Primary ONE English Assignment

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:35:14 GMT

Oppsgal — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:35:14 GMT

limlim:
Dear parents,

Just to gather some input/feedback on this.

In your opinion, can a P1 Student, without any external help/assistance (tutors/parents etc.. ), be reasonably expected to complete this assignment on his/her own.

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I am very curious.. because, personally, I wondered if I can even do this field report in Sec 1, with proper Introduction and Conclusion. Maybe my English is lousy.. I admit..

Introduction : What is the meaning of \"introduction\"? Can a P1 student understand the meaning of introduction?

Not to mention, how to even complete the introduction.

Conclusion : What is the meaning of \"Conclusion\"? Can a P1 student understand the meaning of Conclusion?

Not to mention, how to even complete the Conclusion.

Please, share with me, is kids nowadays so Advanced? I must have lost touch. I wondered if what my kids learnt in K2 is anything remotely close to this..

Thanks.

I find that this looks similar, like an informal letter to pen-pal for chinese assignment, when I were in P6.

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:27:51 GMT

Oppsgal — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:27:51 GMT

Busymom:
SAHM_TAN:
Is MOE concern abt pre-primary 1 education? Dies anyone know if MOE works closely with MCYS on what is the appropriate curriculum in pre-school so that the kids will not be totally lost in P1?

I know there is communication between the two. For example, preschools are strongly encouraged not to teach HYPY, but to leave that to primary school.

I know my children's preschool teaches HYPY only in 2H of K2 because of that. To me, that half a year of preparation is good enough.

:yikes: I already taught my kid HYPY in nursery age.

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:18:34 GMT

laughingcat — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:18:34 GMT

Heya Buds, thank you. Will follow your advice. :evil:

Oh yes i told boi boi liao and he is over the moon with your remarks. :please:

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:32:28 GMT

buds — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:32:28 GMT

Here's the link, sorry.. :salute:

> http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/encourage-handwriting

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:28:34 GMT

buds — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:28:34 GMT

laughingcat:
Hi Buds! Thank you for your earlier sharing. I followed your template and get my DS1 to share on his learning journey experiences. I was so delighted as he did it all on his own. His spellings are perfect and only 1 grammar mistake. But still I am proud of him. He was like \"Mummy, are you testing me?\" :evil:

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Hi limlim,

thank you for organizing this poll. If not for this thread, I will not know where is P1 standard. Also I learned alot from this thread from the experts. :please: Hope to see more of such thread.

You are most welcome. :celebrate: Yah, you very bad. After seeing my post straight away try out / test it out on him. With step by step assistance, starting from baby steps and guides, all children are able to complete work assigned with zero help and at times even zero supervision. While teacher quality do (definitely) vary.. starting out early is the way to go. As P1 is the transition period from kinder years, i believe schools do have framework on how the transition can best be delivered.

In the case of this assigment, there can be templates.. keywords.. sentence starters or sentence enders.. fill in the blanks format.. (etc)

You can download more similar templates for writing preparation here at this link in my earlier sharings. Thanks laughingcat for the evidence from your boi boi. Nice handwriting for a boy. Tell him i said that.

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:47:43 GMT

Imami — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:47:43 GMT

limlim:
even thou \"I eat rice one\" (我是吃饭的。).. instead of potato..

:rotflmao:

I am a rice parent too. I have never had any problem learning the language and HYPY was a breeze too. BUT, I have to say, I don’t know how to teach my child too (that’s why send him to Chinese enrichment classes). Maybe because I have never had any problem learning the language? All I could do is to nurture his love for reading and language and hope for the best… :xedfingers:

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:43:26 GMT

SAHM_TAN — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:43:26 GMT

There's no need for you to teach hypy.

There's this website. http://www.xuele.edumall.sg

Kids can use this to revise.

This should be the correct website but I'm unable to double chk becos using iPhone, there are function not supported by iPhone.

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:34:27 GMT

limlim — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:34:27 GMT

janet_lee88:
When my daughter was in P1 last year, hanyu pinyin was her biggest headache. Whole of term 1 was nothing but HYPY. Towards Term 2 when Chinese characters were being introduced, she was happier. All the ui, iu, ing, ch, sh, zh for HYPY were killing us. She didn't have any tuition last year...yours truly here thought she could teach mah :frustrated:

me too.. My kid's HYPY is a big problem for me..

