All About Preparing For Primary One

[buds]

Hi janet_lee88, you're more fortunate than me to have maid help out in

your house. Me? Never had maid. But hubs does a lot of the housework.:love:

So far the girls don't need tuition. By next year most prob will outsource
for Math for DD1 so less stress on me with #3 and intention to go back
to work. We enrolled DD1 for violin and DD2 for piano at their request
only sometime this year.

[jedamum]

buds,

pmed you.

[i3mum]

Hi janet_lee88,


Yes, indeed, it's very tough! So much things to follow up... I m so worried I might not be able to do what SAHM did.. and my kids will not benefit.. then I really feel v.bad about it.. then if I decide to be a SAHM , then I can't provide many thigns for my family .. sigh...

janet_lee88:

Hi buds,
With first child, register and worry later...although I was worried about Higher Chinese and English. He had group tuition since K2 for Chinese and then switched to one-to-one in P1. Spent quite a lot of time on him then as I had a reliable maid to look after younger one.

Now with 2nd child, hubby convinced me to register her in CHIJ bcos there is affiliation to sec school and Chinese is 2nd language. Yes, logistics is an issue with both in diff schools but should be able to handle.

Hi i3mum,
It's tough to be a FTWM. Take it easy in the meantime (K1 right?). I got kancheong only recently when I found my daughter rather slow and feedback from her teachers during PTM was discouraging.

[buds]

jedamum:

buds, pmed you.

Roger that. :salute:
Read and already replied.

[janet88]

Buds,

I had a maid when my daughter came along…calculated the costs and realized that we needed one and try to tahan until she is bigger. When she turned 4, we got rid of the 4th maid and we are maid-less now…happy and relieved from the stress and their attitude problems.

Hubby helps out with the housework and attends to the kids a lot now. He got fed up with the maids. He signed son up for Eng enrichment to lessen my pressure. But if I do not see his EL results improving, I am thinking of switching to individual since costs wise, it’s about the same per lesson.

[concern]

buds:

Your son is in a good school.. now i can further understand your stress. http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php


You are right, we should ensure children's foundation are right
and pretty solid prior to introduction to P1 activities. :celebrate:

Is it true that the stress level is higher in a good school compare to neighbourhood school for P1? :roll:

[janet88]

Hi concern,

Schools on the whole are rather pushy now, with MOE pushing hard on principals and HODS to produce results. Neighbourhood schools are are also trying to outdo each other in the same area for eg Bukit Batok, or Choa Chu Kang. They use one another’s past year exam papers to let their students practice.

My son is in Pei Hwa, which is a SAP school…meaning Higher Chinese and English are 1st languages. Higher Chinese is compulsory from P1.

[concern]

janet_lee88:

Hi concern,

Schools on the whole are rather pushy now, with MOE pushing hard on principals and HODS to produce results. Neighbourhood schools are are also trying to outdo each other in the same area for eg Bukit Batok, or Choa Chu Kang. They use one another's past year exam papers to let their students practice.

My son is in Pei Hwa, which is a SAP school...meaning Higher Chinese and English are 1st languages. Higher Chinese is compulsory from P1.

Hi Janet,
I must start tuning myself to current learning environment :shock:

Thanks for your reply.

[janet88]

Hi concern,

Talk about accustom, I need to re-tune my brain to ‘study mode’ again too. This June holidays, I’ve been rather relaxed although I set a time-table for my son.

[janet88]

My daughter went back to school happily.

She returned with English and Chinese spelling list. On top of her RC spelling, she is going to be very busy from now.
But I don't know where and how to find time to coach her