We took our time getting there as the showcase was supposed to be from 11.30am to 1.30pm. But when we found his classroom at about noon, the kids were just randomly sitting around, doing nothing. And the boy pretended he didn't know us - he just shook his head a bit and turned back to his Chromebook.
死囡仔 - that's Hokkien "siginnah" :p
So wondering what was going on, we turned to PG. Voila, there was a rather late note with info on where to find your own kid. Kai was supposed to be in classroom 4E but eh, he was still at 2C leh... So we just sat outside until we saw him leave 2C. We went to 4E, saw Kai but the room was dark...
Some other rooms had teachers and the kids were starting to show their work to visiting parents. There was, needless to say, no teacher in 4E.
Some other parents started showing up at 4E. Eventually another kid turned on the light. After a while, we decided to go in. Kai tried to pretend he didn't know us, calling me "madam"!
Again, darn you, naughty kid! 😂
No chance this time. We pressed him for his showcase and he started reading a slide off his Chromebook. But it was a fully equipped classroom so we made him hook it up to the projector. It took Sito and me a while to finally figure out how to get it to work though - we went to support our kid and ended up being tech support!
ITD to the rescue!
The team took turns to present the slides about their values-in-action trip to AMKPS student care. Only one boy - not ours - looked properly at the audience when presenting. The rest were just reading off the slides.
Kai's turn to speak
Yikes, sloughing!!! :(
At the end of it, as everyone stood around not knowing what next, a parent next to me asked if Kai was mine. She said she was with the team at the dragon playground some time ago; the kids had to do a video for Chinese. She shared with me that Kai did a great job leading the team to film the thing as they were all rather distracted. So happy to hear that :)
Before the dragon playground, he also filmed another video for literature. Two boys came to our place - while the brothers were at AhMa's place so less chaotic - to do some prata thingy and I sacrificed two pratas for the filming. Yes, they were very slow and messy. But Kai shoved me into my room so I didn't see or hear them much. So I don't envy the mum at the dragon playground - must be quite sian out in the sun with them for so long!
Anyway, Kai dismissed us all so we went to the canteen. Sito and I were accosted by a boy as we passed by another classroom. He invited us to see their work so we did. It was an innovation room so quite fun. And yes, there was a teacher there. I seriously doubt Kai's team invited anyone else in to present their work again!
Sito and I waited at the canteen for the brothers. They had their lunch and disappeared! We eventually found them plus Kai at the other side of the canteen playing the piano. So hard to make them leave...
Non-stop chattering on our way to the bus stop
Took the bridge but went to Balmoral bus stop. We just missed 48 and Yu had to go back to revise so we pried him away from his brothers to take 960 to Stevens to change to MRT while his brothers waited for 48. He was very upset that he couldn't stay with his brothers - he wanted to watch Kai play games on his phone! But Yu got Sito's phone for two train stops - sheepishly happy this one...
Last night, Kai cleared out his school bag. Turned out he had a merit award - certificate and badge - for his NPCC participation! But he said almost everyone got it anyway. I guess it's a different level from the awards on stage but it's an award anyway! I was way more excited than he was, and happily took it to keep in his memorabilia box. The certificate was a bit giam cai coz it came out of his bag but well, still can keep.
The second thing from his school bag was his year-end report. After the whole Chinese WA thingy in term 1 for which he lost all 15% of the total grade, he managed to scrape through to an A2 overall, thanks to his impressive 170/200 showing at the year-end exams! And despite that behaviour (and another recent transgression 🤦♀️ ), he obtained "very good" for his overall conduct grade. Um, ok, lucky him!
Anyway, his L1R4 is a 10, an improvement from 11 last year. Hopefully he can continue to improve! The key is English. Despite two years of tuition, he had a B4 at year-end exams, bumped up to B3 overall thanks to WAs. We have stopped tuition as he wants more time for work in general so Sito taught him to use AI to help him improve his English.
The third thing, is the most important one - Sec 3 posting letter. He has qualified for seven subjects including pure science. So while chatting on our bed, he decided that he would submit his choice right away. Sito and I didn't review his submission but we assumed he keyed everything in correctly, hoho!
This morning, Kai met his team mates at the supermarket downstairs to spend a $10 voucher they won. Guess we're at a relatively central location.. Then they went to Bao-er for breakfast. Kai had two servings of kaya butter bread and came back very full - hence I'm still here typing away instead of preparing his lunch :p His friends, however, couldn't finish one serving! No wonder my younger boys very 壮 :p
Kai still has a CCA session in November, and then he will totally leave Sec 2 behind and soon move to Sec 3 and preparation for the Os. This has not been an easy year for him. He got quite a few scoldings from us and even a warning from school. Hope he will learn from it and be a better person than he is today!
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