Plan for her Tree

Ms. Burrito suggested that we should put a round seating area under her tree.  I must admit that even when it is very hot outside, you can   lay  down underneath the tree and it's  relaxing.

I told her that when the tree gets a little taller, we might do that.

Score High in School with the Most Excellent Maths Tuition

Math is a subject which can be very easy if one gets a good grasp of it, and extremely difficult if one does not understand how a certain calculation is supposed to be made. Hence, having your child take Math's tuition classes can be very beneficial for him and help him not only to score high marks in school, but also to enjoy solving different problems in the subject.

There is a reason that tuition in Singapore is gaining prominence all over the world. Children who take such classes show a marked improvement in school and their grasp of different subjects improves to a great extent. The most important aspect of such tuition classes is the fact that a child is taught Math in a manner that is enjoyable to him. Because a classroom atmosphere can get quite boring and monotonous, a child tends to lose interest in the subject. A private tutor for A Math's tuition and other level of math can help a child learn in the most interesting way, and it would be seen that he has had an actual understanding of the particular topic that is being taught.

Enrolling your child for Math tuition is a great idea because he gets to learn the subject at home, in a comfortable atmosphere, without any distractions from other individuals. Therefore, it gives him the opportunity to communicate any problem areas that he may have. Moreover, a tutor provides one on one interaction with a student. The entire focus is given to your child so that he can learn in a more effective way.

Because Math is an important subject that gets increasingly difficult as one gets older, it is important to inculcate interest in the subject from childhood. An early understanding of basic Math can help a child immensely even as he grows older and takes on more difficult and complex problems in the subject. 

Having your child take tuition classes helps him to improve his performance in school without him having to give up a lot of his free time. Putting in just a few hours each day on the subject would allow him to get the required practice to solve different kinds of sums. Tutors can come to your house at a time that is most convenient for you. 

One of the most essential aspects of learning a subject is being taught by the right teacher. In school, a child is taught a subject along with many other children and focus is not always given to one child’s problem areas. This is why tuition classes play such an important role in the education of our children. They are able to communicate with your child and provide the required practice that he needs. By looking into all his problem areas and individual understanding of different concepts, a tutor can get him to learn Math in the most successful manner.

While your child might be able to get by in Math without a tutor, enrolling him for tuition in Singapore can actually help him attain excellent marks in the subject. Thus, such classes are highly recommended for all kinds of students.

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Chubby Little Model

I miss the time when my daughter was still chubby. She loves to pose in front of the camera even when she was very little.  This photo was taken in the house we lived in  in South Korea which my son fondly called, the Blue House (the  color of the paint of the house  outside is blue).

Revamping a School Over the Summer

The summer holidays are the prime opportunity for a school’s maintenance team to get to work and get it looking its best before the new intake in September, and time is running out if you want to do all the necessary work in time without having all the pupils around. It’s far easier for everyone to get all the work done in this time period, and it won’t inconvenience anyone, so if you’re going to be making any changes to your school, do it now while you still have time.

If your classroom furniture is looking a little old and tired, replace it with some brand new desks, chairs and storage units for a more modern feel in the classroom. It can have a strong psychological impact for children and teenagers to work in a place that looks like it takes education seriously, so you could find that behavior improves and focus is boosted when pupils walk into a learning environment that looks the part.

It’s best to keep your displays current, so replace backing paper on wall displays and get them ready for the new topics you will be covering. This keeps everything looking fresh and means you can show off the best work of the new students as well as giving everyone in other year groups the chance to see their own work on display at some point.

Presumably at the start of the summer holidays the school was thoroughly cleaned, but remember that teachers may be popping in over the summer to prepare resources and get their classrooms ready. This could mean that there is a little mess that is left over that needs to be sorted out before the children return, so make sure your cleaning team are able to check the school over once more the week before everyone returns or on an inset day.

