Parent-Teacher Meeting, School, etc

Teacher-Parent Meetings are quite nerve-wrecking sometimes.

Attended one yesterday with Kieran's childcare centre. The English teacher said he's an average student and while he had no problem at "Show & Tell", he couldn't tell a story from pictures. I find this a little contradicting.

The Chinese teacher said he has improved tremendously as he could converse in Mandarin well unlike in the past where he peppered some English.

With the encouragement of some friends, we plan to enrol him into a Hanyu Pinyin class soon as we heard starting P1, Hanyu Pinyin is highly emphasized. Sigh... he's not even good at phonics and now he has to learn something completely new. I remember I first learned Hanyu Pinyin at P3 (I must confessed I liked it) but am utterly surprised that kids at a tender age of 6 has to learn the whole works!

He may not be academically inclined at this moment, but he is great at sports. His gymnastic lessons went very well but due to his young age, he couldn't progress to intermediate level (minimum age is around 8). His swimming is taking off very well and he now looks forward to the lessons.

In the afternoon, we took him to the Science Centre to participate in a Kids Lab program organised by BASF - The Chemical Company (psst, not the tape company anymore, mind you). He did 3 experiments on slime, toothpaste and blue pigment.