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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Holiday coming to an end!

Hmm I see, I have really totally forgotten about this blog of mine ever since Mid of this year. Seriously, a lot of stuffs have happened and I have more or less gained some maturity from it. This post will take me quite a while to finish. To start the ball rolling I would think these are the few major highlights that bring a bling to my thoughts. I would further elaborate the headings with thoughts that flashes through my mind.

1. Taking over responsibilities
2. Dinner after Dinner
3. Running therapy
4. Heart to heart talk with my therapist, psychiatrist, dermatologist and dentist.
5. Shopping therapy
6. Knowing a Special one
7. My Manga Painting series Continues. . .
8. So much of readings
9. Apple revolution starts ...
10. Animation is so interesting, and it exists in so many forms!
11. My Marathon Trainings
12. My Xmas Perfect Present
13. My Clean Cubicle
14. Year 2010 challenges
15. Going off is a dedicated and true blue teacher
16. Embracing God
17. Bon Voyage my China friend.
18. 2009 to be gone soon, 2010 a year of surprises?

Elaborations

1.Taking over responsibilities
Towards the last 2 to 3 weeks of Term 4, unknowingly I took up the responsibility of P4 Level Manager. It was really a test of patience and endurance. Getting my level teachers to consolidate their classes results, churning out reports and thus streaming the kids based on their results was no joke at all. Getting my colleagues to get their tasks done was luckily easy , hmm I would say maybe except for one! It was really stressful enough. Haha God blessed! After all the rush and hush, kids got their report books, Promotions and were streamed based on their credentials.

2.Dinner after Dinner
Well this was really getting very tiring physically and also financially stressful. A total of 4 Colleagues weddings, 3 friends Weddings, 3 relatives Birthday Celebrations, Parents Birthdays and staff Dinner. Phew... Until Boxing day I finally gave up and felt so blue about it that I simply refused to go for any more dinner or celebrations.

3. Running therapy
Ever since my short stint as a level manager, I had literally cut down my number of runs per day. Routines were no longer kept and followed. I only managed to pull myself back only during December, after my visit to my number 1 therapist Ms Chan.

4. Heart to heart talk with my therapist, psychiatrist, dermatologist and dentist.
Went over to talk with my friends and told them about my problems. Well it's over so don't really wish to bring it up again. Boo!

5. Shopping therapy
OMG, this is really one serious problem. In just one and a half month, my spending chalked up to a good 4 to 5 digit number. Items bought are
Clothings from Soda, NIKE, FCUk, Adidas and etc Running Shoesssss err 8 pairs, Traveling, Apple products, books, phones, furniture, IT gadgets ie GPS, Laptop, 128GB thumb drives,earphones, Network printer and etc, eye-wears, lots of restaurant trips, car maintenance, groceries mounting up to 1k, liquor and wines, Doraemon stuffs and ...

6. Knowing a Special one
Just got to know a special friend that somehow changes my life maybe not forever but to say at least for this period. It is her character and attributes that attracts me, boyish, sporty, frankness, aloofness, seems to be very attitude, have a liking for wimpy kids and i think maturity being the key to all.


7. My Manga Painting series Continues. . .
I have finally continued my paintings, here is my drawings to its final look.


8. So much of readings
Have read quite a bit of books, Life of PI, happiness equation, have a little faith, the gift, Sun Tze, last lecture, time travellers wife, Tipping point, confucius from the heart and etc

9. Apple revolution starts ...
Got my Mac Book, I phone, I pod nano, I shuffle, and next not sure

10. Animation is so interesting, and it exists in so many form
The list of animation starts with
Paper cut, 2D Flash, Claymation, Stop Motion,3D studio Max, Flip book animation and Sand animation.
I went for this workshop during the first week of school holiday at CreativeBits. Got a hand or two in the claymation and sand animation. See my work!


11. My Marathon Trainings
Started my running routine once again! Hope to train up and be Gold Standard fitness once again.

12. My Xmas Perfect Present
I got this book GOD OF MANGA(Osamu Tezuka) from this special friend of mine.

13. My Clean Cubicle
Managed to clean my place got furniture for things to be kept and everything is done up neatly.
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Saturday, April 11, 2009

My Class performance during the camp fire night.


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St John's island Memories


On the last day of the camp we went to the beach to have some fun.


My student, Si Li did our class proud by clinching the best female camper award. What a moment that was. Well Done! Simply Awesome!


When you are camping or go resorting in an island, a must have activity is to be running around its beach when the sun rises in the morning. What a beauty the surrounding accentuates as the sun breaks the horizon of the skyline. There you see, behind me is really something nature gives to mankind, ' A mesmerizing, breathtaking and exasperating dawn'.



I was practically running around the island 3 times a day, morning, noon and midnight. The photo shows the night view of our mainland Singapore from St John's island . If you look at it closely, you will see our world's largest observatory, The Singapore Flyer.


Our kids were having their confidence trail during nighttime.


Do they looked like refuges from third world country seeking freedom in a refuges camp.


Now there is a story to this bigger than human size chess set. It was said that the during the Japanese occupation, Prisoners of War (POW) were brought to this island for lockup. As the Japanese soldiers were bored, they came up with the idea of having a real life chess to ease their boredom. So POWs were used as pawn in the chess! As their Pawn were 'eaten' up up the other opponent they will kill him off on the spot. What inhumane and cruelty that was. It was certainly an utterly disgusting and unforgivable war time crime that went unpunished.



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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Friendly match with Hong Wen Primary School




This was an invitation match handed out to us by teachers of Hong Wen Primary School on the last day of school for Term 1. The game ended with handshakes exchanged. Well, for the score, it is not important at all, with players from "Manchester United" and "Liverpool FC" in our star studded team, everything is destined...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Rainbow seen in Singapore Sky.


