Monday, April 30, 2012

Chicken pox? Or just rashes?

Went to the doctor yesterday.
Being forced by sis.
Cause my rashes was damn bad; both hands and even tummy.

Doctor wanted gave me two day mc, bt since tue is PH, he gave me one day mc. He asked me observe as it might be chicken pox if cream applied doesnt take effect.

Omgnesssssss! And so i rest at home today. Observing my rashes.

I called SEED Institue to verify uni first payment :)

I talked to hirah in the aftnn.
Was talking about maths concept in each corner.
Talking about library corner, hirah say we shld have gloves for counting;5 little monkeys, 5 little ducks, number 1-5.
Since i am home, i did jus tt; find pictures for the gloves :)

And.. Jzann frm k1 had HFMD.
And she came to centre on sat.

Haiyoooo. Tt wld means no outdoor for another 10days. And measures have to be in place.
Troublesome much.

Hope there will be no more cases!!

Its rest day tmr again:)
Min

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Clean up mpr store after 4months of usage..

Went to sis kindergarten for a while as she wanted set up corner for her practicum exam.

When i see her kindergarten, i suddenly appreciate my childcare centre.

Our environment are seriously much richer in terms of prints and materials :)

So proud of myself and my colleagues.
(maybe that explain why our centre keep having visits from people with authority. Cause we set the standard. Hahahaha).

Anyway, i went back to centre at 10.30am with hajar.
Left at 2.30pm.




















A fruitful 4hours of cleaning mpr storeroom :)
Battle with a few cockroaches only, luckily :)
































And i manage to bring out weaving materials for fine motor corner.

Currently, half of our interest centres did incorporate maths and science concepts.

Discovery:
-seraration(small to big)
-one to one correspondance
-matching
-observe, explore, compare

Prac life skills:
-sort according to colour
-sort according to size
-little vs more

Fine motor:
-sort according to colours
-sort according to shapes

Dramatic:
-sorting
-observe, explore, compare
-counting
-1 to 1 correspondance

Still left with Art, library, block, manipulative.

Shall think about it tonight or tomorrow because ms rai will tour around our class on monday to ask about those maths and science concept incorporated in each learning centre. Hmmmm.


Anyway, i did calculation for my fees for uni (yes, i receive hard copy mail last night regarding acceptance into degree course and payment of fees).
I should have enough to make payment through installment for 20months of about $1250 per month for the 22months course.













I am paying my fees myself.
Must score well.
Must have good gpa :)

Once june start, i guess my life wld be more hectic with uni stuff to cope with. But i believe i can do it. 22months will pass by so very quickly :)

Jiayou.
Min

Friday, April 27, 2012

Cornflakes cruchies. How nice if life is so crunchy and nice?:)

Changed shift with komathi since she owe me 3 morning shifts.

I worked at 7am today.
I printed daily updates from home ad photocopied it when i reached school.
(since komathi commented that there's no more daily updates for her to photo opy yesterday. She should have photocopied it before the last piece was being used. She should know especially so when she work morning shift for the whole of this week!!!)

Anyway, i kept container and trays which hajar had washed yesterday as they did pouring of water with children yesterday :)

I also kept the mother's day 3D stuff (egg carton of flower shape) in plastic bag. So that the sand play area will be much neater..
But i am very mean, i only keep for my own group. I left those 3D stuff (egg carton of flower shape) of her group untouched, on the floor. I want to see if she will take initiative and keep it during children's nap time. Hmmmm.

Yay, did Home science: cornflakes crunchies. Komathi took her group of 5 while Hajar took her group of 4, and i took my group of 8 (shermaine is in malaysia and didnt come to school, rayden was nt in school too).

Children enjoed the process of mixing cornflakes and rainbow sugar rice and nuts and honey:):)










During children nap time, i went to the other bay to remind the teacher that i need to collect the survey from parents about children these days using touch screen learning by monday!

Then i did some changes to the practical life skills corner to incorporate maths concept into corner. Took photo of it for labelling purposes.

Had a fast discussion with hajar hirah and komathi individually about incorporating maths concept into all corners.

Time pass super fast.
Children woke up.
Had high tea and circle time: musical instrument.
Some children went for funovator class while te rest was in discovery corner exploring and playing toys that make sound.

4.30pm ;)
Knock off. But jus before i go home, i just want to take out fine motor weaving items(for fine motor corner) frm mpr store room. End up gt cockroach! Ahhhhhhh!
Decided to come back tmr to clean the store.

Soooo. I decided to go home. I asked komathi to keep the 3D stuff of mother's day since she didnt do so during children's nap time.

