07-08學之園(海逸校)K2

LydiaWong

ljsze,
Thanks for your info. I'll consider it.

LydiaWong

Doris,
Glad to know that your baby girl is doing better now. A lot of premature babies can grow up healthy and strong.
The progress is much faster than Whampoa centre. It's good that Brian is improving well. Preston finds it boring now to do it and I'll try something else.

LydiaWong

ljsze,Doris,
Preston was excited about the function today and requested to bring his airplane(mickey mouse clubhouse-his favorite TV show) to school today. I'm sure the kids will enjoy it.
The weather is unstable and we planned to go to Disneyland but probably need to cancel again. Last time we planned to go was cancelled coz of the typhoon and this time again. Need to think of somewhere to go indoor tomorrow.

LydiaWong

hi, moms,
Glad the weather was great yesterday, we finally went to Disneyland. Out of expectations, there weren't too many people. We just needed to line up for ~10-15 min at most for most rides and some rides just no need to line up. Preston was much better than 2 years ago, he's more willing to try the rides. It's quite expensive to go there, we spent more than $2000 for the day.

LydiaWong

ljsze,
It's only our 2nd time to go to Disneyland. Last time was almost 2 years ago. Everything is expensive. The tickets, food, drinks and soveneirs. Actually, we also brought our maid with us and treated her for the day.

LydiaWong

Doris,
I also found it difficult to find a news clipping every week. Also Preston was not interested in cutting news.

We went hiking yesterday with my friends(totally 5 families with 6 kids at similar age) and we walked from Wan Chai (mid-level) to Aberdeen. The kids did very good and we walked for more than 4 hours. It's a great day for hiking.

LydiaWong

Doris,
He's soooooo tired afterwards and fell asleep on the bus after 10 min. and went to bed at 9pm that night. But it's a good training for the kids.

Too bad the outing was cancelled and hope they will reschedule soon.

LydiaWong

hi,moms,
Preston is sick today. Just took him to the doctor, said he got a stomach flu and fever. He's fine this morning and suddenly got sick. I guess the weather change make us easy to get sick.

LydiaWong

ljsze,bblaw,
Preston was much better now. It's the 1st time he vomited at school. The school called me after he had lunch and my maid went and picked him up. He had fever afterwards. We took him to the doctor and said he had stomach flu. Luckily he did not vomit again. Who else had the same symptoms? If a few of them got sick, then the school need to do some disinfection of the classroom to make sure the flu won't spread. ljsze, the health dpartment has not contacted me yet.

LydiaWong

ljsze,
Has Davin recovered? Back to school today?
What's is he learning now at e.nopi math? Preston just started his new math class on sat. Mr. Wu Shing seems to be quite strict. Over the weekend Preston is willing to practice and now already knows addition and subtraction of 1 digit after 1 class.

LydiaWong

ljsze,Doris,
I'm not too keen on Preston doing addition or subtraction at this stage. But this胡成珠心算 is to train kids the conentration, coordination of eye, ear and hand. He's the 1st man who teaches it and 歡樂今宵did an interview with him more than 10 yrs ago. Anyway, I plan to let him take 珠心算 in Whampoa but my friend highly recommend it so we travel to Cheung Sha Wan (my friend from HK side) to take the course. The best thing is that he teaches the class by himself. I also got good comments from BK members. I hope it worth it to make such a big effort to go.

Doris,
Once 4A is over, it's more interesting doing 3A (addition). But it's not easy to get through this stage. I'm just worried if continue Kumon until P1, it's too much to do every day plus school homework. My friend's son (just P1) needs to cut to 5 pages a day coz of the heavy workload.

LydiaWong

ljsze,
I totally agree with you. I don't like to take Preston to travel far for courses. My friend lives in HK side and she said a lot of kids travel to take that course. Then from other BK moms, one travel from Sheung Shui for 6 yrs just to take his course. I guess there must be a very good reason for her to do that. It's not easy to arrange ECA for kids, the time plus the travel. I don't want to exhaust him and make him lose interest. That's why he doesn't have a lot of courses after full-day class. (I stopped his Art class as well) You just need to make choices.

Doris,
Glad to know that you're much better and taking Brian to school, he must be very happy. Preston always asks me to take him to school or schoolbus but I leave very early. How's your little daughter? Is she gaining weight well?

LydiaWong

Doris,
Congratulations to your little girl for her great progress. I think she will go home soon.

ljsze,
I used to buy some cheap, cheap watch ($25) and since he got enough stickers and behaved well recently, we bought him this new watch at Disneyland. Actually, I'm worried that he'll keep looking at his watch in class.

LydiaWong

ljsze,
Good to know that the kids as well as the teachers like the class so eveyone enjoy it.

The weather is so nice and the kids can go to Art museum tomorrow.

LydiaWong

Doris,
Preston is very interested in reading the clock and about time. It's not easy for kids at this age to understand the clock, esp in they need to understand '1' is 5 min, '6' is 30min.... Preston mainly knows how to read the hour and every half hour.

He started his 1st mandarin class last night, the teacher is good. He enjoyed it very much and able to communicate with the teacher in Mandarin (mostly). I guess the teacher at LH is very good that the kids like  and learn mandarin well.

LydiaWong

Hei Ching mama,
Long time to chat. Welcome back. Preston also enjoyed the trip very much and keep saying that he's the only one in our house that went toe the Museum of Art. Miss Lai also told me over the phone that Preston kept asking questions and read the descriptions while he was looking at the dispalys. As ljsze mentioned b4, this class has a good atmosphere that the teachers and the kids get along very well and enjoy the school life.

原文章由 晞晴媽咪 於 07-10-13 17:46 硐表
Hi all,

Long time no see...seems that I haven't posted for a number of weeks...I am terribly busy to handle the school issues for my elder daughter recently. I have spent time to read your messages a ...

LydiaWong

ljsze,
Who's the mandarin teacher this year? Preston likes mandarin more than last year. I guess nowadays mandarin is so important coz some school teaches in mandarin. That's why I want Preston to learn better mandarin. It's good that your m-i-l speaks mandarin so Davin got the exposure.

LydiaWong

Doris,
I have no idea what visual arts is. I just cut a picture from the newspaper but I'm not sure if it's correct.

ljsze,
I'm just worried that some primary schools (esp. DSS) conduct chinese courses in mandarin that they expect the kids to understand mandarin already. It's also easier to learn language at younger age.

LydiaWong

bblaw,
Pls check pm. I stopped drawing class for Preston as well. Sometimes you need to make choices.

ljsze,
I just heard from some other moms about teaching mandarin in primary school. That's why some moms would choose Mandarin/English class and Cressida's mom make her learn mandarin 3 times/ week. Cressida is very good at mandarin and even went for mandarin speech competition. I just think if they're interested, they can learn better.

LydiaWong

Doris,
Thanks for your sharing. Preston doesn't like Disneyland very much. He likes the characters only and not the rides much. I have no idea where to go tomorrow and my hubby is not in HK. I have to take care of Preston by myself. Any suggestion?