Our children are developing, gradually =)
This week is supposed to be the school holidays. Many would think that teachers and children alike are taking a week’s rest. Nope, not our school. Other than Monday, which was Teachers’ Day anyway, teachers had to go back for the rest of the weekdays. Staff meeting was on Tuesday, and we had to conduct extra remediation classes for the next three days to weak students.
Not that I think it is not required, but how much can we do in the three days, I wonder? Also, it is just for three hours a day, with a twenty-minute recess embedded into the timetable each day. Students who come without the correct attitude will learn nothing at all, I feel.
And that’s not all. The management feels that results for the past five years have dipped yearly. They want all teachers to help make a difference, whether we are teaching primary six classes or not. So we were made to commit for the next month until their PSLE examinations, our time, be it weekday nights or weekends. We will be rostered to teach weaker students.
Not that I am complaining. But again, I say, they will waste our time if their attitude is wrong in the first place! I hope very much that results will take a turn, for everyone’s sake.
At home, RACHEL is showing more of what she had learnt in play-school. She was ‘caught’ singing rhymes quite a few times, but stopped short when she discovered that we knew sometimes. She is able to recognise more letters and numbers, and can tell us the ’R', ‘A’ and ‘C’ of her name when we write them to her. She recognises ‘apple’ when she sees it on the telly.
FELIX is learning how to walk. He is still not as strong in the legs and needs to hold onto things or people. Somehow, he sometimes ‘irks’ RACHEL and ’scares’ her with his screams at her. And poor RACHEL cries when she is being screamed at! =(
