Category Archives: School For Rockstar

ESF Kindergarten Water Fun Day!

Just Add Screaming Kids It’s the last week of school and it’s well, not really. “School” as I used to know it, I mean.. More like a short week of fun-filled activities. It’s the height of summer in HK, and … Continue reading

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Making Friends At The End of Kindergarten 1

So it was end of year school report week recently, and ever the glass half-full person, a benefit of worrying (at times unnecessarily)  over whether your child has to repeat a year now or later (this stems from watching an … Continue reading

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Adventures of Scooter Boy

Scooter Boy Meets Parenting Magazine, perches on shoulders, bumps ears Meet Scooter Boy, awarded me by one of Rockstar’s classmates at my last volunteer session (I’m behind blogging it because I hadn’t gotten round to loading the pics). Waiting to … Continue reading

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It’s What You Make Of It

  Rockstar: Mum. Are you helping me out in school today? Me: <satisfactorily> Yes. (First day of school after the Easter hols, who knew I really did have a volunteer session coming up and could say that. Rockstar asks quite … Continue reading

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Notes on Learning to Read – How To Help Your Child by ESF Kindergarten (Part 2)

List of stuff you can do to help your child learn to read: 1)     Lots of pre-reading experiences. Listening to stories repeatedly, rhymes, songs. 2)     Point out text in the environment. Exit signs, billboards. 3)     Cover the rest of the … Continue reading

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Notes on Learning to Read – How To Help Your Child by ESF Kindergarten (Part 1)

When I first mentioned this, a local friend was, “Well, my (now 15 year old) son also had this in the neighborhood local school, what.” So when the 20-something page handout was emailed to all the parents, I wasn’t the … Continue reading

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