First grader with blurred vision reviews for semester exam on April 30 holiday

Many parents with first graders were “shocked” by the series of review exercises assigned by teachers at home during this time. The April 30 and May 1 holidays for many families are at risk of turning into a review period to prepare for the semester exams, ending the first school year of their children.

A homework sheet

What is "struggle" mom?

Ms. Huong Giang (Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi) shared her frustration when guiding her child to do the review exercises to prepare for the exam. “Oh my god, the student is only 7 years old, but the fill-in-the-blank exercise is full of words that the child does not know the meaning of, so they cannot fill in the blanks. I gave the rhymes “uông”, “ươn” and then “guess” the child to fill in the correct word “bươn chay”. My child sat there, not knowing what to fill in the given phrase “B… chay” – all he knew was… ban chay. When I asked him to fill in the rhyme “ươn” to make the word “bươn chay”, he was stunned again and asked “What is bươn chay, Mom?”.

“Using a dictionary still doesn’t help my child understand what “bươn chay” means. I have to teach my child that when he encounters these types of exercises and doesn’t understand the meaning of the word, he should try to combine the given rhymes with the given consonants, then combine the marks (also given), and read out loud and fill in whichever word feels right.”

But not all the time do children have the opportunity to apply the groping method that Ms. Giang teaches, because some fill-in-the-blank exercises are even more difficult.

There is a lesson called “Fill in the words with the rhyme “en” or “oen”, in which there is the sentence “Em bé khoc, mat moi…”. My child is stumped. I know that in this case, I can only fill in the word “nhoèn”. But after listening, my child still asks what is “nhoèn”, what is “mut nhoèn”? Looking it up in the dictionary, it all comes up as “nhoèn (eyes) wet, sticky with lots of pus”, “nhoèn du, toet nhoèn”… My child understands the explanation, but clearly this sentence is not very interesting.

Ms. Thu Ha also "showed off" her son's semester exam review paper for grade 1 at a primary school in Cau Giay district, Hanoi, with the topic: "Fill in "wish" or "wet" with the given sentences:

-……………. flow to low places.

-Good harvest ……………, hope for next season.

-……….. like a drowned rat.

-V…………….. through the challenge”.

“One word doesn't have a consonant in front, but 2/4 words must be filled in without a consonant in front. The meaning is unknown, so the children can guess freely, and sometimes they won't know how to guess,” Ms. Ha concluded.

There is also a spelling exercise that is equally difficult to understand. “My child was assigned to write a paragraph, I read it, he copied it, but there was a sentence that even though he copied it correctly, I still wondered why we teach our children this way. For example, the sentence “After Hai Ba Trung two hundred years, then Ba Trieu and the people…” I don’t know what the writer of this sentence intended to say, after Hai Ba Trung was after when, after birth or after death, after the uprising…?” This is the concern of Ms. Ngoc Anh (Ba Dinh, Hanoi).

Green face because of math homework

Joy of the first day of school - Van Chung

Since the middle of last week, every day his son has brought home a math worksheet from his teacher. Mr. Manh Hung (Tu Liem, Hanoi) lamented that he used to study natural sciences but sometimes he did not know how to explain to his child, or he was confused because he did not understand why his child had to learn such difficult lessons.

Or even the ones that don't make any sense.

For example, the exercise “Given the numbers 2, 7, 3. a) Make two-digit numbers. b) Arrange the numbers you just made in order from largest to smallest. c) Write the number before and after the number 20”.

“With such a topic, the first two questions were fine, but then the question in part c fell flat). The number before 20 is 19, the number after 20 is 21, clearly unrelated to the three numbers 2, 7, 3 given in the first part. Any student who followed the topic closely might not be able to do it,” commented Anh Hung.

But the question that made Mr. Hung feel sorry for his son was a math problem with 5 consecutive calculations of addition, subtraction and finding numbers to fill in the blanks.

Ms. Thu Trang (Hoan Kiem, Hanoi) "contributed" a math problem that both parents spent the whole evening explaining to their child, but the child was still confused: Given the numbers 1 2 3 5 6 7, fill in the blanks so that when adding the numbers on the sides of an equilateral triangle, the result is 10.

“She gave me 7 math test papers to take home, to practice from now until the semester exam after the April 30 holiday. One test paper has 5 questions, each question has at least 2 parts, and each part is all about addition and subtraction, she said the requirement is to do it within 1 hour. Just kidding, but if the kids can handle it, there will be a lot of Ngo Bao Chaus in our country in the future” - Ms. Trang humorously said.

According to vietnamnet