家長會

今天Winston的学校辦家长会，结果，前面二小时，我们家长就是看他们上课情况，後面一小时是听老师们对家长们的谆谆教诲，最後看小孩子在餐厅吃饭的情形，总共3个半小时。

和我想像的都不一樣，家长会不应是吃吃聊聊吗？第一次当小学生的家长，有点不適應。
回想刚開学时，还所有家长都去一个冷气不够强的会议厅，聽各单位的主管老师的训诫二小时。
原来, 家长会=家长培训。听说不去参加会被老师各别“關注”。

说真的，他们的上课方式颇活泼生动的，英语课有点像台湾的补习班上法，课程很互动紧凑，换句话说，就是“少废话”的意思，全班同学参与率很高；But, Winston可能都学过了，分心率也很高。

语文课也是，每天有二堂语文，学認字、拼音和写字，语文老师教法很活、也有耐性。Winston汉语不好，幸运遇到良师。

数学老师很盡责，可是要求家长要讓小孩子回家多练习题目，竟然要做到一分鐘算完二十题，天啊！我都做不到了，还要求一年级的小孩子。老师要他们背加法、减法，是用背的哦！30秒内把加起来是9的数字按“顺序”到老师面前背出来，1+8=9，2+7=9，3+6=9，.....8+1=9，这种教育好填鸭，但很有效率，真是典型的MIC，重量不重质。

基本上老师都很有爱心，不会体罚苛责学生，有这几位主要的任课老师，很感恩了！

不知台湾的学习环境如何，应该也不错吧！国家的竞争力要從小学教育做起。

对了，大陆的小学晨间还会有十分钟红领巾播放时段，宣扬红领巾（少年隊的由来），没听得太清楚，不太清楚红领巾是否就是当时的红衛兵，反正，对于很多敏感的东西，已经习惯了，最劲爆的是提到“抗日期间”....
难怪日本人都不读本地小学的，会被欺负..
倒是不少韩国学生，因为经济不景气，都跑来念本地小学了，这里也有很多韩国店。
至于台湾学生呢？很实际，早就因为不必多缴教育捐，纷纷被收编，享受当地人的福利了。
在这里，我们只谈金钱，不谈政治。

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The 1st grader's 1st week in school

1st week, we were all so excited.  I kept telling Winston to think of the rest room the 1st minute of every break time.  But the 1st day, Winston did not use the rest room at all, because he said that he did not know where boy's room was. So, for 8 hours, he did not Pee...  This hurt his health and my heart.

 

1st day after school, I asked Winston whether he nap in afternoon break.  He said no.  He said the teacher asked them to cross their hands on the table and rest their heads on their hands, but did not tell them to close eyes.  So, even in the break time, Winston did not close his eyes and he came home with two panda eyes.

 

The 2nd day of school happened to be Wednesday.  The 1st graders finished school earlier at 2:45pm. But Winston's mom, I did not get the message sent by the school office. So Winston was abandoned in a classroom siting there doing nothing until I finally picked him up at 4:00pm.  Winston was not nervous, he told me he enjoyed siting there doing nothing. And after that, I ask the teacher and the phone company to check and fix the communicating problem.  I hope it works now.

 

Today is the 3rd day of school and I hope everything goes well.

 

Do as Teachers Say.

1st Grader Orientaion Day 新生訓練

Sunday is an orientation day for Winston, the 1 grader in the primary school in China.  All of us were so excited about the day. Richy and I took Winston to school and took pictures all the way until we left him to the teacher.  The orientation took 2 days with 2 hours each morning.  They also had a 2-hour "Orientation Lesson" for parents last Friday, and I was there. They taught parents how to be good parents and to cooperate with schools. The school is new at its second year and is eager to outperform its peers.  I can see their efforts in doing so. Only hope that they won't sacrifice kids' precious childhood for competing with other schools.
In the afternoon, we went biking around the lotus park.  Most lotus flowers faded already, but it is still very pleasant to bike around the park. I took some pictures of the scenes which I missed last week.  Richy was practicing his new single-len camera. Winston and I became moving models for Richy's practice. It seemed that he needs more patience than practice with his new camera because he kept complaining about the our biking speed. However, out of the hundreds, some pictures did look good and professional.

   

The Main Entrance

Words on the top say: Come here with smiles, leave with confidence

 

Under teacher's command, some are relaxed while some look serious.

 

Pavilion and wooden walkway in the park

Statues in the Park

 

The two biking models are parting.

Richy, the photographer's complaining about focusing.

 

 So, the 2 models stop and discuss about biking speed.

 

 

Now it looks like we are a bit speedy.