When i am home, i texted komathi to ask if she had submit wap or nt cause it will be week 7 next week. (which is her turn to do wap). I get standard reply of "oh ya, i forgot." Tsk.

Wheeee. Its fridayyy. How time flies man!


Min

Thursday, April 26, 2012

On leave bcuz of IELTS speaking exam.

On annual leave today.

Hajar txt me abt komathi didnt keep the apron (which i wash ytd n leave it to dry) when hajar reach wrk at 9 today.

Fed up wif komathi sia.
mon i wash toys aft i end wrk.chengcheng say tue toys still there when she come at 730, so she keep for us.

Tue, i use apron. And so did she. For the mothers day flower. Okay, she did wash her group apron. Bt by closing, stil nt dry. So i leave it there in the toilet. Wed hajar came at 850 cuz her wrk shift is 9, then apron nt kept.

Ytd i do painting, and so did she. Bt i wash all the apron. As usual, closing time, nt dry yet. This time, i put apron at sand and water play area(in case se didnt notice if it is in toilet).
Still, wat did i gt today? She didnt keep apron when hajar reach at abt 9. Tsk.
i need to..................... breathe!(: dun get mad!!












Anyway, main motive i on leave today is for IELTS Speaking Exam.


















Questions being asked:
my job. Wat i like abt it.

Wat i do on most weekend. What am i going to do this weekend. Is it important to do things different every weekend?

How many schools did i went to? Which i love the most? Why?

Did my parents choose secondary school for me or i choose myself? Will i gt my child to study same secodary school as me? Why?

Name a leader whom i admire.
What it takes to be a leader.
Development of leader.
Why need leader.
Why some ppl choose not to be leader.
What can the govt do to develop leader.

Finally end after about 10-15min talk.

I Went back to SEED institute.
Passed lecturers the ppt i did for AF09 last year on graduating day.
Had lunch with Ms Shirley and Mdm Millicent :) thankful for their letter of recommendation for me entering bachelor of science in early childhood.













No school work done today,
Enjoyed myself :)

Went surprise boyf. Ask him press on for his exam :)
Then bdae celebration wif my friend :)



















Sis was sharing with me tt she pass by my wrk place.. And julian says "teacher huimin not here". Hajar added "teacher huimin is on leave". And guess wat? Julian pointed to the grass and say "there, teacher huimin on leave".
Awwwww. Damn adorable :)

Hirah txt me to update me abt today.
Since moe n seed ppl coning nxt thurs, we nd to ensure environment is ready. Make sure all corners are rich wif maths concept. I was discussing with hirah about the different corners, only manage to think of practical life skills, discovery and dramatic. Had ideas for block corner. Stil left with art corner, library corner, fine motor corner and manipulative corner.

Brain juice used up. Shall see how tmr ;)

Min

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Tcr Nurul broke down :( ohnooooo.

Hirah on mc todayyyy.

I get my children to do painting on mahjong paper accordingly to tempo (fast/slow).
Did it group by group.
Yay, they finally used the easel board today :)


















In the afternoon, valerie introduce Wei kim to us. She will be attached to our centre for a month plus.
She is having enculturation this week. So she is here to observe our centre for the 2nd half of the day. And she will be working 7am shift tomorrow (to think about it, it's komathi doing morning shift tomorrow. Wonder if komathi will teach wei kim the wrong practise or not. Hahahahaa)


Ms rai mention that people from MOE coming nxt thurs, with lecturers from SEED. Gosh, another big project for the teachers!

Ms rai discuss a little about staff retreat wif me. She asked me to search more about cheng ho cruise. Will it b cheaper if we make own booking? Wat is menu like?
Then, she asked me to ask hirah to search and follow up on staff retreat instead since she is in charge and i am on leave tomorrow.

Time for children to wake up, I did diaperings while Komathi is outside sweep floor after children had their high tea.
Hajar was commenting that komathi sweep the floor for veryyyy long and that todd area are super messy.
End up hajar went to playgroup and sweep te floor for komathi and told her that this is the way to sweep the floor. Hahahaha.
Epic, and i missed it.
Wonder what reaction komathi had at that time!

Anyway, children were playing manipulative after they finish drinking their water.
I pretended to cry and say i am very sad, julian yenwei heiirishaa mingxuan zuyao and isaac came to give me big hug and some even say sry.. So cute la :)

I did cheng ho research on hirah behalf since it is within my means :)
I dont want to add stress to hirah since i still dont knw what happen to her yesterday, and since she is on mc today too.

