2 weeks after school re-open, I foresee little Chi would learn about A-B-C. Not all, but at least the first 5 letters. I have not teach him alphabet, he can only sing the song.
He brought an alphabet exercise book home and traced letters via dot-to-dot. What surprised me was this,
He brought an alphabet exercise book home and traced letters via dot-to-dot. What surprised me was this,
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| A star above the word indicates he managed to read it with little guidance |
he has started reading the above flash cards (and what, he's only 4!). I must admit, I learned those words in Primary 2 or 3(?) during my years.
Who says kindy is all about play, sing and learn? Is it always so competitive? Looks like I'm not only busy at work but will be busy monitor both my kids' academic, too.
wah only at 4 and he is doing this...
ReplyDeleteyes, i am shocked!! they started to teach kids at 4 to read those??
DeleteI'm shocked too!
DeleteReading sentence kah?
Not just ABC? Whoah!
I was shocked, too. I thought the teacher would start with A-B-C first *faint*
DeleteAnd yesterday my son came home with mandarin flash cards - 我, 画, 爸爸 and 妈妈 *double faint*
kids nowadays so stressful..
ReplyDeleteneed to learn so many things in the early stage..
parents nowadays so worried about their children education..
Deleteand start giving teaching them at home..
well all parents care about their children academic..
so start young and be smart early..
Ganbatte ah hua..
yay i agree with that too!! kids nowadays have so many things to learn, and so many subjects to take care of!! and the knowledge they learn is far more deep than what we have learned at their age last time..
DeleteWorry so much and put children to learn at such young age. Later, burn out pulak. xD
DeleteMy son only goes to kindie at 5. Kemas kindie only. Me, so cheapo right? Not caring about son's education. ^^!
Lina's boy is so good and obedient. Mine is a naughty brat, only scared of teachers.
DeleteBut I wonder, am I turning into a kiasu mom or the education here is forcing me to become one?
Letters, not alphabet. The English alphabet has 26 letters... Very common Malaysian error.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the correction, King KampuArthur!
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DeleteLatin alphabet, not English alphabet..
DeleteMistake, not error..
:D
Lol. ..you make me laugh thambee! !!
DeleteMore than once, still a mistake...not an error, SK? And latin, you say?
DeleteClick this and see...:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet
Smart ass!!!
Chapter 3 of Gass, Susan M. and Larry Selinker. 2001. Second Language Acquisition, An Introductory Course. Here, a distinction is made between an error and a mistake from an SLA perspective, where:
Delete"Mistakes are akin to slips of the tongue. That is, they are generally one-time-only events. The speaker who makes a mistake is able to recognize it as a mistake and correct it if necessary. An error, on the other hand, is systematic. That is, it is likely to occur repeatedly and is not recognized by the learner as an error" (p. 67)
hahahaha!! cracks me up too.. yeah, i am SK the Smart Ass!! hail the King Kampuarthur Food Mayor of Sibu, my error has become a mistake and now corrected~~ :p
Deletethat's the difference between ET (English Teacher) talk and IT talk~~ :p
*Seeing stars above my head*
Deleteseriously my english also not very good...
DeleteI have very less pendidikan.... error or mistake is a PROBLEM..
all animals have problems..
jaws, burung, kucing all got problems...
perharps 10 years later they are start teaching the children. e = mc2 (mong cha cha) lol..
ReplyDeletemc2 = mong cha cha? LOL!
DeleteI can foresee you have a hard time to catch up with his school work. Gambateh!
ReplyDeleteand don't forget this Ah Hua doesn't know Chinese!! *faint*
DeleteI'll need to look for some helpful colleagues to put some hanyu pinyin below the Chinese characters so I can guide my little rascal at home. Or maybe I'll need to do a lot of googling~ x_x
DeleteYou may need to work along and review his flash cards from time to time.
ReplyDeleteyes, the card says "snakes slither".. the word is so deep I think for a normal person like me wouldn't have thought about it, but either say slide or crawl.. hahaha!!!
DeleteI was taken aback with those words too. Ah Hua better monitor so that can guide him tell. Mana tau he will tell you SP means Selalu Pancut!
DeleteWakakaka
me also don't know about the snakes slither..
DeleteI need to hide if I meet Lil Chi
but then the flash cards are not standard lah.. they have rabbits hop and snakes slither, but then the middle one only says butterflies.. where is the verb??
DeleteI was as curious as SK, haha! It should be printed as "Butterflies fly".