 

The photographer and the model (one tooth lost)

 

~Next Time~

 

 

 

Kids' Art

 
I love to see the naive side of kids’ drawings and paintings, So I collect some of Winston's art work and post them to share here.   

  

 

Mother's Day Drawings by Kindergarteners

 

Girls' Moms

 

Boys' Moms

 

Helping Housework

Trees

 

Birds flying back in Spring

 

Bike 1

 

 

Bike 2

 

It is fun to see the shapes made by crooked lines and painted by the curious little hands.

Kindergarteners' Graduation

Last Friday was Winston's graduation date.  Richy went to work in the early morning and took few hours off work to attend the graduation ceremony.  After the ceremony, the kids performed shows to entertain parents and other kids. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

下课了

这几天温度较高，幼儿园下课后都会讓孩子们在户外玩，顺便等家长来接回。

昨天Winston和小朋友玩沙包游戏，大家跑来跑去的满身大汗，看他们玩得高兴，我在一旁等到最后老师收工才接Winston回家，路上盛开的玉兰花真是美呆了，可惜天气陰陰的，拍下来的效果不佳，本想今天走路去捕捉春天，但Richy说今天会下大雨，我好怕玉兰花会被打得落花流水。

嚴格的英语小老师

Winston是班上的英语小老师，昨天放学时，他的班導师告诉我：「我们班的英语小老师愈来愈嚴格了。」
昨天Winston要带学生念英语课文，他念一句，其他人跟着念一遍，老师描述了上课情况給我聽：

Winston: 「.... 」

学生：「.... 」

Winston：「發音不对，One more time! 」

学生：「One more time. 」

Winston： 「不行，One more time 是我说的，你们不用念。再来一次！ 」

笑翻...
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游园会 Charity Sale Day

今天Winston的学校辦园游会（此地称做游园会)，请来舞狮与欧巴桑鼓隊表演，颇热闹的。因为是带点慈善性质，所以我们除了捐个小钱外，也买了一些小东西。中午按规定要把小孩带回家，所以今天Winston的周末提前过了，本想带他去观前街走走逛逛，但风大，气温低於零度，只好作罷。

Early Christmas Party

Winston's school changed the party time earlier to Sunday, December 7, because the party room were all booked until Chritmas. His class performed singing the song "Silent Night". Winston was the only student who had a solo to sing the song in the middle of their performance. He was not afraid of acting on the stage.

If you asked him what was the best part he liked about this party, he would said "The party was so much fun because I got my Christmas present from Santa." Which reminded me that when I asked him the best part he liked about Tian-Ping Hill, neither rocks nor maples, his answer was " The bubble blower". Kids have their own special ways in storing memories.

Sport Day

Monday was a sport day in Winston's school. Parents were told to join the event. It was fun to watch kids having fun. Winston kept telling me he liked the sport day. They gave every kid a "paper" gold medal in the end. Every one including me enjoyed the fun, except that it was so cold that my finger tops and toes felt icy cold and a bit painful. The sport activities only lasted for half day. I took Winston home for the afternoon. It was optional to take kids home or let them stay in the school after the sport event. Since Winston chose to come home with me, we went home together.

It was cold now. The indoor and outdoor temperature was about 16 and 10 degree C. Winston and I stayed home after school. We used to go downstair to the garden to skate or play and run, but in this cold weather, we could only stay home in the evening. Winston started to play too much Mario these days. He started the game two weeks ago and liked it a lot. I tried to tell him to control himself not to play too much of it. He got mad many times, and so did I. But every time when he calmed down, I would tell him how important it was to learn to control himself . He kind of understood but frequently forgot. Yesterday he turned off Mario right after I remind him of the time. I felt happy that he made a progress in controlling himself. He was very proud of himself, too. He told me he was growing up.

Last weekend, we did not visit places because Richy had to attend the training class and it was chilly cold. I am still adapting myself to the cold weather. I hope to survive my first Winter here.

Morning Exercise II

They changed the form of morning exercise and moved the time 10 minutes earlier. Winston taught me how to sing the rhymes and how to exercise. He even gave me tests. This morning he beat his sleeping bugs and got up very early for the exercise. The rhymes and songs sound funny. The kids' postures look cute and funny, too.

Wow it is Double Ten. Happy National Day! Happy Holidays!

A Happy Mother

Winston showed me his painting at school. It was about himself and his favorites. I am happy to see that he drew me as his favorite person. His favortie animal: cat, looks cute. It is interesting that his favorite thing to do is watching TV, very honest.
I decided to move my blog to Google because the speed in Yahoo 360 was terribly slow.