Starting Primary One #21 - Its finally the end of Primary One

Its finally November 2013, it also means that its the end of Primary One journey for DinoBoy.  Pardon me while I hide in the closet to cry my happy tears, not only because we survived the year but also we have encountered many hurdles and we managed to conquer them, slowly but steadily we take them down one by one.  One of the greatest hurdle we faced was DinoBoy's temper and outbursts, we are definitely relieved that we were able to finally to find a solution to that (more on that later) too.

I went for the Parent Teacher meeting this morning and I received positive feedback from DinoBoy's teachers.  When I sat down at the table, his form teacher Ms J started by saying "Its not a surprise that he scored well in my class as he is one of my brightest student."  Oh wow~ surprise surprise~  "He is always participating in class and always the first few to give the answer when I asked questions." she continued.  Not bad~ Still the enthusiastic despite the several issues he was facing/handling.  Ms J said that she is happy to see that DinoBoy is able to control his emotions and has not been exploding as much, this has improved a lot since starting of the year but still need a little bit of fine tuning.

She cited an example on the recent incident where she told DinoBoy that she will not pick him to be one of the 20 students from the class to perform in one of the school's event as he misbehaved and did not listen to her instruction that day.  She was expecting a major meltdown with screaming, shouting, crying from him instead he was calm and told her "I know you did not pick me because I was not behaving well." then proceeds to sit at a corner.   Now everyone, please join me to pump my fist up in the air, jump up in joy and shout at the top of my lung "WOOHOO!!!"  On top of that, he's seeing the school counselor lesser during the last term, double WOOHOO!!!!

However when I met up with Ms H, the Chinese teacher later she mentioned that DinoBoy was unable to contain his anger during her class.  Bummer... just when I was starting to celebrate...  I did not elaborate more about DinoBoy's issues to her since its the end of the year, I'll just have to build rapport with the new Primary Two Chinese teacher next year.  That aside, Ms H did have positive feedback about DinoBoy's Chinese, she said that his oral and reading is good but just a little bit careless when doing his written work.  He tends to finish it fast and fails to check his work or test paper, sometimes this caused him lose some marks in the test/exam paper.  She also said that she was afraid he may fail his Chinese due to this but surprisingly he fared quite well.  Having said that, we both agreed that it is important that he must build up his foundation so that it will not affect his overall result during streaming in Primary Three.

So there, this is DinoBoy's report book and I am extremely proud of his Chinese result which he achieved under our coaching.  I am extremely pleased with myself, with us, that despite the tears, anger and high tension on several nights and weekends, we succeeded!

It has been a year of expectations, new experiences & routines, anger, tears, stress, hardwork and achievements.  After a one month plus of "rest"we shall be back to some routine and putting in some efforts to tackle Primary Two school work.  Till then, we are going to play the fullest and the hardest.  We are deserved it, especially DinoBoy.

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I am sharing DinoBoy's Primary One experiences in this series.  I hope it will serve as a useful guide to parents when its their time to get their child ready for the new journey and have an idea how Parent Volunteer works.

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