DeleteWhen I teach my son to pronounce the words, I need to do some relevant "action" to get him understand. I feel like a clown while hopping like a rabbit :p
oh i miss how i used to teach my nieces how to write
ReplyDeleteYou taught your nieces? How sweet and nice of you~
Deletewell your kid was such a clever one
ReplyDeletea truly gifted kid he was
he learns fast huh
i think we have here a genius
Children learn faster and they have better memory, unlike the adults (or is it happened to me only?) :)
Deletetake care alwasy yvonne and god bless you and you smart little kid
ReplyDeletehave a great day ahead and enjoy blogging
Same to you, too, MEcoy. Have a great day!
DeleteKids these days are getting more 'stressed' right?
ReplyDeleteThose words are quite hard for a 4yo...
DeleteYou must be getting quite stressed too...
yes, did they give Chi the wrong books?? those are for primary school is it?? :p
DeleteI'm the stressed one here, dei~
DeleteI need to upgrade myself up to the primary standard T_T
Snakes slither?? Wait, let aunty go look c look c on the dictionary first. And this is for 4 yo? *faint*
ReplyDeleteHahaha, I also learned the word "slither" just the other day :p
DeleteThose are difficult words! My adult beginners won't be able to read them! (@_@)
ReplyDeleteWill he learn Chinese hanzi as well, one day?
My hanzi (or rather kanji) reading ability is about the level of a four-year-old Japanese kid's! :p
I agree they are more for intermediate level and not for 4 years old!
DeleteMy son is learning Chinese character as well, but I failed my Chinese test because I was sent to a Malay/English school. So, high5, my level is about the same as yours, Ru :)
i also miss those school moments~
ReplyDeleteIsn't it ironic? when we were young, we wished to leave school the soonest as possible.
DeleteBut when we enter the corporate world, we want to go back to school.
I started teaching my son alphabets & numbers by using car plate number. Always stuck in jam...
ReplyDeleteSo he knows his alphabets and numbers from young age. ;p
Hey, I think I learned my ABC and numbers that way too :)
DeleteWe were poor back then and my parents hardly buy books for us. We learned counting the chicken, coconut, leaves and rocks.
I liked to sum up the car plate number. No depend on calculate and my brain was working fast to come up with the answer :D
that's called learning from whole word..kids recognise words easily.
ReplyDeleteAhh~ kids can memorize the words easily :)
DeleteFrankly, flash cards method is very effective.
LOL me also learn words in primary school instead of.kiddie. don't rememberych about kiddie.
ReplyDeleteI only had 1 year of kindy and all that I remember is, the playground!! LOL! You can tell I'm not a bright student :p
DeleteAisskkk..this year I am so pressure with the girls homework. For primary, I can't manage the BM..the kiddy pulak suffer in mandarin. Haizzz.
ReplyDeleteTotally understand that, Ling. I am also stressful during school days because after returning from work, I need to attend to house chores and monitor both my kids' homework and revision *sweat*
DeleteHi Yvonne, I might be going Taiping for a holiday, what's nice in Taiping, can recommend?
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear that you are planning to come here, Libby.
DeleteIf you're looking for food, Taiping is famous for its hawker food and seafood.
Casual market operates from morning till evening, offers variety of hawker food.
Kuala Sepetang, located about 15-20km from the town has a few nice and cheap seafood restaurants.
As for scenery, you can visit our infamous lake garden. Or you can go up to Maxwell Hill, via foot or jeep :)
Taiping is a very lay-back town, everything and everyone are in the slow pace, haha!
Laid back la Ah Hua. Later teacher scold you pulak for using a wrong word. Kekeke
DeleteLay back and sunbath in leopard print bikini.;p
Listen, listen, listen.... Got any teacher here? I thought all are bloggers? :p
DeleteChildren these days learn so much faster compared to our time. I remembered I was only able to read independently at the end of Std 1 but these days, kids can read even before they go to Primary school.
ReplyDeleteSo butter flies I presume?
ReplyDeleteHmmm....the kindy teaches funny english, butterflies indeed! We really can't do without kindergarten classes these days!
ReplyDeleteKids learn very fast nowadays, they are very different from our time. What looks difficult to us may not be so for them. Their brains are like sponge! :)
ReplyDeleteHi Yvonne, wow! He is learning fast! And yes, today's kindergartens do take a very educational approach where kids are concerned.
ReplyDeleteNext to where we live is a kindergarten, with kids as young as 3, and many from China, with parents not speaking England, ha ha...
And I can hear these kids talking in perfect Canadian accented English.
Your boy will keep surprising you in the days to come....maybe even tell you he like the little girl with pony tail sitting next to him, ha ha ha.
Have fun, Yvonne, stay beautiful.
Lee.
tell me about it when it comes to education nowadays, it makes me sweat a bucket, and my kids now are only p2 and k2!
ReplyDeletesometimes i think the ppl up there design the modules in such that tuition centres will have good business LOL
I learn the word Slither when I play a pc games called Heroes of Newerth ok? XD
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