Revise or pre-teach academic stuff during hols?

[metz]

Funz:

Sometimes I feel that I am such a bad example for my kids. I will choose to do everything else over studying.


Very honestly, before the start of the hols, I thought this hols we will complete some of the more useful assesments that we have not done. Use it as a form of revision. At least keep some of the studying momentum going.

1st week, aiyah, let them play lah, still so many weeks to go
2nd week, maybe next week we start
3rd week, ummm, think we clear out the assessment books, dun think we will ever touch them again.

So I console myself....

I knew we won't have time for unused assessment books during holidays. Hence, I have given them away before the school holidays started. One albatross off my neck.

Funz:

This the end product of yesterday's charity bake.

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We wanted to raise at least $500. Each pack of cookies consisting of 10 pieces each of 3 flavours is going for $10. So how many packs do we need to bake. From there, we looked at the recipe. Each portion yields about 60 cookies, so how much flour, butter, sugar, etc do we need to buy, and we worked that out. We worked those out a few days before we started. And we went shopping.

Along the way, I talked to them about factoring in time to see if we can complete baking so many cookies within 1 or 2 days and also to cater to the unforeseen like burnt batches or recipe yielding lesser than expected, etc. All these can be learnt only from experience.

....we did do some studying afterall.

A great and fun learning experience!

Studying/Learning doesn't have to be confined to just doing assessment books. In truth, I always have mixed feelings about assessment books. On one hand, I feel assessment books are pretty boring and drilling. On the other hand, if the kids did none, there's always this sense of guilt that I am too lax with them :nailbite: ...

[janet88]

Gosh, please don't remind me it's going to be jan soon I am still enjoying myself after the PSLE mad rush. Yesterday, I cleared some chores as I planned to stay overnight at parents place. Away from usual 4 walls...some kind of holiday.


Kids did some cloze passages this morning (brought along 1 assessment). Later we will go out together for some shopping...maybe get some bb stuff for little niece who will be due soon. :rahrah:

[Funz]

metz:

I knew we won't have time for unused assessment books during holidays. Hence, I have given them away before the school holidays started. One albatross off my neck.

I know too that we will most probably not even look at any of the assessment books. But there is that side of me, that my sis calls delusional or forever in denial, that sometimes take over the more conscious side of me and I do things like that.

metz:

A great and fun learning experience!

Studying/Learning doesn't have to be confined to just doing assessment books. In truth, I always have mixed feelings about assessment books. On one hand, I feel assessment books are pretty boring and drilling. On the other hand, if the kids did none, there's always this sense of guilt that I am too lax with them :nailbite: ...

Yes it was fun. We all swore off cookies after the whole baking session. But it was fulfilling.

I have the same feeling about the assessment books. And yes! That same feeling of guilt. That's why this poll loh.