It was just like yesterday when school term commenced for another brand new work year 2016, and in a glance the children are now enjoying their 1 week school holidays after Term 1. Within such a short time, there were several positive outcomes to be grateful for in the midst of several celebration.
Grateful #1 that he adapted well to his new learning environment, classmates, teachers and enjoy every moment of his new learning journey. He seeks social and will always tell me that he wants to have play dates, sleep over party and even envision having his classmates over to his house for his birthday celebration in Sep.
He was feeling with joy when we attended his sister Edusave Award and expresses his desire to have one too for himself from his school recognition at the end of the year. We remind him if he listens, follows and does things right with teachers, be helpful and kind to friends in school, try his best to improve his weakness, he CAN stand a chance.
Grateful #2 that he is finally buying food by himself at school cafe during recess, another inchstone and significant step to his life skill, one which we had tried encouraging him to do so for past 2-3 years but invain, glad he finally decides to level up. He now feels empower buying food by himself, choosing and exercising his intake option in this daily school recess routine. Kudos to his teachers for their extra facilitation in support.
Grateful #3 that he is much more aware of Chinese New Year celebration and enjoy the reunion, prayer offering at temple and house visit to relatives' and friends' house to practise his social interaction and communication skill.
Grateful #4 for parents and friends who we have crossed path to mutually support this inclusion and embrace each child for who they are in their learning journey.
Grateful #5 that he now reads more that before but still reading is not so natural to him compare to watching video being a visual learner. It is still something that we want him to know and believe that reading really can help him with his vocabulary, improve his grammar and familiarize with sentence structure. With more reading, we also hope to improve his comprehension skill by processing with him so he can make sense of the story/passage.
Grateful #6 to his teachers for putting focus and neat hand writing as two key area for improvement to his work habits. He can write pretty neat if he believes that by writing slow and keep a spatial focus in each letter of the sentences written. These will be his critical success factors to leap frog him to his next lap of learning curve and help improve and maximize his academic results progressively and timely for P6 PSLE 2 years from now. With
right support, teaching and training, he will survive, go for it!
Grateful #7 that there has been progress and initiative to provide more social services and emotional support to special community and their caregivers. Very often, parents are drafted to be child best therapist, teacher, play mate, friend (aka case manager), when we set goals for our child, we do have to place child first their goals before our own and be mindful to always embrace what they can learn best, Sometimes MORE may not necessary yield the best outcome for the child, Recognizing that each child has different abilities and helping them process at a pace that he can manage will be the next best path going forward, less is then become MORE.
Look forward to his work play balance during the one week fun filled holidays and when the next school term start, stay calm and get him ready to engage again.
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