Julia Gabriel English PlayClub Term 3: Lesson 12 (Stand-in)

Please tell me I am not crazy.

This morning I received a call from Chiltern House Halifax Road. Mind you I only sent in the application about 1-2 weeks ago and I got a call from them the next day morning that there might be slot for Yvette. And the best part is it is  morning session!!! (Oh yes, Yvette fall into priority waitlist in this case.)

Today, the call is confirming whether I am taking up the slot for Yvette but I rejected it.

Halifax Road is never really near my house. (I want a preschool that is one stone away.) I sent in the application because I just want to be in the waitlist. (Sound Kiasu right?) And if one day, if Yvette is really mature enough to take school bus and I find this school really suit her because other school can provide the curriculum I want for her, I might want to consider sending her there. But not now.

This call did wake me up.

I slept very late yesterday. But still it was very late in the morning already. I quickly get up and cook lunch for my FIL before I wake Yvette up. We still manage to leave home at 11 am and take a bus to JGC but with no lunch for ourselves. (I really don’t have time to cook lunch for us already.)

Yvette finally carried the tray together with her classmates and the teacher in this class. She usually just put those toys into the tray and ran back to me.

They did two crafts today. The Singapore Flag and the clam. Something worth mention here. Yvette did a fair bit of the clam herself. When she was in PlayNest, she love paint a lot. As she promoted to PlayClub, she doesn’t like to touch the paint anymore. So I am quite happy she did participate in this craft.

The Drama is about both (yellow) Bears goes underwater to take picture with the animals. This is a very imaginative play but yet still interesting. Alexis can act very well. At the end of the play, the tots need to help the bear to decorate the underwater world with coral.

Yvette is very independent now. She can help herself with the snack and I was so busy chatting with the mummies and had almost forgotten to snap a picture of today snack. (The cheese is already inside Yvette’s stomach.)

NO participation from Yvette in Music and Movement. While most tots were singing and dancing, she always stood there. But she is usually ok when there is my involvement.

There was a photo-taking session after the Music and Movement. And the parent chat followed by.

Again May is missing in action. She’s always not around when photo-taking.

This is the Assistant Teacher, Alexis. I like her a lot not because she is pretty. She really have the heart for the tots. I remember there was once Yvette wet her pant and she was carrying her. She didn’t even frown when she passed Yvette to me. I swear, she is really genuine.

I read from some sites, some mothers expressed their concern – it is not value for money over the assistant teacher who is not a qualify teacher. I always feel what is more important is the heart of the teacher for the kid, not about how qualified they are. Even they have a PHD in Early Childhood Learning but if they have no heart and passion for the kid, it’s still voice down to ZERO.

A Little This & That about Yvette @ 26.5mths

It has been a busy month for me. I sent Yvette back to JGC. Day after day, I am so busy updating this site with her lesson and have neglect updating some of her developments. So before the monthly update for her milestone generates a long list of update, I better start to record some  of her developments using most pictures I taken for the past 2-3 weeks.

Here are some of her interesting behaviours for this month:-

She only clap her hands when she is listening to ABC song. She will sing along too. She had made great improvement. Only 3-4 letters are missing now. Sometimes only 1-2 letters are missing. She had also mastered another one new song – Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; but it’s still out of tune and with missing lyrics.

She can sing Chinese rhyme too. Two of her favourite songs now are 一二三四五六七 (我的朋友在那里）& 划小船.

When we are mopping the floor, she will pick up another mop and mop with us. She sure doesn’t want to miss out the “fun”.

Besides picking up a book to read, she can do something meaningful by herself. She also like do the activity book I buy for her. We will do it almost everyday. (Either I do with her or D or Ah Yee.)

After keeping the toys together with Yvette and sending her back to JGC, she is now keeping her own toys (sometimes without my help.)

She like to wear BIG now. In JGC, she like to wear BIG slipper. At home, she like to try on my old heels.

And after reading Daphne’s post, I think Yvette has a couple of interesting quirks too.

1. She will shake her body and her backside when she agree with us.
2. She will always need one of us to brush teeth with her. After brushing her teeth, she will put everything nicely back to the little pail before she will step down the chair. In fact, she is a very systematic person.
3. She can’t play a toy with a missing piece. She will search high and low for it till she finds it.
4. She is like me. She can talk really sensibly even she is very tired.

As for her mini achievements for this month are:

• She started to wear her own shoes. However, she still need help on putting the right shoes to right feet. I just need to pass her the right shoes or correct her. But I leave all the job to her now.

• She can do somersaults now but she only dare to do it on the bed not hard floor. She does it very frequently and I think soon or later, she will dare to do it on hard floor.

• She can do lacing very well now. Big hole small hole.

• She could walk up and down the stairs (not very high and very near to each other type) very well without support now.