Yeah!!! Today is the last day of school already… for six weeks I can sleep in instead of waking up early.

JS had started her school break 2 days ago and today is WH’s last day of school. It’s party day in WH’s school today and JS had tagged along to have some fun.

Looking back for the one whole school year, I realize how time flies quickly before our eye. It was as if yesterday only my girl step into primary school, I was anxious how she would cope and now she had already completed year 1.

Got her report card back last Friday. The result and position had dropped. From class placing number 15 out of 42 students, she is now in position 21 out of 43 in her class and from 180 ++ out of the 340 ++ students of the whole standard 1, she is in placing 200. And her average score is 85. Well, the overall score isn’t that bad, but I am still a little disappointed and feels that she could really do better. Luckily there is no streaming in her class, though there are a few students moving to other class but not base on the result.

To console myself, I am telling myself, at least she is not the last in the whole standard 1 nor in her class. She hasn’t gone to any enrichment class nor attend any tuitions. She didn’t go complete her preschool years and up till exam, even though I was so stress out, I didn’t quite have the heart to drill her. The result is really base on her own performance and not from drilling.

To look at the brighter side, I must really acknowledge her accomplishment. I used to be so worried that she will not cope in Chinese primary school and I used to have a whole list of plans but didn’t quite materialized, and yet she copes and adapted well.

I still remember throughout the whole 3 years of preschooling, she always had this anxiety and unpredictable mood swing. I remember the torturous 2 weeks , we both had gone through when we shifted back to KL and when I put her in a new preschool, I was abusive because she refused to go to school, I was out of my wit end and have tonnes of worried, and now I see a huge change in her, especially her social skills and how she had grown emotionally. There is no longer mood swing, she goes to school happily and making a lot of friends.

Now I drop her off at the school gate and she will bouncily walk into the school gates, meeting friends at the school gates, chatting with them , having friends help her carrying her bags while she walks the very long walkway into the school. I usually stopped and watch until she is totally out of my sight and the feeling of how much my girl has grown always makes me emotional.

She isn’t really doing that bad after all. There was a informal prize giving on Tuesday. She was called to the stage as she had won’t some sort of competition (not too sure what, she is also unsure, something to do with story writing report). No trophy though, but she has got a prize (some books). It was totally a surprise for her and she has not expected it, but it did make her and ME feels good.

As for WH, there is no test for year 5 and I have yet to see the teacher for his assessment report (PTA this coming Sunday). But I know he had a wonderful school year, that is the most important.

Got a little appreciation token for the teachers. JS had wanted to buy a gift for ALL her teachers, but I told her just ONE for her class teacher will do. She made a card too.

As for WH, the lazy boy, I didn’t have the time to sit down and do the craft with him. Ended up with a short cut, printed a card from the net but I got him to do the cutting and write the Thank You note. Even that , he took two nights to complete 3 Thank You notes.

His cutting is like dog’s bite