Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary
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I agree that its v difficult to correct carelessness. I just had a conversation with her on her careless mistakes on her maths questions. And her reply was, its human to make careless mistakes.... aiya... i dont know how to retort. But I encouraged her, saying, for the p4 std, there are people who achieved 100 full marks for Ca1, so I encouraged her to challenge herself. The only competitor is herself, she has to try to compete against herself to not make careless mistakes. No answer from her....
Janet, I agree on the horrible thot of setting revision timetable in prep for SA1. Anyway, I am quite frustrated with myself. I don't know how to set revision for her now as it seems like the hours are just not sufficient to do assessments! Unless, I really take out her weekend fun and leisure time which I am VERY reluctant on doing.
Mummies, any idea or revision strategies to share? How many hours do you set aside for the kids to do daily revision, and then homework, followed by assessment? With 4 subjects, time is really not sufficient, esp when PeiHwa's school hours are so long. By the time she arrives at he doorstep, its already 2pm.
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For my P1 dd, I fully agree with Jennifer that she is still young. I am trying to balance schoolwork and play. I have already established the fact that kids this age can't really grasp the idea of responsibility as play was their main focus up till now; so on this note, I'm just going to concentrate on building her foundation and see how she performs for sa1 before I stress myself further.
Oh E3, the encouragement notes is a great idea! I feel we sg parents neglect that when it comes to their school work- hence our and their stress? -
The CL teacher asked my son to participate in story-telling competition...I had to let go of all his normal revision just to memorize the story...selection is after school 2day. He just couldn't remember the passage, let alone throw in some action nor read fluently. At 1130pm, I told him, forget about the whole thing. :x It's not worthwhile to face the passage any longer.
Periwinkle,
I hate to plan revision time-table but I have no choice...to take out all the books (4 subjects) and going through the content page for each subject is a torture. There is simply insufficient time every day. So what they are in the morning session. After bath and lunch, it's almost 230pm ! He needs tat nap every afternoon and on days when there is PE, he simply can't finish his school hw b4 the nap.
To make things worse, PE teacher is getting P4 ready for NAPFA test next month. -
ruaqt2:
Try Maths Olympiad Junior 1 (Green Book) from Popular. Great for P1/P2. So far, simliar questions came out for my dd's P1 and P2 SAs.Any recommendation for maths assessment books that feature \"creative/IQ\" questions for P1 students to try?
Thanks
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periwinklejoy:
My dd is in the PM session. Still, she has a fixed routine of revision work daily (Mon-Fri). She starts work at 8:30am, including practising piano at 10am to 10:50am. Lunch, change, then takes school bus at 11:30am. It has been consistently like this since P1. In the evening, after school, she comes back around 7:15pm. Dinner, washup by 8pm. Do homework, watch TV for 1 hour (sacrificial, only if not much homework), read, lights-out latest by 10:30pm. I keep an Excel spreadsheet template on the home-assigned work. I just need to change the contents to suit the exam time-table, eg. Oral revision, Paper 1 revision, even Listening Compre. Subjectwise, she'll try to cover a little of each daily. Other school exam papers will be one subject per day.
Mummies, any idea or revision strategies to share? How many hours do you set aside for the kids to do daily revision, and then homework, followed by assessment? With 4 subjects, time is really not sufficient, esp when PeiHwa's school hours are so long. By the time she arrives at he doorstep, its already 2pm.
For weekends, my dd has swimming and piano lessons on Sat so I don't give her anything to do unless her homework spills over. Sunday is Sabbath so no work day, not even during exam period. As she is consistent, so no need to have any last minute revision, the most we'll run thru important pointers the following school day, that's all. We will be in church almost the whole morning and afternoon and she goes to Sunday School. She plays with her friends while we have bible study in some afternoons, if not, the whole family just go sweat it out somewhere.
First of all, you did the right thing to encourage your daughter to aim for a goal. Now, both of you can sit down and draft out a routine suitable for her and agreeable to both. Then, STICK to it religiously. Don't be overly zealous, it will backfire. If you see progress, then can push a little more, take non-threatening baby steps.
Secondly, must ensure good health in order to be able to stay resilient for this daily revision. If fall sick, back-log happens, then may have to eat into the weekends. Give vitamins daily and exercise.
Thirdly, but most importantly, reward her in due time so she knows she is not working for nothing.
Following this set of revision routine last year, my dd came in 1st in class and one of the top 3 in level.
She has CCA for both years too so it's not everyday that she follows the same routine.
This year is slightly trickier for us cos Chinese ι»ε takes up some time. I realised ι»ε passages seem shorter for the second term. Maybe the school did consider SA1 when selecting passages to memorise. I also need to cater time for Composition practices and ηεΎεθ―. She is still one of the tops in her class for CA1 so I may cut down on her stronger components and spend more time on the above two areas. Also, I planned to start P3 Science during the Jun Hols. We don't work the whole day during hols, just half a day, the other half is free or fun activities.
Every child is different. I believe you can achieve some strategy with your dd if you understand her study style. Strike a balance.
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For lower primary, revision for SA1/2 starts 1 month before examsβ¦now that he is in P4, revision starts earlier since subjects are tougher and in-depth.
