Celebrating Ang Pow Festival in School

This year, Sze Yi performed the Hip Hop style Street Dance during their school CNY Ang Pow festival. It's a new experience for her, and she enjoyed it very much.

They just formed the team 1 month in advance, and practice session started just 3 weeks prior to the actual performance. Despite that, the kids performed very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJqXYHgAgMY&feature=youtu.be

Immortals

Sze Juin didn't want to miss the fun too so she formed her own group and managed to find enough people to make a team 1 week later. Even though they only have 2 weeks to practise, they gave a superb performance as well.

https://youtu.be/97eNb2qBigg

Uptown Funk

A Feisty Fowl Four Celebration!

What's better than this to start off the day?

Birthday messages from Jie Jie

The birthday cake, special request from the birthday girl. She wanted a blue one, but didn't want a 'boy' angry bird. So Mommy requested for the ribbon to make it like a 'girl' angry bird :) It turned out rather nice, don't you think so?

See how happy the birthday girl looked? 

 Singing of birthday songs in 3 different versions 

 1,2,3, blow! Can you see the angry bird's tail? 

 Cutting of birthday cake with Jie Jie

 Class photo, with the birthday girl flanked by her two best friends

 Family photo with her classmates

After that, it's the moment everyone was waiting for! Nearly every kid had more than one helping of cake, until the teacher had to stop them in case they were too full for lunch later. The cake came in two flavours, the angry bird being longan lychee flavour while the base was chocolate cake. For the first time in many years, I was rather satisfied with the cake in appearance and taste (even though it was slightly smeared). Yes, we ordered the cake from the same shop every year :)

 Distribution of party packs after everyone cleaned up

 They're angry bird puzzles!

Attending her birthday party helped me get to know more about her classmates. According to her teacher, some of her friends dropped out because one of the uncle who used to transport them to school moved away to another state. One mommy even had to take the bus to fetch her child everyday. There's a girl from an orphanage nearby who could not talk since birth, because she was tied and left there by her mother. What a pitiful story, our hearts went out to her immediately. Lucky thing she was a bright student and she had a brother in the same school too. And luckily they were provided transportation and education. Such real-life situations made me felt grateful that there were still such good people around to take care of the more unfortunate.  

It's half day for her today, because Daddy and Mommy planned to spend some time with her.

Wearing her birthday present from Aunty HP, which came in her favourite color! 

She loved it very much!

When asked what did she want for lunch, she chose wanton noodles. So we took her to a nice Sarawak noodles restaurant which offered mee kolok, and looked rather similar to wanton noodles :)

Yummy, yummy!

 And then it's off to her favourite place, Youth Park! Looks like they just installed a new see-saw!

Happily galloping away!

And finally, opening her presents! One from Auntie SL, the other from her classmate. 

She loved them to bits!

Happy birthday Sze Juin. Hopefully you'll slowly get rid of your angry bird temper and grow up to be a happy girl :)

The 'magic' spectacles

One day, we got our eyes checked in school. I couldn't see what they're asking us to read, and I cried. Many of my friends cried too. The person who checked us consoled us, saying that it's ok. We'll be able to see again after Mommy got us a pair of nice spectacles. I brought home a note with my prescription power that day.

After I got my pink spectacles, I was amazed. "Wow, Mommy, the white board is so much clearer now!". It's like magic! 

Mommy said I look like an old maid... bad Mommy

Oh, luckily I didn't need to wear it for long. Read here if you're interested to find out more!

Primary 1

Not even 1 month after I turned 6, I started Primary 1.

Did you noticed my hairstyle? We have to tie it that way if we want to keep our hair long. Mommy is still learning to make it nicer & neater

During orientation

We're on the Star! Can you spot me?

Party Time!

Every year towards the year end, we'll be having a class party in school. This year, we helped Mommy prepared the Horlicks Doggies Cookies . We even had a trial run a week in advance because Mommy had never made this before.

Mei  Mei helped Mommy with the mixing while I helped her with the doggies shaping. See what's our end results this time? It turned out quite well compared to the trial run :)

Ta-da!

Cute cute doggies

We also brought vitagens along to quench down these doggies. And we had a great time partying in school, enjoying all the food and goodies that our friends and teachers brought. Now 2 more days to school holidays!

Graduated!

I couldn't believe that my girl has graduated! Wow, how time flies. It would be SY's first graduation, and we're so grateful that her kindy years have been so memorable and enriching for her.

Graduation photo taken in July 2011

Rehearsal Day (Oct 22nd) - behind the backdrop

The photos and videos that we took on rehearsal day while they were performing on stage were not very clear. And on the actual day, we were not allowed to take any photos or videos. Here are the professional photos which we bought from the school. 

Photos taken on Rehearsal Day, the Indian Dance troop from K2 girls and their teachers

(can you spot SY at the front row, first from the left?)

Rehearsal Day - The team behind the poem recital 妈妈的眼睛

The Little Tea Pot Dance team from Year 3 students and their teachers

(Can you spot SJ at the front row, 4th from the right)

On the actual day itself, which was 29th Oct, we're in for a happy surprise to find SY's name under the most honourable award category. 