I recieve a call from Nurul. She was crying on the phone. Broke down because of wu lao shi. I could totally relate to her as i used to be in her situation when i was attached to k1 last year(having to work with wu lao shi and teacher valerie). I decided to go to nurul house to give her a hug and lend her listening ears ;)
Had a great chat for about an hour plus. Hope she is feeling better now :)













Be positive. Stay strong.
Guess that's what all teachers need to do :)

Min

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Finally outdooooor, and caterpillar turn into butterflyyyyy

Ms rai want the list of things she commented on our classroom since jan. we need submit to her by fri. Komathi will be in charge of collecting it.

Anyway, i only have 6 children in my group today.
Alan went china.
Shermaine went malaysia.
Rayden withdrawing soon, so didnt come.
Heiirishaa sick.

I did mother's day card with my children. Childrem press egg carton(which was cut into flower shape) which was dipped in paint. A flower product was formed :)





Wheeeeee :)
We went outdoor today, finally!!
Used the circle hoops (thanks to hajar idea) and it worked. It was much more managable than before :)


















Saw a lot of cockroach during our outdoor walk (as fogging was done yesterday).
Some children were especially scared (like julian and mingxuan) while others were curious.

We saw a caterpillar along the way. So i caught it using glove. Going to Add to our collection of butterfly :)

And....
One of the caterpillar that we had kept had turn into butterfly.
So we let it free in the presence of the children :)



















During children nap time, i washed the apron used by children. Then when i came out of toilet, i saw Hirah cry :(
Gave her big hug, we didnt spoke a word. But i can sense her weakness and sadness :(

She took half day urgent leave and left after praying.

I was asked to OT half an hour to close the centre. Xavier parents reach at 7:03. A little late since we close at 7pm, but nvm abt the 3minutes la. So i didnt fine them.


Oh yes oh yes, Hajar bought new fishes :)

Annnnnnd there's a lot of parents who enquire about MFS.
Ignorant me told one of the parents the curriculum for term 1 and 2 when they ask -.-! Haiyoooooo.
After which, hajar was mentioning to me that i should ask them make an appointment with ms rai to check out such details.
Lesson learnt :)

Hope hirah will be fine soooooooon.

Min

Monday, April 23, 2012

First "scolding" from ms rai. But i accept that it's my mistake.

Hfmd cycle over last thurs. wanted bring children outdoor bt hirah went for term 2 training, so nt enough teacher. Friday also cant bring them out as komathi is on mc.

So i thought, yesssss.
Monday today, brand new week. Brand new start.
Lets bring children outdoor.

But sad to say, still no outdoor as there's not enough teacher.
hajar helped infant cuz faliza went to see the doctor :(

Hope tomorrow can go outdoor then :)

I made use of the outdoor time to conduct circle time of last friday (Parental involvement-toys that produce sound) with the group which had funovator class last fri.



During children's nap time, i mark schnet and slot documentation to art wrk of each child. Quite happy with myself :)

Today's circle time: animal action. Children really enjoyed moving like animals :)




















Did closing with hirah today.
I returned the touch booklet(parental involvement).

And there's a survey about children these days using touch screen learning. Each class were to give 5 parents to help out with the survey.

For my class, i gave to
-haziq
-isaac
-yen wei
-amber
-ming xuan

intented to return magical seashore theatre tickets to prove to parents that we did went for the field trip last wednesday.

But as i was busy giving out surveys and touch booklet and updating parents random things about their child, i totally forget to give out the magical seashore theatre tickets.
So i decided to give it out tomorrow :)














Suddenly, ms rai came shouting at me. Okay, not really shout. But she spoke louder than usual.
I was shocked.

She was asking why did i gave the magical seashore theatre tickets when she already say no the ither time.
(recall! Last thurs, i ask ms rai if we should give out the tickets to show parents that their child did went for theatre performance. She say don't need and ask me to pass the tickets to valerie to do closing. This afternoon when i pass to valerie, she say she don't need the tickets and asked me to give it out to parents. And so, logically thinking, i did as told).

Ms rai was upset with me. She say even if valerie say can give out, it is only right for me to check it with her once more.
Lucky i was sooooo busy tt i didnt give out to playgroyp children, so the tickets were only given out to 4 toddlers (kathleen, wan xuan, jia chen, ditha)

Ms rai then explained, the price of ticket is indicated on the ticket; $11. And we charged parents $20. She got a point. Parents might feel imbalance, why are they paying so much more (cause they wouldn't understand that we need cater bus and payfor teacher's tickets as well). And should there be any complain, i wouldnt be the one handling it, it would be ms rai who will need to do the explaination. Sooooo. I can understand why she was so agitated and spoke louder to me than usual.

