Well, many reasons, she is a quick learner , and once I teach her , am afraid she would lose interest in school. Not that this reason is baseless, she was familiar with colours and shapes before entering school , thanks to her sister. Mommy me had no big part in this learning, she picked it up naturally from her sister. This proved to be quite a dampener, since she wasn't interested in class , and had trouble sitting down to listen . All through term 1 and 2, her teacher complained that she can't settle down for learning sessions. My little one in her defense said her teacher asked her not to talk, not to exercise , not to stand up, and so on.
Getting her to school was quite a chore then. In one of the hand-in-hand sessions,I understood that the teacher was covering concepts that were all too familiar.
I had made the same observation , that once she gets familiar with a book, she would move on. I stay away from play and books that teach her A B C s and other regular school stuff, just so that she would find it interesting when they do this at school.
She is on a good diet of Primary 1 books ,thanks again to her sister. We are reading through plants and insects, sunlight and water,day and night, planets and sun, sense organs and typically whatever her sister brings home from the library . We also regularly do story telling from pictures. I wonder if she even catches all of it, but loves to read along and no harm!!
Different kids different interests!
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