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i give my P1 daughter $1 for recess but on days with CCA she’ll be given $2. But there’s another $2 "emergency fund" in her school bag…

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We've brainstormed ideas about the topic. Worked out the speech (about 8 sentences) with her and printed out on an A4 size paper. I made her read out the script twice daily and so far we've done it for 3 days already.

Just now I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that she could memorise almost 3/4 of the speech (except conclusion which included 2 less frequently use words)!

Here are the \"problems\" we face during \"practices\" with her:

(1) She could not stand straight/still when presenting; she would stand on one leg, keep fidgeting on the feet or swing her body;

(2) She could not look at me when she speaks; her eyes would be dancing around the room (as if trying to recall the script) and gets distracted easily;

Tried asking her to look at me when she speaks even suggested to her that she should fix her sight on one object but unsuccessful. She would giggle and then forget what to say. Any suggestions how to help her to overcome the above?

Another thing...if it is Show and Tell, that means must bring props to show is it? If so, it will be difficult for her to juggle so many things right? Got to memorize the script and bring out the props at the same time. My gal got butter fingers, how to do them concurrently leh? :?

Hi all, i am planning to bring my gal for a short holiday on 8 Aug…I am worried my gal will miss out teaching if she’s absent on 8 Aug…


Will there be any lesson conducted on 8 Aug or just celebration?

TIA

:thankyou: all of you for your responses!!! Really appreciate the time taken by you guys to type out your thoughts, tips, inputs, sharing, links and encouraging words for me (and my gal)....I will jia you and work tog with my gal, hopefully she can come out of her shell soon....

Dear Cherrygal, thks so much for sharing your tips and experiences. I am really grateful for you taking the time to reply and answer to my problem.


I did not complain to the Principal. I am not sure is it a common way in primary school for the teacher to assess children (i.e. base on response from the same peers).

totally agree with you. being soft spoken, my gal already lose half the battle. I feel so \"angry\" with myself when i couldn't transform my gal's character to be less introvert. but maybe it is in the genes, my hubby and I also the \"low profile\" type of personality.

Sometimes feel \"sayang\" for her like when teacher discuss a topic in class, gal can tell me all the great ideas then i ask her, did you share with the class? she said \"no\" she is scared that she gave the wrong answer. really regret for not sending her to speech and drama during kindy time...now like a bit too late...

I will definitely try out your method...now that the new term CL show and tell topic is out, i will try to practise with her immediately (next show and tell will be in Aug) hopefully from now till aug, there should be enuff time to \"season\" her..
[quote]\"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never kill me.\" That mantra has given him a thicker skin to taunts from cruel kids.Laugh all they want, let's see who has the last laugh when we get the results.[/quote]I love your mantra! I am definitely going to ask my gal to memorise this...yah laugh all you can now....come AUG, it will be SHOWTIME for my princess!!

My gal is in primary one now. Overall, she is coping well with her studies except Show and Tell (both EL and CL) which forms about 10% the EL and CL curriculum weightage.


I guess she’s facing a lot of stress because she’s shy and soft-spoken by nature. What makes thing worst was the CL teacher aggravated the matter. During last term’s CL show and tell, she was asked to prepare the topic, "My Favourite Animal". I took the pain to work with her on the content and what to say and even practised with her for almost 2 weeks. She was doing really fine during the rehearsals with me. Unfortunately on the actual day, I guess she was really nervous and forgotten about what to say. (BTW, I did not ask her to memorize any scripts, coz I know this would add stress to her. So what we did was to identify key words to mention, then she would use her own words to form sentences on the spot).

She was crying very badly when she came home that night. She told me the CL teacher asked the whole class who think my gal did well (nobody raise hand), then who think my gal did badly (whole class raised their hands).
She told me she felt so shameful and betrayed by her friends (coz even her best friend think she was lousy and laughed at her). Since then, she no longer look forward to going to school, always asking me when holiday will come, even told me she hates all her classmates.

I have shared the incident with both the EL and CL teacher during PTM, also hinted to them to give more encouragement and have more patience to my gal in this show and tell. Both of them noted my point.

This term, the show and tell weightage is even more (25% if not wrong). I can already sense the great resentment that will come from my gal. I have tried to inculcate positive thinking but not really effective.

Anyone can share how I can improve the situation? What can I do to encourage my gal to take failure positively? Not be petty? How to boost her confidence? Any courses on show and tell to recommend?
TIA

Meet teacher session, must the child tag along?

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