I remember seeing this enormous rainbow spreading across our Singapore Sky a few weeks ago. Now it brings me back memories on how my Science teacher in secondary school taught my class how to remember the colours of a rainbow in sequence. The colours starts off with Red from left(External) and ends with Violet on its right or (Internal). The secret in remembering the sequence is to memorize this phrase "Richard Of York Gain Battle In Vain." So do u get it now.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Finally met up with my first batch of pupils! Cool!



After leaving RV since 2006, i have not had the chance to meet up these lovable pupils of mine. A lot of great moments were rekindled during the chat that we had during this meet up. I simply couldn't imagine the meet up with Vannehh and Dia lasted a solid 2 hours. Wow, it's really inexplicable! I'm really surprised to hear from Dia that she actually remembers the lessons that i had with them during that short stint. It was the lesson on writing a poem by using a certain number of syllables, actually that is called the 'Haiku Poem'. To allow us to better reminisce those invaluable moments, I have added the pictures that i had taken on some of the occasions that we had. Below were two impressive works that Vannehh and Dia had done. One was on Simile poetry and the other was done during the Literature programme Charlotte's Web. Enjoy!

Great pupils on Board!

A time when all are learning some life skills.

Dia's Work

Vannehh's Work
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Reading: How the parent can help

Reading: How the parent can help

Teaching reading is an important and difficult job in which both the school and the parent can cooperate. Here are many ways in which you as a parent can help your child:

  1. Talk to your child. Almost from birth, a child is ready to express himself. At first, he will respond by cooing and gurgling. Later he will pick up a few words and sense the rhythm of language. Help him to add words to his speaking vocabulary. The more words he uses naturally in his ordinary conversation, the more words will have meaning for him when he sees them on the printed page.
  2. Listen to your child. Children have many opportunities to express themselves. Encourage your child to talk about things he has seen or done. Do pay attention when he is talking with you. Listen to your child read. Suggest that before he reads aloud to you, he should read the story to himself to be sure that he knows most if not all the words. This makes his reading to you interesting and enjoyable both to him and you.
  3. Read to your child. Every time you read to him, you are building an appreciation of books and reading. A child who has been read to is usually more anxious to read to himself. Reading becomes important. Remember, his listening and interest levels are above his reading level.
  4. Help him with his reading. Tell him the words if he is in the beginning stages of reading. Help him to work out the word if he is in a latter stage by looking at the picture, skipping over the unknown word and reading the rest of the sentence to see whether this suggests a new word, and checking to see whether the word makes 'sense' in the sentence. (e.g. 'I was a pig' or 'I saw a pig')
  5. Build a reading atmosphere at home. Have books, magazines, newspapers, etc. around the house. Let your child see you reading frequently. Tune in to thoughtful and meaningful programmes on the radio and television. Children tend to imitate the adults around them.
  6. Teach your child how to take care of books. He will learn to regard books as friends.
  7. Take him on trips. Even a short trip on the bus will excite his curiosity and interest in the world around him. Point out interesting things and give him new words and meanings for words.
  8. Encourage him to join the public library. Take him to the library at first but don't tell him what books to select. If he is a poor reader, he may choose easy books at first. As he gains confidence, satisfaction and improves in reading, he will choose more difficult books. Don't insist that he reads books which are of great difficulty to him because of his physical age.
  9. Buy books for your child. For birthdays and holidays, buy books when you can afford them. A child who owns a few good books is usually interested in reading. Try to get books at his reading grade level so he can read these books with fun and pleasure. Buy children's magazines too.
  10. Buy games and puzzles for your child. These help your child learn shape and form and help him relate words to things. Anagrams, letter games, Scrabble will help him with his spelling and reading. Jigsaw puzzles help a child recognize shape.
  11. Make games. You can make simple word games by cutting words from a magazine and asking your child to match these words to a picture. Make word cards for troublesome words (e.g. was, there, what, went) and play a game with your child. How quickly can he learn the word and how many word cards can be removed from the pack because he really has learnt them? What words should be added?
  12. Guide your child to better movie-going. Select radio or TV programmes which will give him worthwhile information as well as entertainment.
  13. Praise your child. Remember, reading is a difficult task. Don't forget to praise him when he succeeds. Don't expect him to know the word when you tell it once or twice or over ten or twenty times. Some children need to see a word many more times than this.
  14. Give your child responsibilities which he is capable of taking. This allows him to earn recognition and to get real satisfaction from accomplishments. In turn, this will build his confidence.
  15. Keep your child well and rested. A child who has stayed up late to watch television shows the effect next day in his schoolwork.
  16. See that your child attends school every day. When he is absent from school, he misses his work and may not be able to keep up with the class.
  17. Set aside a regular time for homework. Give your child a definite place in which to work. Keep that environment quiet and conducive. Do not keep a blaring television or radio set or entertain guests in that area. Help your child to develop the habit of daily attention to homework routines.
  18. Check your child's report card. If he is having trouble with reading or any subject, consult his teacher to find out why and how you can help. Don't leave the task of helping your child to the teacher solely. It is your responsibility so support your child's learning at home.
  19. Show a real interest in school. The parents' attitudes are usually the child's. You and the teacher are partners in the important job of teaching your child to read. An interested and helpful parent is most valuable co-worker and you are the partners we need.
  20. Accept your child as he is. Don't compare him with his sibling or friend. Encourage him to improve as much as he can.

Remember:Children learn to read by reading.

The more they read, the better readers they become!

Adapted from: Guiding the reading program: a reading consultant's handbook. (Robinson, H.A. & Rauch, S.J.)

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