Even though i wasn't born a genius nor the studious type, when it comes to my own child, i hope to do my part to develop my kids academically. In the past, my parents can't really intervene in my studies since they did not really went through high level of education, so most of the times, i was left on my own, or attended tutions to catch up on my studies. I wasn't the diligent type thus i did not pass with flying colors except for PSLE which i think i did quite well already.

With the education system now, its very difficult that the parents can really leave the kids on their own, most probably they will drown, and this is what you don't wish to happen. So i believe some form of guide from the parents are necessary. I do not wish to be the KS parents who send the kids to numerous enrichment classes, but i do agree to expose to classes which i feel would benefit my kids, but that would be limit to 1 class for each period only. Till now, Hayden have not joined any such classes so far, so i will be keeping a lookout to what is suitable for him.

Waldorf, Montessori, Transdisplinary (this is what Heidi is attending currently), these are the methods which i come across so far. I have not much indepth study on them, but i try to follow any good approach if i come across them. I won't hope that my kids are top 1 in class, but i hope i give them the chance to do their best, and be their guide as long as i can. Thus i do spend a lot of effort to gather teaching materials, tools (i invested quite a lot, and i MUST put them to good use..haha), however i think its time to review my materials already and start a structured approach on how to utilise them.

Heidi has been impressing us with the various words she already can recognise for the chinese words or english words. Thus i do believe efforts does pay off, so it motivates me to engage her in more interesting activities to motivate her to learn more. However, i do think i need to access how to make learning more meaningful, instead of just asking her to recognise the words, being able to use the words meaningfully are more important. For maths, she can associate counting objects with numbers up till 20, so i hope to further strengthen on this and have her counting further. For A-Z, she is still not so farmiliar, and needs hints along the way, or she has to sing the ABC song to help her, so i suppose we need more practise.

How do you make your learning more fun? Ideas welcome.