My first day and i thank God that everything went okay. No feelings of awkward-ness and discomfort.
At 8am, i was told to do gate duty. Saw the teachers do what i missed doing : Opening doors and carrying bags for primary school children back in Sri Sempurna. What a privilege.
Anways, what i had to do? scan the temperature of the kiddos. hehe. It doesnt look as scary as the PINK gun the guard used in college.
So this is what the children do first thing : Clean hands with sanitizer, then get their forehead scanned (ooo, blue light) before going to their classes.
It was a good way of warming up, at least all of them have seen me already early in the morning..haha. Out of ALL the children, ONE girl marched up to me and asked "What is your name?". Whoa, i was pretty surprised, but pleased to know this girl had such an awesome attitude! (secure-attachment parenting style, i thought). Yup, psych is applicable. =)
In their schedule today, they had a time for exercise, dance, snack, chinese, BM, english and maths. I watched them learning mandarin and thought, "wow, i can loose to kindi children in this subject wei! " hahaha.
So, my task here is to help 2 students from a particular class who are the slower learners (one was absent and the other(Jeremy, a LEFTYYY!!!!!!) left early due to his runny nose). I'm determined and praying that somehow, i will be able to help them.
I was introduced as Miss Lynette. Not AUNTY! (as a friend teased me). I'm surprised they remember my name. One thing about mixing with children this age, most of them don't close themselves up, which helped me ease up too. I stuck with that one class throughout the day, talking to the class teacher and be among the students during class times.
Since the 2 students were not there, i was given a random task to do to keep me busy. Drawing lines in exercise books. You know...where the children write the day and date and title..about 5cm each line...haha..at least i had something to do.
Oh, a funny/interesting thing happened. During maths period, i was helping a boy count and when he finally got it, i praised him saying "See? you are smart, you can do it already". His response fascinated me, "because i eat Smarties". I wanted to laugh out loud but he didn't mean it in a Lame way so...oh well. Kept excitement to self. So cute la.
This school teaches them manners. They wish the teachers Good morning when they arrive at school and make sure they wished before they leave. Hygiene was definitely important too. After snack time, students were told to get a cloth to wipe the tables. They enjoyed it. Colour pencils and pencil boxes were placed nicely on the shelves.
Well, I'm glad i felt quite at ease throughout the day. I wish i could be there longer though..children have this thing which captures the hearts of people. *warm and fuzzy feeling*. Thank God it's all good. I got this job without complications and the teachers there and welcoming. What more can i ask for? It's my first job ever.
They have assembly tomorrow!! Looking forward to another day in Peter & Jane kindi.
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