Ian is so loving his school!

It has been 8 weeks and just another 2 weeks to go before Ian goes for his 1st term break! Well time really just went past so fast and it has been encouraging to see how the boy loves his school everyday! It's a gd thing mama could send him to sch every day and being early, we get to chat with the form teacher, Wang Laoshi and she has been giving gd feedback to mama. Guess it's gd to recall this 1st 8 weeks of our experience with the sch!

We could still rem when we met her during the orientation, she seemed abit 'cold' hahaha maybe coz she insisted in having Ian to wear socks and shoes and she told mama it was ok for us to stay in class 1st day of sch coz he is new to school as he has never been to formal sch. But on the 1st day of sch, she looked abit shocked that Ian just bid farewell to us and marched into class without us! And upon release, she gave a thumbs up for Ian's behaviour in class despite never being in school before!

Just barely 2nd week, she commented that Ian's abit shy in class and we were wondering issit coz of the language barrier.....he is not so comfy with mandarin and mama did think that it might be better to have a Eng teacher as his form teacher but oh well he shld be able to pick up.

And think it was the 4th week, Wang Laoshi then told mama Ian has gained much confidence in singing chinese songs in class and was making much improvement in class, just not speaking to her yet hahaha just nodding or shaking of head! By then, Ian was coming back singing all the chinese songs he had learnt in class and mama had to make out of some words he sang but he was in fact getting better by the day, guess that's the power of grp learning!

And just yesterday, we chatted with the Wang Laoshi and this time, she was asking if Ian really did not attend formal school before coz he's doing quite well in his coloring and writing....hhmm we have been getting his work back every week and we will go thru together and mama often commented how he could improve his coloring despite teacher giving him so many stars and in mama's heart was like 'is that really gd??' anw maybe comparatively he's doing quite fine, guess that made our day, not coz Ian was doing fine but more so we had not made a wrong choice in sending him to sch only in Nursery despite all the pple's 'nagging' of not sending him earlier but well we also went pre-sch 2 yrs rite, why now they have to go 4 yrs....anw the 1 yr he spent not going sch was gd coz now he truly yearns to go sch! haahaha and Wang Laoshi said he is talking so much more to classmates and teachers and he's even daring enough to 'perform' in class (guess it shld be just going out to sing the song!) coz he has been singing all the songs he learnt every day till it's like stuck in mama's head as well hahaaa and it's easily 10 chinese songs! only thing is he does not understand some of the meaning (hhmm mama used to be envious of kids who could recite tangshi and all but now thinking abt it, what's the use if the kid doesn't truly understand the meaning! coz my son now can do as well but we dun feel proud at all hhmm!) and coming home, it was a time to explain the phrases to him so they could be sung more meaningfully!

Just in the span of 8 weeks, we are glad we see this remarkable improvement in Ian and definitely he is loving his sch and friends as he comes back saying the happenings in sch and each encounter he has with every classmate. Even on Sat, he is asking to go sch! Guess it's the love for sch that pushes him to wake up every morning as mama's fav phrase is 'You are gonna be late if u dun wake up soon!' and he will soon try hard to pry open his eyes hahhaa and even so he's asking if he could go both morning and afternoon school....hhmm son, u have a long long way ahead, just enjoy ur school!