Honeymoon year is definitely over for my little golden piggy (DS2). His Chinese teacher texted all parents yesterday to prepare for his Chinese ting xie and mo xie. Ting Xie increased from 5 to 10 phrases and mo xie is no longer read out by teacher. P2 piggies need to memorise the sentence...I'm in shock.


:faint:

Really agree that foundation is very impt so am bookmarking this thread to learn all I can for DS2, DS3 and Jubilee DD4.

DS1 is in Sec 3 this year, so gotta look for O levels thread to bookmark. haha.... :imdrowning:

Yes, very stressful indeed. It's even more stressful for the PVs....Salute to all PVs. :salute:

Hi Goldeneye,


My child will be attending Chongfu school next year. We registered under Phase 2C and was very luckily balloted.
Total 99 children balloting for 56 vacancies and all are SC residing within 1 km of the school. There were 3 sets of twins among the children and 2 sets of twins got balloted in.

janet_lee88:

BeContented:

[quote=\"PiggyLalala\"]I did not focus on the chinese idioms at all during my ds1 PSLE.They will not be tested in Paper 2. AT most can only use in Paper 1. So to me it is not so important.

Tho I do hope the kids will learn some proverbs/idioms etc to help score in exam, personally I prefer them to learn more and just simply appreciate them. Some of them are actually very very interesting. I have some collections since years back but mainly they are words only, so quite difficult to attract kids and people who have no interest, unlike the current versions with lotsa illustrations.
Similarly, when I try to teach some Chinese to my kids, I have never really bothered about syllabus....as long as it's age appropriate, no harm learning right? Let's hope I'm not using the wrong method

It's not wrong to teach kids more about Chinese...it's a language and Mother tongue. So they should learn more about it and not bcos of passing exams.
Chinese is a very interesting subject and when I read his Oral reference, I do point out to my boy.
Chinese is made more interesting now with those cartoon-like books to explain how idioms come about.[/quote]I bought a set of 4 books for Chinese Idioms in cartoon illustration for my boy. He's interested and keep them for his bedside reading... encouraging right?

He even described the cartoons to me in Chinese, but when I ask him what is that idiom, he couldn't tell me! Faint!

Papa Tan,


My ds read the book, have not asked him about how he felt about the book, will do so this weekend. Am trying to get him to feel the heat. hahaha. Once he does, am quite sure i will have an easier time getting him to study. hahaha

But personally, I will want my Dh to read that as he leaves everything in the children’s dept to me. sigh*** But I will endeavour…

PapaTan:

Preparing for PSLE is a family affair, and takes many hands to clap.

It would be good for both parents and child to understand each other.
I wrote a story book about how a family went through the ordeal \"PSLE Survival Guide For The Family\". It is available in National Library, and bookstores.
It is a story book, with simple English, which means the child can read too.
It is not a revision guide book, so it should be quite refreshing change for those whonare doing assessments day and night. By reading the experiences, successes and mistakes of others, perhaps we can benefit. I hope it is useful for you.

PS: Please don't flame me.

Papa Tan,

I saw this book of yours at Popular Bookshop not too long ago and bought a copy. Completed reading in about 2 to 3 hours and passed to my ds who will be taking PSLE next year to read. Gotta mentally prepare him as he needs a lot of pushing. Great reading.

I'm researching on the sec schools COP and printing for him to review and to have him set his goals... stress siah. He's now at around 220+, potentially should be able to reach 240+ provided he focus. He's weak in languages but good in Math and Science (provided he does not make careless mistakes)....

I spend more time with him on languages, his math and science marks slipped. Very irritating. :stupid: So I'm going to use your wife's method of visiting Popular bookshop and gather those books and papers for my ds to practise and practise and practise :xedfingers: hopefully my ds will not be turned off by a KS mummy.....

BlurBee:

Yes, I feel that even though the kid is from mandarin speaking family, his/her chinese may not be good. He/she can speak good mandarin doesn't mean can also recognize or write good chinese.


Just my 2cents.

Dear BlurBee, totally agree with you. my boy certainly falls into that category that you mentioned. my generation (at least my sisters and I) accredits our good chinese/mandarin to the novels, comics that we read. My boy, he surfs the net and speaks Amercian english....of course, children are blank sheet of paper and the media that we expose them to mould them into what they become....i regret exposing my boy to the internet at such a tender age (he starts at P1). I won't be exposing my younger boy (now 2yo) so early.

cheers, palm80

Dear Chief,


Aiyo! sorry for MIA for so long....busy for the past few months. It seemed that we only have 2 XMPS mums in this forum... so sad.... :heartbroken:

My son's results are out. Mostly band 2 now. Only Maths maintained at Band 1. Sad....my own Chinese is very good, even now. But I make a lousy teacher and we are not ang moh-speaking family. We speak mandarin at home. must find another tuition teacher for my son. His current teacher is good, just that class size is getting bigger (RC tuition)....

apple79:

Palm, I think I roughly know where you stay. There is a coffeeshop zi char selling nice hor fun one right?

u referring to ah bak zi char? Fu zhu zi char? I prefer ah Bak zi char. but depends on the chef la.

apple79:

Chong Pang is more famous for its lottery/4D counter at this 7 eleven.


Quite a number of winning toto tickets were from there.

yap! agree. The Hup Lee economic fried bee hoon also very famous. Originate from the kopi shop at Chong Pang.

CHong Pang Nasi Lemak oso very famous. yum yum! tat's y i nv slim down. Too much yummy food in Yishun area. hee hee