Thread: A serious question for you teachers

Originally Posted by Nawty

I too am wondering if it is just handed out willy nilly and why the same stuff is not covered in class.

lack of understanding, training & laziness

hence the reason I said to query it...

I will be querying it next week.

This school is in Bkk, very well run and organised by the looks of it. It is bi lingual, they teach 60/40 english/thai apparently.

They have about 6 farang teachers that I have seen, have aircon etc and the class sizes are around 25 I think.

The only positive thing I can see about the homework deal at this young age is that it may be good for forming a habit of doing it for later in life when they do need to do a lot of real homework. Also as I said before, my son is now trying to squeeze the learning of a further fluent language into his schooling, so this must squeeze the available time for everything together.

I also could be looking at it from the point of a parent that hated school, left at 16yo and never went back. Wagged 50% of the form 5 year and climbed out the windows of classes I did not like.

But now I am grown and mature...I dun want my son doin the same as me.

Originally Posted by Nawty

The only positive thing I can see about the homework deal at this young age is that it may be good for forming a habit of doing it for later in life when they do need to do a lot of real homework.

no it is not!

Originally Posted by Nawty

I also could be looking at it from the point of a parent that hated school, left at 16yo and never went back. Wagged 50% of the form 5 year and climbed out the windows of classes I did not like.

he'll end up hating it too.

read the 5 or 6 articles on homework

Articles by Subject

interesting stuff...see I was right all along....might print it all out and read it in detail in starbucks tomorrow...or immigration, which ever takes longer.

And I will take along relevant thoughts to meet the teachers next week.

Where is the best place to get books for kids aged 6 and 3.

Somewhere central would be good.

Any place I have shopped before had been relativley poor in choice. Looking for both thai and english.

Originally Posted by MisterStretch

I never hesitate to buy books for the kids, and am waiting for them to graduate from 'comic' books to real ones, hopefully soon.

don't hold your breath if Thais are anything to go by.

I never knew i was capable of starting such an interesting topic, cheers all for the replies.

Originally Posted by Nawty

Where is the best place to get books for kids aged 6 and 3.

Internet ??

Originally Posted by Nawty

Where is the best place to get books for kids aged 6 and 3.

Somewhere central would be good.

Any place I have shopped before had been relativley poor in choice. Looking for both thai and english.

One bookstore I use quite frequently for supplemental material is the Ramkhamhaeng Uni store. It has very nice books for every age, preschooler learning A,B,C's to uni students. My wife goes there once or twice every few months to get material for her kindergarten classes.

Stories to read to little kids.
Google it!

And, once you've established the routine, maybe 2-3 weeks, every night, don't worry about the age level of the books. Remember these kids watch Stat Wars, Doctor Who, whatever.

I recently had the pleasure of reading Moby Dick to a bilingual 7 yr old. He loved it.

Same same with Huck Finn and a pair of 9 yr olds.

Terrific stuff.

Look at the classics,,, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe etc etc.

Discover them your self !

I read the Hobbit to my son, he loved it. Lord of the Rings was a little harder to tackle though!

Wind in the Willows.
Roald Dahl, especially his whacky poetry.

Brilliant stuff

I loved Beatrix Potter.
Mainly for the pics and characters when I was a small child.

Well I bought some thai history kids stories today for mum to start reading and 2 english books, Tom Sawyer and Jungle Book...no real great choices where we went today...se ed at central silom.

Tom Sawyer is excellent.
Jungle book's good. When you've finished reading together why not watch the original Disney movie? I loved that movie.

I've got a bunch of "e-books" I can email you as well, if your interested. Just print them out (at the most 20 pages with pictures). Aesops fables to short stories to novels. Got tons of stuff if you're interested.

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Aesops fables

They're great.

Could be, like the old fashioned hard book though.

Well tonight did not go so good.

Daughter fell asleep instantly and son climbed into bed and said 'tomorrow night ok, I so tired now' and that was that. he did choose the book and bring it up to bed but.

Originally Posted by Nawty

Could be, like the old fashioned hard book though.

Well tonight did not go so good.

Daughter fell asleep instantly and son climbed into bed and said 'tomorrow night ok, I so tired now' and that was that. he did choose the book and bring it up to bed but.

Brilliant... That's really lovely.
Do the dame thing tomorrow night though. Keep it up.

I'm still giggling, that's really funny.

Good on you.