Personally, I would say my HYPY is proficient enough.. I could create an article in Chinese or even reply all my posts with Chinese, with a computer. But, there is no way I could teach them. Give any HYPY and I can pronounce (except 1 letter word, like aeiou), but how to teach them how to pronounce.. I am totally lost.. somehow I just remembered how to pronounce.. no systematic way.. so I can only give them the correct answer, but not teach them.

But I can't emphasize enough the importance of HYPY thou..

w/o a computer, I can't really complete a single sentence in Chinese.. even thou \"I eat rice one\" (我是吃饭的。).. instead of potato..

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:54:39 GMT

SAHM_TAN — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:54:39 GMT

DD1 is ok with hypy. She didn’t have any enrichment on hypy. There are a couple that she will be confused like OU and UO but overall can do.

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:50:43 GMT

SAHM_TAN — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:50:43 GMT

Busymom:
SAHM_TAN:
Is MOE concern abt pre-primary 1 education? Dies anyone know if MOE works closely with MCYS on what is the appropriate curriculum in pre-school so that the kids will not be totally lost in P1?

I know there is communication between the two. For example, preschools are strongly encouraged not to teach HYPY, but to leave that to primary school.

I know my children's preschool teaches HYPY only in 2H of K2 because of that. To me, that half a year of preparation is good enough.

Ooooo I didn't know that. DD1's kindy started in K2 from term 1.

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:48:06 GMT

Funz — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:48:06 GMT

DS actually had very little Show & Tell assignments. Only 2 that I know of since the start of the year.

For DD when she was in P1 she had 1 English and 1 Chinese practically every month. The rubrics for how they will be assessed were given to parents. I did not need to help DD with her English show and tell but had to pitch in for her Chinese. It was not too difficult as guidelines, format and even helping words were given. That was in P1. Now that she is in P3, they are given writing guides. For chinese they have things like hao ci hao yu. Kids are given a few examples of how to use those terms followed by an exercise requiring them to form sentences using those terms, thereafter they are required to write a compo and the title or scenario given will be one where they can most likely plug in those terms.

Most of the stuff are also done in school. DD, even at P3 does not have that much homework. If there is, it is usually the revision type, to re-inforce what has been taught in class.

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:44:59 GMT

janet88 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:44:59 GMT

When my daughter was in P1 last year, hanyu pinyin was her biggest headache. Whole of term 1 was nothing but HYPY. Towards Term 2 when Chinese characters were being introduced, she was happier. All the ui, iu, ing, ch, sh, zh for HYPY were killing us. She didn't have any tuition last year...yours truly here thought she could teach mah :frustrated:

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:39:16 GMT

Busymom — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:39:16 GMT

SAHM_TAN:
Is MOE concern abt pre-primary 1 education? Dies anyone know if MOE works closely with MCYS on what is the appropriate curriculum in pre-school so that the kids will not be totally lost in P1?

I know there is communication between the two. For example, preschools are strongly encouraged not to teach HYPY, but to leave that to primary school.

I know my children's preschool teaches HYPY only in 2H of K2 because of that. To me, that half a year of preparation is good enough.

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:36:32 GMT

SAHM_TAN — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:36:32 GMT

limlim,

your poll very cheem leh

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:35:24 GMT

Busymom — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:35:24 GMT

I still stand by my earlier comment, which is:

Yes, the assignment can be done without external help

and many posts in this thread do indicate this.

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:35:13 GMT

SAHM_TAN — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:35:13 GMT

Is MOE concern abt pre-primary 1 education? Dies anyone know if MOE works closely with MCYS on what is the appropriate curriculum in pre-school so that the kids will not be totally lost in P1?

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:33:07 GMT

Busymom — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:33:07 GMT

limlim:
Busymom:

A simple Yes or No answer should suffice for purpose of your intended conclusion.
A hidden question is \"Is MOE/School expecting parents to engage tutors or enrichment other than the ones provided by PCF prior to P1?\"

That is why the poll is conducted with the given choices

I know what your intention is...

But others are drawing the wrong conclusion because of that.

