The Primary Ones

Recently I heard some funny incidents encountered by my friend and her friend who were having their NIE attachment in a Primary School in Yishun area. The students are all in Primary 1 classes... and Teacher refer to either one of the two ladies mentioned above.

Incident #1

Little Shy Girl (in a soft tone): Teacher, today is XXX (boy in same class) birthday. I want to give this present to him.

Teacher: Oh it's his birthday today? (Turns to the class) Ok class, today is XXX's birthday, so let's sing him a birthday song!

(After the song ended.... the Little Shy Girl wanted to pass the present to the birthday boy. Present = a small keychain in the design of a crab)

Birthday Boy: I dowan (and Teacher tried to persuade the boy to accept)

Birthday Boy: I dowan (at this time Teacher noticed the girl has the "want-to-cry" look and finally manage to pass the keychain to the boy)

Teacher: Ok XXX, now what should you say? (Hoping he would say thank you)

Birthday Boy: I dowan (Teacher almost fainted~)

(Some boys started to act cool since young~)

Incident #2

Teacher was marking the students' spelling books at her table in the class, and a boy went up to her...

Boy: Teacher, I want to draw a card for my mother. Can I borrow your pencil?

Teacher: Erm... ok (at the same time wondering why the boy doesn't want to use his own pencil)

(After handing over the typical yellow and black stripes 2B pencil to the boy, the boy passed the pencil back to the Teacher)

Boy: Teacher, can I borrow your mechanical pencil?

(The result of kids living in the 21st Century - they have higher needs)

(After using the mechanical pencil, the boy went up to the teacher)

Boy: Teacher, can you give me the mechanical pencil please?

Teacher: (almost fainted) No no... this is mine. I cannot give you~

(Kids are so "demanding" nowadays...)

Incident #3

My friend had to observe how other full-time teachers teach their class, and so she had to sit at the back of the classroom behind the students. One day she arrived early and she was sitting at her seat with a handful of students in the class. Suddenly a small girl from another class came into the classroom and handed over a folded note to her.

Small Girl: Miss See, give you! (then she ran off)

My friend opened the note and guess what the contents were -->> "I Love You"

(Some kids are so daring in expressing their likings...)