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    Mum of 8 years old boy
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    China
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    Reading, travelling with my family
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    English Teacher
  1. Thank you, Tracy:) Yes. I am not a native speaker teacher, so maybe choosing those passages are pretty challenge for me. Maybe I would skip some of the difficult passages and use the easier ones. How about the word list. Do you review the story to your DD? Mabel
  2. Thank you for your relpy! They are fluent in English especially my son. But not as well as Native speaker children. We have some Amercian teachers here who can talk to. They need gain more vocabulary.
  3. I sent this question to Peace Hill Press, but also want to post here see if any ones can help me. I am a Chinese mom and in China. I use Writing with Ease 2 for my son and for another student who are almost 9 and 8 years old. I teach them together. I totally teach them 6 hours per week. 2 hours for Writing with Ease. First hour I normally finish Day one and Day two and another hour I finish Day 3 and Day four. One hour for First Language Lesson 2 and one hour for the Story of the World; another two hours for ESL curriculum, Kid’s Box level 5. I might use another ESL curriculum, New Concept level 2 from UK as intensive teaching after I finish Kid’s Box level 5. Since the curriculum is for native speaker children and we are not native speaker, there are some big words in the text for them. I take the big words out and spend time to explain to them by showing them pictures or saying the meaning in English. My question is that should I have to teach them every vocabulary and let them memorize, or just skip them. If I do them as intensive teaching, the pace would be very slow; or should I skip some of the text and only teach them some of the passages from the book as long as they get the main idea of narration and summarize, so that I can spend more time for using ESL curriculum as intensive teaching, such let them memorize the vocabulary list and memorize the text. Like the passages from Writing with Ease, after I read to them, we don’t review now, and they might forget the words at all. Should I spend more time to review each passage? Comparing Writing with Ease, First Language Lesson 2 is much easier for them. And also my son’s listening is better than my student. I don’t know if my question would confuse everyone here. But hope can get some good idea. Thank you!
  4. I sent this question to Peace Hill Press, but also want to post here see if any ones can help me. I am a Chinese mom and in China. I use Writing with Ease 2 for my son and for another student who are almost 9 and 8 years old. I teach them together. I totally teach them 6 hours per week. 2 hours for Writing with Ease. First hour I normally finish Day one and Day two and another hour I finish Day 3 and Day four. One hour for First Language Lesson 2 and one hour for the Story of the World; another two hours for ESL curriculum, Kid’s Box level 5. I might use another ESL curriculum, New Concept level 2 from UK as intensive teaching after I finish Kid’s Box level 5. Since the curriculum is for native speaker children and we are not native speaker, there are some big words in the text for them. I take the big words out and spend time to explain to them by showing them pictures or saying the meaning in English. My question is that should I have to teach them every vocabulary and let them memorize, or just skip them. If I do them as intensive teaching, the pace would be very slow; or should I skip some of the text and only teach them some of the passages from the book as long as they get the main idea of narration and summarize, so that I can spend more time for using ESL curriculum as intensive teaching, such let them memorize the vocabulary list and memorize the text. Like the passages from Writing with Ease, after I read to them, we don’t review now, and they might forget the words at all. Should I spend more time to review each passage? Comparing Writing with Ease, First Language Lesson 2 is much easier for them. And also my son’s listening is better than my student. I don’t know if my question would confuse everyone here. But hope can get some good idea. Thank you!
  5. Tonight, I talked to a high school student who is in 10th grade. He told me every night they need finish homework until at least 11PM or 12AM and get up 5:30AM to finish all the exam papers. Even some students need work until 1AM. I don’t if there are common in US or other country also.
  6. Hi, Pen. Thank you for your detailed replyJ It really helps me to think about it more. I think there are two problems. First he doesn’t care or just has day dream when he does his homework, second he cannot understand the text or the instructions very well because he didn’t have good learning habit when he was younger since I was busy before for my job. I need figure out a fine and wiser way to help and teach him. When he thinks it is fun, he can be focus. Like sometimes I read a story to him, he really can be concentrate.
