A few days ago, P had a quiz in Chinese. When the quiz was returned and I checked it, he had an additional mistake, which would take his score to 7.5/10 (and this means “just passed”).
So, without mentioning the 7.5, I told him that he made an additional mistake in one number that his lao [...]
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13 Dec
It’s a Start…
17 Aug
7 over 10
Okay, so sometime into the quarter, S and I receive this note from P’s Chinese teacher that among the listening drills and quizzes he’s taken, he’s gotten a 7/10 and a 7.25/10. I told S about it but quickly filed it in the “it’s not a big deal” file. I mean, what the [...]
29 Nov
What is a Happy Gram?
Because of this post, I had several people ask me what a Happy Gram is.
Really, since I’m not from the same school as P, I have no idea what a Happy Gram is. Is it something that when you give it out, makes the receiver happy? It seems so because he was. [...]
21 Oct
Q2 exams
Wowowee! Nope, not the television show, but for my son, P!
Last Friday, while I was on my way back from Rustan’s, I got a text from N, our cook, who picked up P from school that day. The text read, “Kuya got perfect in Math, Filipino and Reading!”
I just *had* to ask how sure she [...]
11 Oct
Of Fellowships (Prep)
This year’s fellowship was different. Because we were told that the school would like to focus on values, we had to think of a theme in order to make use of this.
And because I thought the theme had to be Pinoy, S thought it would be good to have a fiesta for the [...]
10 Oct
Of Fellowships (Nursery)
So this is what we did for nursery with the following goals in mind:
to get everyone to join in all the events at all times
to finish in 2 hours or less (remember, this is held on weekends, when parents can actually get time off)
to get the parents work hand-in-hand
to keep within the budget
to make sure [...]
9 Oct
Of Fellowships
P started big school last year. And for the first three levels (nursery, prep and grade 1), there is what you call a fellowship where all the parents and children get together and try (at some level—because it tends to get crazy with the number of people) and get to know one another.
It’s a [...]
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