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| EEPhoon | 2006-11-23 15:46 |
| Thanking for sharing with us. Congratulation to you as your kid is excellent. He is 2-3 levels higher that SIS standard. You are a great mother as you choose a right school for your son. No much homework, no much stress but could develop such an excellent kids. Now then , I undertand why SIS is not up to your expectation. I admire you veru much! |
| leehoma001 | 2006-11-23 16:04 |
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| 一條毛 | 2006-11-23 23:54 |
| Leehoma001, It is a surprise that you admitted that you don't know exactly what kinds of things your kid has learnt from school. Correct me if I am wrong, this shows that you don't know the curriculum or syllabus of the school your kid is attending. If that is the case, can I trust what you have posted previously? |
| 一條毛 | 2006-11-24 00:17 |
| Leehoma001, One thing that I totally agree wtih you: kids can learn lots of thing by self reading. My son who is in PY1 of SIS knows most of the scientifc knowledge discribed by EEPhoon and much more. To name you a few: how fossil is formed, what are the different kind of volcanos, Mt Everest is a fold mountain, what is the differences between crocodile and alligator, different kinds of rocks (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic) etc......However, I am sure that these are not learned from school since I receive E-mail from his class teacher almost every week to inform me what is happening in the class. Quote: leehoma001 寫道: My kid is now studying at year 2 of ESF, therefore I can only tell about year 1 and 2. Homework: For year 1 - - read one English book per day according to the kid's reading level - read one more difficult English book together with parents per week - do a few lines of Chinese writing once per week For year 2 up to now - read one English book per day and write a short comment about the book - read one more difficult English book together with the parents per week - do a few lines of Chinese writing once per week - do one page of homework once per week, it may be to draw some objects at home when talking about shapes at school, draw a plant with labels when talking about plants at school, draw both sides of different coins and go to buy things with the same value and then draw the things that have bought, cut a fruit into half and portrait the fruit, do some measurements... etc. For both year 1 and year 2, there will be no formal test nor any formal exams. There will be two assessments per year. The teacher will ask the students one by one to conduct individual assessement by the teacher himself/herself while the other kids are doing some other activities during the lesson. Of course the kids will not be ranked. It is difficult to tell exactly what kinds of things my kid has learnt from school. However, my kid (in year 2 equivalent to P1 of SIS) has already known most of the science knowledge as described by EEPhoon. I don't know whether my kid learnt them at school or by his own reading as my kid likes to read the series of science and encyclopedia books I purchased by himself and he always tells me somethings that I haven't read or heard before. Quote: thankful 寫道: leehoma001, I remember seeing you mentioned in one of the threads that your kid is studying in ESF. Could you please tell us what sort of homework he is having on a daily basis and what sort of things he is learning in school? Thanks!Quote: |
| thankful | 2006-11-24 00:51 |
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| 一條毛 | 2006-11-24 01:18 |
| Thankful I know it is hard to believe, but I have told you the truth. My son started to read for himself since he is 3. Now, we go to public library from time to time to borrow books. My wife buys books for him whenever she thinks it is value for money no matter it is story book or science book. One of my son's favourite books are Pocket Scientist (which is divided into red book and blue book) published by Usborne. I agree with you that I am asking for trouble and congratulation that you are the winner! Quote: thankful 寫道: 一條毛 Just tell me that you are kidding only - I'm 45 years old and I still don't know any of the things that you mentioned. By the way, you are really asking for trouble. I'm sure that leehoma001 will tell you that her new born baby already knows all these things. So in order to pre-empt her rebuke, I would now declare that my kid (who is conceived this very instant) knows everything already. So my kid is the winner!!!Quote: 一條毛 寫道: Leehoma001, One thing that I totally agree wtih you: kids can learn lots of thing by self reading. My son who is in PY1 of SIS knows most of the scientifc knowledge discribed by EEPhoon and much more. To name you a few: how fossil is formed, what are the different kind of volcanos, Mt Everest is a fold mountain, what is the differences between crocodile and alligator, different kinds of rocks (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic) etc......However, I am sure that these are not learned from school since I receive E-mail from his class teacher almost every week to inform me what is happening in the class. Quote: leehoma001 寫道: My kid is now studying at year 2 of ESF, therefore I can only tell about year 1 and 2. Homework: For year 1 - - read one English book per day according to the kid's reading level - read one more difficult English book together with parents per week - do a few lines of Chinese writing once per week For year 2 up to now - read one English book per day and write a short comment about the book - read one more difficult English book together with the parents per week - do a few lines of Chinese writing once per week - do one page of homework once per week, it may be to draw some objects at home when talking about shapes at school, draw a plant with labels when talking about plants at school, draw both sides of different coins and go to buy things with the same value and then draw the things that have bought, cut a fruit into half and portrait the fruit, do some measurements... etc. For both year 1 and year 2, there will be no formal test nor any formal exams. There will be two assessments per year. The teacher will ask the students one by one to conduct individual assessement by the teacher himself/herself while the other kids are doing some other activities during the lesson. Of course the kids will not be ranked. It is difficult to tell exactly what kinds of things my kid has learnt from school. However, my kid (in year 2 equivalent to P1 of SIS) has already known most of the science knowledge as described by EEPhoon. I don't know whether my kid learnt them at school or by his own reading as my kid likes to read the series of science and encyclopedia books I purchased by himself and he always tells me somethings that I haven't read or heard before. Quote: thankful 寫道: leehoma001, I remember seeing you mentioned in one of the threads that your kid is studying in ESF. Could you please tell us what sort of homework he is having on a daily basis and what sort of things he is learning in school? Thanks!Quote: |
| cfanny | 2006-11-24 06:13 |
| EEPhoon, You mentioned you kid in in a higher Chinese class. Did u mean that he attended the Chinese class with the Grade 3 students? Thanks! |
| leehoma001 | 2006-11-24 09:49 |
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| leehoma001 | 2006-11-24 09:56 |
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| WYmom | 2006-11-24 10:03 |
| Quote: leehoma001 寫道: Unlike those traditoanl local school as well as SIS, ESF doesn't give us a detailed syallubus nor a detailed description of its curriculum. There are no text books, no test or exam papers and the homework I mentioned before was so limited. What ESF gave us is a just a very very brief decription of the study focus for the coming week at its web. However, I trust ESF's system very much from its good track records and also from the daily interaction with my kid and I know pretty well whether my kid can learn something from school. leehoma001, I disagree with you, ESF do give a detail cirriculum map at the beginning of each term, and they have systematic guidelines for parents to follow for English and Maths. My daughter's school even has weekly report to parents on what have been taught in each grade. Guess you may have missed these. Allow me to say something - it is not very meaningful to compare what exactly has each kid learnt at different school, in fact, now the kids can easily get a lot of info. by just pressing the search key on internet. The most important thing we expect from school is the development of strong initiative and confidence to learn by the kids themselves. I don't mind my kids learn less technical words but I am very glad that they are very eager to search for more info. and do more analysis on their own initiative. In this aspect, ESF can meet my expectations. I also know kids studying in SIS, they are Singaporeans and they enter this school naturally. It is good for us to exchange info. and interact with kids in different schools so that we all learn from each other. Hope you relax more. |
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