邱旭泉

My first day was Monday (11th May 2009), and my first class was at 9am.. I was assisted by a full time teacher, Mr. Spencer, and we were teaching Year 1 Mozart. These bunch of kids are the best! haha.. The class was supposed to be a vocal class where we sing and play. So we teachers come up with songs like "I want to be your friend, a little bit more" or any of those sort, and we play it in class. I have a WHOLE stack of them musical games. Still have yet to finish learning it. Haha! :) however, for this class, we gave them a test, and they went "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~~~ *instert whining and complaining*".. haha so cute! hehe.. but still, we had to go through the test. So as this was my first lesson, Mr. Spencer lead the class as i watched from the side (or behind) the class. From time to time i slowly learn to interact with the kids and slowly guide them. After they`ve done their test, some of them went to Mr. Spencer to check the answers and let him mark them. As they were many of them, some came to me and so yes i marked their papers. Hehe. While i was marking the kids` papers, some of them kept on saying "teacher, why you always mark so small wan?" haha... yes my marking was small (i think) and throughout the whole day if i ever passed any of them, they will keep on saying "teacher, your marking very small wan." Haha! Cute.. :)

The worse class came after that where it was the year fives international students. There were these two MONSTERS which were litterally the monsters of the class. haha.. well.. I was guided by 2 full time teachers, so the lead the class first and then slowly i took on some teaching too. And they gave me a tip that if any kid is naughty, just tell them "if you do that again i`ll send you to Mr. Andrew`s office." This line apparently will totally keep them shut. I still have yet to tried it though. Haha! :) Mr. Andrew is the head of the CPAC (Cempaka Performing Arts Centre) Well, the other classes after that on that day was well... tolerable :) haha..

Tuesday was quite a good and industrious day for me. I was given the opportunity to take on 2 teaching lesson by myself where the full time teacher sits at the back of the class and watch me. Not bad i think. It was instrumental class but it`s changed to theory class. There was one particular class which was havoc! It was a class year 3 Aer. Got crying some more man i tell you! haha.. well, there were 2 boys arguing (one of which i remember the name, Tian Qi) and the full time teacher thought it got out of hand. So she scolded them and they cried. lol. And the students could only go for their break (it was break period after that class) if they finish 2 worksheets. Well, i couldn`t have my break as i was in charge of watching them finish their work and by the time the last student was finished, i only had time to prepare myself and head for the next class.

The next class was 4 Aqua. Same type of lesson. Theory. This class was not that bad. There`s this one boy whos name is Andy Lau. ANDY LAU man!!! haha.. but he`s VERY mischievous and naughty. But i was tipped that if you be good with him he wont cause much trouble. There`s this kid Fareed. Quite friendly and nice. Sometimes mischievous and cheeky too. Haha. But he`s not as bad as the Andy Lau boy. This class is a nice class :) I quite like this class. Not as "havoc-able" as the previous one. And this is the first class which i have to bring back their worksheets to mark. haha :)

The class after that was year 5 Terra. One of the "Sanest" class ever. Very easy to control, very intelligent, and very obedient. When given worksheets to do, they finished it immediately! my goodness!! and they can ask for some more worksheets when they`ve finished the previous one. All together i had to give them 3 worksheets!! Well, these worksheets were easy la i think. It was only exercises on C Major, G Major,  and F Major scales. I was talking to this one girl (can`t remember her name) and apparently she has her grade 5 in theory, piano, AND violin. =.='' haha.. i felt quite unfair for her as my lesson for the day was just like peanuts for her (and some other students too) but there were students who don`t know nuts at all. So i had to be fair and accommodate to the whole class. Then there were these 3 girls, natasha, adilia(if i spelt it correctly) and azeelia (again if i spelt it correctly) who keeps on laughing. =.='' and one likes to imitate the Janice (from the series 'Friends') laugh. So annoying. Haha. And i really don`t know what on earth they`re laughing about. Even when we meet at canteen also they`ll keep on laughing. =.='' And seriously! at the age of 11 they`re already watching Friends!! O.o  OH!!! and also.. in this class, there`s this boy with the same name as my coursemate. Only different surname. HAHA!!! my coursemate`s name is Goh Hao Tian. This boy`s name is Lee Hao Tian! haha!!! xD Then i told some of the kids and this boy too that i have a friend who will be teaching at that school too whos name is also Hao Tian. Then they kept saying "oh! so next time there will be 2 hao tians! oh my goodness! then it will be confusing!" haha!! :D

After that was year 2 Terra. The noisiest bunch of kids ever! haha.. It was vocal class and the same again, we had to come up with musical games. I have to apologise to the full time teacher who has to always come up with ideas as I totally ran out of ideas (the only ones i had was 2 which were "I want to be your friend" and "DoMikado") This class was harder to control maybe because it was a 1pm-2pm class and the kids are probably restless and can`t wait to go back already. haha.. overall the class was "quite" managable. There were these 2 kids whom i can`t remember their names again who are very clingy. Everytime we make a circle to start the game, the both of them will WANT to stand by my side. haha :) quite cute.. hehe :)

2 things i must learn:

1. To remember the names of the kids

2. more musical games. If anyone has ideas please do let me know! 

Thanks and cheerios ;)