All About Preparing For Primary One

[poohcutie]

reading all the posts, i feel more stress!


My gal wil be gg to P1 next yr and currently her K2 seems to be too relax… no spelling, no tingxie and only few worksheets for one week which will be given back on every fridays. NOt that i want to push her, but too relax kind of environment is giving her ‘massage’ that P1 will be that relax as well??

The sch is teaching 3 letter phonics kind of stuff, and simple numbers bonds…Wondering how she is gg to cope when she starts p1 if she didnt attend enrichment all these while…

[jedamum]

poohcutie:

The sch is teaching 3 letter phonics kind of stuff, and simple numbers bonds...Wondering how she is gg to cope when she starts p1 if she didnt attend enrichment all these while...

poohcutie,
you can refer to the first few pages of this thread on the expectations of P1 nowadays...the few important ones is telling time, and handling money (for math).
how is your kid's command of english? as english is the medium used for both english and math subject, so by tackling english language first, you can 'kill 2 birds in one stone', leaving only the MT for you to look into when she goes to P1.
there is still more than 6 mths til next year, still plenty of time for preparation.
additionally, now is also the good time to 'train' your kid to take initiative (in speaking up/asking questions etc), boost her self-confidence (give her opportunity to buy food while you stand aside to observe etc), if she is a bit shy/quiet.

[chixchix]

[Moderator's note: Topics merged.]


Hii mummies ,I am so concerned.My son in MMI,k2 now, hasnt evenm learnt how to tell the time, hasnt learnt double digit subtraction, multiplication and division or even counting money. I am soooo worried.When I called the school, they said they dont push or rush things , they let the kids take it slow. Furthermore, my son's class always got teacher change.

I have managed to teach my son to tell the time, and double digit additions, but I am at a lost how to teach him the double digit subtraction. Can anyone help??

Also ,has your child already learnt the above stuff that I noted down... please share. ..

[jedamum]

I guess it's probably one of those non-authentic montessori learning centre. My boy attended a MMI Math enrichment during K2 and they covered all of the above. however, maybe your boy's school think it is still early, cos my boy started in Mar and completed the 1 yr course in 7mths (Oct) with only once a week lesson.

There are some eg to do double digit subtraction,
1) subtraction without borrowing
this is straight forward. stack the numbers above each other and subtract.
2) subtraction with borrowing
this is abit tricky. your kid has to know that 1 ten=10 ones, 2 ten = 20ones and so on.
52
-18
---------
equal 5 tens 2 ones
minus 1 ten 8 ones
---------
equal 4 tens 12 ones
minus 1 ten 8 ones
---------
ans 3 ten 4 ones
= 34

this is the clearer concept of our usual old-school borrowing method.

learnt this from MMI itself.
(not to ChiefKS; think can merge this with P1 prepare or P1 math depending on who you view it )

[poohcutie]

hi Jedamum


Thks for the advice.

My gal’s eng and chinese nt too bad. She is reading chapters story books with understanding. As for Chinese, she been attending enrichment since 3 yrs old and doing pretty well. REason for sending her to Ch enrichment is becoz im enrolling her to SAP sch as it is mins walk from my hse and like the sch culture

[jedamum]

poohcutie:

..Wondering how she is gg to cope when she starts p1 if she didnt attend enrichment all these while...

poohcutie:

As for Chinese, she been attending enrichment since 3 yrs old and doing pretty well.

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I guess you mean she didn't attend ENG and MATH enrichment.
Actually if she is already reading well, there isn't a need to go for ENG enrichment unless you want to go into Creative writing at this stage.
Math for P1 is actually managable if the command of English is there.

So...relax...

But then again, i am talking from a neighbourhood school point of view. For your kid's SAP school, you may want to check out with parents whose kids are from the school to gauge the school's expectations of P1 kids.

[sleepy]

P1 workload seems quite heavy compares to K2. Besides weekly tingxie & spelling, my girl has weekly class tests too for almost every subject.


Good news is teachers do teach in class. My girl brings home tonnes of worksheets she did in class. So it’s not necessary to do too much advance teaching to prepare for P1.

They do learn something when they attend P1. I didn’t prepare her for those weekly class tests. Just treat as a revision of what’s being taught in class.

[mikii]

My kids are in MMI too, K2 and N2.


K2 they had covered +, -, x and diveded, telling time(half past, quater to, quater pass) and even touch abit on fraction in the 1st semester.

[ttyh]

I enrolled my kiddo to abacus class since he was in K1.

Abacus taught all foundamentals of Maths, number bonds.

It really helps.
He can do 10 rows of 2 digit number addition/subtraction since last yr.
and he is able to do 3-digit multiplication and division this yr.

When we are doing gorcery shopping on weekends in Giant, it’s always a Maths test for him. I will wheel him to the shelves and ask him to add the price of peas, cia xin and tomato. Not whole numbers, typically like $2.90, $0.89, $1.99, etc.

It really help to start early especially for Maths, the key thing is set the foundation right and gain his interest.

[buds]

chixchix:

Hii mummies ,I am so concerned.My son in MMI,k2 now, hasnt evenm learnt how to tell the time, hasnt learnt double digit subtraction, multiplication and division or even counting money. I am soooo worried.When I called the school, they said they dont push or rush things , they let the kids take it slow. Furthermore, my son's class always got teacher change.


I have managed to teach my son to tell the time, and double digit additions, but I am at a lost how to teach him the double digit subtraction. Can anyone help??

Also ,has your child already learnt the above stuff that I noted down... please share. ..

They should already have the operations ie. addition, subtraction and
multiplication, dearie. Time and fractions usually by mid-year, and then
followed by division and money by third quarter of the year.

Please do ask the supervisor.
Don't wait!

PS : How abt the Language part of it?