Mommy took a look at the Term 4 calendar and activities plan from the school and can't help to feel that term 4 always pass in a blink of an eye. Firstly, there are quite a number of public holidays and school holidays. Then, usually the school will be busy preparing for their year-end concert. Xuan informed that they have already started practising for the year-end concert on every friday where it is set aside for a day of fun with activities. They have also done the fittings for the costumes! Every friday, the children will have fun activities, games, role-playing and even learn skills such as folding clothes, dressing up and making your own beds.
Our Xuan looking smart and so grown up here. :D
Every child gets to take a picture with their favorite book.
Before the September holiday, Xuan brought back her Observation Folio back with lots of completed works. A lot has been covered for every subject and lots of practises too. Being in the graduation year, I guess a lot of re-cap will be done too.
In math, Xuan has learnt quite in-depth on the topic, Time. Given a time, she is able to draw hour and minute hands to show the time correctly. She is able to read time by hour and minutes so much better now. She is able to read time using quarter to, half past and quarter past very well. Beside that, she understands the concept of 1 hour later, 2 hours ago and half an hour ago well too. :)
Xuan continues building on her addition and subtraction skill up to 1000, with change and without changes. With the numerous practise and close supervision by the teacher, Xuan is so much more confident in numbers now compared to term 1. We are thankful of the low teacher to children ratio in the School Montessori environment that enables the children to have a lot of individual attention.
Addition within 1000 ..
Practises on time..
In English, Xuan has completed learning the basic grammar concept of has, have, present tense, past tense, a and an, this, that, those, these, plural and singular etc.... comprehension, vocabulary etc. Teacher commented that Xuan is doing fine and she is pleased with her overall performance. She just have to read more carefully so that she can choose the correct tenses. In term 4, the teacher is going to move on to more creative writing to prepare them for P1. Talking about creative writing, the term 4 spelling list gets challenging too. Mommy almost fell off her chair. There are phrases such as "tears crept down his cheeks, trembled with fear and it also includes "Once upon a time, on a windy and cloudy day" for the opening of short story writing.
In Chinese, a lot of practises on 量词 and getting the strokes correct on writing and of course hanyu pinyin. Thankfully, Xuan can write chinese characters pretty well and neat most of the time. :) With weekly berries and the chinese speech and drama class in school, we hope Xuan will be able to cope next year when there is higher chinese in her primary school and most importantly to maintain her interest in learning chinese!
