ChiefKiasu\" post_id=\"2108780\" time=\"1684210966\" user_id=\"3:

Interesting. Just some food for thought. When I was in kindergarten, I was super demotivated to go to school. Maybe it was because they shut down the communist kindy I was going to and I was forced to go to the PAP kindy halfway through my kindy years. Not that I like the communist kindy, but I sure did miss my friends there. I had no friends in the PAP kindy, so I have no real recollection of the place except for some concert where I was a little soldier. I still remember the silly song

But I digress. My parents were illiterate and never pressed us to study, but there was an event which is forever etched in my mind. Somehow, my mother heard about St Andrew's (which was apparently a great school then), and applied for me there. I was in the last phase where we had to ballot and my mother brought me to the on-site event. I still remembered them calling out the numbers, and the squeals from ecstatic parents. So the polling just went on and on, and I felt my hand being squeezed by my mother. Then towards the final 2 or 3 ballots, they called out a number and my mother screamed for joy. I looked up at my mother. She had tears in her eyes.

I can say that event changed my perspective in my whole life. That was the first time I saw my mother cry. I realized how important she must have felt putting me in the school. And that was enough to make me value every day I put on my uniform to go to school. I have to make her proud, and make it worth all her sacrifices for me.

Thank you, mother. You will always be remembered as the person who gave me my calling in life. :love:

Tamama\" post_id=\"772565\" time=\"1338462861\" user_id=\"28027:

My girl learned the following before she got into p1:

For English:
Identifying and writing on memory all the alphabets, upper case and lower case
Identifying sight words
Correct use of prepositions
Diffentiating verbs and nouns
Writing simple sentence for journal
Knowing sounds of vowels and consonants, able to rhyme
Read DRL levelled books daily

For maths:
Tell the same and difference
Grouping objects, classifying object
Identifying opposites like long/short, big/small etc.
arranging objects according to order
Shapes 2D and a few 3D and colors
Numeracy 1-20, then 1-100
Concept of more/less
Count by 2, 5, 10
Count backwards
Pattern
The number zero
Addition up to 4, 5, 6, 8, 10
Subtraction within 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Addition of 3 numbers
Money
Month
Day of the week
Time reading

Topic she explored:
Farm and farm animals
Mothers day
Families and me
Fruits
Playground
Fathers day
Zoo
To the sea and the beach
Food
Human body
Animal homes
Nursery rhymes
Sports
Emotions/ feelings
Go camping
Birds and eggs
Space
Color mixing
Mid autumn festival
Getting cold (autumn and winter)
Human face
Five senses
Manners
Pond life
Insects and crawling things
Make music
Healthy habits
Thanksgiving
People helping in the community
Playing outside (safety)
Baby animals
Month and days
Tools and machines
Christmas
Chinese new year
Weather
Plants
Time
Volcanoes and dinosaurs
Superheroes
World traveling (countries and cities)
Valentines day
Getting warm: spring and summer
Measuring
Places to go (local attractions)
Nature (water and wind and air and rock)
Money
Neighborhood
:rahrah:

She did not do Chinese before p1. But she caught up with the others in school, and did well in all the exams. Basically in the first few month of pri 1 they taught hanyupinyin again and the strokes as well. So allow my girl to pick up the totally new thing.
The above is FYI.

12mum:

I would prefer more emphasis on moral and civic values for k1/2 kids. These are two things that have been pushed right to the back in our education system.


K1/2 and even younger is the perfect time to teach them these values. Primary school kids only have an hr or less per week on moral education in school and sometimes the lesson is used for other more important lessons instead .

[quote=\"lovinglife\"][quote=\"jetsetter\"]

....deliberately dropping pencils in class so that he can move a bit...

lovinglife:

What should be taught in Preschool years? In my opinion, teach the child the skills (phonics/sight words/Chinese words recognition) to be able to read independently. Instil the reading interest.

jetsetter:

lovinglife:

[quote=\"jetsetter\"]
....deliberately dropping pencils in class so that he can move a bit...

Wait till your DS performs catapult during test! :frustrated: :mad:

phtthp:

Pls apply some common sense, when I listed the MOE P1 Maths syllabus, bec someone was asking for the link to it.


Of course kindergarten K1 child not supposed to do P1 Maths Wkshts yet.

How can we expect a K1 child to Do P1 Maths ?

When I listed out the Moe syllabus in detail -
That is only a guide line that kindergarten should work towards to.
\"Work towards to\" will take a long period of time for a child to absorb the concepts, to understand the concepts.

How long is long enough ?
1 day, or 2 days, to master the concepts ?
Of course not.

It can take as long as 2 to 3 years, to prepare a child to be able to absorb the mathematical concepts.

Put it the other way round.
Suppose you don't even have any guideline.
Suppose moe doesn't even publish the P1 Maths syllabus.

Then let me ask you -
Then Do u know what maths concepts do k1 / k2 children need to learn, what objectives to \"work towards to\" ?
No, you won't !

Without any guideline, how u supposed to know what you ought to learn ?
like a ship in the ocean, with the captain navigating directionless, lost.
Don't know which direction -
Is it north, south, east, west, to navigate towards to ?

become the blind leading the blind.
Bec they don't know what are the objectives to work towards to.

Example

If no guideline at all, means you don't even know that a p1 child ought to know how to count from number 1 to 100, then how will the kindergarten k1 and k2 Tr know what to teach the students ?

Without a guideline in place, means teach up to where, then time to stop, let primary 2 Maths take over, don't step into the boundary of P2 Maths ?

Teach from 1 to 10 : sufficient, then close the book ?

Or teach from 1 to 20 : sufficient, then close the book ?

Or teach from 1 to 50 : sufficient, then close the book ?
Forget about 51 to 100, altogether ?

pls dont jump on me, just bec i happen to provide the p1 moe link to someone who request for it, and say how can expect a K1 do P1 Maths work ?
Of course cannot lah !
The absorption and grasping of mathematical concepts, as already mentioned, take a long period of time to sink in.

jetsetter:

oi, after picking up pencil, DS sits under the table to disturb other classmates at atas tuition centre ok! :stupid: :stompfeet:

Horrible...this mommy here got no face to hide...

lovinglife:

jetsetter:

....deliberately dropping pencils in class so that he can move a bit...

Wait till your DS performs catapult during test! :frustrated: :mad:

jetsetter:

....deliberately dropping pencils in class so that he can move a bit...

phtthp:

all kindergarten and child care centre -

should follow MOE Primary 1 (P1) Maths syllabus closely, in preparing K1 and K2 pupils, for P1 admission.

There are a number of kindergarten / childcare centre, out here in Sg -
that do not prepare K1 / K2 pupils adequately, to meet MOE Primary 1 Maths syllabus' requirements.
They just let the children there to pass time, play play, but don't really teach P1 Maths syllabus, properly.

As a result, after pupils enter primary school -
by P1 Term 1 (Week 4), some pupils had been identified by their Maths Tr in their respective primary schools, to attend Learning Support (Mathematics), as these children face problem with basic arithmetic eg: counting.

because these kindergarten did not even teach them how to count, properly.
End up some kids are so poor in Maths, that they do not even know how to count properly, from 1 to 20.

Once exceed 10, they got problem.

parents should be pro-active, ask their K1 / K2 Teachers, what kind of curriculum are they teaching in childcare / kindergarten ?