First day at school

Some sort of school... to be exact, it was spelled as Skool ^^

I thought it went pretty good. Renee started off her day at the centre without cranky loud cries. She sat by a table of playgroup mates and all started to play in parallel.

After a while, she started to take toys from her peers without asking... uh-huh. .. she had nobody to ask when she was at home because she's the only one playing! Good lesson for her... The kids were very protective over their toys. They would shun away when a hand came "snatching"...

"Renee, if you want to play with that toys, you'll need to ask nicely...", I guided her (Teacher didn't teach this)

"Can I... pls... Thank u!" (extremely softly as if she was negotiating with ants)

"NO!", said one.... "NO!", said the other...

Hmmz... Okay, it didn't mean that you'll get what you want even if you asked. So she learnt (in fact, we learnt)... within the next 15 mins, Renee totally adopted this bad culture.... whenever a kid asked for toys, say No! She did it, too... I had to spend some time to correct her!

As I watched her play from a distance... Some kids (mainly boys) came to (harass) me...

"Teacher... See this...too too train...", went away and returned to repeat the same old thing... million times....

"Teacher... hahaha..." then ran away...

"Ah. .. grrrr. ... ohhhh...." (I didn't understand a word)

And a boy came to me with his pants (on his hand)... yes, bo cang kor... gesturing for me to help him put his pants on... I didn't even dare to turn my head around, before I could react, a teacher/helper grabbed him away..

Renee was playing well (alone most of the times), when she suddenly cried loudly for "MOMMY!!!" When I went to her, a lego brick came flying across the table hitting on her chest. It was a flying 'gift' from her classmate.... a rowdy kid who almost had troubles with all other kids. Before I flipped the table, I counted to 10 super quickly within myself and told him with a firm voice, "Hey, it's not nice to do that, please don't do it again." (BTW, the teacher/ helper didn't see and didn't do anything about it)

After this not too pleasant incident, Renee became a little unstable. Also due to her hunger and fatigue, since she woke up early and didn't take their breakfast. I brought her to a corner where she laid down for milk... Just when she was slightly calmed down, for less than 10 mins, the kids came running merry-go-round her, stepped on her hair (accidentally, of coz) and one playful bigger boy, for no good reason, stepped and fell on Renee's chest.... So, this poor little girl started crying again, saying "Mommy, pain-pain.... pain-pain....." This took me another 10 minutes to pacify her...

Most of the time, once she's fed and calmed down, she would join the kids at the table to play with plenty of toys... A sweet little jie-jie (althought she looked tiny, yes, she is a jie-jie) who was the first who talked to Renee bybasking for her name, came by and told Renee "Don't cry".... She's a very sweet girl although she didn't share her toys...

Today, Renee's first day, went through ups and downs... She had mostly fun time, playing with toys, joining their sing-along session, lunch, and story telling time... minus away the hungry+tired=cranky moments, I guessed she had done pretty well for her first day at school. I was most of the time sitting at a distance away to watch over her, hoping that she could become more independent and learn some of the good stuff from the centre.

Hope we will have better time next week... I'm still nervous... Haa!

BTW, mei-mei Phoebe woke up.early to send her sis off today... so sweet little girl ^^