  7. Since I don't have much time to use computer, so I didn't check my English much. :001_smile:
  8. Thank you all so much and your encouragement.I have problem to get in this website and even I don’t know how to reply one byone, so I am reply all here.:confused: Campmom, My son’s English is good comparingwith other Chinese students but off course way behind American peers. He isshortsighted and has a lazy eye. I don’t if he doesn’t pay attention enoughbecause of this. He wears glasses during class time. Elaine, you give me a good advice. Maybe Iwill give him more options. It’s not easy to do this since I only have onechild maybe cannot have more children. Maybe in my heart, I don’t want him tobe consider be stupid. You know, as a traditional Chinese mother’s thinking. ButI also understand you can do exam well and memorize well doesn’t mean you havea bright future. Every Chinese parent and every teacher prefer the kids whohave the high score. Since your mother is Chinese, do you think you still teachyour children in Chinese way or western way? Thank you! Elaine, I will try mybest to not to be crazy mom and give him more choices. Kiwik, The homeschooling is illegal. But thelaws are not strict. I can make a deal with school, just my son’s exam cannotbe too bad, if so, the school will me hard time. HipGal. thank you for your kindencouragement. About history, he likes them, especially in Chinese language. I readthem aloud half hour on Monday and Wednesday as read aloud story time. Readaloud to him The story of world in English, for improving his English listenability. I read them aloud on Tuesday and Thursday. Yes. I do stay with him now. But you reallyneed him to read aloud the directions. He doesn’t want work harder. Leeyeewah, let me explain one math problemto you here: “There is a land in rectangle shape. It is 20 meters long and 15meters wide. If the length add 3 meters and wide add 2 meters. So how manymeter is the circumference added than before.†He didn’t know the logic at all.I help him with drilling. MayfiesMama, I don’t have time to do other math curriculum. What Ido just help him to finish his homework and sometimes let him do some exampaper just see if we have time but not too much. Yes, I bought the Story of theWord and the CD for my son. I read aloud to him even though I need pre-readingby myself. My son likes it especially the make mummy part. I need explain a lotsince the big words in the story. Laura, Kunming is a beautiful city. We went to Yunnan two yearsago. If I want to take him to home for whole day, I can find a school for theexam stuff, just for keep his student’s ID so that he can attend the test for college.I just plan to send my son to western country especially maybe United States ifI can afford it or he can pass the SSAT and interview. I think Chinese highschool students spend too much time for doing the exam papers instead ofthinking by themselves. This way kills our imagination. I don’t want my sonjust learn the information but also know how to think. But I don’t know what itwill happen. In our school, there is an American couple but they don’t havekids yet. So there aren’t any other homeschooler here which is bad. Aomom, Thank you a lot! I live inPingxiang, Jiangxi province. I will do my best to treat my son. I really don’twant hurt him and he can grow up in a happy way. So that’s why these days I amso struggling. Maybe I need more to pray. Hi, Kelly. My son is immature comparingwith other peers. Maybe he just need time to develop his brain. Sometimes thepressure is from the teachers sometimes from myself. Thank you all! I will pray and come heremoreJ Have a good to allJ
  9. Hello,everyone here, I am a Chinese mom and I have a son who is 8 years old and in third grade. I run an English Training school in my city. I teach him English so he speaks pretty good English comparing to other Chinese kids. He has problem for being attention during class since he was in first grade in public school. He always is absent-minded while teacher’s teaching so his schooling is not good such his Chinese and math. Since of this problem, I let him stay in home half day, and he goes to school in the morning. I help him to finish his homework of Chinese and Math. His Chinese homework usually takes at least two hours to finish not including Chinese reading. Math need be take one hour for him which is maybe can be finished in half hour by faster students. I teach him with other girl one hour English from Tuesday to Friday night. I also read aloud A Child’s History by of World by Hillyer in Chinese on Monday and Friday half hour and read aloud The Story of World half hour on Thursday and Tuesday. Why I do half day homeschooling is he doesn't pay attention and focus on the teachers’ teaching so I want to help him to catch up, and also I plan to send him to American for his high school later. Even though, he still doesn’t know very well. Like last night, I let him to finish an exam paper which need be finish in 90 minutes. He didn’t finish it, I check the score for him, he only got around 40% of score. Some information he should know and be taught already in his math class and he still doesn’t know. I am so frustrated and disappointed. I even too upset to sleep. Chinese education is stupid and crazy as I understand. Every teacher likes the good students. If you don’t pay attention, don’t get good score for the testing, they don’t like you. I want to my son can listen during class; I don’t expect him to be top student but not the worst student in his class. He wastes his time and I spend more hours for him to try to catch up which I want to him to have more playing time. I think he is not stupid nor has any mental problem but is pretty smart. He doesn't understand the directions of text paper or exam paper. When he solves the problem for the math, he doesn’t understand the instruction very well. I want to take him home even in the morning from school. But only my concerning is socialization. In China, homeschooling is not popularly especially in a small city. Maybe he should spend more time with his peer. I am asking any of one can give me some advises. Right now, I think I am a nut and don’t know what should I do. My English writing is not good. Hopefully you can understand what I mean. Any suggestions will be highly appreciated! Mabel
  10. Thank you guys. Now I know what books I should buy. I am not homeschooling my son. I have been thinking for long time about this, but I still don't know if I can do it since of the socialization issue. We don't have any homeschooling family in my city and there isn't church to surport us for the socialization. I try to homeschool him half day but the teachers don't agree with my idea. So now I teach him after his school and weekend, also I read books to him. Also I printed books download from Reading A-Z website as his reading materials. This is a wonderful forum that I can learn from great homeschooling Mums! :)
  11. I want to ask qestions here see if anyone could help me. I am a Chinese mum in China who has a 8 years old boy. I teach English to my son using some American curriculum. I bought The Well-Trained Mind which it helps me a lot. I have been using Sing, Spell, Read and Write Level 1 Kit by Sue Dickson. Now I want to buy another curriclum of spelling for him. I want to buy Modern Curriculum Press Spelling workout. But I don't know if I should buy level B or level C or even D. Also I bought Writing with Ease, but I found out that I have to prepare a lot. I prefer that I can have a curriculum that each lesson planned already. So should I just buy Writing with Ease workbook? Hope someone could help for these questions. Thank you!
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