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:29:00 GMT

limlim — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:29:00 GMT

Mawar:

This year, parents are dicouraged from 'helping'. The teachers said if the kids were unable to complete an assignment, let it be. This would help teachers identify problem areas. But they did say that the students would not be spared from a 'gentle scolding' if they felt that the students could do better!

For compo writing, the P1s are encouraged to write as much as they could on a given template with lotsa of helping words. They could also cut and paste some sentences to form the body.

Same for Show & Tell, a template is given. The weaker students could just fill in words. Others could add to the template or write their own. Best of all, all this is done in class and not at home. The process takes a few lessons so the students own the 'assignment'. Then they practise a few times before the actual assigned day.

So I can, the P1s can learn and complete their assignments.

I like this..

it is proper training for the kids in school..

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:24:52 GMT

limlim — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:24:52 GMT

Chenonceau:
Busymom:

Funz, I am with you on this one that such an assignment is too tough for P1 kids for the Chinese subject. Chinese is different from English. To write in Chinese, you really need to know how to write that word. Not the same for English. While P1 kids are taught to use Chinese dictionary, I doubt they could really effectively check the correct word from a dictionary when there are so many similar-sound words and almost similar-looking words in Chinese.

Plus, the focus of Chinese lessons in 1H of P1 is indeed on HYPY. I remember my DD's tingxie back then was all in HYPY only... although I find it harder for her to get perfect score actually... LOL.
That's because your kids (and mine) are Potato Kids. There are rice kids that face the opposite situation.

I'm switching to potato diet..

But.. in the long run, would the diversity and rich culture of SG be eroded as everyone speaks English at work, school, home, and everywhere?

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:24:23 GMT

SAHM_TAN — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:24:23 GMT

Yup for Chinese S&T, my dd1 had a template.

For Chinese, Term 1 was HYPY but from Term 2 was moving towards Chinese characters and now the focus is on Chinese characters with HYPY as helping guide. But at home, I will cover the HYPY and make dd1 to focus on the characters.

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:19:52 GMT

limlim — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:19:52 GMT

Busymom:

A simple Yes or No answer should suffice for purpose of your intended conclusion.

A hidden question is \"Is MOE/School expecting parents to engage tutors or enrichment other than the ones provided by PCF prior to P1?\"

That is why the poll is conducted with the given choices

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:08:30 GMT

limlim — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:08:30 GMT

Imami:

Is there some kind of iphone/ipad application that does translation?

Yes. just search translation in itunes and a long list pops out.. many are free..

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:59:00 GMT

Mawar — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:59:00 GMT

Think it all depends on the schools? I see lots of positive and encouraging changes when I compare my kids’ P1 experience. Just a few years’ ago, parents were expected to ‘help out’ in most of the homework, assignments and show&tell. We, meaning parents, would be given a topic to work on. Some of us had to redo the Show & Tell because we veered off topic!

This year, parents are dicouraged from ‘helping’. The teachers said if the kids were unable to complete an assignment, let it be. This would help teachers identify problem areas. But they did say that the students would not be spared from a ‘gentle scolding’ if they felt that the students could do better!

For compo writing, the P1s are encouraged to write as much as they could on a given template with lotsa of helping words. They could also cut and paste some sentences to form the body.

Same for Show & Tell, a template is given. The weaker students could just fill in words. Others could add to the template or write their own. Best of all, all this is done in class and not at home. The process takes a few lessons so the students own the ‘assignment’. Then they practise a few times before the actual assigned day.

So I can, the P1s can learn and complete their assignments.

Reply to Primary ONE English Assignment on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:48:34 GMT

Funz — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:48:34 GMT

Chenonceau:
Busymom:

Funz, I am with you on this one that such an assignment is too tough for P1 kids for the Chinese subject. Chinese is different from English. To write in Chinese, you really need to know how to write that word. Not the same for English. While P1 kids are taught to use Chinese dictionary, I doubt they could really effectively check the correct word from a dictionary when there are so many similar-sound words and almost similar-looking words in Chinese.

Plus, the focus of Chinese lessons in 1H of P1 is indeed on HYPY. I remember my DD's tingxie back then was all in HYPY only... although I find it harder for her to get perfect score actually... LOL.
That's because your kids (and mine) are Potato Kids. There are rice kids that face the opposite situation.

True true, he quite potato. Even look a bit potato.