Valerie First Day of School

Today was Valerie's first day of school. The thing we worried most was the 3 of us not being able to wake up on time despite our efforts of trying to sleep earlier the last 2 weeks. No matter how we tried, we have only achieved getting Valerie to sleep by 11pm (although we lights out at 10-10.30pm), and earliest she wakes up is 8am.

But fortunately for today, we managed to get her up by 7.30am and we reached Superfun at 8.30am (on the dot). We realised there were many latecomers (aiseh.. we didn't need to rush... ) But Ivan gave me the look, saying at least we're here on time and Valerie get to mingle around.

Valerie got into the 'Pink' Classroom under Teacher Chua. When we reached there, the class was divided into 3 coloured tables with 8 children each. On the tables there were many colourful toys. Since Valerie is always so playful, it was easy to get her to sit down and play. After a while, she walked back to where we were standing and held daddy's hand. Alamak.... I was worried that we have a long way to go.

After a few seconds, one of the assistant teacher came over n coaxed her back to her seat. Then she got her to play with other kids around. Once there she got herself a 'friend', she didn't look back anymore. There were some kids who cried loudly and refused to be consoled throughout the lessons. Surprisingly I find more boys were crying than girls. Does that mean girls are more brave? Haha...

Next, the teachers cleared off the toys and moved on to singing with actions. Valerie has always enjoyed singing and since she knew most of the nursery songs, she joined in and followed the actions. After that, they learned to queue up to go washroom. I didn't follow her to the washroom but later at home, she showed me the proper way to rub and wash her hands.

On and off when I felt she needed help to adjust her chair (cos her chair keep moving away from the table), I would go over and pushed it... and guess what? She turned around and say 'Mommy, zhou... (leave)' and then pushed me away. I was stunned. My daughter not only didn't look for me in class, she actually didn't want me to go near her? That seemed too good to be true.

Anyway that's about the first day, we're keeping fingers crossed for Day 2.