About the STELLAR program

[buds]

mom74:

We received a form to allow deduction of Edusave funds for CCA, not worksheet. How do we check there's sufficient fund in Edusave acc? Will the school check

I usually have to sign a form to allow deduction from Edusave account.
If not enuff, the teacher will ask child to bring cash. :lol:

[janet88]

I emailed daughter’s Eng teacher to ask how I can teach her at home.

She told me the Eng worksheets will be done in school…upon completion, the girls will bring home.

If I wish to teach my daughter in advance, she said to focus on these areas:
-tenses
-verbs
-adjectives
-subject-verb agreement

[Champion]

Hi All,

I would like to start this thread so that more parents can share how their child's school is conducting the lessons.

My gal's school started off with the following topics for Term 1 and to be covered in the coming CA1:

1) A Kitten for the King
2) The Wolf's Story
3) Fearless Philp

They have the Learning Sheet (bought from school), done in the class and brought home for corrections. On top of that, they also required to purchase the following books, kept by teachers and till now I have not seen them returned to the student.

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18897

The teacher told us that Stellar programme was only rolled out last year (2010), so they are still \"new\" to the system. Is it so? Can any parents advise me on that?

:thankyou:

[qms]

Champion:

The teacher told us that Stellar programme was only rolled out last year (2010), so they are still \"new\" to the system. Is it so? Can any parents advise me on that?

The program itself is not new. Different schools might have introduced the program at different points in time. For my kids' school, it has gone through one \"cycle\", i.e. 6 years.

[Yong HL]

With this Stellar, will the CAs and SAs go accordingly to what is covered during the school terms? And should we be revising with our kids based on what has been covered during the terms too? Or shld we just forget about stellar’s pace and just buy our own assessment books for general practices?


I just went to popular to source for "suitable" english assessment books. Most authors indicated that its "according to latest MOE syllabus" (which i suppose its the stellar since most schools are adopting it). But seems to me, they cover much more than the stellar for the term…

[plum-cake]

Yong HL:

With this Stellar, will the CAs and SAs go accordingly to what is covered during the school terms? And should we be revising with our kids based on what has been covered during the terms too? Or shld we just forget about stellar's pace and just buy our own assessment books for general practices?


I just went to popular to source for \"suitable\" english assessment books. Most authors indicated that its \"according to latest MOE syllabus\" (which i suppose its the stellar since most schools are adopting it). But seems to me, they cover much more than the stellar for the term....

Hi Young HL,
Stellar is a program which makes the children to read. only the way of teaching/precenting has changed. that is the \"theam\". thoes days the they teached according to a particular theam. now the theam is the story book. so go ahead buy the assesment books and revise. grammar is grammar. no body can change that

[buds]

qms:

Champion:

The teacher told us that Stellar programme was only rolled out last year (2010), so they are still \"new\" to the system. Is it so? Can any parents advise me on that?

The program itself is not new. Different schools might have introduced the program at different points in time. For my kids' school, it has gone through one \"cycle\", i.e. 6 years.

qms is right... different schools adopted this method at different times.

[buds]

Yong HL:

With this Stellar, will the CAs and SAs go accordingly to what is covered during the school terms?

Yes, correct.

Language for our P1 kiddies these days is via the Stellar Programme.
During Eng lessons big story books are introduced to students and the
grammar content of the English Language circles around the theme of
a particular book for the whole week/month.

There will be some wksheets that come with the Stellar books and the
other worksheets are mostly teacher-prepared-materials to supplement
the book's theme.

My DD's CAs were tabulated based on Formative Assessment Rubrics.

Yong HL:

And should we be revising with our kids based on what has been covered during the terms too?

My DD has work based on Stellar brought home so we know what she
has read in school and which part of grammar is being introduced as
well. We are always updated. The school also has given a full
curriculum of what's gonna be covered within the month. Her
previous school had fun assignments to do based on the bk's
theme... like in The Giant's Ice-cream... the school organised
a Make Your Own Ice-cream Day and when they were on The
Hungry Giant theme.. they had Sandwich Making Day.
They also had to write something about sandwich making aft
the fun project. This is what my DD wrote for her written
expression. Click on this blue link for direct access.

> http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/p1-written-expression

Yong HL:

Or shld we just forget about stellar's pace and just buy our own assessment books for general practices?

I still purchase the My Pals books to work with my children at home to
provide the structured part of language on top of what they are doing
for Stellar. No harm to get your own resources to add to what they r
doing in school as long as they do not have too much on their plate
already.

Yong HL:

I just went to popular to source for \"suitable\" english assessment books. Most authors indicated that its \"according to latest MOE syllabus\" (which i suppose its the stellar since most schools are adopting it). But seems to me, they cover much more than the stellar for the term....

Errr... think they are 2 different things entirely. I also get the Casco Pass
English assessment books for them. It covers everything from listening
compre, composition, grammar, vocabulary, cloze passage and compre
passage/questions. Even oral pictures are included. I also have a few
other oral exam resources at home to practise with my girls. See here.

> http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/tackling-primary-school-oral-examinations

> http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/tackling-oral-examination-ii

For me, i personally find my girls' school do A LOT already using the
Stellar Pgrm and also having a lotta fun. Then again, i also suppose
it also depends on the teacher? Probably not all teachers adopt the
thematic fun projects and assignments? Worksheets alone is one
very thick booklet.

[plum-cake]

Hi Buds,

Thanks again for sharing… You’ve mentioned that you are using mypals are here to teach… may I ask which one is that? because my pals have many titles…

Thanks

[janet88]

This Stellar program for teaching English uses story books to teach the kids in a fun way…from what I heard, some schools even let the kids dress up on certain days.


Found my son’s old English textbooks…matched page by page with My Pals Eng Homework book. I teach my gal from the textbook and then reinforce using Homework book. We revised ‘articles’ and ‘verbs’ yesterday.