How the kids fared in school for the year.

It's the year end, and the dreaded school holidays soon. It's also when the report book would be sent back for the year's review on the kids' performance in the school. Can you hear my heart bok-bok-bok gum tiew? Surely not! As I'm cool, ok! (so fake!)

Well, I'm glad to announce, korkor finally made it to the top 2 classes next year, the esteemed, "jing ying pan", or loosely translated as "smarty pants class". Actually he could make it for this year too, but the principal reduced the number of these classes from 2 to 1. In 2012, he could only make it so, just because the principal flipped it back to 2 classes again. ha! So, it wasn't that a feat to shout about!

Anyway, I'm proud of my boy. Tracking on his progress from pri 1, he did make a remarkable improvement over the years indeed. And that is what I want him to experience... the joy of success! From his own hardwork and determination. But I could tell he's lacking again. I told him, I'm gonna be pushing him more next year, for him to see his own potential. This guy, needs to be pushed. And hearsay, the UPSR results is detrimental for some schools' entry requirements. Not that I care a lot about it, but then again, more choices is better than having less, no?

For the other 2, both of them have made an improvement from the first half of the year as well. They could have done better, but well, there are still many more years for them to do so. I feel a bit sorry for meimei though, almost all her friends are "upgraded" to smartass classes, and she would have to make new friends again. Then again, I'm not worried about that, as I'm sure that's her core! No fret about making friends for this little chatterbox! Her academic part, well, we shall have to work more on that next year!

Didi could have done much better though, his BM improved lots and I thought this time, no-die-ler! But unfortunately, his Chinese and Moral papers pulled his total marks far down, which was a surprise to me for the former (not the latter) had really been one of his strengths from the time he starts school. It was also because I wanted to "test water" and see how he would perform with a reduced tutoring lesson to once a week this year. Guess I couldn't afford that to happen. A price to pay, but well, that's ok, now that I know.

And that's the wrap up for the year. But the best thing of all? meimei learned a lot on rhythmic gymnastics and could toss and tumble around effortlessly. It's a joy to see her doing all those acrobatic stunts! And korkor was one of his class teacher's favorites and get to picked for all the experience in participating in all kinds of non-academic school activities. As for didi, he made THREE good buddies! Wow! Aren't all THAT enough to warrant a celebration right now?