SY receiving her trophy

The top achievers for this year, 2 were from K2, while the other boy was from K1

I kind of regretted that we didn't take any photos of her in her graduation robe, as these were the only ones that we have, besides those from the professional shots taken in July.

SJ got an award too! 

 SJ performing in The Little Teapot Dance, can you spot her at the front row?

 SJ with her partner...

Facing the front now :)

There were so cute, the little dancers. I wish I can upload the video too, but I'll have to find time to crop the videos first. The teachers have indeed done a great job training them up. 

 The students performing the poem recital, 妈妈的眼睛.
They were specially selected by the principal and trained in her office

SY and her partner

And here are some photos of the Indian Dance. It was a superb performance, they girls could really undulate. The teacher did a very excellent job! We could hardly identify our girl at first, since all of them look like in their costumes!

SY at the 2nd row, from right

SY at the back row, standing from 3rd right

SY at the front row, first from the right

SY at the first right

Still at the same position

SY at the right

SY at the right

The finishing pose

After the concert ends, we took some photos 

Our family photo

With Amah and 2nd Chik Chik

SJ with her class teacher

SY with her class teacher and also English teacher (who is also the one teaching them the Indian Dance)

The girls at the 6th floor. This was their waiting room, while waiting for their turn to perform

Their trophies that made us proud of them

Sze Yi 1st Holiday Camp

I had better post this before the next holiday is here.

Last holiday, Sze Yi attended a holiday camp at her school. The main objective was to let the children learnt to be independent, able to socialise and also had a good sense of gratitude. They would be having a field trip to Taiping Zoo, and then overnight 1 night at the school. Since she was familiar with the building as she had her afternoon naps there, we felt comfortable to let her participate in the camp.

She's very excited when Daddy dropped her at the school

When Sze Juin woke up and found that Jie Jie was gone, she made a fuss. You see, last night, Jie Jie had helped her pack her bag as well, telling her that she could come along too, if she's ok to sleep alone at night - cannot cry because Mommy and Daddy won't be there. She had agreed, but kept changing her mind :)

So we took SJ to Taiping Zoo later in the afternoon, with the hope of catching up with Jie Jie and also let her have a holiday trip too since the holiday was just starting. 

 

See how happy SJ looks!

 We went for the train ride and saw lots of animals. 

 Most of them were taken afar, so it's not clear

SJ was trying to imitate the elephant :)

 Daddy and SJ on the lookout for Jie Jie

 Aha! We found them! We noticed that each teacher has 3 students under their charge

 Posing for the camera...

SJ was very excited when she saw her Jie Jie and all her teachers. So was Sze Yi when she saw us. It happened to be Amah's lunar birthday too, so she went to tell her teachers about it (her teacher came to wish Amah happy birthday :)). Later, we left when they were queueing up to go up the bus. 

The following day, we went to join them for a family session. I felt so proud when I saw my girl - she's so at-ease and independent.

She's wearing a T-shirt designed by herself during the camp

When we arrived, they were practising this song

I felt so happy and glad that I let her participate in the camp when I saw how happy she was

Don't know what caused her to be so amused

Blending in with the group...

All the parents were welcomed with this song...

They were asked to present the flower to their parents.

A closer look at the flower

 Then they were given a towel to wipe their parents face

And now for Amah...

We were shown a slideshow of what they went thru during the camp. It's reassuring to know that they were doing fine, and had a great time. They had a little picnic for lunch at Taiping Lake before they went to Taiping Zoo.

Some of the photos shared...

 Sze Yi's group photos (Kangaroo Team)

 

 Finally, queueing for the bus to take them home

Next, we saw them back from the trip in the bus, followed by the night activities that they did. They designed the T-shirt with their own creativity, and also did a mask. 

Busy designing their T-shirts...

I can't really remember, but I think they had some practise of the songs too...

Practice makes perfect

They had a few action songs

After having supper, they called the night off. I think they had some chanting or prayers as well. The next morning, they prepared sandwiches for their parents. They also practised for a sketch. 

 Sze Yi's role was as a Mama Bird

 Mama Bird with her little birdies

 The sketch in action...

 All the animals involved

Uh, looks like they had some fun games as well.

Then, there's the visit to the old folk's home.

Ok, back to reality. After all the slide shows, they then presented us with the sketch.

Everyone involved taking their places

Say cheese....:)

After the sketch, they had an activity involving the parents. All the children were required to wear a mask, and stand behind a big cloth covering their pants and legs, with their shoes removed. 

Can you tell which is Sze Yi? 

The parents were supposed to guess which was their child's leg and grabbed it. 

After that, the mast of cloth will be removed... ta-da!

Daddy found his princess!

Madam Tan (her school's Ex-Principal) helped us take a family photo

The camp ended with everyone (including the parents) participating in the activity song. Indeed, this was a very great camp. We were very impressed and grateful to all the teachers. It seemed they had all the teachers from every branch to help out with this camp. I would say this is a great success and we have enjoyed the camp as much as our kid. In fact, SJ had a great time too!

A big Thank You to all the teachers of Than Hsiang Kindergarten!