It might also be a good idea to ask a health and safety expert to come along and check everything over. There are lots of things that can go wrong in a school, and if you’re not an expert yourself it can be reassuring to be given the all-clear from someone who knows what to look out for, even if you’re not due for a check yet. It is better to be safe than sorry, especially where children are concerned, and it’s best to know if your wiring needs sorting before everyone returns and children could be placed in danger.

Stacey Arnold is the caretaker for an inner London primary school and offers her advice on essential maintenance and upkeep

First Day of School for 2013-1014 School Year

The start of the school year   went smoothly for us unlike the couple of years where I was a bit nervous and  uneasy leaving my kids in school on the first day.  I am glad that I am now more relaxed knowing that my kids knows the teachers and their classmates.  I't easier for all of us.  Anyway,  on the first day of school, the kids were allowed to wear non-uniform clothes.  We  set our alarms  at 6 but when hubby and I woke up, the two were already awake.  They were  anxious and excited to go to school and see their friends.  The teachers here give every student a welcome gift with  treats and other supplies in it.

Hubby and I  walked them  down the classrooms.  We brought their school supplies on the registration  day so  they don't have to deal with it on the first day.  They can just sit and  chitchat with their  classmates.  

MY son was a bit nervous on the first day but he got over  it which I am so glad.  Ms. Burrito on the other hand  was very calm, collected and just happy to see her friends.  

My little Filipina is very small compared to  her classmates.  I told her that being small is in her genes.

We were laughing when we looked at this photo because my little man is checking out his classmate.

Here they are in their uniforms.

Sometimes  people think that these two are twins because they are almost the same in size.  Ms. Burrito is just slightly taller than the little mister.  

Essential IT Lessons for Schoolchildren

IT is an important part of the curriculum, but still we find lots of children lagging behind on lots of the essential computer skills we would expect them to understand. The Millennials, as the most recent generation is known, are exposed to computers from  birth, but that doesn’t mean that they are able to perform some of the skills they need to according to the Government and school authorities.

One of the things most children don’t enjoy, but should understand on at least a basic level, is databases. Lots of jobs involve some degree of data entry tasks, so get acquainted with programs like Microsoft Access is a really good way to give them a basic level of understanding. You can get them doing fun activities to test the basic functions, like putting in information about their classmates and ‘searching’ for those with brown eyes or ‘sorting’ alphabetically by surname.

Another important program to get to grips with is a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel. Again, lots of jobs use spreadsheets as a way to keep data organised and to automatically work out things like invoices, so you could combine IT lessons with a little bit of maths to see if you can get them figuring out the SUM function and how to build basic equations in the cells. You could use data from a science experiment in a spreadsheet and see if you can create some graphs.

Word processing is an obvious thing to get to grips with, as they will need to be able to use Microsoft Word and other similar programs throughout their lives. However, IT lessons should be about going beyond the basics and helping them set pages up the way they want, tracking changes on a page and formatting fonts to produce attractive documents for a range of purposes, from formal to fun, so that they can type up their best English work and put it on display.

IT lessons should be all about learning to use a computer in an efficient way, so it’s important that they’re set up for easy use. Some form of document management system will be a good way to get the children used to organizing their folders in a sensible way, and it will allow them to open a range of file types on each of the computers. Teaching good computer practices at this young age will set them up well for their computer future use, so be very clear about the correct way to do everything.

Chad Porter is an IT teacher always looking for new information to bring to the classroom

Back to School Preparation

The school requires every student to  cover and label the books every year.  I bought some book cover  to use for the hardbound books and I use the brown paper to use for the soft covered ones.  

The good thing about buying the  book covers is that they can reuse it every year as long as  it doesn't get tore up.  Ms. Burrito maintained her book covers in great condition so we used it again this year.

The label products that I reviewed from Avery helped me label their book's title and their names on it.

I watched the video on youtube on how to  cover a book without using a tape and I am glad I did as it saved me  from using the Scotch tape I bought.