dialog between yy n kk

"你mummy会做这个吗? （pan cake, he means）"
"会。可是不好吃的。"

为什么不好吃？
“因为冷了。”

园长做的还热腾腾。所以好吃！

hey

"Hey, hey, what is this?" my 3-year-old cy asked me. I stunned.
A parent pass by... "When is Teacher Lim becomes 'hey'?"

shower

water heater's water is getting hotter; so I adjusted it to a bit cooler. N since the weather today's hot; so i thought it's ok for them to shower in this water condition.
kk was the last tot i showered. Everything seems fine until...
"huh...chew..."
"oh no, you get cold?"
"is the water too cold for you?"
I can tell that.
I felt sorry for him. I should be more aware...

on the other hand, I'm glad to see improvement on him: Finally he managed to take out his uniform and don his shirt n shorts. Though it takes a longer time, but as long as you try your best. Good work!

They enjoyed, but I...

4-year-old just left 2 tots now.
Watching them play; I know that they enjoyed the plays, but I was 'mengantuk'.
I think I should try to get involve next time onwards, or else I can't get rid of 'mengantuk' then.

five-teen

counting:
"...eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fiveteen..."
"fifteen," teacher corrected them on the spot.
"fifteen, sixteen, seventeen....." then they continued their counting.
This happened in both Tadika Satria n Seri Suria.

老师很凶

He was sitting aside with his friends, watching me scolding at cs.(I beg your pardon, was I scolding？)
He told his friend, "老师很凶hoh?"
我不以为然。其实我不想凶；也很庆幸cs今天没把我气到极点。

老师廋了

没见你们两个星期了。别来无恙？
"这么久没见到老师，她廋了，" yy这么说。

三分钟热度

satria left two 4-year toddlers without wh n tete now.
Farah is good in colouring, but writing, cutting and playing she doesn't have the patience and easily gives up.
aqa has mood, when he is in good mood, everything is ok; juz that sometimes, it's a bit hard to pursue him to write more. He is more behaved now; although sometimes he'll act 'intimately' with farah.

same trick

I'm using the same trick as teacher Chong today.
Last time I complained and discussed with her that I can hardly get aqa to write, even harder to hold his hand and write; but teacher Chong can make him willingly to write a full page, all by himself!
She knows him: he is the kind that need to be informed first of what he needs to do, and if he agrees to do so, he will do it.

"Aqa, nanti boleh tulis sikit tak?"
Dia menggeleng kepala. (He refused to)
"lepas main sekejap, kami tulis sekejap, lepas tu boleh makan breakfast."
"tak apa kalau adik tak nak tulis, nanti cikgu dan farah main sama-sama, adik duduk sini, main sendiri."
...
seems like having a bargaining with him.
"nak tulis? tulis sikit aja."
finally he nodded his head.

We read some Chinese flash cards, played puzzle, played blocks, then he have done his 'r' writing and followed by makan breakfast. great!

no means no??

"teacher, i want to play ..."
"no."
(why teacher always do not allow this, don't allow that.)

"teacher, i want to play ..."
"yes, after this 1st."
(is it play have to be conditional?)

"teacher, i want to play ..."
"yes!"
(yeah!!)

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？)