JUNE HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES

We have lined up interesting learning programmes this coming holidays:

• Vocabulary Class for P1 and P2 (more than 250 sight words)
• English Creative Writing Workshop (Useful Writing techniques for P3-P6)
• Math Problem Sum Solving Techniques (Model Drawing, IQ, Non-routine sums)
• Fun Science Experiments Workshop ( about 20 experiments to try out! For P3-P6) 
• Chinese Creative Writing Workshop (P3-P6)
• Chinese Speech and Drama (P1-P3)

PLEASE NOTE: Learning Through Leisure:

(Friday 3rd June 2011, 10th June 2011, 17th June 2011) 

Serangoon Nex National Library cum KidzPlay

(Wed 22nd June 2011) 

Museum Visit - Children Season Programme (Pending, waiting for reply from organisation)

(Thurs 23rd June 2011) 

Prize Giving Party cum Speech & Drama Performance 

(Friday 24th June 2011) 

Serangoon Nex National Library cum KidzPlay

To find out more our programmes, read on...

快乐的假期      Fun Learning Holiday

为了丰富学生的假期生活，培养学生综合能力，我校将在假期开展丰富多彩的活动。创办华文助考低年级口试训练及高年级阅读、写作兴趣班。方案突出“乐中学、学中用、用中写、会学善用”潜移默化让学生爱好华语、喜欢华语，顺其自然提高华语成绩。
    低年级以口语训练为主，辅助训练兴趣初级写作。高年级以笔试阅读写作为主，口语为辅。充分体现“乐、学”乐在其中，“能写、会用”善学好用等理念，开设特色训练班。如：古诗说唱、古诗接龙、成语接龙；华语说唱表演；新闻采集报纸创作，演讲与口才班。

To enrich the students' June holidays, we have organized various Chinese programmes to cultivate interest in the Chinese language. Our programmes enable the children to develop this interest through fun yet educational activities such as Poems Recital, Chinese Idioms Games, Chinese Speech & Drama.

 1.古诗说唱班Poems Recital：

        先学唱。古诗配乐，变成好记好唱的歌或采用童谣形式进行学唱，便于学生记忆，使古诗学习生动、活泼，加深印象不易忘掉。
       后学说。通过音乐图像朗读，展示古诗韵意，理解古诗含义。让每个学生参与朗读展示才华，即培养积极向上的个性，又练习发音和口语表达。
       说唱结合。通过所学古诗排练情景剧，加深理解，增强记忆，增添乐趣。

Through singing, reciting and animating Chinese poems and rhymes with music, it makes learning Chinese language more interesting.

2.古诗接龙班 Chinese Poetic Game：

       运用古诗前后押韵的特点，训练学生学习和积累古诗中好词、佳句，逐步达到百首诗文脱口而出，张口成诗、文中用诗的目的。以游戏的形式训练，分组竞赛。

 

3.成语接龙班 Chinese Idioms Game：

       采取成语故事和典故、寓言等引入成语，并启发学生查资料自己积累。在课堂上激发学生说，越积越累，积少成多。在不知不觉中学会用成语、说成语、写成语。不仅说出的句子出口成章，写出的文章也精彩绝伦。

The aim of the games above is for students to be more exposed to Chinese classical poems and idioms through the fun learning process.

4.华文表演班：Chinese Speech and Drama

4.1.相声 Mandarin Stand Up Comedy：是华文的传统文化，讲究“说、学、逗、唱”深受人们喜欢。它的创作来源生活，更适合学生喜欢“玩、乐”的天性。通过表演相声，不仅开发学生的表演天分，更能学会正确的语言表达和运用，“听、说”结合激发学生的乐趣，注重学生特长的发挥，让学生在表演中学华文、用华文、爱华文，也了解华文的文化。强调了语文在生活中的实际使用。

Mandarin Stand Up Comedy is a traditional chinese cultural performance. As it involves public speaking and singing with witty humor, this kind of performance helps students to unravel the fun of learning Chinese and its culture. It also emphasize the practical use of Mandarin in real life.    

