

And .... I Got Higher Marks than ALL of Them! So I Should Be Alright ....\"
Ha Ha ....

Hey Funx3, it's good that your DD is optimistic and positive. This is a very important trait that will help her as she goes along in life...

[Happy Mama]

Mum1113:

Funx3:

And When I Enquire if She Heard This Mummy Shouting and Rooting For Her, \" No-lah, Can't Hear You. I only Hear the Music and Look At the Judge ONLY ....\"

So Siao Mummy Here is Shouting Herself Hoarse for Nothing .... :roll: :roll:

Your dd is very dear at heart, and cute :love:

Just like her mummy right? :love: :love:

[Mum1113]

JRLam:

Hey, do u all notice that most of the 'good' examples parents given here are MOSTLY referring to their dd? Sadly, most boys are just not the same, they are NOT 'automatic' ... If I don't plan the timetable for him and force him to adhere to it, I am sure he will still be at the stage where he only finished HW by 11pm, let alone revision ...


I did suggest to dh to try to let go in this CA1, but the thought that ds will fail his CA1, yet DOESN'T WAKE UP in SA1 or any other exam is SO REAL, that we decided not to take the chance ...

Fathers here pls comment - were u all like that when young? and how did you guys pull through? Was there really a 'wake-up', 'realization' stage that you went through?

DH mentioned he was also a last min guy during his time, but at least he has a plan .. and the work was definitely much more manageable then. So that conclusion is still - every child is different!

And poor mummy, continues to vomit blood during every exam .. fortunately I do have a DD too, and so far, so good .. will aim for the let-go tactic slowly .. actually, she is the one who volunteers to plan her own timetable ..

YES ! Agree, seems majority 'auto-gear' gender referring to DD more than DS.

Again DH comments is 'take it easy, hopefully things will fall into places...'
Being parents, we try our bests to guide. Well for mummy is more like nag though... :spank: