Short discussion with prinicipal

Today mother had a short discussion with Ethan's principal when dropping Ethan to school. We discussed about Ethan's progress in the school.

Mother asked about Ethan's attitude to learning, the feedback was good compared with his first few weeks at the school. He learned and socialized with his friends. The principal said Ethan is a bit perfectionist as she observed from his work. She said he erased the color he was putting on the test paper, at first she thought that maybe he answered the wrong question but "NO", his answer was correct only that he did not want to use the same color as the other questions.

After he erased it, he will choose other color. Mother told the teacher is it like that? As per mother observation Ethan is really poor in coloring, he did not like to color or do art at all. All he likes is the number. Mother told the teacher that Ethan already finished learning multiply and now mother is considering whether should teach him the division or not.

The principal said since he likes the maths a lot, why not let him go and learn the mental arithmetic. Mother's response was don't want to put any pressure on him. The principal observed that Ethan's physical movement is not as good as his peers. Mother knew that since he is a self protective kid. When he knows the movement will harm him, he will not do it. The principal said even his physical side is poor but recently he was trying very hard to finish all the movement requested by the teacher. The principal conclusion was Ethan is very smart in brain works but the physical side needs to be improved.

The evaluation result

Today Ethan came back from school with some junk food and presents. Mother thought that it was his classmate's birthday party again. Well, not this round. He told mother that all the things were given by the teacher. Asked whether is it everybody got the things? He said no because he is the only one who get the sharpener from the teacher. We were asking why then he only informed that student get 100% will entitle to get the present from teacher. For him whether get the present or not, he seemed like not having any special feeling at all. This is because when mother went to pick him out, he didn't happily announced that he scored all the subjects and gotten the present from his teacher. He just kept quiet as if nothing happened. If we did not probe him, we would not know what happened. From what we observed, whether he scored or not, he seemed like "tak apa".

Mother was glad that he had done the evaluation on his own without mother doing any revision with him. It proved that he really learned in the school. At night, daddy asked whether want to reward him for such a good result. "NO" was the answer from mother. Mother doesn't want to let him have those thinking that 100% mark in test will get reward. Mother doesn't want him to have the think of learning with a motive. What we wanted is to maintain his current "tak apa" thinking then he will not have any pressure in learning and also facing the exam in future.

Acrobat

So funny seeing him performed so simple acrobat using his toy car.

Back to School

After resting two days at home, today finally mummy gave the green light to go back to school. Don't know whether this fellow got rest so much in the house when mother claimed that he need to go to school, he uses his hand to put on his forehead and told mother that he still has fever. Now he knows how to use the excuse not to go to school. Of course, his plan did not work out. He still had to go to school. We used the paper mask to cover his mouth as he still have some cough.

When mother went to pick him from school. Mother asked him about his school test. He gave back the answer "I don't know". Mother knew that he doesn't like to talk about his school things so his answer always don't know. Mother had been asking him, do you know what is examination or test ? He gave me the blur face. He doesn't know the meaning and mother also lazy to explain to him. Just let it be. He doesn't know means no pressure on him. Mother doesn't want to pollute his thinking yet and let him enjoy his childhood.

Something will happen....

Don't know why each time when come to school exam, surely got something happen to Ethan. Last time he got the HFMD during the second day of the test. This round, he got flu, cough and fever the night before his second day test.

At first, mother still drives him to school but on the way mother felt his body heat is up and up. So mother has to turn the car back home. Mother called up the school to inform the teacher regarding Ethan's situation. Teacher asked Ethan to rest at home and she will get him replacement test when he comes back to school again....

We hope that this situation will not happen in future .....

Butterfly farm we go

This was the second time we brought Ethan to the Butterfly farm. Last time, he was FOC but not for this round. We showed our IC card and Jusco card to get the the discount. Adult is RM8.00 and Ethan is RM4.00.

We tried to make an early departure from house but yet we still late. We only arrive around10.00 am in the morning. The weather was good. The purpose of this trip was to let the kids have some fun.

Ethan gets to see lots of different kind of insects beside the butterfly.

The fun part for Ethan in the whole trip was getting to chop the stamp on the brochure. At first daddy held his hand but later he wanted to do by himself. He even asked us to use the stamp on his hand like what his cousin sister did.

1st Semester Evaluation

So fast that it was nearly half of year 2010 had gone by. Next week Ethan's school will have the evaluation for the 4 subjects i.e. BM, Chinese, English and Maths. The school has given the parents the scope and the area of the evaluation.

Got revision from mother? Of course not. Mother wants to know what Ethan had learned from the kindergarten. Helped him to do the revision will not know how much knowledge he had absorbed in the school. Let him try his best on his own....

Ninja Warrior

TV program that Ethan loves to watch the most is the "Ninja Warrior". This program is fun. We did not restrict him to watch it because we can see some good impact on him. He becomes more brave.

Last time there are things that he dares not do like climbing high on the playground facilities and etc. Now he will try his best by saying he wants to be like the "Ninja Warrior". He will ask his daddy to be the timer by sounding "Pee" to start the count and stop the count when he reaches the destination. Not only outdoor he wants to be warrior. Even inside the house, he will use his bolster as the bridge for him to cross over. The photo shows his actions....

Threw up

This morning when Ethan woke up, he felt uncomfortable with his throat and he started to spit out something from his mouth. At first it was just saliva but later he thrown up some of dishes from yesterday dinner. We thought after he had threw up that he would be ok so we prepared milk for him. After he finished his milk, he laid on the bed and said that he has got stomachache. Then he quickly rose up and threw up all the milk he had just taken.

We decided not to let him go to the school today. Daddy called up to inform the teacher. Ethan told us that he was so sleepy and he continued to sleep until 9 something. We thought again that after the sleep he will recover since he had already cleared up his stomach. So we made another round milk for him. After he had taken the milk and we brought him down to have a bath, he threw up once again.

At this time we realized that situation was serious so we immediately called up the doctor. Now we just dare to let him drink the water and eat some biscuits while waiting for the doctor. After the diagnose from doctor, doctor cannot find out anything wrong with him because he doesn't have the diarrhea. Doctor said that maybe it was the early stage of food poisoning. Asked us to give him the bread and milk slowly. After he was back from hospital he had a slight fever and we gave his the medicine and let him sleep again. Mother went to cook the barley for him. He was only interested in drinking the drink instead of eating the barley. He said he was sleepy and mummy knew that he was dizzy. He cannot hold up his head.

Before we let him sleep, we wanted him to pass the big business in order to clear whatever the thing he had. He tried his best but cannot so we had to inject the liquid into his ass in order to help him to clear it. At last he cleared it and he felt better...

Completion of the project

Today mother told him that he will not need to stick the sticker on his diaper project again. Even he still had gotten one accident in April month but mother wanted to stop the diaper and announced that he had graduated from the project.

He was a bit disappointed but mother promised him that mother will think of other project to fill in. Really need to crack the head to think what kind of project mother wants to let him have.....