Inspection

Went to the class inspection session of Euterpe’s kindergarten.

(You may not remember when I mean. Please refer to the background of this event that I mentioned in http://ccszeto.blogspot.com/2012/04/preparation.html.)

It was an absolutely eye-opening experience.

No, my princess was just her usual self. In fact, there wasn’t really that much to be observed – but I was thoroughly impressed with what the kindergarten was trying to teach.

Let me tell you in a bit more detail.

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To begin with, we parents did not just stand there and observe. For each class, there were two parents everyday, and we were each assigned with a specific task in the class.

In that very morning, we were introduced to the class before our session began and being explained what to do: It was supposed to last about an hour. All students of the class (there were 30 of them) had to do four different tasks: writing a tiny page of words, doing a page of simple arithmetic, decorating their own Mother’s Day card (which they made in a previous session), and another cut-and-stick art work (which my partner – the mother of another girl – was assigned to help out).

You may ask: How could those five-year-old kids possibly finish all these in an hour?