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[MotherHen]

I've been counting the days to April since January . By then would be done with SYF, ballet exam (along with all the extra coaching classes), music theory exam, etc. Then dd can finally take a breather and (hopefully) get started on revision for PSLE.


In the meantime, just praying really really hard that she'll do OK in the upcoming CT....

[Herbie]

I think smop will be held on 21 apr. Syf will be sometime between 12 to 20 april.

[Flowermonaster]

Herbie:

I think smop will be held on 21 apr. Syf will be sometime between 12 to 20 april.

I thought smop will be held on the 14th Apr? According to the notification I received from school. RI Math is on 30th Mar.
Any idea if SYF will falls on a Sat?

[Herbie]

Hi flowermonaster,

U are right then on the date for smop. I was juz guessing based on record.

As for the date for dyf, i juz took it from from the syf
calander shown online.

Cheers!

[Bay]

Dear Flowermonaster and 'a child',


Thanks for the encouragement. It's comforting to know that ds may not be the only one struggling. Hope ds will adapt well and survive P4.

Ds is also involve in SYF. In fact, he has 2 ccas. On a typical week, he has to stay back 4 days in school till 4pm (excluding Sat training for SYF). He's reluctant to give up any of his ccas. So I have to stop his external piano lesson instead. Will be stopping his other external sports activity too. He's really upset with what I'm doing but I kept telling him that he has too much on his plate and that he needed rest and play time too. Haha! Not sure if I'm doing the right thing. :xedfingers:

[Bay]

[quote=\"sleepyWhat is oral history project?


So far only aware of 2 projects. One on family tree, the other is photo journal.

Photo journal only spend 30 minutes. Done!
Gosh, maybe my dd didn't spend sufficient time researching :nailbite:[/quote]

The family tree is part of the Oral History Project.

Ds is not a natural writer so he needs a longer time to come out with a decent piece of work. The scrapbook itself already took him half a day.

[Flowermonaster]

Bay:

Dear Flowermonaster and 'a child',


Thanks for the encouragement. It's comforting to know that ds may not be the only one struggling. Hope ds will adapt well and survive P4.

Ds is also involve in SYF. In fact, he has 2 ccas. On a typical week, he has to stay back 4 days in school till 4pm (excluding Sat training for SYF). He's reluctant to give up any of his ccas. So I have to stop his external piano lesson instead. Will be stopping his other external sports activity too. He's really upset with what I'm doing but I kept telling him that he has too much on his plate and that he needed rest and play time too. Haha! Not sure if I'm doing the right thing. :xedfingers:

Hi Bay, I can't say if what you're doing is right or wrong but I am sure you should be able to judge if he can handle or not.
I also think my DS has too much things on his plate but I am not stopping him even though this is a critical year for him. He will have to learn how to cope if that's what he want to do.

[Flowermonaster]

Bay:

sleepy:

What is oral history project?


So far only aware of 2 projects. One on family tree, the other is photo journal.

Photo journal only spend 30 minutes. Done!
Gosh, maybe my dd didn't spend sufficient time researching :nailbite:

The family tree is part of the Oral History Project.

Ds is not a natural writer so he needs a longer time to come out with a decent piece of work. The scrapbook itself already took him half a day.

My DS was not a natural writer too. When he was in P4, I vomitted blood every time I read his compo. They were really illogical. A lot of day to day things that we thought were normal, he has totally no idea of them. For Eg, we need ATM card & pin number to withdraw money from ATM machine but he thought we just need the card, slot in & the machine will throw out the money! He didn't know that our stove needs gas to work. If we run out of gas, we need to order. There r many more but I won't elaborate here. :faint:
I was worried & consulted his EL teacher but the feedback was gave him some time & he will get better. I bought a few model compo guide book for him but he refused to read them.
Surprising, he is doing quite alright now. At the very least, I don't faint after reading his work. So I am sure your boy is fine, & the time taken will be shorter when he gets better. Don't worry too much ok?

[Nebbermind]

Flowermonaster:

My DS was not a natural writer too. When he was in P4, I vomitted blood every time I read his compo. They were really illogical. A lot of day to day things that we thought were normal, he has totally no idea of them. For Eg, we need ATM card & pin number to withdraw money from ATM machine but he thought we just need the card, slot in & the machine will throw out the money! He didn't know that our stove needs gas to work. If we run out of gas, we need to order. There r many more but I won't elaborate here. :faint:
I was worried & consulted his EL teacher but the feedback was gave him some time & he will get better. I bought a few model compo guide book for him but he refused to read them.
Surprising, he is doing quite alright now. At the very least, I don't faint after reading his work. So I am sure your boy is fine, & the time taken will be shorter when he gets better. Don't worry too much ok?

Well, even though I think my kids know how to withdraw $$ from ATM, they were totally clueless where the $$ came from....like how the banking system works...only knew that when we run out of CASH we go and withdraw....didn't know that we need to have acct and bank in the money before that....

[sleepy]

Flowermonaster:

I also think my DS has too much things on his plate but I am not stopping him even though this is a critical year for him. He will have to learn how to cope if that's what he want to do.

The problem is my dd has absolutely no concept of time managament. Even if she knew there's homework with deadlines next day, she can continue to idle & day dream, hide in the toilet to read storybooks with no sense of urgency :faint:

It's compulsory to stay back twice to thrice a week since school can't squeeze in timetable during normal school hours. So I've to streamline for her - remove CCAs, unnecessary classes, enrichments otherwise she will never be able to complete her school homework. And I insist she goes to bed by 9:30pm

Can't cut away her day dreaming, been trying since her kindergarten days with nil success. So I learned that she cannot take on too much 'extras' since she already has an extremely time wasting daily activity which is day dreaming

How to teach time management? She kanna many times due to bad time management but never seem to learn her lessons :mad: