Actually they have new names for it now – Toddler Assessment File, Annual Report, Children’s Annual Assessment, Parent Teacher Chat (PTC), Toddler Appraisal, Toddler Evaluation Sheet…..yeah, I know. So serious.

I sat with Tee’s teacher for a whole hour looking through this plastic sheet file filled with a documentary of Tee’s life at school. It had pictures of Tee at school to give us a glimpse of what happens behind closed doors (must ask them for DVD next time). It had the boring assessment sheet where the teacher would tick the level she is at for each particular skill that is divided into toddler development (gross motor skills, fine motor skills, physical development, speech, confidence, creativity, blah blah…..and this is further divided into things like can hold pencil correctly, can balance on one leg without support, can walk up stairs one leg at a time, can recognise alphabets, knows phonics, can comprehend stories and answer questions, can count and understand up to 5, add and subtract up to 5, can go to the washroom independently, knows how to verbalise ideas blah blah). Then it had a write up on each category specific to Tee which was more interesting. And of course, it included all the work that she had done at school.

The teacher said Tee was the livewire of her class. She is the youngest but the noisiest (aiyo….so shy – I couldn’t help but wonder if the teacher could tell about what goes on at home which resulted in my todler being so brazen). She said that whenever Tee was absent from school, the class was very quiet. She said Tee made classes fun because she has so much character.

She said Tee was a leader and that she has not heard Tee speaking gramatically incorrect at all (Hmmm…..obviously her ears weren’t open wide enough). She gave an example of Drama Class one day when the Drama teacher burst into class frantically with a problem, yelling in panic that she was a zoo keeper and her animals had escaped. The monologue continued for a few seconds with her anguishing about what she was going to do to retrieve her animals back into their cages when Tee suddenly started flailing one arm like an elephant’s trunk and started running around the class making elephant noises. Since she started the ball rolling, the Drama Teacher continued the acting and tried to catch her elephant. Eventually the rest of the class became all the various animals that escaped the zoo. Sounds so fun! I wish I was at school.

Then she made the observation that Tee likes her space. She is fairly obedient at school but if she is concentrating on something and another kid interrupted her, she would get very upset. And she would definitely show that she was very upset. Errr…..I thought that happened to every toddler, no?

She said Tee knew how to make the class laugh and knew how to tell stories and jokes. Yes, that I already know. She knows what a joke is and will just tell any made up story from her imagination and then add in her own silly punchline. If only I had a recorder to record every single one of them…..

Surprisingly, she didn’t say that Tee was extremely bossy. I think she was being polite. Because Tee is the bossiest bossy boots two year old I know. And I have met more than 50 two year olds at the Mummy Baby Organisation I volunteer at.

To shave a long story, the teacher didn’t have a single negative thing to say about Tee. Oh, except that I had to be consistent with Time Outs. Because this girl knows how to answer back.

I thanked the teacher and commended the school for using such rich vocabulary that Tee has obviously attained from school because she comes home saying things like, “That blue car is a Peugeot like Nana’s, Mummy. Is that a good observation?” or “I’d like to be disobedient now” or “Don’t disturb me, I’m concentrating.” Plus her Mandarin has really taken off. She is now constantly asking me how to say this and that in Mandarin but unfortunately, her Mummy blur-sotong, can’t speak Mandarin, so I always refer her to Lau Tze or her Amah.

*sigh* I must be some manic Mom waiting to hear which areas I have to concentrate on with her but no such luck. So I guess I will just continue showing her who’s really Boss around here since her teacher’s have no real complaints about her development…..

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