P1 journey

This is again another long outstanding post, and I'm not sure I can finish this tonight.

Another milestone year had passed; the first year of primary school is over for my little girl.  Lynn did well in terms of studies, and I think she enjoyed school in general.  It hasn't been difficult for me either, because P1 syllabus is very manageable.

The school's annual prize giving ceremony was held on the last day of term, 15th Nov.  There were 5 winners per class - 3 "academic achievement" awards, 1 "improvement" award and 1 "best conduct" award.  So we know that Lynn scored top 3 in class, but the exact positions were unknown.

Surprisingly, quite a lot of the academic achievement awards, including the best performance in each subject by level, went to the boys.  My guess is that nowadays parents pay more attention to the kids' studies, so the smart boys study more than the smart boys in the past.

Lynn lost (dropped) her monitor badge just 2 days before.  I had wondered for the whole year, if the school will ask for the badge to be returned.  Up to the last week, there was no such request.  Unfortunately, in the end, it was not meant to be ours to keep.

Here's the photos of the fun morning.

 
Sitting with her class mates.

Mrs Neufeld, the principal

Parents were asked to accompany the kids on stage.  The school wants the parents to be engaged in their children's eduction

Sweetie with her gleaming award

This was taken that morning during breakfast

Playing with my camera before the ceremony start

I took a pic of her report book, but then realised that I do not know which subject each of the line items were.

Lynn and aunt Cindy had this deal about eating a whole cutter-fish by herself (don't need to share) if Lynn scored 100 marks.  I did not take this to hear at all, until Lynn told me on Saturday that she wanted to bring the award to Yi-Po's house to claim her cutter-fish.  So i called aunt Cindy, and arranged to go to her house for lunch on Sunday.  The cutter-fish was cooked in soup, with carrot, which Lynn liked a lot.  Here's sweetie eating the cheap and nice home cooked lunch.

Hopefully, we will have another fulfilling year in 2014

It's December already (part 2)

It's December already (part 1)

Just me, ha!

Random pic

Birthday party photos

As mentioned previously, I have lost the photos of the birthday party.  However, these 3 items pasted on the wall were not taken down from the wall after the party.  They are:

Lynn and I prepared these game instruction and rules:

Birthday present from Chloe:

Lynn's 7th Birthday

It's 17Nov today.  I had been lazy to blog, but I finally picked up the lap top, at this late hours to.  To my horror, it suddenly occurred to me that I might have not backed up or transfered the late Oct photos in my iPhone 4S.  I checked my company phone, and the iPhoto in this laptop, and sure enough, I can't find those pics.

And I just spent the last few minutes looking in my FB, and I actually didn't post any pic in there either.

Hmm, where shall I start? We had a home party, a joint celebration for Lynn and Brayden.   This year, I added Halloween deco on top of the birthday deco.  As usual we had loads of food.

Something different this time around was that I organised games for the kids.  The slight challenge was that the games must be suitable for kids with the age range of 3 to 13.  The first game was Bingo.  My dad bought Lynn this toy Bingo set.  It has 78 number balls in a drum, which can be spin around.  It has a catch for a ball to fall into, and a ramp for the ball to roll down.  It's entertaining, cos the adults were all amused that there is such a toy set.  I went around the living room to get every adult to give it a try (at spinning).  Soon lucky Matthew got a winning diagonal set of numbers.

We then moved on the second game which was treasury hunt.  I drew a floor plan of my house and indicated 6 locations (with crosses) where the "treasuries" can be found.  Each kids was given a piece of the treasury map, and they were supposed to find and gather a prize and 2 envelopes with their names on them.  The fastest to come back to me with these 3 items wins the game.  I think all the kids (the younger ones were partnered with an adult) enjoyed the frantic search, cos some items were missing, I'm not sure how, but I think Winny misplaced them, ha!

Finally after unwrapping their treasury hunt prize, the were briefed about the last game, which was to open the 2 envelopes and to answer the 2 questions in the envelope (again the fastest wins).  I thought that this game would be the least fun.  In the end, it turned out quite amusing for me, cos Lynn, Matt and Mabel actually got 1 wrong answer each.  I teased them, but also explained to them how the questions were actually appropriate for them, and taught them how to work out the correct answers.  For example, Mabel's question was "how long does it take for an aeroplane to fly to Bali -a) 5mins b)15mis, c) 3hours, d) 24hours".  I taught her how to use elimination method to deduce that c) is the correct answer.

So much for the party.  What were my feelings about her 7th birthday?  I think there were not much feelings back then in Oct.  However, this week that just past, was her last week at school, and she took her report book and got her award.  It felt like I always said, that I'm feel blessed and contented that I have such a cheerful girl.  Of course I can't deny that the academic award makes me proud, but really, what makes me the laugh everyday is her happy spirit and her chattiness.  Recently, she gave me a new nickname, which is "Mrs bossy-knows-all"!  Ha!  And she told me on the way to her award ceremony on Friday "Hurry up Mummy, walk faster (looks at her watch); time flies when you are happy.... yak... yak... yak... yak..." and 5 mins later when we almost reach the school gate (looks at her watch again) "... oh, time flies when you are talking!" Haha!  She has reached her 7 yr old, end of P1 milestone, no longer the little kid soon.  I wish that she will be safe, and healthy, and continues to blossom into to beautiful girl with a beautiful heart.

Happy very belated birthday my angel.

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