Hi avrilf, thanks. Do keep me in the loop after your planning. Me currently planning for my family trip to Bali too. I checked out ICR programme on SAT, was told that my son needs to take a test to see if he can fit into the creative writing class. He did qualify to get into the class. I found out from the teacher, it may takes up to 1 month or more for a kid to finish writing a piece of composition. It depends on the individual kids as well as the class progress. They actually start off with a story reading, then analysis the story - comprehension, learning of words before getting the kids to start writing their composition in parts. But the kids in P1 and P2 are placed together in a class, which i feel abit unfair for P2 kids. My hubby commented to me that some of the teacher's whose certificate are displayed actually graduate from psychology, so he is asking if they can teach english language or not though they are all foreign teachers. All in all including the material fees is about $506 per term.
For mummies who are interested to get Wii, I got it last week as I cannot stand put off the purchase to another date. Reason is : I want to PLAY
Anyway, there is a recent price cut among Wii, XBOX and PS3. I got my Wii for 349 with free 1 game (5 in 1 sports). My son has been enjoy playing the tennis, good workout for him who hardly exercise except sch PE lessons.
My son also selected for star award, however we do not know what it is all about until I read Jolene's posting. He is so happy as only 1 person in the class got selected. His sch no exam hence no positioning.
Popular's mag is out. I just got it yesterday. Now waiting for my son to get his booklist so that I can compare what to buy. Since popular giving out 5% discount, most likely I would get from popular. Also saw a few parents shopping for assessments books, so WanWan you are not alone. Maybe all of us who have yet to action are all too late
FZ, for finished assessment books, I just dump away to clear space when it is finished. Now wondering which NTUC outlet is collecting P1 textbooks. Just discussed with hubby we would donate them away, but got 1 or 2 textbooks some parts are out already.