Summer Holidays

The best way to plan summer holidays I thought would be to write to my daughters the plans we have in mind so that they know and begin to understand how much thought we put into each of their days.

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Our loving Tanya,

Your Summer Holidays

You begin your Summer Holidays tomorrow and perhaps one of the longest breaks you will have since you started going to school.

You are 7 years and 6 months now and this is what Mama has in mind for you to do this summer.

Fun Activities

Swimming.

You will focus on free style and backstroke and build stamina.
I think a good target will be 5 laps of 25 mts at a stretch of each stroke, so we are definitely going to swim a lot.

Chess

You need to continue to focus on chess so we will play at least one game every day and you must note down how many moves you took to win or lose.

Art

We need to focus on one painting a week and be focused and work on it. May be Wednesdays are a good day to start and complete by Saturday.
I hope to see about six good paintings from you this summer. Mama will check out oil painting class and see we can go for at least 4 classes so that you can get an idea of how it is done.


Ice Skating and Skating

We should perhaps skate on every Tuesday in the compound and complete the one class you have left in ice-skating as soon as possible.


Piano
Miss Amy will continue to come and we need to get you theory upto the level you learned in Singapore lets dedicate Mondays for that. This will help you to be all set for your voice training class in fall. We also need to sing A Whole New World once a week so that you wont forget.

So this is summary


Monday- Focus on Piano/Sing a whole new world
Tuesday -Skating/Chinese/American Money
Wednesday -Art
Thursday- Hindi/Malyalam
Friday- Typing

Cycling

Mama has a trip planned to Singapore and then we should perhaps learn cycling so that you can cycle without support.

Typing

Mama wants you to learn typing focusing on the right fingering. We will have to find this out somehow and perhaps get started these holidays so that you can type accurately without actually looking at the keyboard.


Challenges

Life becomes meaningful when you overcome challenges.

Some of the challenges you need to overcome this summer is doing
1. atleast one side of Rubix Cube,
2. learning to play Taboo and
3. Scrabble with all the rules.

Now finally after all the fun the only thing we need to focus without choice is Academics

We have been sloppy in Kumon so we need to catch up.

Till June 15th we are going to focus on catching up so that we can be current and back to doing just the daily worksheets for 20 minutes everyday.

Mathematics

I want you by the end of Summer hols know all your multiplication tables till 16. You already know till 10 so we have another 6 to go.
So the target is week of
June 11 – 11 times table
June 18 – 12 times table
June 25- 13 times table
July 2 – 14 times table
July 9-15 times table
July 16- 16 times table


We need to do a page a day from Maths Ahead 3 so that by August 16th we are at page 45 at the least.

Also every Tuesday we will revise American money so that it is not a challenge for you in Grade 3

Hindi

Every Thursday we will focus learning a lesson in Hindi. The objective is that you will not forget to read and write and in the due course pick up meanings of some words.

Malayalam.
Although you knew all alphabets and it’s the the first time you are going to be away from India for more than 6 months you need to read and revise the little Malayalam you knew we will read the small books we have and familiarize with some words on Thursdays.

Chinese

Every Tuesday we will revise one chapter Ms Hsia has taught else you will forget all that you have learned….

Mama has also put you for a 4 week fun course in Chinese where you will some learning in the morning and lost of fun activities after ward…. It is very important for us that you can read write and speak Chinese and this will always will be an advantage to you as an individual when you grow up.

English-

Last of all we need to focus on English…

We need to brush up spellings and write journals.

The idea I have is

June 20th onwards we learn spellings and meanings of one letter so that in 4 weeks are done. I want you to be able to spell all words on your spell-write Steno book.

Also you will write a 200 word journal every Monday which we will type and email perhaps to mama and papa, to your best friends and also publish in your website on what you have been upto during these holidays.

Before I sign off you must have lots of fun and grow up to be a more beautiful lady after these 10 weeks of holidays…you must also help your sister Riona to begin to read so that you both can enjoy reading to each other by next summer holidays.

We love you lots

Your loving Mama and Papa.