back to skps

went back to skps to teach for this august hols. my ex-students are so adorable! when i came in unexpectedly to relief their class, they were extremely co-operative and really helped me to keep the class noise level down. plus! they seemed really excited to see me. really warmed the cockles of my heart. its not like they were complete angels, but they were the first to go "shushhhh!!" to the rest of their classmates. while i enjoyed catching up with them, i didn't expect to take pictures with them. these pictures were taken during the second last lesson of the day. was in this primary 2 class. i taught some of them art last year when they were in p1. they were so sweet, wanted to take pictures with me and asked if i could print it out for them. i was more than happy to do so. here are some of the pictures: -

i took over a malay mother tongue teacher today. and so i took primary 1, 2 and 3 classes. and my form class last year was p2. so i managed to see some of my students who are in p2 and p3 now. the p1 pupils were really cute tho. my colleague took this malay teacher's timetable yesterday and she told me today i can actually just bring a book to read cos they don't have any work to do. but cos i knew these kids, i decided to catch up with them instead. its really interesting to see how much they have grown and what interests them now. the p3 pupils are just starting science and one of the things they are learning now is cycles - like from a egg, larvae, pupa, insect. so most of them got a container with a mealworm inside which i learnt will grow into a beetle in time. the boys especially were very fond of playing with the mealworm, taking it out of the container and handling it. the girls, some were quite squeamish about it. the boys were telling me how its like playing with centipedes which i told them were poisonous. but they said they didn't get bitten. it reminded me of how when i was in p3 myself and we used to go to the peranakan garden and pick up millipedes to play with. we'd pick it up and put it on precarious ledges or let it run along our hands. its weird how i was so fearless in the past. RIGHT now. right now if i were asked to do that, i'm not sure i'd dare. looking at the kids play with the mealworm, i wasn't too sure if i'd be able to pick it up like they did. 

but the main thing is just being with them and actually learning from them. for the p1 and p3 class, i played hangman with them. but i gave them the option of doing their own stuff as well. its then that you see the types of kids that make-up the class. some were talking, drawing, some were even doing their own homework?!! can you believe it? like in p1 and they were doing their own work, on their own. the p2 class was really small - only 16 kids. they were so-oooo adorable! they were playing restaurant! they split themselves into a sort of 2 groups and had two friendly rival restaurants! so i decided to play along with them - i was the customer cum restaurant reviewer. so part of the stars that i was giving them was for the food they prepared (they drew the food or used erasers and other stationery  to improvise), the presentation (part of which i told them included noise level. haha. sneaky huh, so they werent too noisy.) and service. very fun. so i got a little break from school. tmr, next monday, thursday and friday i don't have to go to school. because of national day celebrations and psle oral. but just as well. i do need a bit of break to gather my thoughts and settle down. 

i kinda plunged straight into work the moment school ended. so i didnt set goals for myself. like things i want to accomplish. i do know that part of it is strengthening my spiritual walk, especially since i'm in the yf camp committee - i need to make sure i am right with God before i can help plan such events. and the other stuff i want to do is to really start crafting! especially beading and scrapbooking. 

speaking of which, the weekend i ended my exams, i had this sudden urge to spring clean my room in a day (which frankly is near impossible). so i had to pare it down to just my craft area. before that, i had a lot of cute (but small) containers with everything separated and displayed. while it was nice aesthetically, but it was pretty cumbersome. like i had all these little bottles and nooks and crannies to shift before i can get something from the back. and it was a magnet for dust! plus i wasn't too happy about the little dark corners i was providing for potential beetles / lizards / cockroaches. *bleagh* so! i decided i needed an ikea field trip! haha. daddy was kind enough to bring me there after yf. so after we left sherwin at smalland (the play area for kiddies), within an hour we had dinner (naturally i had meatballs and coffee) and i bought almost $60 worth of containers to supplement the existing containers i already had. so then i started using these wonderfully colourful containers instead and used dymo to label! :D

okay, so watch out for some serious crafting coming up this weekend! (:

*sheryl