JS’s School Progress

Last Wednesday 24th May, 2006 was suppose to be JS’s school Parent and Teacher’s day. I have forgotten about it (actually mistaken it to be the last day of school which is Friday) and also JS was sick at home so we missed it.

Went to collect her exam papers and report card on Friday. Her marks
Mandarin : 66%
BM: 100%
English: 98%
Maths: 96%
Science and Hygene : 100%

I know she must of gotten some help from the teachers during exam, else she won’t get this grade. I didn’t even prepare her for the exam, thinking that don’t want to pressure her.

In her report card, most of the items she has got GOOD grades from the teacher. Those highlight as making progress were English (pre-writing skill, simple spelling), BM (suku kata, oral fluency in BM, ability to ask in BM, Ability to listen and retain info in BM, ability to use BM to communicate and pre-writing skill), Mandarin (chinese stroke) – I’m surprise other area in Mandarin she scored GOOD.

Overall comment: She’s good. Taken interest in her work. Very good in singing and loves music.

I don’t know how accurate is the marking in the report card. Have the teachers been lenient or have I underestimated her. I can see that she loves doing her homework. She can colour very well (only at home, the workbook she brought back from school is so different from the work she’s done at home. Her colouring at school was a mess)

Haven’t been reallly pushy with her learning. Have not done much home schooling lately. Never press on her writing skill as I think she’s still young. (Am reading through my text book on child development, topic on development of language and communication in preschool children. I know it’s not right to start writing at the tender age of 3, somemore on a workbook with blue and red lines which is so confusing to a young kid, so I’m going in depth into my text book to confirm it. ). In fact I have been taking in a more relaxing approach lately. Maybe I should slowly start flash card and spelling again on introducing new words to her. I’m going to put what I learn daily from the text book and apply it to my kids.