Preparing kids for P5 in 2011

[comfy]

janet_lee88:

Hi Comfy,

Next week Mon EL/Tue CL Orals.
This week other than school hw, we've been practising Oral.
Have been reminding son to memorize some 道理 like 公德心，优雅社会 blah blah blah. Hope he can remember and to say the right thing for the right situation :xedfingers:

Hi Janet_lee88, you are really on the ball ! I just go thru' with my dd only on the conversation portion. Don't want her to be tongue-tied or say \"huh?..huh?\" and just stare at the teacher.
Anyway, my dd's EL/CL orals are over. She told me she doesn't know how to say 'flying fox' in chinese. Hope that she will do well.

[janet88]

comfy:

janet_lee88:

Hi Comfy,

Next week Mon EL/Tue CL Orals.
This week other than school hw, we've been practising Oral.
Have been reminding son to memorize some 道理 like 公德心，优雅社会 blah blah blah. Hope he can remember and to say the right thing for the right situation :xedfingers:

Hi Janet_lee88, you are really on the ball ! I just go thru' with my dd only on the conversation portion. Don't want her to be tongue-tied or say \"huh?..huh?\" and just stare at the teacher.

Actually I didnt know orals can be prepared. All these years, I just go through the book with him and that's about it. Paper 2 is very tough this year. I am exploring which areas he can try to score and pull up the marks
I am almost begging him to memorize all the useful phrases, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE say the right thing for the right situation.

[comfy]

Hi Janet_lee88, how about prepare the way what Chenonceau did for his ds. Quite difficult to achieve, IMHO.

[janet88]

comfy:

Hi Janet, how about prepare the way what Chenonceau did for his ds. Quite difficult to achieve, IMHO.

Not possible to use that method...time is too short. Besides, I am not that committed and hardworking.

[tisha]

janet_lee88:

Peony:

Can't wait for the year to be over coz am feeling so burnt out... :imdrowning:

I'm feeling stressed and going to be burnt out. Have been going thru past year papers for 2009 Eng past year papers...printing out sections like synthesis, vocab cloze, compre cloze, vocab to help him improve. It's scary to be burnt out :nailbite:

I hope my son doesn't require tuition when he goes to Sec 1...I dare not even calculate the amount of money he is racking up every month for his tuition...ESP next year.

Hi Janet,
I've compiled a set of Synthesis and Transformation from all the 2009 top sch papers that are available on line. But it is for P6. Since P5 and P6 english almost same(frankly I can't tell which is which ) it could be useful to you. They are all typed out in a word doc. I was a bit lazy to type the ans key so I just cut and paste from the paper to a word doc. If you are interested pls let me know. PM me. I don't visit this thread often, just felt like peeping in today. :imanisland:

[janet88]

tisha:

janet_lee88:

[quote=\"Peony\"]

Can't wait for the year to be over coz am feeling so burnt out... :imdrowning:

It's scary to be burnt out :nailbite:

Hi Janet,
I've compiled a set of Synthesis and Transformation from all the 2009 top sch papers that are available on line. But it is for P6. Since P5 and P6 english almost same(frankly I can't tell which is which ) it could be useful to you. They are all typed out in a word doc. I was a bit lazy to type the ans key so I just cut and paste from the paper to a word doc. If you are interested pls let me know. PM me. I don't visit this thread often, just felt like peeping in today. :imanisland:[/quote]Hi Tisha,
I've PM-ed you my email addy. Thanks a million.

[linden2000]

Hi, Need to seek some advice regarding English comprehension.


Is it true that answers should not be extracted from passage but must be paraphrased? DS was told by his English teacher that this is a PSLE requirement. But was trying out one of the top schools’ SA2 paper and noticed that answers are actually from the passage. So was wondering whether paraphrasing is really compulsory. DS usually has problems paraphrasing and loses many marks as his answers turn out to be different in meaning from passage because he can’t think of suitable words to ‘replace’ those from the passage.

Many thanks!

[tisha]

janet_lee88:

tisha:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]

Hi Janet,
I've compiled a set of Synthesis and Transformation from all the 2009 top sch papers that are available on line. But it is for P6. Since P5 and P6 english almost same(frankly I can't tell which is which ) it could be useful to you. They are all typed out in a word doc. I was a bit lazy to type the ans key so I just cut and paste from the paper to a word doc. If you are interested pls let me know. PM me. I don't visit this thread often, just felt like peeping in today. :imanisland:

Hi Tisha,
I've PM-ed you my email addy. Thanks a million.

[/quote]Emailed it to you Janet. Pls share it with the others. Thanks.

[shurley197323]

Hi Tisha,

I've PM-ed you my email addy. Thanks a million.[/quote][/quote]

Emailed it to you Janet. Pls share it with the others. Thanks.[/quote]

Hi.Janet.Can please pm me. Tisha tried to email to me but bounce back. Thanks

[janet88]

shurley197323:

Hi Tisha,

I've PM-ed you my email addy. Thanks a million.

[/quote]

Emailed it to you Janet. Pls share it with the others. Thanks.[/quote]

Hi.Janet.Can please pm me. Tisha tried to email to me but bounce back. Thanks[/quote]

No problem. I've forwarded to Pixie Dust. Good stuff must be shared