Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

[janet88]

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janet_lee88:

Next year after son's PSLE (ie Oct), I have a younger one facing SA2.
I think I am the one who will need Brand's Essence.
My daughter brings home a progress file every 10 weeks...this time her 'impressive' report shows Chinese borderline pass. Flunked Maths and EL comprehension.

Errrrrrrrrrr, Janet ....
How Come U R More Stress now for Non-Pei Hwa P1 .... :?

I am confused why I am feeling stressed out more now...but honestly i do need to spend more attention since her school is rather ON. Hubby also realized he has been rather 'hands off' with her maths after taking this new job...thus causing such disastrous results.

[Trapwithin]

IJJ:

Hi, sorry for not replying. After my first post (at my friend's place), I was not able to get internet connection until much later.


Hopping in this morning and read about busy bees...I wanted so much for my eldest to attend busy bees 2 years ago but she was (and still is) resilient about attending (tuition or enrichment) classes. Oh well!

Yes, busy bees lessons are tough but enriching. It is not for the poor. I have the materials from P2 to P6 and even brought quite abit with me here. I use it to self-coach dd. Berries could not hold up at P3 for her. I did so much of self coaching to supplement her school needs. I thot Kindy level till P1 and maybe P2 was not too bad for Berries. The lessons were lively and fun. Tien Hsia lessons look abit dry (note: mine never attended any lesson there, review was made based on some materials read), but if the child already has interest in the language, he/she should be able to sit still attentively throughout the lessons.

Now, I have the headache to start homeschooling the elder 2 on CL real soon! How I wish there is Berries or anything CL here to off this load from my shoulders.

Good to hear from you again. :celebrate:
I'm sure just as you can coach your eldest CL without tuition, the remaining ones will have no problem. What a friend of mine did was, she will speak to her kids in CL while her dh speaks to them in EL. It works quite well .... Courtesy of LKY .....erh... Whose birthday happen to be tmr.

[markfch]

janet_lee88:

Next year after son's PSLE (ie Oct), I have a younger one facing SA2.
I think I am the one who will need Brand's Essence.
My daughter brings home a progress file every 10 weeks...this time her 'impressive' report shows Chinese borderline pass. Flunked Maths and EL comprehension.

My ds's academic results are ok for now, but he's main area of improvement is social. Like me, he's not fantastic socially. We both acknowledge that pt and will accept little improvements as they come along, hopefully.

Mrsbongz:

For p1, the test is more like assessment. Overall spelling, recital, show n tell. Will have every term. Not really tests, but we dun get assessment reports

I just received the P1 assessment file. In it, I saw the reports for those show-and-tell as well. DS's Chinese show-and-tell results improved slightly. At least this term didn't show me those grades with only 1 smiley, unlike last term! :yikes:

drickymummy:

Bro Mark, u never know..Ds used to be in berries till mid of this Yr.. He loves teachers there too but find classes not tat challenging anymore past P2.. Hence I switch both class to Busy Bee.. heng ah... We managed to get a place in BB's CL/ HCL class after long wait list..their regular CL class only runs in rail mall branch n only 2 classes per level! V difficult to get a place..the earlier go in the better lor.. My boy said the oral materials r good and worksheets r ok too..

I went BB to take a look at their notes. Course notes are definitely more difficult than Berries; I think ds can be stretched more. Wanted to do the switch but ds insisted on continuing with Berries. His reason is he likes the teacher.

Final score: Son 1: Dad 0 :frustrated:

IJJ:

Hi, sorry for not replying. After my first post (at my friend's place), I was not able to get internet connection until much later.

Nice to hear from you. I think the only busy bees in Kansas are reeeeal bees.

[markfch]

Trapwithin:

If you look at their 2012 schedule, you will discover that their creative writing classes is a lot more popular than the normal class. So there are parents that put their kids in Busy Bee for writing and regular CL elsewhere.

Since ds opts to stay on with Berries, I've decided to personally coach him on Chinese creative writing. In theory, Chinese creative writing should be the same as English rite?

My Chinese std is quite a joke, so it really sounds very funny - to me - that I'm even trying to 'upgrade' myself so that I can teach ds this. Hahaha.

[Trapwithin]

markfch:

Like me, he's not fantastic socially.

:yikes: you not sociable?? :scratchhead:
I'm sure many will disagree here :rotflmao:
:siam:

[ruaqt2]

Trapwithin:

markfch:

Like me, he's not fantastic socially.

:yikes: you not sociable?? :scratchhead:
I'm sure many will disagree here :rotflmao:
:siam:

Ditto

[markfch]

ruaqt2:

Trapwithin:

:yikes: you not sociable?? :scratchhead:
I'm sure many will disagree here :rotflmao:
:siam:

Ditto

I'm only sociable virtually. I'm quite an aloof person at work.

Not proud of that, but don't really want to change myself either.

Well at least I know my problem, which is sorta a first step, I guess.

Maybe I just like to talk about my son, so I can talk to anyone non-stop for days if it's on my favourite topic. Thus giving a wrong impression, haha.

[Scary]

Janet,

I am trying very hard to coach DS in Chinese now, using Berries notes. The main prob is with writing. Hard to get him to remember all the strokes, plus the fussy mummy here is quite particular about handwriting.

Maybe I should go down to BB to take a look at their notes for the normal Chinese. DS’s sunday school teacher also recommended BB to us.

I am not so worried about his Maths. For English, yes, have not been teaching him all the grammar, comprehension, etc. No time and quite hands off, leaving everything to his school.

[IJJ]

Trapwithin:

If you look at their 2012 schedule, you will discover that their creative writing classes is a lot more popular than the normal class. So there are parents that put their kids in Busy Bee for writing and regular CL elsewhere.

I love their creative writing materials. :love:

Trapwithin:

Good to hear from you again. :celebrate:
I'm sure just as you can coach your eldest CL without tuition, the remaining ones will have no problem. What a friend of mine did was, she will speak to her kids in CL while her dh speaks to them in EL. It works quite well .... Courtesy of LKY .....erh... Whose birthday happen to be tmr.

My eldest child's EDD was 16 Sept, but she was borned 5 days earlier on the 911.

Come to speaking, I heard about this way, it works well for many, but both myself and hubby have no discipline on sticking to just 1 language. We speak both, suka suka mandarin, suka suka ang moh.

markfch:

Nice to hear from you. I think the only busy bees in Kansas are reeeeal bees.

The busy animals we spot are usually spiders :scared: and squirrels. The squirrels are common neighbours who run across my doorsteps all the time. Oh yes, and rabbits too.

Days ago, during school a tiny weeny spider felt on dd1's shoulder and she was totally stiffened. Her teacher and classmates had a good laugh, so do dd1, errrr....after the episode. :lol: The school has been great for the kids. Dd1 is in 5th grade, only 11 in the class and she happens to be the youngest (she is supposed to be 4th grader based on her age) and dd2 is in kindergarten with only 9 classmates in a class. Dd2 is getting alittle bored with learning just ABC in class, so is DD1, who complained about doing P3 level compre in 5th grade. Unless the situation gets worse, I think I prefer to leave them at their grades. Not point rushing through the studies as there are many more things to enjoy.

[IJJ]

markfch:

Like me, he's not fantastic socially.

:scratchhead: :roll: :roll:

Bro trap is right....who believe that?! If he is not sociable, who is?