Chatroom for St. Teresa's School Parents

Nonna

Longman,

           唔該晒妳 !
               
kelvinmom,

           我囡囡都讀緊nursery, 但佢都學到 I FOR ICE-CREAM . 另外. 妳無需要迫佢學. 例要1-20我囡囡都識, 不過唔係我特別教佢. 其實在生活上, 如乘搭電梯時(有顯示牌亮著每層樓的數字) , 妳可以以玩嘅形式教佢,特別容易入腦. 同樣, 我有一個問題- 英文方面如在nursery巳學咗A-Z , 到K1時是否重覆學習 ?         

Longman

kevinmom:

我大女亦是一個好不專心的小朋友，他入學前也不懂1-20同英文字，我都擔心他上學會不適應，初時我抱著一顆平常心試一試，心想萬一她不適應就和他轉校。但出奇地除了在學校上學到這些生字外還多了一份學習的熱情，相信學校出了不少功夫。

我想現在你不需過份擔心，小朋友的適應力好多時非大人想像之內，即管讓你兒子試一試吧！

Nonna:

如果你的女兒在幼兒園已學懂A-Z，相信在K1要重複學習這些英文字母了。

Chior:

基本上我是一位在職母親，平時沒有多大的時間替女兒們溫習，所以我都沒有什麼tips 。我的兩位女兒性格很極端，大女兒是一個十分活潑的小朋友，專注力比較弱，時常坐唔定，但她學野比較快。小女兒則是一位內向的小朋友但專注力較強，他們同時在同一間學校裡讀書他們同樣都很喜歡這所學校。
我個人覺得他們在學校裏所學的已很豐富，所以我假日通常與他們四出遊玩

你呢？你的小朋友是怎麼樣的性格？

Jennifer:

好多謝你的CDs！我D女睇得好開心呀！
update content....無問題，不過我好大頭蝦，如果我唔記得你記住pm提提我喎 :wink:

toffeeli

Kelvinmom,

I do face the same dilemma when I was looking for a kindergarten for my son. Should I choose a traditional school or an activity based school? My husband comforted me saying that we could change at any time since it was just kindergarten. Don't think we have no choice or otherwise our tension would pass on to the children and this would be real harm to them.

Finally I chose a traditional one. I don't know whether it is a right decision or not because my son had not tried an activity based one. And yet, he is now "so far so good".

My son is also a very active boy but he never told me he didn't want to go to school. I also know another father and he told me that his son was so active at home and yet at school he behaved so well. I believe the school wouldn't force the child to learn or penalise them because of the academic achievement.

I also agree with Nonna that we may find other ways to help our child to memorise things like numbers and alphabets. Let them appreciate the interest of learning is in fact far more important and has a more long term effect. When I found my son picked up a book from the bookshelf and read by himself, it was a much greater reward to me than having 100 marks in his dictations or getting "A"s in the exams.


toffeeli  

Nonna

Longman,

             其實中文都幾深呀! 不過數學及英文程度相對上程度會否一樣深呢!

Orange

Longman, Jennifer & toffeeli
Thanks so much for your valuable info.
Besides the academic lesson, is there any extra activities for the kids?  Thanks.

kamen

Longman,
Thank for your detailed information!

Orange,
好似就無乜課外活動，番學就有生日會、halloween party、Christmas party、K2K3就有旅行、Ｋ3有教區同樂日。
不過我就咁諗佢嘅學費平，自己安排課外活動比佢加埋都平過某Ｄkg。

toffeeli

講開又講，其實STS有些活動幾有用。好似我囝囝K1時有一日是嬉水日，之前我不知幾擔心學校能否照顧咁多小朋友(那時我仔都未夠3歲)，但最大收獲是他再不怕水!

其他又有BBQ及打邊爐，去海洋公園，每次都學到

kevinmom

tofffeeli, longman

真係好多謝你o地既意見!我諗我多數都會試下比囝囝o係
St. Teresa讀k1, 因為真係好多人讚呢間幼稚園!

但係我想問你地有冇報其他英文playgroup?St. Teresa 既英文程度又係點呢?

TKS!

Kevinmom

toffeeli

kevinmom,

Since the start of K2 school term, my son attended the Saturday English School in ESF.

Personally, I think the English standard of STS is high compared with other local kindergarten. But it is definitely not designed as an international school with an english speaking environment nor is there a peer group of native english speaking children.



toffeeli

Nonna

toffeeli ,

          其實妳比囝囝k2所讀嘅英文課程,大概會教怎麼, 因為我都想比囡囡讀, 但係唔知應該學邊d先適合小朋友, 請給點意見!

nonna  

toffeeli

nonna,

You may click into the website to have a look.

http://www.edservices.org.hk/.

Actually, they also organise regular open day at the end of each term so that parents may visit the class and see what the children are doing in class. Because the new school term will just start this Sat, I think the next open day will be in mid-Mar.

Well, I think I may not be able to give you too much advice regarding which english playgroup is better because I've not explored too many other institutions (I'm the lazy type of mother). However, I may share with you my personal experience.

I choose ESF for serveral reasons:

1. I would like the place of after school activities for my son to be close to home. Also, I would like to see how my son would perform under the international school system (though Sat. school should be much different from the regular school). Frankly speaking, I'm still exploring whether international school suits my son more.

2. I think learning english should be a long term process. I don't expect imminent results. So I like ESF because they offer different levels from reception to secondary. Also, I like three hours course.

3. The Sat school does not only emphasize phonics and I feel like my son participating in some international school life (though not totally the same). My son enjoys the "show and tell" so much.

4. I remember once in an open day, one of the parents spoke in Cantonese. A few kids in the class immediately said "Speak in english. No cantonese in class". Everybody laughed.

Personally, I believe going to english playgroup is not enough. It would be best if we can spare some time a day to talk with our kids in a total english environment and read with them.  

  
toffeeli

Nonna

toffeeli


        thank you !

nonna

toffeeli

nonna,

唔好客氣，其實我自已都唔多識，撞撞

Chior

Longman,
我倆個孩子都活潑，個細女比較個性强，哥哥就較純。我只是擔心個女會在做功課時搗蛋，影響哥哥。你的女兒能自動自覺做功課嗎？

Toffeeli,
I am also interested of the ESF saturday school.  How do you feel about the program so far?  I would take a look at that website.  

Honney

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toffeeli 寫道:
nonna,

唔好客氣，其實我自已都唔多識，撞撞

Honney

我個ｂ識晒A-Z,1-10架啦，我依家教佢寫”人”同”十”呀，係咪好誇張呢

Jennifer

Honney,

妳真係好誇張喎!

其實妳依家可以教佢做線條exercise,坊間有很多這些習作賣,仲好過教佢寫字啦,因為我聽一些家長分享,其他樣樣都可以教,但不要先過老師教小朋友寫字,因為當寫到一些較深的字而又要考慮"筆順"的話,便會有很多問題發生................ :cry:  

Honney

Jennifer,

係呀，因為我見佢識寫線條呀．．所以，哈哈

Longman

Toffeeli:

我都好想知 ESF 多些資料，可否講多些少？ :wink: 如老師、環境、上課時間、收費等等.....謝謝你！

kamen

Honney,
我都贊成jennifer講唔好咁快教佢寫字比佢做多Ｄ線條練習就夠了，練吓手仔。

另外我個女嗰班主任唔主張教得快過佢地，佢話小明友識得就會冇興趣上堂。
我就比個女學phonics因為學校冇得學，佢由兩歲幾開始學，都有少少成績。