Jasmotherofval:

http://m.toysrus.com/skava/static/family.html?type=TRU_family_us&url=%2Ffamily%2Findex.jsp%3FcategoryId%3D23862116&domain=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.toysrus.com


Toyrus has it:)

You sure? May I know which toyrus?

Do you think I can find this thing in Singapore?


http://www.google.com/search?q=rainbow+loom+kit+pictures&client=safari&hl=en-gb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=jzd7UoGjMeTQiAfL9IC4CQ&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=1024&bih=660

I want to let my daughter learn this thing called Bracelet Loom, May I know anyone seen this? Anywhere I can get this too? TIA.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OCOaiW7hI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Hello,


I m looking for this thing called Rainbow Loom Bracelet : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI7AkI5dJzo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Has anyone seen this before? Also, may I know where to get it?...TQVM :thankyou:

Dont worry rawafish :), my experience, HS doesn't make a child more introvert if s(he) is an extrovert...My daughter is an extrovert, very expressive and she is in school now @ Primary 1 this year, every other day she asks me to stop her class ie bc to her school is boring, school work bores her to tears and she often complains no friend...that said, she is still a bubbling girl and a very sociable one. I could feel her loneliness inside bc she reads more than her peers and she has interest that her peers certainly don't get it now, she often says her friend is mean, her friend is naive, her friend don't understand cosmology, dont know wormhole, big bang, don't watch \"fringe\" and many many more.....I can't blame her and/or any her friends bc gifted is just very asynchronous...Just that we need to bear in mind they are boring at school..give an example she learns daily and make sentence words like belligerence, bellicose, antebellum but her school is only in the level of \"she is a girl, she loves drawing....\"


My 2 cents: it's still a better choice to homeschool young child if need arises, just that we need to incorporate more \"outdoorsy\" activities.

[quote="rawafish"]While I agree with sleepy on the importance of socialising, it doesn’t seem like a good idea to keep her in school feeling totally bored and restless just for the sake of making friends? When she was in N2 (~3yo), she would approach her classmates and ask them if she could play with them. Kids being kids at 3yo, they just ran off. And she took it as a rejection. A little too mature for her age, I feel, and she gets along much better with older kids.

Anyway.



I have a highly gifted child, I see her pain more than mine bc she is the one going through the system. 

Since you mentioned under challenged, hence, I only give my 2cents on ideas why we should in a away stop shoving them under challenged work. 

In fact you could improve her situation by introducing any types of challenging activities,  (1) the structured ones, to name a few, piano, abacus, robotics…swimming, even reading, reading with skill or even listening to audio files  etc, (2) the unstructured ones,  any types of plays, drawing, singing…anything that’s fun…

Like said, most challenging activities need perfection, and problem with gifted kids is they thought their giftedness is innate, nature, not nurture,  in a way,  they are too young to understand factual fact that effort and failures are often siblings in life.  I’m afraid by constantly shoving any under challenged work would likely  forbidding them moving out form their comfort zone.  I once recalled how my girl started abacus at 5.9yo, according to age, she supposed to do only preliminary/foundation level, with pace, she should skip, hence,  by giving her work according to age, she complained and lamented with boredom but stopped lamenting after few levels skipped until one day I started to realize she had gone past her age many years to acquire that hard skill by doing all big sums mentally, for sums like 256x56 or 3456/34 etc and she was only 6 that time. 

So, I think with some modified changes in our approach, our responsive to their pleas,  not only we manage to know their potential, also more importantly, more "humbly" in their mindset towards life as a whole.

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I guess HS is the solution, at least for my girl, I’m here in Malaysia, I skipped all Pre-school bc I can have more time to let her play/read at home, at least she has more time of her own, when my daughter was 6, she was doing Grade 5/6 US maths as well as following through certain topics in Primary 6 Singapore Maths, reason is I don’t want to hold her back since she already could understand integers, decimal and percentage at young age, I believe of all subjects, the most challenging is still math/simple daily physics concept, to make her kill her boredome is to make her do some critical thinking skill questions, other way is to do piano and abacus bc both need perfection. I don’t know bc we were HS back then so we have plenty of time to do, even to do craft work or to write her own story. Now she is in Primary 1. Yes, she complains I coop her up in school like chicken, that’s why I need to find something suitable for her to do. Still, all done under premise she must have a lot of time to PLAY, PLAY and PLAY first.

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venuschan:

Here in Malaysia the center that I go does provide questions that require the child to do not just abacus counting, mental maths but also with 3 pages of 25qs each with step-by-step counting procedures ( the child has to write out the steps) as in school, so the way I see in my DD's workbook, it is quite comprehensive and pretty amazing bc they plan out the entire course to also check through child's conventional step-by-step procedures...the problem with abacus is it's too rigid a method.

what is name of this centre ?
you got the website ?

Let you know later, as now is not in town...

Here in Malaysia the center that I go does provide questions that require the child to do not just abacus counting, mental maths but also with 3 pages of 25qs each with step-by-step counting procedures ( the child has to write out the steps) as in school, so the way I see in my DD’s workbook, it is quite comprehensive and pretty amazing bc they plan out the entire course to also check through child’s conventional step-by-step procedures…the problem with abacus is it’s too rigid a method.

Kayton's mummy:

I believe abacus training helps a young child in building math foundation and it will not confuse him/her when he or she is entering primary 1.


Son had been having abacus training since he was 4.5 years old and he is going to primary 1 next year, so far, he is not confused when i gave him some math problems to tackle.

I do recommend parents of younger kids to send their children to abacus as early as possible.

Me too...as long as they're young and they've time so they've nothing to lose by picking up such minuscule skill.....let them play with numbers, let them explore, let them find out how they could complete a task within a short given time..The only gentle reminder to parents is this is only a counting SKILL, not an actual math...once we set our goal clear then WHY NOT!?