oh a colleague introduced me to this website ystday.
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/
i hvnt checked it out yet. BUT i shiver when i hear her story of wat a typical P1 exam paper qn looks like.
apparently, there is a drawing of a HDB block with a bicycle on the first floor, a tee shirt hanging out of bamboo pole on the second floor and a man watching TV on the 3rd floor. the maths exam question is
"which floor is the tee shirt hanging from?"
so the P1 child must know the concept of first and second, know how to read (and write) first, second, third... and also to recognise what is a tee shirt vs a bicycle vs a man watching tv.
i shiver for C1 when he is in pri sch 5 yrs later.
the same colleague also told me that we shd not use our yardstick of who we were at 2yo, 5yo, 7yo to apply to our children.. after all, tis a different generation.
m i turning into THE typical KIASU singaporean parent? i dunno. watch this space.
on a lighter note, that website also lists some places to go with kids.
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/places-go-kids
which i also havent read yet.
[dd, if you click on that website and look at the pri sch exam papers, you MUST rem to hu xi hu xi ok]
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/
i hvnt checked it out yet. BUT i shiver when i hear her story of wat a typical P1 exam paper qn looks like.
apparently, there is a drawing of a HDB block with a bicycle on the first floor, a tee shirt hanging out of bamboo pole on the second floor and a man watching TV on the 3rd floor. the maths exam question is
"which floor is the tee shirt hanging from?"
so the P1 child must know the concept of first and second, know how to read (and write) first, second, third... and also to recognise what is a tee shirt vs a bicycle vs a man watching tv.
i shiver for C1 when he is in pri sch 5 yrs later.
the same colleague also told me that we shd not use our yardstick of who we were at 2yo, 5yo, 7yo to apply to our children.. after all, tis a different generation.
m i turning into THE typical KIASU singaporean parent? i dunno. watch this space.
on a lighter note, that website also lists some places to go with kids.
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/places-go-kids
which i also havent read yet.
[dd, if you click on that website and look at the pri sch exam papers, you MUST rem to hu xi hu xi ok]