Published in November 17th, 2008
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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Published in November 9th, 2008
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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Published in October 26th, 2008
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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Published in October 23rd, 2008
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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Published in October 17th, 2008
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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Published in October 16th, 2008
I prepared some paints at the easel this morning so that children can do painting during their free choice time. I love asking children what are they painting on their paper and most of the time they just quiet. So, I always curious to find out what’s in their mind when they are painting.
One of [...]
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Published in September 24th, 2008
At times I will play chasing game with the children in the playground. This particular girl will sometimes tapped on my back and asked me to chase her. Then she will chase me back. It is fun and satisfied when you see their happy smile on their face!
This morning, I called her, “Hi! Little [...]
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Published in July 23rd, 2008
One of my girl (3.2 years old, Chinese) was still in school waiting for her mummy to pick her up. As our area will be used by afternoon activity, I asked her to take her bag so that we could move to our back area.
While trying to take her bag, she dropped her water [...]
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Published in July 15th, 2008
A three years old boy went to toilet by saying, “Dinosaur, dinosaur, dinosaur..”, repeatedly. This boy loves to imagine himself in different animals characters. If he imagine himself kangaroo, then he will hop around the area.
A three years old girl was standing near the toilet door heard what the boy said. She [...]
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Published in July 12th, 2008
One of my girl came to school with a long sad face. She didn’t want to talk to me in the beginning, but just kept wanting her mummy. She is just 2.7 years old, British. After awhile, I managed to make her smile and she was willing to join me in my [...]
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