Monthly Archives: July, 2017

Punctuations

More often than not, the language competency of a learner is revealed when he or she is given free rein to write. Writing a composition represents the highest test of skills, as different components come into play (Grammar, Vocabulary, Synthesis & Transformation, or GVST in short). Indeed, this is on top of the ability of …

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Perhaps, a jittery week for parents

More often than not, I will advise parents to check for the official announcements from MOE, before getting overly “kan chiong”. In my honest opinion, “equal” relates to direct equality, whereas the “arrow” denotes a relationship between two quantities (I am trying my best to put the concepts across as “layman” as I can, so …

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A good parenting article from Straits Times

Sharing this article from Straits Times (refer to link at bottom of post) Many times, as we reward children for promising efforts, we tend to neglect that the opposite warrants, in the event of poor behaviour. Like what I have mentioned in my previous posts, my opinion is that children below the age of 16 …

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Notifications

Dear parents, readers, Most of you would have come across of my existence through one of the following as below: 1) Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/passioninlearningeric 2) website-cum-blog passioninginlearning.wordpress.com 3) Various Facebook education groups 4) Kiasuparents forum For readers who find my posts useful, but yet to ‘follow’ me, you may wish to do so as certain …

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Close to two weeks since the school term started, and some learners may have felt overwhelmed by the bullet-like pace of studies. While I am not a fan of cartoons, I feel that the soundtrack of “Zootopia” (link as below) is worthy of mention as a song that can offer encouragement to all learners, more …

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“…感谢…”

I recalled that when I was young, my school teachers would often ask me to write about “My favourite teacher”, “My best friend”, etc. I would often write about the teacher who left the deepest positive influence within me. On Thursday evening, I received a message from a parent, whose Primary 4 girl is currently …

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