as usual, my saturday was choked full of activities.
wonder how much longer can i keep up with this given my dipping energy level. :[
the ng family woke up bright and early at around 7+am (no thanks to the son) and a mad rush to bath and preparing for the day out.
1st stop is to yz's childcare.
nope, we are not leaving him there for the saturday morning (well, maybe we should start doing so to have some time alone. hiaks. ok, just kidding.).
we were due to meet up with his teachers for his first ever PTC (parent teacher connection/conference?) at 9am!
it was a good short 20mins session with the teachers and we both found out more about yz's behaviours at home and in school.
yes, he does behave differently in school and at home!
and so i shared my concerns with the teacher mainly in the areas of hoping yz will interact more with his peers and get a better grasp on his command of english.
i noticed that he tend to interact better with the older kids as compared to his peers (*scratch head*) and though he can understand what we said in english, he still have the tendency to converse in mandarin.
think its mainly due to his main caretakers (meaning his mammy, pappy, por por and gong gong ALL conversing in mandarin back at home, heh.).
some of the feedbacks from teachers include:
- they notice that he is more of an observor and when the other toddlers start to get more rowdy (like shouting/jumping/running around), he will leave them and start to play with other things. he does not like to engage in snatching with his peers.
- he likes to play with other kids as he has a neat way of playing with toys and older kids are able to accomodate to his way of playing. (haha, i found this funny).
- teachers call him 小大人 cos he's always like a quiet boy who observe people from the side and wearing a serious look. LOL.
- he is definitely opening up after abt 5mths in cc, and he will initiate conversations with teachers and peers alike now more often. hope he will keep up the good job!
- he likes to read and will always take a book from reading corner and sit down to read alone, muttering some words to himself at times. good! look like my reading to him does pay-off in some way!
- still not very ready for toilet-training. :(
- more independent in self-feeding but can be improved with more practice at home. will try to work on this for at home, we tend to feed him as its faster this way..
most of these feedbacks are quite refreshing to me as i seldom get to see yz interacting with other toddlers most of the time. Also, he does seem to be wary and shy around strangers and i really hope he can improve in this area.
i also told the teachers the "tales" that yz brought home like which kids get assigned to the notti corners, which teachers help him to bath/pat him to sleep etc and we all had a good laugh at how he actually try to narrate what goes on in school to me. :)
the most interesting part is we got to bring home his personal file which consist of all his artworks and some photographs of him in action during school. :)
though we've to return back the file on monday(we can only keep the contents upon him graduating or withdrawing from the cc), it serves as a really fun file for us and the grandparents to flip through and see snippets of his activities in school. :)
is really good to see that yz seems to be settling well into school routine and enjoying his time there so far.
will be another year for him in this childcare before we shift him to a 3hrs a day nursery (2011) back in the east side.
hope he will have a good time in this childcare and continue to do so in the new nursery environment 1-2 years down the road. (",)
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