4.2.兴趣作文班 Fun Chinese Creative Writing：在老师带领下，让学生亲身体验生活，学会观察事物，由浅入深培养写作。说明作文来自生活，就是用笔聊天，即兴发挥，各抒己见，老师总结。学生通过老师总结会恍然大悟，作文就是把看到的事物由“说”变成“写”的过程，在加上美的语言就变成即好听又好看的好文章。
    我校本着让学生在假期不仅过的轻松、愉快。而且充实了新的知识，拓宽视野，增添学习乐趣，真正体现“乐、学、善、用”的功效。

Through practical and unconventional approaches, we hope to lead the students to learn through fun and be able to apply what they have learnt naturally. Students are led by teachers to explore and brainstorm by observing their surroundings, characters and objects. Students are strongly encouraged to voice their findings, ideas and opinions. Teachers will help them organize their ideas and teach them how to translate them into words. At the same time, we will take this opportunity to teach them the art of starting and ending a composition.


5. Reading 
Star Student Care students will get to go to the library every Friday (3,10,17,24 June 2011) as we would like to cultivate in them an interest to read, to open up their minds and to increase the depth of knowledge. Came across a few quotations that I wouldn't agree more:

"Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today."

— Gabriela Mistral

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."

— Jacqueline Kennedy

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go."

— Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!" 

"Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read."

— Marilyn Jager Adams

Parents, we would also like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you to watch our students perform on the last week of the school holidays. Time to be confirmed. So don't forget follow our blog. If you can't make it, don't worry, we shall upload pictures and videos of your children in action in these lessons. So keep in touch!

     

INTRODUCTION

Hi readers, as a proverb saying goes, " Give a man a fish, you have fed him just for that day. Teach a man how to fish, and you will have him fed for a lifetime."

And it is with this in mind, we do not spoon feed our students but we impart relevant knowledge and lifelong learning skills to them.

Regarding our STUDENT CARE services:
 Parents, are you too busy to
1) handle your child's schoolwork,
2) to fetch him/her up and down school, tuition classes,
3) check and make sure that he/she won't waste his/her time on the TV and the internet without supervision?
4) know who he/she befriend?
5) find out his/her whereabouts after school?

Or, do you find yourselves, breathing down their neck most of the time to push them to complete their unfinished homework at night after work? Thus, instead of having quality time to build relationship with your children, you ended up being upset and stressed.

There are a few solutions to these problems. Some parents will engage their old folks; some will employ maids and hire home tutors; and some others will look for before/after school student care services like ours.

What made us different is that we not only nanny your children,
1) Teachers at STAR STUDENT CARE focus on academic and character growth.
2) Provide quality tutorial classes.
3) Have good ties with schools, especially Punggol Primary and Fernvale Primary.
4) Have value-added transport service ( from school and back home - though this service is only limited to Fernvale, Sengkang, Punggol and Hougang estates)
5) Provide holiday enrichment programmes, learning journeys and excursions.

For more glimpse into a typical day at our centre. I will upload pictures soon in my future posts.

Enrichment Classes
Consider empower your children in specific areas, such as the ability to talk and present, to learn how to read, to know how to write creatively.

CREATIVE WRITING
What's your child's reaction when he or she needs to write a composition? Does he or she faces what we call the writer's block? Simply put it, he or she has no idea what to write? Or in another scenario, is his or her writing filled with erroneous sentence structures, grammatical errors, repetitive ideas and lack lustre descriptions.

Our Creative Writing Classes are created to suit the latest primary school MOE syllabus. Unlike dry, dull and plain drilling lessons, our lessons are carried out in a fun and educational approach based on themes, not sacrificing the need for practices.

From time to time, I may showcase our students' work so that you may better understand the benefits the students can reap out of these lessons.

PREPARATORY CLASS / PHONICS BASIC
Dear parents, do you have trouble finding a suitable preparatory class for your children who are going to Primary One? Currently, we already have a new preparatory class on Saturdays (9 - 10.30am). At the moment, we focus on P1 English and SHOW & TELL skills.

Or are you worried about that toddler of yours who is starting to pick up reading skills? Give your child a headstart, come and join in our new PHONICS BASIC class end of June this year. (This class is suitable for K1s. Start date to be confirmed.)

In near future, probably during or after June, we are opening up CHINESE enrichment classes. Want to know more? Follow my posts. I will introduce to you what they are and how they will be helpful for your child's learning.

Currently, however my creative writing class is already full but if you are interested, let me know. Or if you are interested in PHONICS BASIC, other preparatory classes for Mathematics and Chinese Hanyu Pinyin, you may leave a message on my facebook, email (starstudentcare@gmail.com) , or contact me at our office- 68758535.

We may consider opening up new classes. Thank you for reading.