Week # 9- Sonshine

 

 

If you can't tell by now, i am working on a routine with sonshine. Monday to Wednesday, he would work on English or Maths (i'll alternate every week) and every Thursday to Friday, he would work on Mandarin.

 

This week, it is Math and mandarin.

 

Math: we continued with Kumon grade 3 Word problems. He did multiplication word problems. This time, he did it with ease, correctly selecting the multiplicand and multiplier.

 

 

I also bought him Kumon book Addition and subtraction. I used to laugh at people who bought this book. Because i think it's a total waste of money. Why need to buy when you can come up with the questions yourself? But yes, i went to buy it & now i know the answer. Because we are too lazy to set the questions ourselves!

 

I wanted sonshine to do, because i want him to get as much practice as possible. He actually was able to them with ease.

 

 

For mandarin, we did our usual SWKD. And worked on a page in one of the Primary 1 assessment book we own. In it, he had to select the correct words that fit into the sentence.

 

We continued to work on Europe map. By now, he's able to complete the puzzle 70% on his own. I love this, because he naturally remembered the location of each country. He also studied the county outline of Portugal, Spain and one more that i forgot. :P

This and that

Last 2 weeks, Sonshine worked on Math, English and mandarin.

 

I have started Kumon grade 3 book with sonshine. He worked on multiplication problem sums. I was particular about him getting the multiplicant and multiplier right. It was down right confusing for both of us but i had to insist that he gets it right because this is what the schools are expecting.

 

My attempt to help him understand which is the multiplicant and which is the multiplier. I drew pictures and group them. I taught him that say 3 groups of 2 meant that we have to multiply 3 by 2 i.e 3X2 not 2X3 (yes, i know, both give the same answer). The page was eventually scribbled by doll, who else?

 

I love this Grammar assesment book. I think it really test the child's grammar. The questions are in multiple choice format which works very well for sonshine since he hates to write. And the questions are not straight-forward, requires some thinking and full understanding of the grammatical rules. The questions work as a check for me to see how well he understood the grammatical rules.

 

We completed 2 more chapters of SWKD. I must say he is doing very well. I appreciate that it does not take him long to remember and recognise new words. Phew. I dread it when it comes to doll cause i suspect she is not quite like her brother in this department. -__-

 

He learn to write two new words, one of which conincidently was a new word he learnt from SWKD book. Works well for me since it helps to reinforce his learning.

 

 

I wanted to inject more fun stuff  in our home learning. So i am re-introducing continent work to him, something he is interested in. I am hoping as he work more on this puzzle, it will edge in his mind the locations of the countries in the continent.

 

I also made cards on European countries. On each card is a shape of a country on the continent. So far, he has learnt to recognise Italy, Germany, Denmark and Sweden just by looking at their country outline. We also revised the capitals of these countries which he has forgotten.