All About Preparing For Primary One

[janet88]

Pen88n:

poppy15:

okay, so can i safely say, for a P1, we only need to give max. $1.50 for recess & hv a packed cake/cereal & pkt drink for daily consumption at recess?

If you pack cake / cereal & pkt drink for daily consumption, why do you still need to give $1.50 for recess?

I give my gal $1 for recess every day now, and she buys food at the canteen. Only rarely did she pack food - in cases where she had fav cake / food and so she insisted she wanted those for recess.

I give my daughter plain water to school and told her not to buy any sweetened beverage.
The food I pack for her recess is eaten on the way home...she buys food from canteen during recess.

[poppy15]

RRMummy:

I will give DD $1 for recess and $1.50 if she needs to have lunch in school too, regardless of whether she brings food.


Yes, you are righ, sometimes she will change her mind and buy noodles instead of eating the cereal. At least she has a choice.

Whatever money she has left on that day goes into her piggy bank. So she says sometimes she is quite full after heavy lunch and will just go to the library during recess and save up the money.

I was also worried before DD went for P1, but really they will cope much better than we sometimes give them credit for.. Stay cool :snuggles:

i intend to do that too. a healthy way to teach them to save. :celebrate:

[RRMummy]

poppy15:

i intend to do that too. a healthy way to teach them to save. :celebrate:

:celebrate:

During the first term, we were very ON. Somemore got book to log in how much she spent, how much she saved for the day and how much in total... like a/c books le!!

[poppy15]

haha… donch think i will be so hardworking as to do the recording…


right now, i donch even know hw much DS & DD have in each of their piggybank. my sils are helping them to "earn" daily $$ too, apart from their cny ang pao $$.

if they been a gd boy & gal for the whole day, $0.20 will be given to them each, if they’re notty, no $$ for that day.

[phtthp]

i look at the food stalls sold in the school canteen. Food sold there like little nutrition value. Noodle stall - the mee portion very small, a few miserable strands of noodle, plus a few thin slices of fish cake, pour some boiling water over it … where got nutrition value ? Other stalls similar. kind of worried. Pack home-cook food better, but she can’t be eating packed food everyday.


anyone encounter schools like that ? what you do ?

[bigsnoopy]

phtthp:

i look at the food stalls sold in the school canteen. Food sold there like little nutrition value. Noodle stall - the mee portion very small, a few miserable strands of noodle, plus a few thin slices of fish cake, pour some boiling water over it .. where got nutrition value ? Other stalls similar. kind of worried. Pack home-cook food better, but she can't be eating packed food everyday.


anyone encounter schools like that ? what you do ?

I heard from friends that some food stalls sell junk food. Are they allow to sell those?

[janet88]

YKVT:

phtthp:

i look at the food stalls sold in the school canteen. Food sold there like little nutrition value. Noodle stall - the mee portion very small, a few miserable strands of noodle, plus a few thin slices of fish cake, pour some boiling water over it .. where got nutrition value ? Other stalls similar. kind of worried. Pack home-cook food better, but she can't be eating packed food everyday.

I heard from friends that some food stalls sell junk food. Are they allow to sell those?

Regardless of school or food court, there is no nutrition eating outside.
School canteen operators assume that kids eat little, so they do not give big portions...actually the amt is very pathetic.
A slice of bread with jam has better nutrition, but of course some kids choose to eat food sold in school may be due to peer pressure.

Where junk food is concerned, there is better control now as compared to our time. I remember a stall purely selling junk food - keropok, twisties etc etc.

[bigsnoopy]

Haiz then I must think of a variety of food for her to pack to school.

[Castle House]

Pen88n:

We started by giving DD a $1 coin, though she could already calculate $$ before starting P1. However, it is better to give them $1 or $1 + $0.50. The canteen vendor will help these P1s. You can also start them by letting them take $$ to buy things when you are out with them.

Thank you..

Ya.. think need to train ds to recognise the different types of coins le..

[Castle House]

poppy15:

my ils runs a hardware business so sometimes they get DS & DD to help sell stuff. Simple tasks like when an item cost $2 and the customer gives a $5 note, we ask DS (the elder one) to calculate the change to return the customer. ( training him in his add or sub skills)


then if an item cost maybe like $0.70 & the customer gives $1 coin, we ask DD (the younger one) to see what & what coin = the amt to give back. ( sometimes with DS helping her)

training her to differentiate between the types of coins: $0.05, $0.10, $0.20, $0.50 & $1.00. she knows all of them by hard now.

For DS, its more on training & practise. For DD, it more of exposure & a little training

That's a good training ground..

Ya.. think have to let ds know how much change to take back when buy using the S$1 coin..