We arrived the school exactly 7.45am before the school starts. We started with Ethan's having bad behavior, lately Ethan had been throwing a few tantrums in the class when he cannot get what he wants. Ethan is really stubborn like a cow, whenever he cannot get the things he will immediately cry and show strange behavior. He needs to learn sharing and waiting. Teacher had noticed that Ethan started to socialize with his classmates after he is back from Malaysia. Last time he had no problem to play as he always play alone. This time, after he starts socializing, he will not get the things he want especially when other kids are playing the same things. The teacher tried to tell him to wait... but this stubborn kid doesn't want to let go and insists on holding and wanting to steal the things from his classmate. When teacher told him to say sorry. The answer is always"No, No". We knew his character is like that, he would only say sorry after he has cooled down. When he was in the middle of tantrum, the answer we get is always "No!No! No!". We had asked the teacher to coach him on this area of socializing as we said he was the only kid in our house. So when he is at home, he can get whatever toy he wants to play any time, nobody will grab from him.
We had been asking the teacher when they will start to teach Ethan to learn to read and write. The teacher said that it is too early for them. This year they will not do so. The writing and reading only starts slowly when they are in K3. Mummy had told the teacher that we have concerned about Ethan in term of whether he can pick up the pace of the Malaysian education or not when we return to Malaysia. We said in Malaysia, Ethan have been considered age 4 kids not like now as his class is considered age 2 to age 3 class. Teachers comments were that mummy needs to teach Ethan at home so that the gap will be lesser when we are back. The teacher had commented that in the reading and numbering areas, it should be no problem for Ethan as they have observed that Ethan likes to count. The teacher was amazed when Ethan managed to read the word in the book while teacher was holding it. At first teacher was surprised where was the word that Ethan said which is exactly same like the book. Then Ethan pointed to the teacher that he read from the book. Teacher came to recall back that mummy had told her before that Ethan can read during the 1st parent and teacher interview. That time, they didn't witness with their own eyes.
Mummy had told the teacher that regarding writing skills. Ethan doesn't have much interest in this area. Mummy told the teacher maybe because the classmates didn't do the same things so he has no intention to learn it either. Well, the teacher said right now they didn't let the kids to practice the writing and only let them freestyle drawing. So far the school didn't let Ethan do the coloring like what we get in Malaysian kindergarten. According to the teacher, the Western educator didn't recommend coloring, they want the kids to be creative. So they will only provide the kids blank papers and let the kids to draw or paint whatever they like. They want kids to have creative thinking. They don't want to have boundaries. The teacher said actually there is meaning on the painting the kids' paint, only that we adult don't know it. The Western thinking is that if one let the kid color certain objects in the beginning it will kill the creativity of the kids. So next time when provided the blank papers to the kids, the kids don't know how to draw as they expect to have the object for them to follow instead. Guessed this is the difference between the Western and Eastern culture. Daddy said to let Ethan plays first and why worried about it.
We actually want to discuss more but ran out of time. So it was ok as the main concerns we had already been talked about.
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