RESOURCES FOR PARENTS
Resources For Parents
Toolkit on how to motivate your child to study
Find out what distracts your child
Your child might be unwilling to study due to numerous reasons (e.g. gaming, social media addiction). Therefore, it is important to find and refine the root problem.
Oxford Learning Centre (2019). How to keep your child motivated when studying: 11 Tips for Parents. Retrieved from https://www.oxfordlearning.com/how-to-stay-motivated-to-study/.
Encourage your child to set small goals
Create SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely) Goals with your child. This can help give your child clear directions for what needs to be done and boost confidence when he/she finishes these goals. For example, this can be small things like "Review science notes for 20 minutes a day, for a period of 2 months."
Oxford Learning Centre (2019). How to keep your child motivated when studying: 11 Tips for Parents. Retrieved from https://www.oxfordlearning.com/how-to-stay-motivated-to-study/.
Incorporate games into their study materials
Games can be introduced to help make the study materials for students more interesting and engaging. This can promote the retention of knowledge and hence helping your children learn while having fun.
Read more below!
Carney, Z. (2021). 50 Science Games For Kids That Make Learning Fun. Retrieved from https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/129093/50-science-games-for-kids/.
Games to play with your Children!
Mathematics Game: Up Up Away!
Requirements:
1. Minimum 2 players needed.
Instructions:
1. Kindly refer to this document for the full set of instructions. Download it via this link!
Biology Game: Human Body Bingo
Requirements:
1. Minimum 2 players needed.
Instructions:
1. Go through the different body parts in this cheat sheet.
2. Print out the Bingo Cards in the same document linked in Step 1.
3. Give every player a bingo card.
4. Call out a body part from the cheat sheet.
5. Students must identify the body part from their bingo card and circle them.
6. If a student has body parts covered diagonally, across a row or vertically in a column, they should call BINGO.
Science Experiments
Requirements:
- Vary across the experiments
Instructions:
-Vary across the experiments.
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Useful Resources
This is a resource kit that aims to prepare your child for a new school. This resource aims to give you an idea of what to expect and how to prepare your child for the transition.
MOE (n.d.). Preparing Your Child For A New School. Retrieved from https://www.moe.gov.sg/special-educational-needs/resources.
This is a webpage that aims to provide resources for parents on socio-emotional learning.
MOE (n.d.). Social and emotional learning: Resources for parents. Retrieved from https://www.moe.gov.sg/education-in-sg/our-programmes/social-and-emotional-learning/sel-resources-for-parents.
This is a webpage that aims to provide resources on how to improve parent-child relationship, welllbeing etc.
MOE (n.d.). Parent kit. Retrieved from https://www.moe.gov.sg/parentkit?pt=Learning%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%20%C2%A0.