I washed the maipulative today.
As haziq had an ucler on tongue, joe had rashes and shermaine had ucler on her right cheek.

And....
I recieved a message from ms rai;
Please be more careful in the future. I have also asked Val to be more careful in the future. In the event any parent query just say to check with me as I derive the cost per child for the trip. You ladies don't answer. Thanks.

Glad to know she is concern about me after speaking a bit louder to me resulting to me feeling a bit upset.
Hehehee.

That's the end of the day:)

Min

Saturday, April 21, 2012

IELTS exammmm.

Went for IELTS exam at civil sevice college.
Listening, reading, writing.

Listening test consist of 40questions. It was a breeze, i felt :)

Reading test consist of yet another 40 questions. Total of 3 reading passage. Was not too bad :)

Writing test include 2 task.
A letter of complain. (about a product information wrongly stated in advertisement).
And a debating essay(some people believe that children will behave better if they are rewarded for good behaviour. While others believe that children should be punished for bad behaviour).
Not too bad, at least i have something to write :)

Speaking test next thursday, which i had took annual leave for :)

I shall enjoy my saturday. Wheeeee.

Min

Friday, April 20, 2012

Term 2 curriculum training

Went to kallang bahru for te 2 curriculum training in the morning.
Talked about portfolios, observation of children and planning of time.

Had lunch with christine. Since i am at bugis, i bought chewy donuts for teachers. Since its fridayyyyy, we should all relax a little. I bought extra for fadilah and nurul to congratuate them for completing fp3.

I am supposed to be back at centre to work frm 3pm-6.30pm.

I reached about 2.40pm. Did adjustment to next week schedule since waheedah applied leave.

Then i conduct circle time (parental involvemet on sense of hearing) while some children atteded funovator class.







I got performance bonus slip :)
Was rated good, going to have 1.35 months bonus.
Wheeeee.

Jus before i went home, i washed the manipulative :)
(it had been some time since we wash as hfmd cycle is over. Hahahaha)

Felt good today...

It is a great way to use bonus to close the good week.

Did english practise test online.. In preparation for tomorrow's test.
So last minute read-up :x
Still, hope it will help:)

Min

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Komathi went to the doctor..

Hirah on course in the morning.
Hajar took todd class.

I read "a very big storm" to one of my group of children.
Komathi didnt bother to look aft children. She gave her group manipulative to play and went to the entrance. I seriously has no idea what she did at the entrance.














I stopped my story halfway as i need to handle the class.

Then, komathi came back to ask if she can read the book to her group. And so i allow her to do so as i get manipulative for my group to play.

I changed baihaqi as he overflow. Hajar mention that komathi continue reading the book to one of her group when another group of hers and two groups of mine were going haywire. Hajar cldnt take it, so she helped settle pg down for a while.
Children lunch, followed by shower and nap.

Sigh, komathi doesnt knw how to prioritse things to do? Handle 3 groups of chn or reading book to 1 group? I mean, she can read the book if 3 groups are settled.

Lunch, followed by shower, then nap.
Komathi went to the doctor again, guess she must be really unwell. Soooooo, my anger towards her had lessen.

Anyway, she went home after seeing doctor, half day mc.

Shannon n rayden mum come to fill up transfer form. Sigh, something real bad must have happen to her and her husband. Because i recalled her saying transferring is not urgent since she hasnt settle down at her new job in the west too. But today, she personally came down, jus to sign the form, had shown the urgency she want to transfer her children. Hmmm.

Hirah came back to centre to wrk aft her training.
She bought koi :) hehehee.

Hajar went to k2 while wu lao shi came over at 3.30pm.

As usual, lao shi conduct her chinese lesson while i conduct my circle time.
















The day ended well with hirah doing closing with me :)

Komathi texted me at night to say she is on mc tomorrow.
I made adjustment to the schedule and ask ms rai for approval. Aft approval, i get hirah to work ot for half an hour and come at 9am instead of 9.30am.

Somehow, i feel for valerie being senior teacher. Always being disturbed by teachers taking mc, which would be a last minute thingy. And having to make arrangement on the spot and inform te other teachers who will be affected.

Seriously, one will never know how other feels until he/she had experienced it.

Anyway, its a good learning experience for me, making adjustment to the schedule:)

I read up some english notes in preparation for sat IELTS. Gosh. Sat will come so so sooooon.

Min