Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

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ruaqt2:

IJJ:

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

:celebrate: Happy belated birthday to my fellow 911 baby.

IJJ, Its the buffalo that prompt me to the song 'Home on the range' from there its easy to discover that its the state song of Kansas.

Ruaqt2 ... Your baby also born in 911?

IJJ .... I was wondering why there are so many whose BD is in Sep.
Then I have a revelation ...... Dec year-end holiday .... :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Sep babies are :imcool: .... I am trying to fill up this month with all the BD's

[Mrsbongz]

Trapwithin:

Ruaqt2 ... Your baby also born in 911?

IJJ .... I was wondering why there are so many whose BD is in Sep.
Then I have a revelation ...... Dec year-end holiday .... :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Sep babies are :imcool: .... I am trying to fill up this month with all the BD's

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: Wah... now I know why too hahaha... I have a fren whose children are 'made in' foreign countries... we always joke that the 'made in thailand' child not as smart as the 'made in USA' child.. :rotflmao:

[ruaqt2]

Trapwithin:

ruaqt2:

[quote=\"IJJ\"]

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

:celebrate: Happy belated birthday to my fellow 911 baby.

IJJ, Its the buffalo that prompt me to the song 'Home on the range' from there its easy to discover that its the state song of Kansas.

Ruaqt2 ... Your baby also born in 911?

IJJ .... I was wondering why there are so many whose BD is in Sep.
Then I have a revelation ...... Dec year-end holiday .... :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Sep babies are :imcool: .... I am trying to fill up this month with all the BD's [/quote]Its me who's a 911 baby

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ruaqt2:

Its me who's a 911 baby

Oh .. I mis-read :oops:

Happy Belated Birthday. :celebrate:

[markfch]

IJJ:

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. 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.

In my house, dw is the official pest terminator. I find all things crawlie yucky.

One thing I admire most about the western culture is that they seem to have so much confidence and willingness to take risks. I think that's a very valuable attribute. For me, I'm very conservative in risk-taking.

Joyfulhands:

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?

There are marks for written tests and there are smileys for show-and-tell, ranging from 1 smiley to 4 smileys. No grades, no percentiles (thankfully).

Mrsbongz:

Markfch, was juz thinkin, r ur boy's enrichment classes all 1 to 1 type? My boy used to b introverted, so when i looked for classes etc, i always choose those w grp interaction, that could hav helped him open up.

DS's tuition are all grouped, no money for 1 to 1.

My ds doesn't look like an introvert, he's just a tad sensitive and likes to have his say amongst friends.

Scary:

Hands up Legs up in seconding Joyfulhands.

I will hold another BBQ if Bro Mark is not sociable!

Haha, I think you really like to host BBQ.

Funx3:

Wow, 9 to 11 kids in a Class .... tt is only sthing we can dreeeeeeeeeam long long about here ....

Psst, maybe that place got no people. :siam:

Trapwithin:

So my answer is let them learn to appreciate the language as early as possible - as in K1/K2, essay writing usually kicks in from P1.

For my ds, so far only simple essay writing for English in T3. Only OE compre for HCL.

[dyh]

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.

Hi IJJ, hope your family is settling down well.

Speaking of Berries, i remember my DS1 started in K2 and dropped out in mid P1 becos the pace was too fast for him. Since then, switched to private tuition. Yet some of u feel Berries standard is not high enuf...wow.

[dyh]

IJJ:

Funx3:

By the Way ....

My Gal Read the Last Post, and Here's her Comment ....
\" My T say in Neighbourhood Sch they do More papers than in Pei Hwa ....
Something in the Region of 13-15 papers compare to 4-5 papers in Pei Hwa ....But We (means the T) explain more in Detail .... \"

Right from the Horsie's Mouth -hor!

:yikes: 13-15 is alot!!

I overheard a enrichment centre teacher commenting that Pei Hwa has one of the toughest CL papers, maybe tat is why they did not ask the kids to do so many of other schools' papers?

From what i have seen, even the MA and EL papers are one of the toughest, only SC is comparable to other schools.

[dyh]

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.

I feel that once your child hits P2 onwards, he will have no problem remembering the strokes. becos of the weekly tingxie and moxie which is really good in training up the child well to write CL characters.

[S6169]

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.

Hi, IJJ
Nice to hear from you.
Where did you get those CL materials from? Does the busy bee sell these materials? My ds simply refuse any CL tuition. :slapshead: the Only material we have now is the textbook.

[Mrsbongz]

IJJ, glad to hear u are settling in! Sometimes dh n I do consider if we should migrate or work overseas for a while, so that we can bring up our kids differently.. I m not in favor of the academic first kind of culture here... n would prefer to bring up my kids in a more holistic n rugged style... kids these days are so sheltered n pampered... most do not even carry their own school bags lo!! much less help out at home... It is great that your kids have the oppty to learn abt Nature rite at their doorstep :salute: so envy!! But we don want to deprive the grandparents of the grandsons (only ones mah) childhood... so postpone loh..

dyh:

Speaking of Berries, i remember my DS1 started in K2 and dropped out in mid P1 becos the pace was too fast for him. Since then, switched to private tuition. Yet some of u feel Berries standard is not high enuf...wow.

I totally feel this too... very often I read abt other kids who do so well that even enrichment is too easy for them.. I feel a bit heart pain that my boy is struggling so hard to pass the asssessments in school.. :oops: sigh... every child has different challenges I guess..