All About Your Child

(Singing to the famous tune)
“This is the way I do worksheets, I do worksheets, I do worksheets.
This is the way I do worksheets, most of the time…”
*laugh*

No, no, no…. That is NOT the song he sang in the video, just that this song came to my mind when I typed the title down. *bleh*

Finally!
Yes!
Finally I managed to catch him on camera without him knowing.

Singing and doing school worksheets/homework at the same time!
Even moving his body a little as he sang…

When he discovered I was filming him, the ‘mobile phone tug of war’ began. *laugh*

So what made him agree to NOT delete the video and allow me to post it on this blog? 2 pieces of GoGos!!!
*faint*

Oh well, its a good trade-off, because its great to record such moments and be able to relive that moment again many years later… provided YouTube does not die on me… *fingers crossed*

So that is how he has been making his worksheet-time enjoyable. What does your child do to make his/her worksheet-time enjoyable?

This is the way I do my Worksheets

Now I can say, “my CHILDREN are Primary School kids.” What a great summarising sentence, compared to last year, whereby I had to say, “One is in Primary 2 and the other is in Kindergarten 2.”

It was great to see how excited Binbin was, when he woke up at 8.30am this morning.

So different from his elder brother’s level of excitement.

Binbin was constantly looking at the clock and asking frequently, “What time do we need to leave the house? I don’t want to be late for school.”

“What time do I need to start bathing? I don’t want to be late.”

“What time are we going for lunch? I don’t want to be late on my first day of school.”

“What time do I need to finish my lunch. Cannot be late leh!”

etc… *laugh*

It was even more wonderful to have Keatkeat ‘sneaked‘ into the canteen with my camera phone to take this shot! ‘First Recess’.

Its something that I could not capture when Keatkeat was in Primary 1. *sigh*

Binbin’s buddy was as shy as Keatkeat’s buddy and was also a Primary 5 student.

Keatkeat really looked like a Primary 1 student when he went in to look for his brother. Ohhhhh Keatkeat, please stop slouching and grow taller…. faster!

They loved this big chess ‘board‘ because its painted with their favourite colours! Keatkeat loves blue and Binbin loves green!

Binbin was as cool as a cucumber today! I am so proud of him. *Grin*
The ONLY thing that makes me frown is the 30mins break on every school day.

Binbin needs to be in school at 12.30pm
Keatkeat is out from school at 1pm

30mins to go home and come back is not a sensible move because I could only stay at home for 5mins before I had to come out again. I can hardly do anything decent in that short time.

So loitering around the neighbourhood with Allan was what we did today. But the thought of doing it for ONE WHOLE YEAR ?!?!? *frown*

Binbin’s First Day as a Primary 1 student

It was a proud moment for Keatkeat today.

He was so happy, he rattled on the moment he saw me when I went to fetch him from school today, “Mummy, why did you say that ONLY Maths can get full marks? I got full marks for my English! English can get full marks too!
My English teacher said that I am the ONLY ONE who got full marks for the English (trial) Exam Paper in my class. And because of that, she used my paper to help the whole class to do corrections.
You see, (pointing at the red markings and yellow highlights made on his English (trial) Exam Paper) these were written by my English teacher. She drew on my paper to explain to the class and I just sit back and listen, don’t need to do anything.”

Me: “Well, I said Mathematics is the ONLY subject that can score full marks because, so long as you do your workings correctly and get the answer right, you will get your marks.
Unlike English and Chinese, because the languages test you on Comprehension. Different teacher has different standards, so some may not like the way you phrase your sentence and would deduct points. So it is more difficult to get full marks for English and Chinese papers.
I did not say it was impossible! But you did something that I have never achieved before! I have scored full marks for Maths paper when I was a kid, but never for any other papers! So Great Job, Keat! (squeezing him like a teddy bear…) I am sooooooo proud of you!” *Grin*

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Alright, so now he got full marks for his English (trial) Exam Paper, let’s see how well he would score for his ACTUAL English Exam Paper this Friday. *fingers and toes crossed*

***For some reason, the slideshow from Picasa could not work. If you want to look at his paper. You can click here:

English Exam Paper (Trial)

When he told me that his school gave him a mock Maths exam paper on Monday and that he was the FIRST to HAND IN his paper, I was a little skeptical as to how well he would perform. In fact, right after looking at my expression, he said, “Sorry Mummy, I didn’t check before I hand in the paper again.”

