All About Preparing For Primary One

[catherineftay]

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My boy is going P1 next year. i'm a little anxious :? , trying to make the transition as easy as possible for him. Is there any preparation course or must do list? :?:

[jedamum]

catherineftay:

My boy is going P1 next year. i'm a little anxious :? , trying to make the transition as easy as possible for him. Is there any preparation course or must do list? :?:

hi catherineftay,
you may want to read up on this http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=117&start=0.

[jedamum]

winth:

Decided to drop it because felt that it might just be too early for him. As he is now going through addition and subtraction to the hundreds.

Somemore we just started hanyu pinyin.

Think I'll need to hunt for grammar & vocab books and chinese-sentence books for him liao. Think I better move down to popular soon.

Right now he does only single chinese characters and those english activity books. They don't emphasize on grammar or vocab.

hi winth,
addition/subtraction to the hundreds is not in P1 syllabus, though it is useful to know.
but multiplication is. good thing is that you still have a whole year next year to prepare your kid, you can slowly introduce multiplication before your kid starts P1 in 2010. starting concepts on multiplication in K2 is just nice.

for grammer and vocab...heck! i don't even know how to differentiate between the 2. :oops:

[winth]

Hi Jedamum,


Thanks for the advice.
Do you know if number bonds is still in the syllabus?
Is hanyu pinyu taught for first half of the year for P1?

I've ordered about 8 books from popular and 2 more kumon books but they are still in process of delivery. So anxious to start them.
I'll be doing compre and compo with him when my books come.
[quote]for grammer and vocab...heck! i don't even know how to differentiate between the 2.[/quote]This is darn important! I use casco publications for they have books dealing with only grammar and vocabulary. If the child is weak in grammar (is/are/was/were thingy), lots of marks will be deducted and this will become very obvious when they hit P3 and beyond.

Don't bother to buy longman... tried and tested, not useful.

[veraclari]

Hi,


Assuming all schools are the same, below is what i've gathered from my gal's school this week during some talks conducted by them :

Han yu pinyin is taught 1st half year for my P1 girl.

No. bonds are still taught. Initially is just up to 10, than 20 and so on.

Thanks for the info. on assessment books, wil check on casco next time.

[jedamum]

winth,


i went digging around the cupboard and found a grammer/vocab/compre book. now have to find time to slot into my boy's 'holiday timetable' for him to do.

from the P1 math textbooks, there are still number bonds.
from the P1 chinese textbooks, there are hypy from the very first page.

thanks for the heads up on casco english books. casco has good math books too...just didn't know that they have good english books too.

Longman's math test assessment is not bad.

[winth]

Thanks for the confirmations!

At least I think I’m on the right track.

You’re welcome!
Have tried to look at Longman English trying to find suitable books, (they’re) not to the standard and not very focused. Plus, they usually come with very thin pages, lots of unfriendly fonts. Very difficult to keep up the child’s interest. Have not looked at Longman since.

For Chinese, the killer in HYPY is usually the tone marks or 调号. They usually have difficulty pronouncing tone 2 & 3. Should focus liao…

[kero]

Wah… after going through the long postings… I am STUNNED!

Guess I am really far far behind in my son education who is going to P1 next year.

I know for now, my son would have diffculty in Spelling both english & chinese as his childcare didn’t prepare him at all !!! Urgh!!!

Now starting him with HanYuPinYing self-help one… as I realise he does not really able to recognise chinese characters well, let alone to understand what it means.

Guess i need to pull up my socks this 3 weeks.

[winth]

Hi kero,


I’m equally stunned to when I saw the first post from chiefkiasu in the thread.

Am worried with his spelling for both Eng and Chi too. His kindergarten says they will start to prepare him when he starts K2 next year.

My current work with him does not include testing him for spelling as I think it creates unnecessary stress for the child. And usually, a normal child will forget all the words they have memorised after the test is over. So I guess we just test child base on what is given in school.

But I am just curious, if HYPY is taught for first half of year, then how they test Chinese spelling huh? You mean test as in HYPY test?

[Poonie]

Train them to read silently - I realised no one has mentioned this. During the first term at P1, my daughter had difficulty understanding the tests or worksheet questions which I was intially shocked to hear. But she explained to me that she understood better if she could read the questions aloud. However during tests or doing worksheets in the class she was not allowed to do that. I believe most of us have been reading out loud to our kids and they also learn to do that since young.