All About Your Child

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

Yup! Children’s Day has been changed to the first Friday of October. It is no longer 1st October anymore for children in Singapore. Personally, I think its a GREAT move! Long weekend! Yeah! *Grin*

Yesterday, Keatkeat asked me: “Mummy, I will finish all my worksheets from school today but can we not have any worksheets from you tomorrow? Its Children’s Day tomorrow. I want to have fun, fun, fun!”

Me: *Nodded*

Keatkeat exclaimed: “YEAH!!!” *jumping a little*

This morning, Binbin said: “Mummy, its Children’s Day today so no worksheets, right? Its play, Play, PLAY, right?”

Me: “Yes, Children’s Day is play, Play, PLAY!”

Binbin shouted: “YEAH!!!”

Just in case you are wondering why did they ask that, I mentioned in an earlier post “Does Your Child Fear Exam?”, I give them revision worksheets EVERYDAY, except Sundays, because of our weekly routine visit to spend a day with their grandparents every Sundays.

When your children do revision everyday, they can afford a day of FUN and PLAY, even during exam period! *Grin*

Happy Children‘s Day!