Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

[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?

[Joyfulhands]

All that discussion on creative writing leads me to wonder: at what level is appropriate for the child to start taking creative writing lessons? Is creative writing required at P1?

[Joyfulhands]

markfch:

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!

Curious to know what is shown on the P1 assessment report... is it marks, or grades (as in A, B, C etc) or smiley faces?

[Joyfulhands]

markfch:

ruaqt2:

[quote=\"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.[/quote]My impression during the bbq of u is someone like a busy bee moving around different groups of people, chatting with anyone and everyone Isn't that being sociable? hmm.. unless we've a different definition of 'sociable' here..

[Mrsbongz]

Hey janet, i thought the reason u chose not to put ur dd in PH was due to stress level. My ds still flops his cl in the recent assesments, i do wonder if ur dd's sch is tougher than PH... Guess my boy is just as bad in mandarin as i m