nails

"Your nails are long, dirty ..."
Daddy mummy, don't you ever spend a minute with your child? If you do, I'm sure you won't let the situation above happens.
Hygiene is 1 of the reason, and another main reason is to keep all of them playing safe; what occasionally happen are those long nails tots can scratch and hurt their friends easily. Which you --- parents and us don't want it to happen.
How much I can do? Lining them up and cut their nails every couple of days? Or just back to my work (teaching).

“我要刀”

“老师，我要（借）刀。”
“要刀干嘛？”
“切苹果。”
有理智的你，会把刀借给这孩子吗？
kk说是mummy要借来切苹果；可为什么mummy不亲自来借呢? （问题就在这儿。）
再向kk mummy 求证：mummy说没这回事：
（昨天）是要老师帮忙切苹果；
（今天）不需要了，整粒苹果可以吃，不用切了。
那，为什么kk会把它说成 “我要（借）刀呢？”
小孩子的话，真的可信吗？真的可靠吗？

“对不起“ 那么难说出口吗？

阿妹今天又习惯性地耍霸道，拿了小妹的一根lasy玩具；
我也耍霸道，“你不还给人，那你就只玩那一根lasy好了。”
最后她是还了给小妹、也和她握了手，可就是不肯开口道歉，所以只能静静地看着别人玩。
等了蛮久的，她知道我不会改变主意吧，再等也是个吉，就离开了玩具室。

alike

sometimes I'll compare the tots with the people or friends that I know.
Today I saw a familiar face...
I saw my primary schoolmate's face --- loud, funny teeth, having genius look (a bit weird) and acts in between patience and impatience. His face is enough to tell me jokes.

scissors cutting

The 4-year-olds are started on scissors cutting training, meanwhile, I let the 3-year-olds to tear the pictures in a paper instead of using scissors.
"the first time, must be messy," that was what I thought. But it didn't look as messy as I thought.
The 2nd time now; JW are getting steady; besides cutting out the pictures, she even cuts out words: Chinese characters and numbers!

ubat

"adik, apa rasa ubat? adik suka ubat tak?"
"suka. ubat manis!"
Remember that in the book written: “药，是苦的。”
But now, how can I disagree that "ubat rasanya manis"?
Medicine for tots are sweet, not bitter!

Telephone conversation play

"Hello, who is speaking?" "I am ..."
"I am a girl."
"I am Farah."

"How are you?"
"cicakman."
"I am fine."

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"Hello, siapa ini? Danial ke?"
"mm"
"Siapa bersama adik?"
"Tak ada."
"Ayah dan mak mana?"
"kat rumah."
"Kak mana?"
"rumah."
"Adik mana?"
"sekolah."

They can speak very good with their mother-tongue; but they still need more listening and reading in English and Mandarin.
On the other hand; though we didn't start teaching Bahasa in this young age; but the Chinese already can communicate with the Malays with bahasa.

they like brainstorming

they have tonnes of idea in their mind.
They don't like to be like the type of 'book worm';
plain reading is dull for them; because they don't like reading, they can't recall and spell the words that they've learnt.
For their age; I think pictures and flash cards are important for them.
Today I hardly get them finish revise the few words that we've learnt, then I concentrate on the theme picture page; only one question I asked, "What can you see in the picture?" and they'll keep on and on telling all the stuff inside there.
"Some more?"
"Anymore?"
"Yes!"
"Great."
These for encouraging them to answer as much as they can - brainstorming.
I think this method works for them. Sometimes we end up laughing when they can't think of the word in English and replace the word with mother-tongue language's words.

apa tu?

"cikgu, apa tu?" sambil menunjuk ke mukaku.
"lalat... itu lalat." (maksud saya; tahi lalat.)
sudah berbulan bersama mereka; sekarang baru nampak tahi lalat saya?!
cermin mataku memang berguna. 其实我一直都很在意它。

戴眼镜的老师...

“戴眼镜的老师，我的功课做完了。”
"Huh?!" (整半年了，你还记不得要怎样称呼我？)

shake! shake!!

it's time preparing them for the concert performance.
"ok, we do 'exercise first: 'let's shake our body."
Normally, the kids would enjoy shaking,jumping and running. But there is always exception. Aqa still with his style; he likes to be audience instead of moving up his body.
no forcing. but there are only a few 4-year-old, if aqa really don't wanna join; we only have 3 to perform. to get my 3-year-old to move also not easy; anyway, I have to try harder.

great appetide

my 3 & 4 years have great appetite today. What they bring today?? most of them have nasi lemak today. Is that makcik nasi lemak so tasty??

坐摩哆

为了要准备这星期日的家庭日，每日早上他们都练唱及玩游戏。
今天我也有在。
孩子们在空当及等待的时候最皮。而，看管的老师， 就只有那一位他们最不放在眼里的老师。我见状，训了特皮的一顿，后也与他们排排坐下。
Bryan 走到我面前，说要坐摩哆； 且教起我怎样‘坐摩哆’。他那壮壮的身体，差不多有我的体重；压（坐）得我动弹不得； 却乐在其中。

4 yrs ah 4 years

maybe it was my wrong; I always give then plays until finally when I give them worksheet to do; they don't want to follow the instructions (or maybe juz that they don't know why they should, or they already forgot what I said in the time they're doing).
"colour the high mountain green, leave the small hill, don't colour anything on the small hill. ok?" I've repeated times for the above; but when I checked the books, only wh can do it.
aqa as his usual style, colour the whole, regardless high or short, mountain or hill; at least he got 1 thing right: Green.
farah, I have quite a high expectation form her actually coz she can do things neat. She coloured only the mountain, Syabas! But she just don't think that the mountain would be nice with green colour. She changed to brown colour at the midst.

new 2++

Today we have a new coming sweetie, 2+.
I like her smiling face, even she's quite a playful girl.
Her smile cheer up my day;)

我不是神仙啊

“不明白她是怎样考试的；可以差到那么厉害！”
“他好像开始跟不上了。我想不要给他继续了；浪费钱罢了。”
以上都是家长们的feedback。
其实我是不鼓励孩子们补习的人，因为我一直都有这个信念：靠自己。（连自己都不帮自己，谁还能帮到你？）
既然你委托我，那你就要对我有100%的信心与信赖；那是我的工作原则。如果他们的成绩是您唯一要看到的output， 很抱歉，我不是神仙。
ok, 要和大人说的，都说了。
小人呢？不需要和他们说什么； 只要他们enjoy和我一起；不管是说话、游戏、听课、画画、涂色、故事、背诵... 他们都在学习，他们都在进步；只是大人都把重心放在成绩单上；其他的进步他们有放在眼里吗？会放在眼里吗？