Thursday, June 29, 2007

Our loving Riona,

Your Summer Holidays

You begin your summer holidays on June 30th perhaps the longest and oddest time you’ve ever had holidays…one year back you had joined a new school in Singapore and you began to do so well that mama never thought I will have to prepare such an aggressive plan for you for Summer holidays…but so much has changed now you are in different country in a different school with different expectations so we have to work very hard to cope up. I hope this would be the only vacation we have such a strict timetable and I am sure 10 years from now when you read this you can appreciate how much mama worked at it and when mama sees how much you know after 2 months I will be glad we did this together.


Academics

We have 8 weeks of 5 days each if we leave weekends out. So in total we have 40 days in all. Each day let’s target to have 6 half hour sessions.

One session
Kumon sheets and daily dictation

Second Session
Reading Books and listening to phonics cd phonics CD

Third session
Hindi – writing alphabet and reading alphabet
Reading, rhyming words - poems
And writing numbers forward and backward

Fourth Session
Math’s plan for the week

Fifth Session
Reading and retelling story and answering questions

Sixth Session
Action plan for the next day…and revision






Daily Routine – Week 1


Write numbers 1 to 20 and progress to 100
Write numbers 20 to 1
Kumon sheets 10 pages in maths
Kumon sheets 10 pages in English
Numbers to twenty in word form – 3 a week
Learn to spell days of the week and month.( two a week)
Learn to spell common colors (two a week)
Learn to write home address and telephone number
45 words dictation and year 1 words learnt

Riona’s specific objectives
1. To continue practicing alphabet sounds and Reception Keywords
2. To continue practicing subtraction up to 10
3. To continue practicing vocabulary associated with
i. Animals and their habitats
ii. Geographical terms such as desert, ocean, Arctic and Rainforest

4. To take time to evaluate and improve her work.
5. To practice skipping with a hoop and rope.
6. To listen attentively for 10 minutes.
7. To sing loudly
8. To improve her mouse skills











Week 1

Numeracy
· Put the numbers 0 to 20 in order
· Use the words first, second, third….
· Given a number from 1 to 20, say the number that is 1 more or 1 less.
· Introduce the game of secret numbers.
· Time to the hour

Literacy
· Write a to z
· Listen to jolly phonics cd
· Introduce 2 new words a day to read and spell and revise 45 key words dictation every day.
· Read 3 books a day and record what is done.

Hindi

Learn 3 letters a week is being very ambitious but we are going to try very hard to read and write Hindi letters so that if we go back to Indian curriculum we will not struggle..

Other than studying,

Swimming.

It is my deep desire you start swimming lesson with a serious note this summer. We have to really hope we find a teacher and you can swim at least 2 to 3 times a week.




Droughts

Mama will teach you how to play draughts by end of summer hols so that you can play with your sister. You now know tic tac toe and you need to still improve and follow rules.

Art

We will draw a lot but mama is not sure if I can find a teacher for you. But we will get Tanya to teach you what ever she had done in Alpana Aunt’s class at least once a week.

Skating and Cycling
We can try to learn if we go to Singapore any time.
Piano
Miss Amy will start half hour sessions for you and see how it goes.

So this is summary

Monday Swimming
Tuesday Drought
Wednesday Art
Thursday Piano
Friday Art/Swimming


We love you lots

Your loving Mama and Papa.