Ethan's P2 English progress

Ethan's learning progress has not been comparable to his elder brother since young. We were aware of this since he was K2. We left him alone to catch up with school work for the past years but  it became more pressing when we saw his results for this year's mid year exams.

He was slow in understanding Math concepts, more so because he explained to me that he did not understand what the questions were asking. His English standard was not above average either. He struggles with Grammar, with basic rules like:

1) He 'like' - instead of he 'likes'
2) We 'likes' - instead of 'like'
3) This, That, These, Those questions
4) is, are, was, were
5) may likes / liked - instead of 'like'
6) past / present tenses

and so on...

So I started an intensive English and Math programme with him during June holidays (pockets of the days when we are not out). I spent some time sitting down with him to practise on grammar questions, explaining the rules. I also read Math problem questions with him, and broke them down into parts for him to understand what needs to be done.

When he brought his English term test results back home this week, I was happy that he scored 35/40, much better than what he used to achieve (low end of Band 2). He was proud of himself too.. citing the statistics that only like a handful of classmates were in Band 1, etc.. I scanned through the paper and was happy that he managed to score full marks for all the Grammar sections. We are making some progress!! =)

I am hoping that he will make the same progression for his Math as well, but only will know after his term test in August.