小朋友讀IS, 學過或學緊公文中之家長, 可否Share

GG9190

HI,
公文中文適合IS小朋友嗎?
每天的家課多不多?
唔該share吓, thanks a lot.

mrsho

Dear christf,
Thanks very much.  I will read again your pm and the topic of  大平反!(再改標題)小朋友一年睇千 ...

By the way, I have contacted Helen but my schedule does not fit hers.  We will keep in touch.  Thanks again for your help.

原文章由 christf 於 07-11-21 16:31 硐表
Hi mrsho,

I have already shared some of the techniques with you in some of my previous PM to you and also you can refer to my sharings in the thread below:

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標題: 大平反!(再改標題)小朋友一年睇千 ...

mrsho

Dear Christf,

Would you please kindly help me to find the below topic.  Thanks.

For English learning, I think I have already shared how to build up the kid's English literacy, interest in reading as well as general knowledge through a systematic guided and self-reading scheme.

JennyL

I think Kumon has been in quite a lot of discussion topics, but I think it is worth discussing further.
I have heard from almost all primary classroom teachers (not from the same IS though) that they are quite against Kumon English and Math. In fact, most classroom teachers are against after school tutorial classes but many specifically mentioned Kumon.
Any views?

N70

I absolutely agree that Kumon is the most boring class I ever heard.  Homework of Kumon Maths has 150 questions a daily……

However, learning Chinese & English are quite..........I can only say difference.  For English, you can learn phonics to blend vocab.  Basically, my boy can be able to write 26 letters so that he can make sentences now, although some spellings are wrong.  

For Chinese (characters recognition), I think that it doesn't have any short cut to learn every single character, only copywriting and read it out repeatedly.  Although Kumon is boring, how can a child have fun for Chinese copywriting?  Even his Chinese homework from school also has copywriting 2 / 3 times a week.

However, I don't think Kumon can train him up be a fluency Mandarin speaker.  But I hope he could write an article just like a local primary student can do.   I'm not sure I've made a right decision.  Just have a try !!!  Never try, never know.

OKmom

原文章由 christf 於 07-11-21 09:31 硐表
Hi Yau_cheung

I haven't glanced through the Kumon Chi materials and cannot have an indepth comments on them.

However, one of the points I against Kumon is its style or approach apart from the conten ...

Hi, christf

In another topic, you mentioned your son can speak fluent Cantonese and good Mandarin. How about reading/writing, he learn them in Cantonese or Mandarin. Pls share.

We plan to put our 2.5-yr-old girl to IS, we can speak Cantonese and English but not Mandarin, if we want her to learn Mandarin in the future, it relies only on few hours Mandarin classes per week? I know the best way to learn a language is we can speak it at home and improve thru reading books, but we don't have this language environment at home, I can't read a story to her in Mandarin.  Pls advise.

Yau_Cheung

原文章由 christf 於 07-11-20 14:29 硐表
I would like to supplement some of my comments and views that are not stated explicity in the article after chatting with a few CP and EP.  My comments and views would surely not be welcome by those w ...

hi christf,

Nice to hear you again.  What do you think about Kumon Chi?   Is it similar to Kumon Eng?  Except Kumon Chi, how can we improve Chi (study in IS)?  Many thanks for your nice sharing.

N70

You're welcome.
I'd like to amend the daily homework to 20 pages (around 20 sentences).

[ 本文章最後由 N70 於 07-11-20 07:46 編輯 ]

MarcusMa

Hi N70,
Thank you for your sharing.

原文章由 N70 於 07-11-19 12:17 硐表
My boy (5 years old) has studies Kumon Chinese since October.  He needs to listen CD and read it out everyday, e.g. 馬在跑, 豬很胖, 兔子穿襪子, xx 穿褲子, 媽媽在洗筷子/盤子.....only few pages everyday ...

Yau_Cheung

原文章由 N70 於 07-11-19 12:17 硐表
My boy (5 years old) has studies Kumon Chinese since October.  He needs to listen CD and read it out everyday, e.g. 馬在跑, 豬很胖, 兔子穿襪子, xx 穿褲子, 媽媽在洗筷子/盤子.....only few pages everyday ...

hi N70,

Thank you for your nice sharing. :

N70

My boy (5 years old) has studies Kumon Chinese since October.  He needs to listen CD and read it out everyday, e.g. 馬在跑, 豬很胖, 兔子穿襪子, xx 穿褲子, 媽媽在洗筷子/盤子.....only few pages everyday and without writing at this moment.  Besides, he has to recite a poem once a week,
e.g. 搖啊搖,搖啊搖,船兒搖到外婆橋。
外婆好,外婆好,外婆對我嘻嘻笑。
搖啊搖,搖啊搖,船兒搖到外婆橋。
外婆說,好寶寶,外婆給你一塊糕。


This only occupied him 10 minutes a day approximately.  However, the homework will be increased gradually. If he can recognize and read them out to his teacher, he can move to the next level.  If he can't, teacher will give him the same stuff again until he can do it.

""公文中文適合IS小朋友嗎? ""

Every children have different characters.  I think it depends on your child.  I've known a boy, he studies year 3 in IS.  He takes Chinese, English & Maths.  He'd use almost 2 hours to finish 3 subjects everyday after school.   May be you would say "What a silly!!"  However, he loves to do so and he really enjoys it.

原文章由 GG9190 於 07-10-30 10:29 硐表
HI,
公文中文適合IS小朋友嗎?
每天的家課多不多?
唔該share吓, thanks a lot.

[ 本文章最後由 N70 於 07-11-19 22:04 編輯 ]

Yau_Cheung

原文章由 cocobean225 於 07-11-6 11:34 硐表
For kids studying in IS, what's the appropriate age for them to start Kumon Chinese?

I want to know too.  Many thanks.

cocobean225

For kids studying in IS, what's the appropriate age for them to start Kumon Chinese?