I was happily wearing this nice polka dot blouse to a class in a lovely afternoon.  This little girl was doing her work, but she kept glaring at my blouse, smiling.
She said to me, “Teacher, you look like a Zebra!”
Me, “Am I? ”
She, “Yes, because your shirt is black and white.  It makes you look [...]

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This afternoon, one of my children was staying back in school waiting to attend her ballet class.  I told her earlier that I would not be able to accompany her later as I have to attend a meeting in the school.  She took her snack and I have changed her.  She waited in an area [...]

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I was sitting with my 4 years old student at the lunch table.  She was waiting for her ballet class in an hour time.  We were eating and chatting with few other teachers as well.
There was a small pail on the table.  She asked me what is the pail for.  I told her, “I need [...]

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I was at the snack area this morning when I saw this very cute Korean girl.  She is just 3 years old and learning to speak English.  She is a very confident child.
I asked her teacher about her name.  So the teacher called her.
“Say good morning.”, the teacher asked her to greet me.
“Good morning!”, replied [...]

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While waiting for the parents to pick up after school, I was chatting with my children at a corner.  I read them a small book about emergency vehicles such as fire truck, ambulance, police car and so on.  After story telling, I tried to find out how much these girls grasped.  Therefore, I started asking [...]

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We are having a small festive celebration this morning.  Every one in the school today mush wear a traditional costume.  I remembered a brief but  warm conversation with a 3 years old Indian girl last week.
Children were coloring picture of a girl in a sari.  My conversation began when the little girl was coloring the [...]

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Remember my guest, Zheng Yi?  This a piece of sweet story that she likes to share with all of us!
Once I returned to my previous taught school in the afternoon about 3.00pm just for meeting, thus I went straight to the room and start doing my work, normally I came by at 1.30pm and take [...]

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One of the girls loves distracting the classmates during lesson plan is being carried out.  She would walk here and there in front of the group or talk/play with the child beside her when the teacher is explaining to the group.  Each time we have to call her name to get her to sit for [...]

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We joined another class this afternoon for a big group time. waiting for the parents to fetch the children from school.  I saw a little girl who seemed a bit lost as she didn’t know where to be seated.  Therefore, I called her and started chatting with her.  She is just 3 years old and [...]

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I was with this little girl this afternoon while waiting for her mummy to pick her up.  We were playing with some animal models.  I asked her how do each animals make sounds.  These are the answers she gave me :
How does an octopus make sound?
“O..O..”
How does a lion make sound?
“Roar…Rrrrr…”
How does a frog make [...]

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