Category: Brat Stuff

These days.. Chloe have to do homework, like writing and recognizing words. I had always thought or made to think that “primary” was kindergarten but I was wrong. Apparently, here in Canada.. or in my daughter’s school.. they expect them to know stuff already. I don’t remember doing this already .. so I am now in kinda of panic mode. I feel really, really bad .. because when chloe fussed up after a long day of school..and i still make her practice writing.. I get upset with her.. and raise my voice. And she would cry and come hug me and say.. “don’t shout at me .. mama! i love you .. you know!”

She is really such a good kid.. and took to school so well.. and yet.. now we have to force her to hurry up.. and learn all these things.. when we could have paced her out properly.. and didn’t. Most days.. i feel like smacking myself.. for listening to “some” people that pre-school wasn’t necessary.. and she will get taught .. once she gets into “primary” school. I’m torn in between pulling her out of “primary” school now.. and putting her back one year in pre-school.. and then go back in next year. Yet.. the school evaluation teacher has yet to call and it’s already Thursday..! *sigh* ..! and kinda upset..!

Chloe loves to see me pick her up from school. According to PB .. she never do this.. when PB goes alone to school and pick her up. But to watch her.. running towards me .. so happily and her face lighting up.. gives one such a wonderful feeling. Any parent would be delighted .. and feel awfully blessed. It is more my JOY than hers.. when i see her.. she just donch know yet.

This is our first time raising money for Chloe’s school. It was called a School-A-Thon.. and it’s for refilling the recess buckets.. and to bring in speakers.. and other little stuff for the school. They had encouraged that every student try to raise at least $10 each … so we put Chloe on a mission.

For 1 afternoon .. Chloe and I went to the neighboring stores to ask them to sponsor her .. and everyone was very generous.. and they gave big bucks. Special thanks.. to everyone on Main Street, the hair shop, the gift store next to us.. and the ladies at Wells Fargo .. Mark’s Music Store, The Christian Book Store and of course Tim Horton’s Manager and her mother. We especially want to thank .. the gentleman at the barber store.. who had generously sponsored chloe.

The second day .. Chloe was on a mission in the store. She had set up her Dora table and chair with pen and envelope . and everytime.. a customer came in .. she would asked politely.. “Would you sponsor me?” and handed them this paper. Most customers would sponsor of course.. and a special thank you to them.. and of course our regulars.. they too sponsored. . and Gary, Phil and Sherry ( 3 most regulars). And for those who didn’t wanna sponsor chloe.. Chloe said to them.. “it’s alright!”.

The 3rd day.. Chloe and Keegan went to some other stores on Main Street but not everyone sponsored her.. giving the excuse that their store don’t do that.. but that’s alright too. Still she was really on a good mission and was in good spirit. Anyhow.. she did collect quite abit of money for her school. Guess how much..??

Scroll down.. to see if you guessed correctly.. 🙂

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Did you guessed it yet..?? come on.. make a good guess… i gave you the whole story already.. 🙂

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Well.. she collected a total of $141.80 ..!! and only 4 yrs and 9 months old..!!! yes..!! my brat is even better than i .. with getting money outta ppl.. muahhahahahaha!!! well.. that’s because no one could resist her wor.. muahahha!! not i say hor.. the customers … and those who sponsored her.. and her teacher lah.. 🙂

In about a month since Chloe started school, she is able to sing her ABCs in French. By my standard.. i think that’s pretty good for a kid who is less than 5 years old.. donch you think..?? My brat is an awfully happy kid.. and i just hope some teachers ain’t being overly enthusiastic.. and try to suffocate her with what they think she should be ideal in. If you know Chloe personally, you wouldn’t think that there would be any concern about her picking up stuff, yes she may be slow (in some stuff) but she also picks up pretty quick. .. but c’mon.. this is the very FIRST time.. she is in any kind of educational system.

That was what Chloe said to me.. tonite before she went to bed. I was most certainly pleased with that statement.. because there was no prompting from my part.

An update on what Mrs Fuller the Resource, Reading Recovery & 6P Sci/Hlth teacher said.. was that there were certain instructions that Chloe didn’t understand.. like “under & above” (Kate tested her tonite. .and she could tell Kate exactly what was under her bed .. and above) and also she said Chloe doesn’t know our address .. and only knows that she lived in a white house. Chloe also don’t know our phone # or the emergency # like 911. But you see we never taught her that.. because she is always with us..!!! At 4.5 yrs old.. would you expect your kid to know all these..??

She also claimed that Chloe don’t know the words for certain colors. For example if she pointed to “red color” . .chloe would say … “i forgot” or ” i don’t know” .. which is pretty strange.. because she never had a problem with it .. when she is around us. But they want to continue to monitor .. and make sure she doesn’t lagged behind .. or something to that effect.. and will come back to us again. Oh . .and she can’t cut properly (we never let her use scissors .. so that is our bad).

I have yet to address the remark she made to her form teacher about “does Chloe speak in English at home?” I don’t really want to make a mountain over a molehill and become a mountain turtle.. but i had shown the email to a few mothers.. and they felt the same way as I .. but PB of course doesn’t think so .. *shrug* ..! MEN..!