Recent content by jesschan

Hi! It's coming to the end of Feb, time really flies! How're your kids coping with secondary school? My boy is starting to feel the stress already. Everything is moving so fast.....

Thanks, Wen. Yes, that's his first choice.

Hi VQ, My son is in HCI, now still honeymoon period. Your girls are very hardworking, now already start studying. Mine seems no mood to study yet, just reading his EL & CL literature books. I do not intend to get him any tuition for now, thought it is better to let him settle down and get...

Aha! This thread has finally gone alive again. How's everyone?

Hi there! Any mummies still watching this thread? Our kids are doing their PSLE right now. Wish everyone all the best!

I think it is quite common these days for teachers to rush through the syllabus in order to commence on revision as early as possible. This is especially true for P6 since prelims are in Sept. I suppose it is good for the brighter kids or kids with tuition, but for those without, they may have...

Hi Rains! My kids are having their main papers from today too. But I heard that some schools have already completed everything. How old is your younger one now? Are you planning to go away for the Dec hols?

Hi! Is SA2 over for your kids? Next year is PSLE year. This thread was started when they were in P1, how time flies.....

Yeah, agree with Rains. I feel that some of the phrases used by kids in creative writing is really too "unnatural". Maybe, in our local context, hardly anyone uses these kinds of description in real life....

Rains, How old is your baby? Was the older one jealous since she didnt get to go?

Rains, I don't quite like Bangkok either, feels unsafe and the traffic quite messy.... We didn't get to go anywhere becos my son has to go back to school almost everyday. Anyway, 3 more days and school holidays will be over....

My boy managed to get 85 and above for all subjects except HMT which he got only 78, pulled down by compo. But the school is a neighbourhood school, standards ususlly not cery high. Will need to monitor his HMT closely. If there is no improvement in SA1, may consider dropping the subject in term 3.

CA1 is finally over. My boy just completed his HMT paper yesterday. All results should be out by next Monday.......

Rains, My boy used to do direct translation from English to Chinese too. But he is now better after I highlighted some differences to him eg. we can mention "time" at the end of a sentence for English - I went to the library "yesterday" or I took it "first". But in Chinese we usually mention...

Rains, my boy hardly reads any Chinese books. Despite that, his CL compo writing is not too bad and he is able to use good phrases taught by his compo teacher rather aptly. That's why I think at primary school level it is still possible to score around 30 to 33 for compo ( Er.... maybe that's...