West Grove Primary

[Lexmark]

JR:

http://i43.tinypic.com/douyaw.jpg\"> Saw this article in My Paper on Monday (6/2) regarding tips on Chinese Composition. Hope you guys will find it useful.


Didn't hear anything from my son regarding the composition writing test.

:thankyou:

[Giggler1]

Lexmark, your kid also in 2I?


My DD1 has lots of pages of homework every other day. Maybe she didnt complete them on time in class that’s why need to bring them home. Just on Mon, she needed to do Pg 7-12 for the maths homework (green book). Then still had chinese worksheets to do. And also some writings abt herself and needed to look for bb photo for that worksheet.

[mother777]

My DD is in 2G / 2CL1 (chinese class)


I think there is different teacher for different chinese class and so the test may vary??. My DD also does not get much homework for maths and english. 1 or 2 pgs once/twice a week. But she does mention that she finished the homework at school if she has time as teacher told her to do it…of course there is mistakes and all…

for chinese, there is compo and reading (i think read a paragraph something) test next week.

But DD1 said, teacher mentioned that it will not be very difficult. Teacher will give some jumbled sentences which have to be re-arranged. Then again re-arrange the sentences in sequence to match the pictures of the compo…but I still worry as my DD sometimes…rush through and miss out some of the characters in the sentences… or her bad handwriting for chinese characters…

spelling test is regular for each week. yesterday she had maths diagnostic test also…ayyah…don’t know what she did in it…

[Lexmark]

Giggler1:

Lexmark, your kid also in 2I?


My DD1 has lots of pages of homework every other day. Maybe she didnt complete them on time in class that's why need to bring them home. Just on Mon, she needed to do Pg 7-12 for the maths homework (green book). Then still had chinese worksheets to do. And also some writings abt herself and needed to look for bb photo for that worksheet.

Hi, Giggler1,
If I'm not mistaken, Maths pg7-12 were given on Friday. 2nd Feb, teacher told the class to bring BB photo on 3rd Feb, and worksheet About Myself was discussed in the class on Friday.

[Lexmark]

Just want to share, for future PV's reference...

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[Giggler1]

Lexmark, so the maths homework was given on Fri for them to do over the weekends? I didn't see any homework written on the note book on Fri and got a shock when my gal was doing all these work on Mon night. I should check her school bag. Sigh. So which day do they usually have homework? Thanks alot for your info

[mother777]

My DD1 who is in P2 has been selected for "High Achievement maths progress class" and she has 1-1/2 hour hour lesson on every Monday morning.


but this week she brought back some questions in model drawing as home work. the teacher just taught them 1 model question (which my daughter did not understand clearly). But gave 7 questions as home work.

They looked very tough to me…around P4/P5 level age model questions…infact one question was entirely wrong also…unsolvable

any parent can confirm, is this the way the progress class is run…??
if yes, this will stress up the kid instead of boosting their love for maths…

[kohbee2.06303gmail.06303com]

mother777:

My DD1 who is in P2 has been selected for \"High Achievement maths progress class\" and she has 1-1/2 hour hour lesson on every Monday morning.


but this week she brought back some questions in model drawing as home work. the teacher just taught them 1 model question (which my daughter did not understand clearly). But gave 7 questions as home work.

They looked very tough to me..around P4/P5 level age model questions..infact one question was entirely wrong also..unsolvable

any parent can confirm, is this the way the progress class is run..??
if yes, this will stress up the kid instead of boosting their love for maths..

Hi, my son is also attending the class. As far as I know they are not allowed to bring the worksheet home. The students are to try solving the questions during lesson time after finishing whatever routine work the teacher has assigned. If they can't finish or do the questions they were told that it is Ok and the teacher will go through with them at the next High Maths lesson.

Out of curosity, I have asked my son about the questions they were given. After hearing one or two questions, I agree with you that the questions are very challenging for P2 students and even for me who belongs to the 'Algebra' generation (not very familiar with the Model problem solving method). I am leaving the teaching to the teacher as I do not want to confuse my son as my methodology might be wrong.

So far my son is not able to solve most questions and I am monitoring to see if he is still keen to attend the lesson. Currently, we are treating it like another CCA, like a Maths Club. Hopefully he will learn some problem solving skill in the process. Like you, I hope that the lesson will not dampen their interest in Maths.

[kohbee2.06303gmail.06303com]

Just to add that the students were given a few days (up to Friday) to try the questions.

[mother777]

Well yes they were told to finish the questions by Friday. But they were told to do them during their free time at school. Since other students frp

DD's class could not finish it, form teacher told the supplementary class teacher abt this.

Some of kids did bring the questions back to home (got to know from other kids mothers).

So I tried to go thru the questions with my daughter using model drawing
Just hope she understood.
If anybody want to know what the questions were..try to look for my request for help in P2 maths post