Me: “Why?”

Keatkeat: “Because I have never been the first to hand in any paper before. I want to feel good being the first.”

Today, his teacher returned him the paper….

Oh well, let’s see if it pays off:

I am so happy that the teacher gave Keatkeat’s class a trial test on how the Maths exam paper scheduled on 31 October 2011 would be like.

From this I will know what are the areas Keatkeat need more practice on before he tackles the ‘real thing’ at the end of the month.

Yet, when I looked at the paper, *sigh* …. it confirmed once again that it is his personality problem.

Carelessness:

Lack of concentration and being overconfident often lands him in this type of situation.

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Presumptuous:

The moment he saw this question, he assumed that it is a number bond. He did not bother to look at the arrow nor the numbers provided beside the arrows. When he could not see his ‘assumed answer’ in the multiple choice, he just pick any which he fancied.

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Laziness:

Since Primary One, he has been lazy to do the working for number pattern. He would ALWAYS look at ONLY two numbers in the whole line of number pattern and if the difference between that two numbers is +4, he would assume that the whole number pattern is based on that addition. *sigh*

He simply refused to check if the other numbers on the number line were a difference of +4 as well. Lazy! Assuming! *shake head*

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Over complicate things:

He feels that the empty box given is too big for ONE answer and so he chose to write two numbers in the boxes. *faint*

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Lack of Concentration Stamina:

It has become a trend for Keatkeat that he would ALWAYS get the last question on the last page of the paper wrong! *faint*

He often loses concentration-stamina faster than a falling metal ball towards the end of every paper. If he ever gets 99/100, I would not be surprise that the last point was lost in the last question of the paper. *sigh*

Because he did so well, he deserved a reward. We went out the whole day on today, forget about exam, forget about revision, forget about school work. Just play and enjoy fully for a day. He well-deserved it! *smile*

Well done Keatkeat! Hope you do as well as this for your Actual Maths Exam Paper end of this month. *fingers crossed*

Keatkeat is not an expressive child, in terms of words; but in actions, oh man! you can get all sorts of expressions! *laugh*

Whenever he wants to relate a scenario in school, we are often confused first, followed by questioning, before we could finally understand what he wanted to say. He does not fall into the ‘talkative’ category definitely and that hurts his composition dearly. He had his English composition paper on 21 September 2011, so that is over.

After 1 and a half year of home training on his English composition, I hope he would NOT write a story full of those below 6 words in a sentence kind of essay for his English composition exam; and I crossed my fingers and toes that he would REMEMBER to write that tiny dot at the end of every sentence: i.e. FullStop / Period.

Forgetting to write that tiny dot would then make him forget to write Capital letter for the first alphabet of the first word in the next sentence.*shake head*

As for Comprehension, all I can say is his concentration dies as he flips through each page of the exam paper. Comprehension is always the last section of the English paper, which is also the time when he would be losing his concentration at a racing speed.

When that happens, sentences like “Lily has not received the letter.” would be read as (in Keatkeat’s head), “Lily has received the letter.” Thus it affects the answer he provides in the question and answer section. *sigh*

Last but not least, he often thinks faster than he writes, so he would miss out words in his sentences, causing him to lose marks for poor grammer. For example, instead of writing “Snakes move on the ground by sliding their body.” He would write, “Snakes move on ground by sliding body.” *eyes rolled*

What kind of Common English Mistakes does your child make for English?

Common English Mistakes