School Work

I've never liked the idea whereby schools getting the parents involved in the children's work(especially when they're at such young age). Probably becos I'm one lazy mom, heee, or perhaps I'm simply out of energy, especially after the violin practices and her artwork requests, on top of all the endless daily chores. However, it seems like such teaching style's inevitable in today's education system. Besides, it might also be due to parental pressures, school's changing to catch up Or maybe it's always been like that, just that I haven't noticed(or didn't have the chance to find out til now, :D) til my girl's in K1 now...

Last Friday, she came home with the 1st weekly homework and this week's no exception(we've been informed that it'll be a weekly routine):

This(above) homework, as one can see, is easy and so far, I need not spend too much time guiding her, merely pronouncing the words for each item and she fills in the blank herself. However, I can't say the same for the new 'project' that form part of the Home Learning Link :

I've made my selection - #1('cos I thought it might be fun for her), the minute I read the note but secretly dread the idea of hving to guide her on the 'illustration' part.

We're given 2 weeks to hang this 'project' up but since Papa's home, I thought he might be able to help out on the drawing part whilst I take care of the 'action' area. However, as expected, I was left to tackle all the tasks all by myself and in the end, Renee didn't really get to fully enjoy the complete process(from point to point) 'cos I have to take 'time off' from the cooking, to guide her on the drawing, haiz... Is this effective? I can't say but I believe she'd surely enjoy it more if we're not doing it for a strict purpose(we've done similar stuffs before which involved her participation more...). Actually, we could have done the drawing after the cooking process's completed but we have her violin practice to tackle before we go out, so I have no choice but to adhere to her wanting to complete the drawing concurrently. Anyway, it's almost done, phew...