The June holiday is here

June holiday is finally here. As DS didn't do really well in his SA1, I've made a holiday timetable for him to follow. He needs to work especially hard on his Chinese (his weakest subject in SA1, as expected). Before the holidays, I had already made it clear to him that he'll need to do work this holiday. It would not be a "all play no work enjoying month". He acknowledged that his results were not fantastic, so no complain when he learnt about the plan (I must compliment him on that).

During the last exam preparation, I realised the problem with his Chinese language is really his weak foundation. I tested him on the words learnt in P1 & P2 using the word cards (字宝宝) which I still keep, fortunately. There was about a quarter of the words he didn't recognise. I'm sure there would be more if I had added the P3 syllabus. So back then I already decided to reteach him the P2 & P3 syllabus in this holiday. I went to Popular and bought the required textbooks. We had started working on the P2 books even before the school closed for holiday. I was busy with the dumpling festival the last week, so we slowed down quite a bit. Now that things are more settled, I hope to catch up with my original plan to ensure that I can cover the 2 years syllabus in this holiday.

There are lots of things to be covered, not just Chinese. I just hope I'm not distracted by other things and can be determined to keep them going. Since it's the holiday, I also allow him to have his fair share of time to play and for TV in between to motivate him.