Club 2006 Kids

[smartmummy]

Hi beauty79!

Gd morning!
I need advice from u.
Yesterday my girl seeked help. So I went, her letters so big so I told her is big, then she started to cry. She had no patient to listen what I am trying to say. She said she knows what to do.why she behave like this? She said u r not T. I said mummy is the first T to all kids. She can't accept.sometimes she listen to me and do the assessment books.yesterday she got tired. But at times it happen. I just worried. Next year p1. How to overcome this? Why she behave like this? Very sensitive and imotional person. :roll:

[KS parents]

smartmummy:

Hi beauty79!

Gd morning!
I need advice from u.
Yesterday my girl seeked help. So I went, her letters so big so I told her is big, then she started to cry. She had no patient to listen what I am trying to say. She said she knows what to do.why she behave like this? She said u r not T. I said mummy is the first T to all kids. She can't accept.sometimes she listen to me and do the assessment books.yesterday she got tired. But at times it happen. I just worried. Next year p1. How to overcome this? Why she behave like this? Very sensitive and imotional person. :roll:

Happy New Year to you, Smartmummy. Believe you are smart with your nick here. I encounter similar situation but on lighter issues.
I would approach that what Teacher teach is correct, and for we (parents) will enhance and improve you on what teacher teach.
For letter written too big, can try indicating that as study goes, the space between the lines will go narrower and your girl will have a hard time to fit the letters into it. So big letter save it for big paper and drawings, while small letters for writing and sentences forming. If there is any exercise books or notebook, you can show the space sample to her.
My DS is also very emo..only explaining to him, his goldfish eyes will squeeze out droplets of tears..like taiwanese show. Hiaz..
Last of all, practice with exercise book or notebook for penmanship..it helps.

[KS parents]

Club 2006, Happy New Year…wish all here have a bountiful dragon year ahead.

[smartmummy]

Thanks KS parent!

Her she has practice for english. This is for MT. Just need to write on a line. My worry is the emotional part. Handwriting is very important. Now is the time to practice. I need to spend more time with her.
Hehehe… I love the word "smart". I believe need to be smart.( from my experience, need to study smart). I didn’t study smart.

[coolmum552]

Hi all, I've been reading some of the posts here..and I would love to join in the group. My DS is born on 10 Oct 2006. We are staying at Sengkang.

[smartmummy]

coolmum552:

Hi all, I've been reading some of the posts here..and I would love to join in the group. My DS is born on 10 Oct 2006. We are staying at Sengkang.

:welcome: coolmum552! to our great club 2006! :rahrah: :rahrah: :rahrah:

[beauty79]

smartmummy:

Hi beauty79!

Gd morning!
I need advice from u.
Yesterday my girl seeked help. So I went, her letters so big so I told her is big, then she started to cry. She had no patient to listen what I am trying to say. She said she knows what to do.why she behave like this? She said u r not T. I said mummy is the first T to all kids. She can't accept.sometimes she listen to me and do the assessment books.yesterday she got tired. But at times it happen. I just worried. Next year p1. How to overcome this? Why she behave like this? Very sensitive and imotional person. :roll:

Hi good afternoon smartmummy,
From my experience with dealing with the pupils in my teaching career, you should have no worry over the size of your child's letters. They will gradually adjust to the sizes of the lines they have to write on. Some students will write big in jotter book as the lines are wide apart. On Mental Sums book, they will write small to adjust to the lines. So no worries.
What is more important if neatness... I know of some schools that take that into formal assessment for English.
These are some of the things the P1 English teacher may look out for:
1) Spacing between words.
2) Appropriate use of capital letters, i.e. in the beginning of Proper nouns and sentences
3) Appropriate size of letters. For instance, if the 'p' in 'apple' is written as 'aPPle', teacher will mark it wrong. Or, if the letter 'e' in the 'apple' is the same size as 'l', strict teachers will also mark it wrong. Establishing good writing habits are very important for many teachers.
4) Writing words as a 'whole'. Younger children may not be able to gauge if the word they are writing as fit into the remaining space on the line. They will usually write halfway and then continue the word on the second line. Parents may teach them to use a hypen to signal that the other half of the word is on the next line. This is not accepted. For instance, the child writes 'sent-' on the first line and continues the second part 'ence' on the next line. It's a no-no.

Hopefully you find this useful.

[smartmummy]

Thanks a lot for ur valuable tips beauty79!

:goodpost:
I need to focus on this, the problem is sometimes she can't cooperate with me. Today she did the ICR hw with me. She listened to me as her t scolded her in the last class. I hope she will learn from me more.

My son in p4 still his hand writing is illegible. In kindergarten, he refused to write cos he said he feel the hand painful. Still he can't write in three rule exercise book, first two lines are nice then others his own style. Very headache with him.

My dd is not lazy to write but doesn't cooperate.

[smartmummy]

Once again thanks for ur precious time beauty79!

[beauty79]

smartmummy:

Thanks a lot for ur valuable tips beauty79!

:goodpost:
I need to focus on this, the problem is sometimes she can't cooperate with me. Today she did the ICR hw with me. She listened to me as her t scolded her in the last class. I hope she will learn from me more.

My son in p4 still his hand writing is illegible. In kindergarten, he refused to write cos he said he feel the hand painful. Still he can't write in three rule exercise book, first two lines are nice then others his own style. Very headache with him.

My dd is not lazy to write but doesn't cooperate.

Think many parents face the Same problem as you. Children are reluctant to see us as teachers, but mothers. See if you can insert fun elements in the learning.
For example, to encourage my DS1 to write, I start by getting him to label the things in the house. He will write nearly as I will put it up. I took photos of good work done, or in your case, neat work done and show it off in front of others deliberately. The point is to increase their motivation.
I had a P3 kid who was discouraged from trying to write nicely as he said no matter how hard he tried, it's not good enough. Even when he make the effort to make his characters look straight (it's Chinese words), the mum would erase away in 10 seconds what took him 10 min to write. Think the child very poor thing.
Must know when to pull and let go at times... Haiz... Bringing up children very much like flying a kite.