21/8 - A & W bear

Kelvin birthday and his parents have invited A&W to come to tadika and celebrate the party.

hx was excited asking "when the A&W bear will come?" since few days before that. And today, when he finally saw the bear appears in front of him, he starts to cry out for 'help'.

On the other hand, eldores was sooooo adoring to be with the bear, he even kisses him, hugs him, and dances with him.

shopping

we r looking at the newspaper ads --- shopping ads.

"do you go for shopping?"
"no."
"why no? mummy didn't bring you to shopping?"
He nodded his head.

"because mummy said, go shopping, will get sick easily, isit?" (because of the A1N1 flu heats recently)
"yes."

Then he asked me this:
"Then, why they go for shopping?"(pointing to the ads)
"Won't they will get sick too?"

many absent since these few days.
4 years only 3 came.
6 years having computer session, usually the younger one are interested to join them in the computer session. but cy refused to join.
She kept shaking her head even i try to 'persuade' her.
While the others were joining, cy stayed with me; and we played on adding friends---buttons.
After playing with buttons, she still refused to join in, and it was almost the time for me to the 5 years' class. So she went together with me to 5 years' class.
Then i asked her to join with the 5 years phonics activity; but she still kept rejecting my 'plea'.

Her 'No' means 'NO'.

burger

showing them the picture flash card of a burger, but i get below answers"
"bun"
"bread"
"veggies"
"meat"
"bao"
"McDonald"
... ...
but no one tells "hamburger / burger".

"我没有功课哦."

"你们都有交功课吗?"
"老师,我没有功课哦."

"是吗? Edward都交了功课； 怎么你们都没有功课？"
“赶快去看一看你们的书包！ 千万不要做懒惰虫，没有做功课... ...”

“老师，真的没有功课。你看...” (showing me her bag.)

"Opps, 是的，是的。 我都忘了，你们在这里把字都写完了，所以没有功课带回家。 Edward 因为上几天absent， 所以我把writing给他带回家写。"

sorry, sorry. 刚才错怪他们的语气，真的有点太过了。

wake up

whenever raining, kk will be waken up by the loud raining atap sound, But when he's asleep, he can hardly be waken up even from gentle pat till shaking of his body.

in contrast,

rubenesh, he can sleep as long as he wants, but will amazingly awaken when ppl accidentally touch on him, but not any noises can wake him up.

“坏人来了！”

“坏人来了！”
每次他们一见到我的脸，就鸡飞狗跳地、... ... “坏人来了！” --- “通风报信”后，当场立刻变得有纪律，每人守规矩起来。

我是坏人。因为要他们守规矩、因为要把他们管教好，我被他们视为“坏人”。

is that important?

"how much is their input?" is this important??

如果他们还没开窍, 而我们硬要他识字...
结果，我会变得很难过; 因为他这头记了，那头忘。

or maybe i have to let it be? 给时间让他成长？

Their early ages focus on Develop social skills, acquire a love for learning, enjoy experiments, become equipped with a foundation for literacy. Active learning, Group participation, Independent work, Follow simple rules, Learn to follow directions,and Proper & polite communication.

Need to remind myself that to equip them with good foundation for literacy, not simply can memorize what they've learnt, then consider them as good learner.

“你们会唱歌吗？”

是的，今天Dutch Lady来promo, 也派上了才艺比赛的表格。

“你们会唱歌吗？”
大部分孩子都抢着说：“会！！”
只有bryan的答案与众不同：“我不是很会。”

nose bleeding

we were practising the concert performance.
wa was dancing at the midst, suddenly i saw his nose started to bleed, drop by drop.
Then he started to cry, his blood fell from his nose to his mouth, to his shirt, to his shorts.

"Now you see, children, please drink a lots of water."

7/8/2009 - ah... ... chew!

i scared of their cough, sneeze, and flu.
Parents still sending their kids to school, even they knew that they are sick; no handkerchief with them, no mask for them to prevent spreading their flu and cough.

At last, i fell sick as well :(

bad geng

py is the one that can catch up all of what the 4-years learn. Sometimes she'll show uninterested in what we are doing, and refuse to join in circle. Then came someone that has the same feeling with her --- qy, she also expresses the feeling of not joining.

"if u'r not joining us, then what u want to do?"
Last few times, i let them standing aside, even ignore them, let them play in the playhouse.

This time i would allowed no more of playing separately, cos this will distract other classes.
"if u are not joining, i'll pass you to do some more exercises and schoolwork."

They seems agree. But just for a while, py came back to me, with her messy colouring; which then made me dissatisfied of what she did.
"if u'r not feeling like doing this, please don't mess it up. You are good at colouring. Please, redo it nicely for me!"

then she started to sob.

Stop your horn please!

i did told the aunty not to horn because the youngsters are probably nap at the time she fetches back Dickson; but she gave the reason of safety, she has to make sure the house has people coming out to get him before she leaves.
But i'm getting frustrated, because whether there are any people waiting at the house or not, she'll horn whenever she arrives here. It's loud. She's not considerate at all!

"有人也beep, 没人也beep; 到底要怎样才可以不要beep?!"

testing?

nowadays, parents happen to be so 'commercialize', that they asked for testing period in tadika. And principal allowed some of them for testing, even we know that these would lead to class disturbance whenever there's new comer in the midst of school semesters.
frankly, i disagree of what she allowed.
If the child are ready for school, or already reach the schooling years, parents should sent them to school when the new school semester starts, and register their children before school reopen, regardless which school the parents choose, and not sending them after school reopen or at the midst of sem. The 1st few days, or maybe up to months, they need to get use to the school environment; they might cry for mummy, they might be scared to socialize, they might be afraid of the strangers around them, including teachers. They just need time to adjust and suit in new environment. No point testing a few days. they get nothing, they learn nothing. If parents keep searching and putting them for new environments, they need to adjust all over again and again to each of the new surroundings.
What the children get at the end? What parents get at the end?

“你要我给mummy骂啊？”

That's what he told me when i asked him to erase the 'homework' that teacher not even ask him to do (according to him).
i never have any idea of what homeworks he has for the day, because his homeworks never have dates, not even some remarks or page circled or folded for the pages that need to do. 1st school semester he lied to me everyday, saying that he don't have any homeworks, or the homeworks already completed in school, until her mum complained to me, and asked me to check every of his books everyday.
Now i'm doing what she asked me to do. And sometimes he did those that his mum ordered him to do, even those that teachers' schoolworks not yet complete. Once he said, "如果没有做完，我就死定了。" but what i said, he heard nothing. Even when i scold, he'll challenge back and reply rudely - mind my own business. hoo...
This is a 'problem' child. Attitude problem. No matter how smart he did his exams, his attitude score? anyone care?
父母，你相信吗？有其父母，必有其子女。 他们就是你们， 你们可在他们内看见你自己。