Q&A - P2 English

[nms1]

KAN:

yes, the school teacher did do a few creative writing with the class. but looking at dd's work, i think she does not know how to write Any advise?

Can I be controversial and suggest that if the teacher really hasn't given them much guidance or practice, then just let her go in & take the test without any \"coaching\". The teacher needs to realise that it is her job not yours to teach your child. If she doesn't do well it's not going to be the end of the world

[Yong HL]

nms1:

[The teacher needs to realise that it is her job not yours to teach your child.

Sadly, now is the era of \"Teach less, learn more\". Schools expect children to learn more from external sources... :sad: Most parents disagree on this new education approach from other forums i read..

[KAN]

Yong HL:

nms1:

[The teacher needs to realise that it is her job not yours to teach your child.

Sadly, now is the era of \"Teach less, learn more\". Schools expect children to learn more from external sources... :sad: Most parents disagree on this new education approach from other forums i read..

I still cannot understand how can you \"teach less, learn more\"... is it possible for you to \"work less and earn more\"???

[Yong HL]

KAN:

Yong HL:

[quote=\"nms1\"][The teacher needs to realise that it is her job not yours to teach your child.

Sadly, now is the era of \"Teach less, learn more\". Schools expect children to learn more from external sources... :sad: Most parents disagree on this new education approach from other forums i read..

I still cannot understand how can you \"teach less, learn more\"... is it possible for you to \"work less and earn more\"???[/quote]Hi KAN
If you have school going kids (at least in primary school), you will know what i am talking about here.. School teach the basics. If school teachers go the extra mile to let students do extra worksheets from other schools or other assessment books, its a bonus. if not, we are on our own.. If only we can also work less and earn more too..

[KAN]

Hi Yong HL


Sorry if I sound blunt in my last post. DD is in p1 and i am still not use to and cannot agree to the "teach less, learn more"…

[Yong HL]

no problem KAN

my DD is also in P1 this year. from her tests papers, i do realise that she needs the exposure on the type of questions set so she will have the \"experience\" to tackle them. In order to have the experience, assessment books and enrichment centres comes into the picture. This also explains why parents buy past year top schools tests/exam papers for reference too.. to have a feel of what kind of questions can be expected for the level.. Like it or not, we begin our journey in this amazing race now. sigh...

[nms1]

It’s very interesting to see how this is all this is panning out.


I didn’t go to school here and come from a country where no-one has tuition or does assessment books at home. I could never understand when I first moved here why so many mothers work when their children are very young (because they have access to maids & grand-parents) then give up work or cut back when the children are in primary school. I even know people who gave up work just for the PSLE year. In most countries it’s the other way around, you stay at home when your children are very small then go back to work once they start school.

I am trying very hard not to get caught up in the whole thing but we do send our daughter for Chinese tuition. Actually I think for my daughter’s school they are giving too little homework; she has maths less than once a week, English occasionally and never any Chinese. The only regular thing is spelling and ting xie. I do think it would be helpful to give them more to do at home - especially when they have so much free time in the afternoon. It will be much harder for them to get into the habit of doing homework later if they haven’t been doing it.

[shurley197323]

My boy (P2) was doing Stellar Worksheets.

But I found it very different.
The sentence : I am so hungry I could eat an elephant.
Does'nt it sound funny ? Why it is not : I am so hungry that I could eat an elephant?
I don't tink this is proper English. What if they write the same sentence in the composition next time?

[optimistforum]

Hi there


Apologies but I am asking a K2 Vocab question - as I could not find a K2 sticky. Please help on a question from the EPH K2 \"Vocab, Preparing for Primary 1\" Book:

Does a mangosteen have \"one\", a \"few\" or \"many\" seeds?

Not having seen one, here in the UK, I Googled it and found that each segment has seeds but I am not sure on what amount?

PS, note to mods, It would be good to have sticky's for N,, K1 and K2.

[laughingcat]

optimistforum:

Hi there


Apologies but I am asking a K2 Vocab question - as I could not find a K2 sticky. Please help on a question from the EPH K2 \"Vocab, Preparing for Primary 1\" Book:

Does a mangosteen have \"one\", a \"few\" or \"many\" seeds?

Not having seen one, here in the UK, I Googled it and found that each segment has seeds but I am not sure on what amount?

PS, note to mods, It would be good to have sticky's for N,, K1 and K2.

Hello.....it should be \"few\" as it is countable.

To avoid picking mangosteen with too many seeds, a general rule is to choose the largest number of lobes, and hence, the largest number of segments.