Colour me, With Love...

|| Thursday, April 03, 2008 ||

Teaching a bunch of primary school kids can be tough. What's even tougher is when u are teaching primary 1 kids and primary 2 kids whoss parents dun really care about them and just leave them at the centre and go to work.

These kids comes to class with their homeworks undone and when asked why they didnt do, their reply is simple. "Dunno hw to do"

Today(3/04/08), the class was horrible. Madam Sarima(one of the permanent tcher) yelled at the class. I wasn surprised cos if she doesnt do it, i wld do it. Den we toked frm one end of the class to the other. Not soo far frm each others. She was tellin me tt some kids parents jus dun care abt them or check if they ever do their work.

My class, the morning session class, there are quite a number of weak students. Well amost the whole class of 13!

One chinese girl, is bad at spelling and she is in pri 1. Her english is like she is writing tagalog(filipines lanuguage). I am not kidding. Literally. I had to give her spelling cos she has spellin tmr. But she got 0 for it. I wasn surprised cos her comprehension passage answers are also terrible! She rewrites the questions as answers. I didnt knw until i filp to mark her assessment and found out! I was taken aback! I looked at Madam Sarima and stared at her unbelievably! she gave me tt, "see, i told u" kinda face.

Seriously the class is out of hands.. Its like we have to tutor the kids personally.. but we are jus care-givers! Not tuition teachers for them.

Then there is Malay girl who doesnt speak up when spoken to but can talk loudly when tokin to her frens. So ya she got her punishment for that too. Den another malay girl, pri 1; sits and does her work really quietly but then all wrong but won come up to ask unless i ask her to..

Another pri1 girl. Indian girl but takes chinese as a second language(reminds me of RIO) always has to call the teacher a lot of times. This girl is capable of many things bt is just too lazy to try. Her spelling is good.. but she talks alot. A bit of scolding and she will be all fine.

My morning session are a fun lot but too much fun is bad for them. We have to be strict with them. I lose my temper quite alot but after a while i calm down. It becomes a routine.

Sadly, 12April is my last day. The students likes me alot though i yell and scream alot. They too have seen the kid in me too.. so its hard to leave these kids.

I have requested if i cld come back and wrk on the sats.. alternate saturdays. At least the kids won have to feel lost :P

I like kids alot but at times they do get on my nerves.. but then again, it all comes back to one thing,

Kids will always be Kids.

I have also crossed that path before.. :)

I am looking forward to teach this bunch again, sooner!

AND today is the 3rd of April and its my baby boy's 22nd bdae! Yipeee a yr older.

To me he is still a yr younger. I dunno why, maybe im used to it.

I know him when he was 17 years old and i was 15. So when he became 18, i still hadnt accepted that he is already 18. So thats how it goes. I just cant wait to get engaged to tt fella. Im soo excited. Yay im 20 already.

This year, we have the our years as even number. :P

So heres wishing my baby boy

A very happy 22nd bdae old man.. I love u lots.. :)

wait for ur present ok.