Every time I look at the text books for Primary One, I am sure I will not be allowing Tee to skip to Primary Two because I feel she will die standing! It’s even tough for me! Moreover, I am appalled at what goes into the text books. The teachings are slanted and so uninteresting and some are things I don’t even want my child to be learning about! Why can’t they take an English text book and translate it interestingly into a Malaysian setting so their teachings become more useful?

Oh well, no point harping on about it since Tee is definitely going to a local syllabus school. Yesterday, she performed 12 pages of Bahasa work from a Primary One textbook and attempted to learn the words : awan, ular, oren, ikan, ekor, ibu, ubi, bola, buku, batu, kuku, kaki, koko, paku, kuda, keju, cucu, ciku, cuka, beca, kaca, budu, dadu, dada, api, baki, kaku, dagu, gula, gua, gigi, cagu, guli, hiba, dahu, bahu, hidu, hoki, jala, baju, biji, baja, haji, jaga, lidi, bulu, labu, cili, kala, muka, meja, bumi, madu, jamu, mata, naga, nila, guni, lena, nona……now, out of these 60 words, you tell me how many words you are stuck with!!!!!! Honestly, I was stuck with 10. Some of the words, I can GUESS but I’m really not sure?!

Can a 7 year old (of correct Primary One age) really absorb 60 words in…..actually, I have no idea what pace they go in Primary One at school to complete these 12 pages. The book is 60 pages thick so I’m assuming divide that by 10 months, we’re looking at perhaps 1-2 pages per week, but they have the other Bahasa textbooks and workbooks as well! The one that uses a thematic approach in teaching them our day to day lives and the world around us. Then there are all the other subjects still to learn within the week! Poor kids!

In any case, I shall revise those 60 words with Tee to see how fast a 4 and 3/4 year old absorbs information. It will be an interesting experiment! Even I can’t remember those words, hahaha, but I’m learning. Time to get a Malay dictionary, I say!

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