All About Your Child

There is no school for my Primary 2 boy today. In fact, because of PSLE (Primary School Leaving Examination) oral examination today and tomorrow, there is no school for all Primary 1 to Primary 5 pupils, as the Primary 6 students need a quiet environment to get through their oral examination.

The school has thus declared today as eLearning Day for all pupils from Primary 2 to 5.

Their objectives of this eLearning Day is to provide pupils an alternative learning experience facilitated through technology, to enhance pupils’ and school’s readiness in the event of school closure and to enhance the life skills of pupils in the 21st century, such as independent and self-directed learning.

All P2 to P5 students are given specific assignments t to be completed from home and could only be taken from the school’s eLearning portal from 8am to 12.30pm.

They had to login with their Birth Certificate and school ID in order to begin.

So while I am getting this blog post up, he is sitting next to me enjoying his eLearning Day. For the first time, he would NOT hear me say, “Keatkeat you have spent too much time infront of that rectangular screen. Stop now.” *laugh*

With this introduction of eLearning Day, will there come a time whereby students no longer goes to school and all lessons would be taught through the internet? Oh no! Then teachers would become jobless!!!

Does your child school have eLearning Day too?

I do not really bother about how a pencil is held. But if it starts to cause unnecessary uncomfort or distraction when my children are doing their school work, then its a sign that something needs to change.

Since preschool, I  had never liked the way Keatkeat gripped his pencil. It was way too low, so much so that his fingers were holding onto the ‘exposed wooden part’ of the pencil, where its slanted, and his weak fingers kept sliding down to the pencil tip.

Even after thousands of times of reminding him to “Hold Higher”, Keatkeat still finds it difficult to change his way of holding the pencil.

As for Binbin, he holds his pencil as if he is writing Chinese calligraphy, which forces his fingers to exert more energy because there is little support at the bottom of the pencil, thus his fingers get tired very easily.

That was the case for a long time until I found this early childhood rubber pencil grip for kids during December last year. I did not blog about it back then because I need to test its effectiveness first.

So I gave it a few months to show its worth.

Keatkeat

Yes, its showing signs of improvement for both of them after more than 6 months, I guess, it is not a get-fix-quick kind of remedy. Habits die hard!

The kids really need more time with the rubber pencil grip, before they could start holding the pencil the ‘right’ way, without the rubber pencil grip that is.

Binbin

If your child is starting to learn how to hold a pencil, then this early childhood rubber pencil grip would probably do much more for him or her, as compared to my boys who had been holding their pencil the ‘wrong’ way for years.

Early Childhood Rubber Pencil Grip for Kids