Category: School

Chloe was invited to an early Halloween party by her classmate Ashley last nite. But it was only yesterday.. that she decided on what she wants to dress up as .. for Halloween.. and poor daddy.. had to rush out to buy her .. her costume.. as well as her accessories.

A princess she was .. and she was loving it. She had a blast.. unfortunately, I didn’t get any photos for the party.. because i didn’t go with her, it was Keegan who accompanied her.. for the party.

She was still excited last nite.. when she came home and talked about it this morning… when she woke up. Chloe’s social calendar is looking really full these days. Ahhh.. the JOY of going to school. And we cannot thank the Paulick family enough.. for including chloe in their activities.

Yes..! it’s another Friday.. and here we have Chloe getting ready for school in the morning. As usual.. she is good… a wee bit fussy.. but not a pain. She does like school a lot afterall and if you are wondering about her evaluation in school, they didn’t set up a meeting .. till PB wrote to her teacher asking for a date. She got a date and it is at the end of the month .. before they would see us… because apparently 3 teachers need to be there. The teacher herself, Mrs Fuller and the language therapist… WOW..!! i hear yer say .. right..?? my thoughts and feelings exactly. Chloe is about 4 yrs and 9 months.. and they need 3 teachers together to speak with us..?? about 1 problem. I hate to see who we need to face.. when chloe is 16 *slap forehead* but having said that.. i guess they do have their reasons.. but i just wished they would have given Chloe more time.. than to jump into an over-zealous mode.

Chloe is far from slow.. just the other nite.. we were watching a chinese show.. and she said to me .. ” mama are they drinking CHAMPAGNE..?? ” Can die or not..?? I don’t even think i knew how to pronounced the word ” Champagne” at 12 yrs old.. ! At 12 .. i was pronouncing “failed” as “filled”.. ok .. i rest my case.

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..!

Chloe is pretty much settled into her school routine.. and enjoys waking up every morning to go to school now. This was taken this morning.. but with me.. being very heavy heart. We were told some time during the school and meet a few weeks ago.. that Chloe will be joining a special class to improve her motor-skill and that was alright with us.. because really she didn’t do much of cutting and pasting.. with us except lots of drawing.

She said she has gotta shake her bum, bum first before going to school here. Anyhow.. her teacher sent home some paperwork for her French resource teacher to evaluate where Chloe is academically. One of the question that her french resource teacher asked was “does Chloe speaks in English at home?” I found that truly disturbing .. because Chloe only speaks English.. at home… and everywhere. And you’ve all heard chloe on videos I’ve taken.. albeit.. sometimes.. she ain’t too clear .. but hey..!! she is only 4 yrs and 9 months old eh. I don’t think i even spoke half as well as she did.. at her age… plus being super cute too.

This is Chloe saying . .i’m still tired. Anyhow.. I’ll be calling the Resource teacher today.. to see what her concerns are.. and help her to understand Chloe a little better. I know.. that my daughter.. is not slow nor stupid… she is just pretty young.. but definitely raring to learn.. and experience.. and go. And i can see that she enjoys her school so much. She is just a delighted lil’ kid.