How can I not love them?

Natasha told me the other day about her Chinese New Year Celebration. It's always nice for her because she gets to go on a plane to Singapore to celebrate it. After telling me all that, she suddenly told me this...."Teacher, do you know that I am actually Indian?" she went on and on about it....."I was born to an Indian family and when I was at the hospital, Elaine and Gerard came to take me to a better home. That's why I am with a chinese family now." I knew all along that she was adopted....but I choked hearing that but managed a smile and said "Elaine and Gerard must love you so much Natasha!!!" She nodded.

5 of my students, Sarah, Sofiah, Muhammad, Darshen and Ganeshwary were sitting at the new library. Seeing that they were sitting down quietly, I approached them and asked in general if they like the new library corner? They all looked up and smiled and nodded....and I told them that they can sit around and even lie down if they want when they're reading. Hearing me saying that, they all automatically lied down all together and giggled. It looked kind of funny when children of all sizes lying down like that at the same instance.

How naughty can a child gets????

Of all my Kindy students, this boy got the most photo shoot! That's because he's so very cheeky!!!! Yesterday he played with the blinds and did some sketches on the table. He's a buddy to all the little girls because he'd always introduce himself to them. With the boys.....I've yet to see.

Year of the Boar....

Today is the second day we've opened our newly renovated classroom. I must say I was happy about it. I was busy ushering the children everywhere so that they would not miss a single thing. I even showed them our toilets. A few parents came in too.

Today Natasha cried because I wasn't looking at her the minute she stepped in. Once she was consoled, she was the loudest !!!!

"Ketul" was his naughty self today. I had to threaten him to shut off the lights.

I can't help it......my chinese horoscope said that this year, is not really a good year for me. I am suppose to be an angry person this year. I must prove them wrong!!! I hope the students will help me through all this.

Quiet day

Today was an easy day. A lot of the students are still in holiday mood. I had a good exercise walking from the Maths area to the English area and back to the Maths area. I managed to get some things organized at my corner. I just love my new corner.

Inesh and Ishan decided to take up English for March. I tested Ishan first. On one of the test, he had to read a sentence and match the picture with a line. When he read "Bob is throwing a ball", he was expected to match it with a picture of a boy throwing a ball. However, he joined the sentence with a picture of 2 cats chasing a mouse. So, I asked him, "Are you sure this is Bob throwing a ball????" He said yes. I asked why, and he said because when Bob throws the ball, the ball goes up in the air, and the cats and the mice were chasing the ball. So I left it that way.

Inesh refused to be tested, but when he saw Ishan's test, he made a comment. He said..."That's EASYYYYYY!!!!" So I managed to test him and was happy to start English on Monday.

What I did today!!!

I put up a new Library Corner and created a new English Area.

Happy Chinese New Year!

I had no idea how lost i'd be not being in the centre for more than 5 days. Thank god for my long drive up north yesterday. Today, I did a lot of printing for the centre. Signs, charts and posters. The ink in my printer needs replenishing now.

I want to create a better environment for the English area. Thinking of starting work tomorrow. I wish I can sleep at the centre for one night. I'd bring my sleeping bag and just chill out there all by myself. Sounds cool huh?

A few of my students were nice enough to ask me if I'd be going anywhere during the long break.

Starting on Thursday, I'm going to train my team leaders to take care of my Feedback. It's time to let go some of my important tasks. I want to c0ncentrate on my kindy students and also meetings with parents.

Renovation Done!

The renovation is done. The students haven't seen it but I can't wait to see their faces on Thursday.

The pre kindy room is new. the concept would still be the same. students will sit on the carpeted floor.

Everything will be within reach. I have all their pictures pasted on the glass window on the way in.

It's more for getting to know who's suppose to learn in that room.

Our English department conquers all the back area. It's still not fully ready, but we'll have all the CD listening, Reading Aloud and the library will be in there. Two teachers will be in charge there.

The Maths area is bigger now. The whole of the front area will be all about Maths.

I even bought colourful pictures of fish for the girls' toilet and teddy bears for the boys' toilet. they're all to decorate the tiles.

I'm tired now...but happy.