*waves* to everyone...
hows everyone been???
School update: during the pTC last month, teacher said eboy had difficulty staying still in class and thus doesn't seem to be able to "keep up with his peers".. imagine it was so bad they recommended i "pull him out from the school's full day enrichment" since he is not "benefitting from group learning". instead, they recommended i go 1-on-1 with him. *whoa, knife stick into my heart. the chinese teacher feedback was the worse. he refuse to speak chinese and communicate at all. *cue thunder and lightning*
so during the december holidays, me and Mr Mich made a commitment that our nights with eboy would be different now and everyday we will be spending structured learning with him for at least 1/2 an hour every night. It showed tremendous progress and i beg to differ with the teachers that eboy is not keeping up with his peers, As far as I am concern, he is doing fine.
What i wanted to share on chinese. eboy has been in berries for over a year. he enjoys it, yes absolutely. he could recognise some words, yes. but rarely wants to speak or read it out loud. So we did some internet googling. and we found a series of chinese books from popular. We started the book with him, doing a few pages a night (took less than 5min) and within a week, he could read chinese passages very well. I was amazed and so impressed, i felt so proud of him. must share this with all mummies whose child refuse to read chinese. he could do it so well now, he is self motivated to read more and more chinese everyday, and during the first week of school, chinese teacher wrote to me to say finally eboy could communicate in chinese!!!
its the sage formula books from popular. each book costs only $6.95 and basically just read a few chapters a night and just keep moving on cos the chinese words keeps repeating itself as you move on the chapters....