Son reaches home at 145pm, has bath and lunch. Starts to do his school homework at 230pm. After nap, he does either Comprehension, grammar or vocab followed by dinner. From 830pm to 11pm, he will get some work done before bedtime.
Saturdays & Sundays are for learning EL & CL spelling/dictation and reading. Swimming on Sunday afternoon. Fun time is on Friday night (1 hour to play Wii). Saturday nights for TV. -
periwinklejoy:
Mine reached home at 2.20 pm. The 'mo-jie' will take her own sweet time to bath and eat. She usually starts to do homework and revisions an hr later. On average, she spends 4-5 hrs a day to do homework and home assessments if she does not have other stuff that day. With 1 day taken up for CCA, I plan 1 weekday for each subject revision/assessment. These revisions/assessments are done after her school homeworks. Sat is for 2 of the 4 subjects and Sun, the other 2. She gets 1-2 hrs free time almost daily (mon to fri) and she usually spent them on storybooks or PC research, mainly Science. She did not do as good as what she expected herself to do for CA1, so while I 'kick' alittle, her engine starts easy.
Mummies, any idea or revision strategies to share? How many hours do you set aside for the kids to do daily revision, and then homework, followed by assessment? With 4 subjects, time is really not sufficient, esp when PeiHwa's school hours are so long. By the time she arrives at he doorstep, its already 2pm.
E3, I think your effort in keeping Sabbath day school-work-free is very commendable. This year, I fail to do that. Even when I try to plan it light for her, she still needs to revise her CL spelling/dictation (she learnt in parts during weekdays), which, IMO, is quite heavy still. :roll: Mine has no time to practise her piano, which I can see she has lose interest and find it quite a chore. We decide to rest her on piano for the time being. Otw, she will need another hr daily to practise. Quite hard to breath fresh air like this. -
Mummies,
I am not able to give my son an off day on Sundayβ¦no time to learn Spelling/dictation ι»ε/ε¬ε on weekdays, so these will have to be done over the weekend.
I planned a daily schedule for him to follow. If my son takes his own sweet time like βmo-jieβ, then itβs too bad for him. English has several components like grammar, vocab, comprehension, compo and synthesis. We will do 2 components each time on certain days. Chinese-wise, Iβve βhandedβ over the responsibility to the tutor although I still coach him a little.
He does have a little breathing space before and after dinner. I remind him to see his daily schedule or else he will sleep late at night. -
IJJ:
In order to keep Sundays free, it's pretty tight during the weekdays. Still, Sundays provide a good breather for the whole family. CL spelling/Dictation is copable for P2 so just need 15 minutes to revise on a Sat and subsequently on the morning of the CL Spelling/Dictation day. I can't say the same when she is in P3 as I believe the workload will increase.
E3, I think your effort in keeping Sabbath day school-work-free is very commendable. This year, I fail to do that. Even when I try to plan it light for her, she still needs to revise her CL spelling/dictation (she learnt in parts during weekdays), which, IMO, is quite heavy still. :roll: Mine has no time to practise her piano, which I can see she has lose interest and find it quite a chore. We decide to rest her on piano for the time being. Otw, she will need another hr daily to practise. Quite hard to breath fresh air like this.
Piano practice is a routine since she started learning it. She has her ups and downs though. She gets rusty if she skips a day or two for whatever reasons. She is currently on grade 4+ songs and grade 5 exam songs so if she does not practise, she takes a while to pick up which can be quite frustrating for her. So in order to keep up, she has to play the piano almost everyday. Actually, she enjoys playing the piano as it is a respite for her amidst her mundane schoolwork. When she plays her favourite songs, it takes away her stress. Her piano teacher being a Christian, taught her favourite Sunday School songs too. That's why, I'll try and keep the practise time in her schedule, no matter what.
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Wahseh, sounds like my DS is most seng nang ... comes home at about 7, watch cartoon and have dinner till about 8+, shower and take own sweet time drag here and there, by time can sit down do schoolwork is about 9+ liao. If luck has it, he can finish by 10, mostly after 10.30
which means i can't switch on my TV as he's around he takes super long doing composition.
In the morns, he'll play with his bro until 9, then have breakfast, then finish up whatever schoolwork. Then he gets to play computer games, mainly surfing internet on his cartoon stuffs. Then he'll do his own arts n crafts projects, creating more games for themselves. If really too bored, he'll dig into our home library and read story books or if not call his friend over to play.
Weekends, he has to finish up schoolwork, then go for Chinese tuition (since mom sucks in it) and then another English class which he enjoys as he got his friend there. Then it's swimming lessons or if it rains, dad will let them play golf instead. Sunday is Sunday school and then play and watch cartoon the rest of the day again (since mom n dad will be out golfing).
We generally revise and crash our way 1-2 weeks before exams
otherwise, he doesn't need to do any assessment books.
Very bad what I'm doing here!! Pity them having to study so hard at this young age. I remember playing hard at this age ... studies were a lot easier. Wish I'm more disciplined like you girls ... I shouldn't go on being blur blur about everything
Heard my SIL say that her girls arrive home generally after 4pm EVERYDAY after all the school activities (St. Nic). So I guess we're 'lucky' here in PHPPS that they get to home much earlier. Really can't wait for them to be in morn session since they got more time at home than now which is rather \"scattered\".
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