All About Preparing For Primary One

[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..

[bigsnoopy]

Also need to train DD how to tissue herself after toilet.

[optimistforum]

My DS2 is UK Year 1 (or Singapore K2). In September he starts Year 2 (Singapore P1). I have used Singapore books on DS1, who is the more clever, but was able to start on P1 books in K2 year.



Are there any good prep worksheets in K2 English as he is good at reading (decoding words) and poor at understanding. He compelted the Pter and Jane Series in March.

Or should I proceed with P1 worksheets in Comp, Vocab and Grammar?

[janet88]

optimistforum:

My DS2 is UK Year 1 (or Singapore K2). Are there any good prep worksheets in K2 English as he is good at reading (decoding words) and poor at understanding. He compelted the Pter and Jane Series in March.


Or should I proceed with P1 worksheets in Comp, Vocab and Grammar?

I feel that having a good foundation in reading is crucial. If child can read, he/she can handle English as well as Math problem sums...and I'm talking about P1. Maths is a play of words.
K2 Eng is more or less P1 work (first half of the year). You may want to proceed with P1 worksheets for grammar & vocab.

[optimistforum]

Thank you janet_lee88

[janet88]

optimistforum:

Thank you janet_lee88

Sure, no prob

[dora dora]

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